>first day of my lit class >professor does a round robin

Should've said William Gass

>>8968770
After people started naming memes I contemplated saying Arno Schmidt for about 1 millisecond

>no Milton
>no Donne
>no Chaucer

You should just kill the whole class.

This happened to me and I said Saul Alinsky, the professor paused and never called on me to answer any bullshit questions ever again.

>>8968756
What did you say OP?

Should've said EL James for the bantz

>>8968778
I said Alexandre Dumas. And then this group of girls behind me made an "Oooo" sound, but I couldn't tell it if was in response to what I said or not

>start Spanish literature class
>professor's favorite author is a woman

>>8968784
That is the natural reaction of white girls to big black cock

>>8968802
Juana Inés de la Cruz?

>not saying John Green

Costanzainabattingcage.jpeg

>>8968807
Is it black cock if it's half European half Haitian?

>>8968756
I mean, seriously though, I don't know who I'd pick beside one of the people you named.

Borges maybe. Or Stanislaw Lem.

>>8968802
>everyone says their favorite author is Gabriel García Márquez

Say Celine next time.

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>>8968756
>tfw favorite writer is Nabokov
>he made groundbreaking use of the authorial voice, and is constantly narratologically subversive in a way that's unique and widely unappreciated, in addition to his being an amazing stylist

>when I say "Nabokov" people will always assume I just like the pretty prose

>>8968826
Or that you are a pedophile

>>8968756
>not saying Sylvia Plath.

>>8968826
I know that feel, anon.

>>8968756
Seems like a nice class, when I first got into literature I remember one kid refering stephen king, and a couple of girls saying jk rowling

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>>8968829
What's wrong with that

>>8968823
>everyone says García Márquez,Pablo Neruda, Borges,etc
>nobody says Miguel de Cervantes

>>8968844
Some people would've said that. The professor added a caveat saying no Harry Potter, only LITERATURE.

>>8968852
>say Cervantes
>teacher says he was a white European and doesn't qualify

>>8968784
depends on whether you said "DOO-mass" or "doo-MAH".
If you pronounced it right then panties are wet.

>>8968875
W-which one is right...?

>>8968756
That's not what a round robin is

>>8968756
There is not a single thing wrong with choosing any of these authors as your favorite. What is your problem?

>Not Bob Dylan
???

>>8968883
...yes it is. You go around the room and every one has to answer the question. Please go back to pre-school.

>>8968774
>Favorite writer
>Lists poets

>>8968881
It's pronounced "dumbass"

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>Faulkner never gets any love

>>8968756
>Joyce
>he doesnt say Shakehisbeard, in a funny way.

>>8968894
Not even close. It's like you saw the word round and made up your own meaning.

>>8968875
>tfw you pronounced it dOO-mAAs

>>8968894
That's an idiosyncratic usage at best. Look it up.

>>8968875
It's pronounced Dyma, cunt

>>8968900
Nobody loves Faulkner because his writing style consists of him jerking off onto the page, stoping to finish a sentence only upon orgasm.

>>8968922
You copy pasted that from Wikipedia with no knowledge of how to even pronounce that

>>8968922
Dymá

>>8968925
No, I actually speak French fuckface. A for effort though.

>having a favorite anything

>>8968816
The good news is yes,
the bad news is that what anon said is not true in real life.

>>8968934
Sure you do.
Whatever helps you stroke your inflated ego :^)

>>8968875
>>8968899
>>8968916
>>8968922
>>8968932
it's prononced du-ma you fucking english cunt you don't say the ssss

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>tfw always answer Tolkien
>manage to be both innocuous and sincere while avoiding the plebeian pitfall

>>8968756
>at least 2 say the author the class is about
Who is the class about

>>8968946
Yeah yeah, nobody knows a language that is foreign to you. You shouldn't be the one criticizing other's egos.

>>8968775
Just looked up Saul for the first time. Gotta get me some of that.

>>8968756
>no Gertrude Stein
>no Thomas Campion
>no Leonidas of Tarentum
>no-one even mentioned Finnegans Wake
Holy fuck OP enjoy your class of plebshits you fucking pleb

>>8968954
Me on the left :^)

>>8968995
L O N D ON
O
N
D
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>not saying Alan Moore
>not showing an appreciation for the face of neo-lit

Missed opportunity to get pussy tb.h f.am

>>8968989
>favorite author
>Finnegans Wake
???
Someone in the class said Joyce.

>one guy says Joyce

I could only imagine the professor's reaction to this -- on the inside at least. It's the same as some teenager walking into NASA saying his favorite career is an astronaut and asking when he can join the next space mission.

The cringe...

I mean, sure you can read Joyce but can someone really say it's their favorite if they probably don't even understand it? (Not saying I do, but there's a high chance the professor doesn't even know either because it's that difficult.)

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I remember when my Prof did the same thing at the start of my college class
>everyone is saying either YA or entry-level shit like orwell, tolkein, dostoevsky etc.
>my turn and I say james joyce
>girl near me scoffs out loud and mutters 'really'?
>reply 'what? ulysses is my favorite book'
>she rolls her eyes and says 'you don't have to show off'
>class laughs at me
>get flustered, stutter and can't think of a comeback
>prof goes round to her and (get this) she says her favorite author is I made this story up
Fuck that bitch

>>8968756
Happened at my college, I tend to just say the author I'm reading at the time. I don't really have favorites, so when I was called out I said John Steinbeck.

The Grapes of Wrath was a decent book.

>>8969086
Saying Joyce is your favourite author isn't saying you completely understand Finnegans Wake. Maybe he just really likes Dubliners and Portrait.

>>8968775
>alinsky
Cringe
Professor probably thought you were autistic

>>8968972
>Vous êtes un homosexuel.
oh yah, translate that

>>8969148
I don't have to, eat shit :^)

>>8969106
If he is teaching undergraduate literature class, his opinion is not worth my time or consideration. Scored an A+ in the class too.

>>8968756

I always say Henry Miller to get feminist pussy.

>>8968954
>Tolkien
>not plebeian
8/8

>>8969148
>Using vous instead of tu in this context
Nice google translate you've got there

>>8968895
Yes, because poetry is making words on a page form by magic and nice thoughts.

>>8969148
Fuck off, Sam.

>>8969229
Poets are writers in the same sense that a child fingerpainting is a painter.

>>8969253
How could you be more pleb and know how to type?

>>8969255
>enjoys poetry
>calls others plebs
I am sorry to be the first to notify you, but poetry is literally the lowest form of art.

>>8969265
kys

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>>8969265
Go to where you learned to read literature and slap them for me, please.

>>8969148
>vous
Exposed

>>8969148
>using the indefinite article where it should be omitted
wew lad

>>8968826
>that one faggot who always keeps going on about narratology

nobody likes you

>>8968817
I don't understand (outside of the naturally negative attitude of the site) why ficionnes is around #8 on lit favorites but no one talks about Borges outside of the shitposting anti Argentina threads.

>>8969265
5/8 master b8

>>8969265
t. philistine who never studied a written work older than 100 years

>>8969265
Nigger know how I can tell you've never actually studied literature and are just a pseud? Because there's literally no way to study literature seriously without studying poetry. It's like trying to learn mathematics without learning Algebra.

>>8969310
Yeah, I definitely don't get it.

Borges is honestly amazing. Ficciones is filled with brilliant inventiveness.

>>8969310
It's almost like people just pick authors to make themselves sound intelligent and don't actually read anything by them and thus have nothing to say.

>>8968756
>only 1 person said Joyce

looks like your class has a lot to learn

This happened to me as well but who really cares? I'm in school to improve myself. Fuck everyone else in the room. I got my own goals.

>>8969331
So why does this site operate like this? I've been here for a while, starting to feel trapped a little bit, but I don't understand why there's such a goddamn circle jerk. Every board has like, 10 core things that they like, and with the exception of the daily threads over on mu, none of the boards seem interested in trying to branch out. It's really confusing, especially with literature...

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>>8969269
>>8969277
>>8969316
>>8969324
>all these faggots taking the bait
Thank you for promoting shitposting. You retards are the reason /lit/ is so awful nowadays.

>>8968968
probably shakespeare since op didn't mention shakespeare. Also one of the few writers that most universities devote an entire course to (at the undergraduate level, at least)

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>>8969352

>>8969352
kys

>>8968954
She's cute! And he looks like a nice old man!

>>8969376
tolkien is pretty pleb though

This thread is a special kind of awful

>>8968874
>Spanish
>White

>>8969197
>not knowing that vous is proper since he doesn't know the poster hence vous (the formal version of you as well as the plural)

>>8969502
>European Spaniards immigrated to South America
>became the ruling class
>you were elite in places like Brazil if you were white, ie a European Spaniard
>>Cervantes not white
???

I'm taking an online Spanish lit class for my fine arts credit. What am I in for?

>>8969513
tu is the more familiar pronoun therefore more suited to an insult

>>8968913
>Willy Wigglestick

>>8969553
cet homme a raison

>>8969526
>Brazil
>spanish

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>>8968756
>I like Tolstoy
>'Nobody buys his moralist crap'
>Class starts laughing

>>8969502
>>8969570
>Greentext
>Argument

>going to class on the first day

>>8968756
Mine was a collection of YA/Fantasy authors and one girl who was really into Fight Club (the movie).

It can always be worse.

>>8969197
y'all is a gay

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>teaching comp 101 for a month because the original teacher is out with some awful flu
>entire class is fat chicks
>they all love stephenie meyers
>choose pick related as a class reading project just to fuck with them
>half drop out of the class rather than finishing reading past the first chapter
>somehow, this reflects poorly on the original teacher instead of me
>they get fired and I take their job

>>8968756
How could no one mention Stephen King? The greatest author of all time?

>>8969849
Sorry, didn't read the whole thread, should have known someone already made fun of King. sage

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>tfw people either don't know about him or call me a bigot
Just kill me.

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>>8969039
True patricians realize that Finnegans Wake is the endgame of literature. Both a part of and detached from the literary canon. It is therefore both an author and a text in itself.

>>8969553
this guy knows french

>>8970015
I'm surprised you can reach your keyboard being that far up your own ass

>>8969867
>reading Death on Credit at my stem tutoring job
>lit tutor asks what its about
>manage to describe it kind of
>they look up the book on their phone
>stop talking to me after that
>later on leave the book at mom's house while visiting
>she tells me she's reading it
>start to worry
>says it's the funniest book she ever read

that's how I know momma raised me right

>>8968893
underrated

These aren't really lit memes but okay.

DFW is a pretty standard college answer. Pynchon isn't all that obscure either.

>no Proust
Shame

>>8968756
should've said gene wolfe

>>8969720

That's unironically his best stuff, though.

>prof asks me
>say Adolf Hitler
>she opens her mouth, unable to understand what she just heard
>boys avert their eyes
>several girls start crying
>a single student in the back of the class suddenly stands and starts a slow clab
>tells the room what a brave young man I was

>>8969867
is celine the most "JUST" author?

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>>8970040
*Sigh* mere ad hom. Will I ever meet an intellect to match my own?

>>8970092
holy...

>>8970096
That would be Houellebecq

>>8968756

My favorite author is Cervantes, am I a meme? I can't even speak Spanish.

>>8968875
>lol who the fuck is albert camoo

>>8969182
I hope we meet one day so I can make you feel unimportant by virtue of existing, and I hope I'm in a bad mood.

>>8968756

>no Douglas Adams

time for OP to do a school shooting

>>8968756
you should've said Honoré de ..Ballsack

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ADOLF HITLER

>not saying "myself"

>>8968887
That makes them incredibly boring people that will almost certainly be able to mechanically write. It doesn't lend much credence to that writing doing them much good though.

>>8969513
T'es un pd surtout

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>teacher asks me
>say Hideo Kojima
>teacher and 3 girls clap

>>8968924
Fuck off

>>8969253
>>8968895
You have no idea what you're talking about.

The distinction you're thinking is "novelist," you insufferable cunt.

>>8969086
>favorite career
Lol what the fuck are you talking about

>>8970115
I didn't say anything about your personality or argument I'm genuinely surprised you can reach your keyboard from that far up your ass it's a compliment

>>8969310
What is there to discuss? He's universally loved. You can argue about translations of the Russians, you can argue about DFW and McCarthy, you can argue about Virginia Woolf because of her vagina, you can laugh about Joyce's farts and Finnegans Wake, but there's really nothing to shitpost about with Borges, he's good and that's that.

>No R.M Drake
>No Topher Kearby

You're gonna have a hard time getting laid.

>>8968756
>ei Väinö Linna
>ei Volter Kilpi
>ei Pentti Haanpää
>ei Heikki Turunen
>ei Kurt Wallenius
>ei Juhani Aho
>ei Aleksis Kivi
>ei Mika Waltari
>ei Joni Skiftesvik
>ei Juha Seppälä
aika plepii

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>do an English minor for undergrad
>take classical english class 3rd year course
>prof asks goes around asking what our favourite and least favourite books are
>get to one precocious girl
>"my favourite book is Harry Potter because it taught me to be myself!"
>ohboy
>"my most hated novel is 100 Years of Solitude. It said it was magical realism but it had no magic in it, really really boring!"
>Not even a fan of Marquez but she angered me so much I had to drop the class on principle.

>>8968756
>5 people said Hemingway
If he knew he had that many fans he probably wouldn't have offed himself.

You guys are so amazingly arrogant
I love you all

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>>8968774

Hate to break it to you, but Joyce is lightyears ahead of all those old fucks--well, perhaps not LIGHTYEARS ahead of Chaucer, but he is still better. After Shakespeare, Joyce was the English-speaker who most firmly grasped what being human is.

>>8969086

Get over yourself bruv. Some people (including myself) like to read deeply. And of course, if a piece of literature is any good at all, you will never totally understand it. The erudition of middle and late Joyce is a matter of degree, not of kind, and indeed I'd say that any really attentive reader can pretty much get what's going on in Ulysses everywhere but the 14th episode, without annotations.

>>8970044

Well evidently she didn't if you're tutoring a STEM subject.

>>8970092

>slow clab
Cf. attachment.

>>8970550

I wouldn't call that precocious, but okey-dokey.

>>8969087
(You)

>>8970029
Why would someone have to be familiar with someone to insult them? In this example, two anons implies unfamiliarity

>>8970748
Because formality implies respect you autist

>>8970622
>Joyce was the English-speaker who most firmly grasped what being human is.
I just shed a tear.

>>8968756
>all these straight white men

try harder shitlord

In one of my comparative lit classes (attendants were mostly students of foreign languages) there was an ice breaker exercise where people had to choose a literary character as their avatar. The vast majority of students came up with something from Harry Potter with one or two Tolkiens sprinkled in. I went with Conrad's Marlowe and mumbled something about being a side character in my own life as regards university. That is all.

>>8970781
kek

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>>8970092

>>8969148
Va te faire foutre, fils de chienne.

>>8970814
>>Joyce was the English-speaker who most firmly grasped what being human is.
primarily, not, but almost, limited to, getting your dick farted on

>>8969351
because everyone here is fucking stupid

>>8970781
>Because formality implies respect you autist
your a idiot

>>8971258

Quite prodigiously, my friend, have you, perhaps, though probably not, unintentionally nested a great many, by which I mean three, or four, since I am not too hot on grammatical terminology, outside that of Latin, of course, as that is the queen of tongues, clauses.

>>8971268
I disagree mister retard

>>8971258
>>8971292
You really think you are funny, don't you?

>>8971355
Formality or familiarity; which determines the use of term?

>>8971382
But anon, you do know the other anon wasn't joking about the farty dick, I hope.

>>8971292
I, believe it, or not, believe, I have, indeed, likely, to a relatively, high degree, give and/or take, a semi few, bedded, at once, three times, each once, at the moment, a, Mrs, and daughter, thereof, very, verily, in relation to that which you speaketh of, though I must recall, they insisted, like a man or river run, that I must wrap my package, as traveleth it does, in the blood, of that rosy family

>>8971422
There is even a >firmly grasped

And getting your dick farting on, as I presume if the poster of said statement, is as genius as they must be, to write such, could have intended it, or might it duly be, beyond ones intention (death of author), metaphorically

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>>8971437

>>8971427
forgot to mention, throw in, that I came, tither, and hither

>>8971409
Being overly familiar is not formal and is rude

>>8968874
FUCKING TRIGGERED

>>8969099
East of Eden was way better.
Some of his short stories are pretty dope as well, if you can be okay with having non-ironic f33lz

What exactly are you supposed to say? It's possible to appreciate a wide range of literature but reserve a favorite that is considered "pleb"-tier.

>>8971621
You use term X if you are familiar with the person you are using it to.

You use term Y if you are unfamiliar with the person you are using it to.

On an anonymous board, we presume the person insulting the person they do not know, would use term Y.

This would also be the, unformal, as you wouldnt know the person, this is a Siberian slinky sucking board, and you are insulting someone. I suppose insults could be formal, or perhaps even if a stranger, you always want to use the formal in insults, because then it automatically puts you at the higher edge, as if you were wearing a tuxedo?

>>8969265
wow it's the most pleb statement ever

>>8968756
>everybody spouts lit memes
Or a very mainstream selection of some of the most famous and critically acclaimed authors, possibly. /lit/'s insularity and belief that its memes are remotely obscure is always entertaining.

The only one there that might make me even vaguely suspect /lit/ is 'Pynchon or Wallace' and I'm betting that was OP

>>8971864
No, you clearly don't understand, it has to do with both the speaker's social relationship to the subject and the terms used. In an egalitarian society like ours it may be hard to see, but it's directly visible in hierarchies. Say a student is stressing his teacher, he would call him by his first name instead of sir if he would insult him, it shows a disregard for position and respect and puts more bite into the insult. It's more blatant in places like Japan with honorifics, a stranger of the same status is formally addressed with -san, a lower honorific or none at all might properly be seen as an affront.

>>8971904
weeb

>>8971905
ANIME IS 4CHAN FUCK YOU

>>8968981
I was thinking the exact same. Not sure if I should get the ebook or paperback.

>>8968756
>not Paulo Coelho
get on my level fag

>>8969351
It is because those who branch out most don't have time for this site. Maybe make a Branch Out General? I could get behind that!

>>8968881
Doomass

Any suggestions for an actually good ice-breaker for a gen-ed intro lit class? I've never done one.

>>8968848
Everything.

>>8971864
mate i understand that you once studied high school french, but that;s not how the frogs actually use their language

>>8970500
His works are inellectual to a fault and his ideas, although many of which are very good, are rehashed too much throughout his works. Plus he gradually got less and less entertaining as he got older. I loved ficciones and quite like some of his other short collections (mainly the early ones) but there are certainly some things about him which you can complain about.
I know I am not the only one who feels this way either.

>>8968848
Whats wrong with being gay, tranny, fat or black?
Ding ding ding! Yes just like pedophiles these groups are threats to society!

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>>8968756

This happened in one of my earliest entry level classes, and because I still don't have a good answer to it, I just said Stephen King.

Teacher laughed at me. Zero fucks given.

[spolier]Right now it's probably Carver, I drink too much[/spolier]

>>8969005
You're kidding, right?

I would say Dr. Sauce

>>8968817
Lem is one of the best philosophers of XX century, but he's not that great as an author. Especially not if you're reading nonslavic translation.

>>8972752
>philosopher

>>8968848
wtf im a pedophile now

>>8970814
>After Shakespeare...

>>8968756

I would say Andrei Bely or Martin Heidegger

How much puss would I crush?

>>8968954
They're both awkward and nervous after all the steamy sex they had the night before
It's a heartwarming picture

>>8970563
They don't call them e/lit/ists for nothing. I like it too- it's refreshing in this pop culture-filled world to have people being openly elitist.

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>>8970015
>True patricians realize that Weekend is the endgame of film. Both a part of and detached from the cinematic canon. It is therefore both an author and a film in itself.

>>8968756
>taking a lit class
oh I see, you like throwing away your time and money

>>8968875
Düma

what are some unpretentious answers to this question? Chekhov, maybe?

>>8973064
Nick Smith

>>8973064
the author that is actually your favourite one, I guess.

>>8973125
but if your favorite other is actually, say, joyce, people will think you're pretentious

>>8973151
Why should you care what they think

>>8972921
>therefore both an author and a film in itself.
what does it mean, for a work of art, film or noel... to .... be... an author? Is not all art already assumed to be "in some sense, speaking, the artists "word""?

>>8973064
The only way to win is not to play.

>>8968852
B-b-but Borges is amazing, senpai.

>first day of my lit class
>professor does a round robin of who your favorite author is
>we don't all say shakespeare simultaneously, and then start a circlejerk

literally everyone is a pleb

All these plebs struggling to virtue signal with their unique tastes, not realizing that a true patrician has evolved beyond such base foibles and the desire for the respect of sheep.

>my favorite author is Dr. Seuss btw

>>8973064
JK Rowling

>>8973460
Roald Dahl would be a better answer

>>8973064
Alice Munro

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>>8973064
>tfw when too smart to read because I've already theorized all forms of philosophy and literature in my own mind before the age of 7.

Most American writers are trash, the thing is America is such a navel gazing culture that anything outside its own cultural whirlpool is not worth perusal. American exceptionalism demands artists that are only American. Bar Cormac McCarthy, Faulkener, Pycvhon. Precious few good writers have emerged.. Bob Dylan winning the Nobel prize is a joke, the biggest case of pandering from the worthless Swedes..

>>8974341
You seem like an insufferable person.

>>8974341
>Swedes
think your missing some mom and dad thesis' there

>>8974341
Who/what are some great non American contemporary writers/novels?

>>8974357
Nah man I'm just tired of some of sort of writers you get. They try and write this Great American Novel that is invariably set in New York or San Francisco and is all about how much of a snowflake/great or confused they are. It's a total cliche a this stage.

>>8974341
I agree.

>>8974372
Not contemporary but
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
J. M. Coetzee - some great novels by him
Michel Houellebecq
John McGahern - Amongst Women
John Banville - The Sea
Atonement (can't remember who wrote it)
Lots of others I can't remember I'll post another comment give me a while to think

>>8974341
American contemporary authors are the some of the most talented authors who've ever lived.

McElroy and Gass especially

>>8973299
In the "auteur" ssense of the Cahier du Cinema
Im aorry I'm . little drunk

>>8974398
>McElroy
William Styron is an fantastic writer as well. Sophies Choice is brilliant book that no one mentions. One of the rare books that a have a brilliant plot and some beautiful prose. I'm the same guy who said American where trash but I'm sick reading them guess I was a bit too strong..regret nothing

>>8969265
wrong fucko, MUSIC is the lowest form of art

>>8974581
How many forms of art would you estimate there are?

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>>8974372
He and Houellebecq are the best contemporary writers.

>>8968824
The correct answer

James Joyce looks so utterly goofy
His countenance suggests hes aware of it too

>>8968875
>it says "dumass"

>>8974677
He looks like he's wearing a poorly made disguise, a proto-Groucho-Marx glasses-n-mustache. The fucking trilby, too. It reeks of Communist agent.

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>>8969148
>eres una

>>8968922
Nope. It's D-eww-m-a-ss
I have heard the name a million times in French classes over 10 years.

teacher asked us what the last book we read was, i said Stoner
am i the crancer

>>8975021
yes pls leaf

>>8968774
You people are the worst faggots.

FAVORITE =/= "BEST"

People will say the author that they liked the most, and it could be fucking anything as far as you know based on their individual experience. Their family, loved ones, or mentors could have related the book to them. There are any number of reasons why a book might be someone's "favorite".

I would likely say Hemingway myself. But I'm well aware that he's far from the "best" and pretty plainly mediocre despite being influential.

Chaucer is fantastic, but unless the only thing you value is the quality of the writing instead of the actual characters or narrative or relatability then most MODERN people will favor something that has emotional resonance for them.

And fuck your suggestions are just as entry level anyways.

>>8974581
Kill yourself you ignorant cunt.

Dance is the lowest art form by far. Just because you know literally nothing about music theory, harmony, rhythm, and the actual process of composition doesn't mean its a "low art" you dumb ass

>>8975157
I know about music theory, harmony, rhythm etc. and I still think it's the lowest form of art. You can talk about composition in music all you like but it comes nowhere close to being an adequate parallel to disegno. It's no mistake that music is the least artistically advanced medium.

>>8975173
>it's the lowest form of art
How many forms of art would you estimate there are?

>>8973064
if the views of others bother you to such an extent you should just end yourself so that you never have to worry about sounding pretentious again

>>8968756
>first day of poli sci tutorial
>TA does a round of introduction
>"say your name, what year you're in, your major, and...favourite book"
>can't think of a single favourite out of all the books I've read
>comes to me
>"um...Oxford English Dictionary"

>>8975173
> I know about music theory, harmony, rhythm etc
no you don't lmao

This board is full of children

>>8975740
Show us what a big boy you are

>no Kafka
> no Luigi Serafini

>>8969087
im pissed, I had a lot of emotional investment in that story

you fucking cunt

>>8970845
kek

>>8970845
wew
I probably would have gone with raskolnikov

>>8968954
Is this really what people in Russia look like? On the subway? Fuck, I'm impressed...

But then I realize anon is some creepy fuck clandestinely taking their picture without their knowing or consenting.

>>8969086
I suppose you're the global authority on James Joyce that everyone loves to talk about then?

>>8973064
I don't have a favourite author. I simply haven't read enough literature to give you a good answer.

Sorry.

>>8974372
Jon Fosse

>>8977002
That just makes it sound like you don't like books tbph

>>8968802
L A U R A G A L L E G O
A A
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R L
A E
G
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>>8969536
Old spics and modern super omg talented women
Cervantes would be proud

>>8970527
Missäs helevetissä Järnefelt ja Sillanpää on? Kloppi taida tietää mistään mtn ja kopsailee vaa iso vanhempien kirjahyllystä

>>8977993
>iso_vanhempien

t. muunyymi

>>8977443
Laura Gallego > your diary desu

>>8977443
>laurago aalle

>>8968995
nice shoes

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This just happened

>First day of IP Law.
>Professor asksif anyone has read Barthes
>4 people raise their hand, including me.
>Asks the girl behind me to explain Death of the Author
>Fucking Death of the Author (keep in mind, this is 3rd year of JD).
>Girl umms and ahhhs, obviously hasn't read Mythologies.
>Take over and get it right.

th-thanks /lit/

>>8978766
>Take over
Don't do this you tryhard cunt

>>8978766
I bet you made a lot of obnoxious sounds before she finally fell silent. Sorting, grumbling and after brushing your greasy hair, you lay your fingers on her hand. "May I? Can I... Take it over? I've, hrrm, studied these kinds of things", before going on rants on the degeneracy modern literature community

>>8978840
I did all those thing

>>8978766
>Law School
>Marxist professor
It checks out. What a hard, driving rain is about to pour down over some completely unsuspecting """""folks""""".

>>8972895
Is like saying "faster than a snail"

>>8974373
Can you name any novels that are like that and which are regarded widely as great and American?

>>8979422
Hi sir edginald, how does it go?

>>8978793
>>8978840
No like, he then motioned to me and I answered.

>>8978890
You're not me, kys.

>>8979422
Dude so much of the school is hard conservative, it hurts. Semiotics is an important field of defence in Intellectual Property.