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Has anyone read a translation of IJ?
No one would ever bother.
>>7550652
I'm reading the brazilian portuguese version desu
>>7550781
how is it?
There's something that came up to my mind while i was reading this book, why didn't plato write it in such a form that it was more subtle? like, we know that the good city is an allegory to men's souls, yet he keeps talking about the soul itself throughout the book, wouldn't it be more aesthetically pleasing if he only wrote about the good city leaving it to us to conclude that he's talking about the soul and about individuals rather than just cities?
Because the dialogue was about the nature of justice, not some post-modern bonanza
>>7550141
I'm currently in book 5, does it get less dry than that or it's like that throughout the book?
>why didn't plato write it in such a form that it was more subtle?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_and_the_Art_of_Writing
How the fuck do you force yourself to read for any longer than half an hour? At a certain point, I just can't read any more words. They don't even register. How do you focus?
adderal
how long have you been regularly reading? like anything else it is a skill that requires repetitiveness to improve. Your reading stamina should increase the more you read
just make the half hour mark your ten minute break, digest the material, then return for another half hour.
thoughts on the literature of Neil Gaiman?
pretty shite
a study in emerald was cute
>>7577332
The Ocean at the End of the Lane was neat, imo. And I really enjoyedthe Sandman comics. He's good at what he does but has little literary merit.
>>7577346
explain exactly why's he's shit? i love his work
Tell us about some of your unusual literary opinions, c/lit/s.
>>7574180
No work of 'fiction' is truly fictional. It may be fictional in our universe, but every 'fiction' corresponds perfectly to events in the history of one universe or another.
>>7574191
go to bed jorge
>>7574180
All of the best writers are women.
the face of contemporary french literature
Michel Tournier is still alive. Just about.
>>7573595
he looks like an albino orc.
is there any book I should start with or can I jump right into Submission?
what direction do you see literary trends moving in?
>>7573538
The experiences of those in the third world. On one hand I despise this because its often pushed on us re: multiculturalism. On the otherhand, it stimulates my curiosity.
Marlon James, thiong'o, the masses of new chinese pop lit, etc
>>7573538
I see many advances in shitposting and greentexting.
>>7573548
>On one hand I despise this because its often pushed on us re: multiculturalism.
No. It. Does. Not.
A book of some dude in some african village is a book about some dude in some african village. As a matter of fact, the book may very well describe an extremely monocultural society.
If you're one of the sad few that thinks that books are instructions to do things, please stay away from super hero comics. You may jump off a skyscraper.
Why aren't you writing right now, /lit/?
because fuck you fuck her fuck bowie fuck everything im out
>>7573796
take it easy, friend
>>7573784
there are over seven billion human beings on this planet. there is absolutely nothing i can do that no one of those others cannot and it is bizarrely egotistical for anyone to believe otherwise
Dear /lit/, I have been with you guys for a little over a year, and I really enjoyed this board for what it was: discussions of literature, however since a flock of redditors and new people came to this board and just shitposted none stop of everything not /lit/, I will have to say goodbye. I'll check back in a few months but until then good luck trying to fix this piece of shit board up. It was a nice board. Hopefully you guys can get it together so it won't be like /pol/ or /tv/. Anyhow if you see a post that is not lit ignore it or say not literature not lit.
Been posting here for two years, and I don't see a problem. It's the same threads we've always had, about the same books and authors. I think you're just one guy trying to stir up shit 'cause he's bored.
OK, see you tomorrow anon.
>>7573324
I've only been here since September, but the quality of the posts have gotten worse in December, and are probably only going to get worse
What do you think of suicide? As a theme in literature and as an action one might perform someday.
> As a theme in literature
nailed it in bananafish desu
> as an action one might perform someday.
nothing in particular
Oh OP, don't be so melodramatic.
just do it
Hey /lit/,
This isn't a death thread. I'd like to know who you guys like or respect. Who's the next great American literary critic? Is there anyone in line behind him?
Serious discussion preferred, but I know you guys won't.
>>7572817
>Who's the next great American literary critic
me
not memeing
me
not memeing either
>>7572833
Have you been published?
Are you going to read Infinite Jest for its 20th anniversary on February 1st?
And what was your favorite scene? I liked whenever Orin and Hal were on the phone
>>7571356
More like The Infinite Jew
Link to this porno?
Will /lit/ still call me a pleb if I buy and read all the 100 books in the pic?
>>7572001
Unless you also read The Tunnel, yes.
>>7572006
So all those 100 books in the pic are garbage?
>>7572001
Even though there are a lot of pleb books on that list there are also a good a number of serious books as well. The sheer amount of books we are talking about combined with the fact that many are good would probably negate the fact that a dozen or so are super-pleb books. You would be even less of a pleb if you tried that based on the more recent top 100 book list that was compiled about 3 or 4 months ago that had way more people participate in it and better statistical methods. I would post it but I can't...
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While Russian board is dead , your Russian brothers in literature sit here
Пyкнyлa тeбe в poтик, изyчaй
Бpaтцы, гpeх caмoгo ceбя цитиpoвaть, нo ceйчac cкaжy cтpaшнyю вeщь - sosach is down
oк, пepeкaтывaeмcя
This book impressed me to the core
This is 'White Flag' by the painter Jasper Johns. It is considered a modern masterpiece. Anyone else wanna blow their brains out rather than try and understand modern art? I mean a lot of it I can appreciate but this is completely opaque to me
>>7571452
If you read about the art preceding and following any masterpiece it becomes a lot easier to understand it's significance
It's the same with literature, I imagine
>>7571452
>this is completely opaque to me
If you look closely, underneath the white paint is an American flag. I missed it at first too.
ok I take back everything I said, this I can get behind. This is Tracy Emin's bed, literally her own bed exhibited as art but
>The artwork generated considerable media furor, particularly over the fact that the bedsheets were stained with bodily secretions and the floor had items from the artist's room, such as condoms, underwear with menstrual blood stains, other detritus, and functional, everyday objects, including a pair of slippers. The bed was presented in the state that Emin claimed it had been after languishing in it for several days;...
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