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Here we talk about stuff written in Portuguese, just like we did last week. What are you writing/reading lately?
Also, post what you've been writing.
É para falarmos em português?
A ultima coisa que li de língua portuguesa foi um dos livros de crónicas do Miguel Esteves Cardoso. Apesar de discordar de muitas coisas, nomeadamente na política, é um óptimo escritor e tem imensa piada.
Ando a tentar escrever umas letras para fados, mas não vou postar porque são merda.
(Respostando da última thread.)
Num grito invadia os pavilhões e nada se acordava por entre os bairros, guetos e baixadas que circum-navegavam os vapores calmantes do centro financeiro. No sono da indecisão os homens se atabalhoavam entre os pilares que eram também bússolas e não só aglomerados de convenções estáticas entre dois planos reais, correndo e pensando terem tido lembranças de algumas delas num dos sonhos que não nasceram e nem jamais haveriam de fazê-lo naquela noite. Por isso acelerava positivamente em direção à fechadura, querendo ser um...
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>>8121306
De preferência, anão; o OP é em inglês pela publicidade e o maior alcance.
Em relação ao que você leu, não conheço o autor citado. Recomenda algum livro dele ou alguma crônica em especial?
E, na questão dos fados, poste-os. Nada mais do que passar um pouco de vergonha num fio obscuro do /lit/ pode acontecer.
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Quanto a mim, embora esteja lendo TCoL49, tive o prazer de entrar em contato, há pouco, com as obras do talvez maior ex-autor brasileiro vivo, Raduan "Lavoura...
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What are his most underrated and overrated works?
>>8121206
>Underrated
It's impossible to underrate Stephen King
>Overrated
Everything he's ever published
>>8121212
racist
OP, you're 13 or what?
How about a nice thread on /lit/ about a book you like and why you like it.
I'm sick of
>Hur niggers caint rite
>Womenz ain't authers aither
And all the shitty threads where someone just shits on anything introduced.
Talk about a book you really like and why you like it.
If you want to call a book shit, explain why, and don't be a fucking faggot and say "it just is" or any variation of that.
I really think "What we talk about when we talk about...
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black woman detected
>>8121181
I expected there to be a wave of resentment and idiocy, but I'm optimistic that it will die down and the adults can actually discuss books.
Go play in /pol/ traffick kid.
>>8121187
It still isn't going to go well. You tried too hard I think.
Is it hard to read for a person studying English for over 3 years? Am about to begin, but before so-doing wanted to make sure.
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Fucking read it, man!
It's just a book, it's not bad (although unbearable if you take it as a burden). There are more difficult books to read if you have to pick; Palahniuk or Rowkling, Martin or Pratchett, make your choice, stick to it and drop it if you can't.
To misunderstand To Kill a MockingBird is not a great tragedy and you could do worse.
Read it and use a dictionary if needed.
(Argenfag here, Spanish is my mothertongue, studied English until it became easy and now I'm reading in Italian. Umberto Eco is making me his bitch)
itt: books you didn't understand until you read about them afterward
Godot
God... ot
It's about waiting for God.
>>8121152
way to keep with the theme
go (dot) com
/his/ has their trolley problem shitpost thread
we have ours
Is the point of the trolley problem to highlight that people care more about being unique than doing the right thing? Of course the one guy could be a researcher who's gonna cure cancer and the five people could all be pieces of shit but its likely that none of them matter much ultimately so the morally correct decision (at least as I see it as an American) is to let one person die rather than five. The only 'problem' here is individualism for its own sake
What the fuck is all the hype about this book? Overwrought, flatulent prose by a perverted 90-year-old man immortalising how much of a loser he was.
all books are shit
>>8121140
this
>>8121140
/lit/, everybody
I was recently introduced to the work of Macedonio Fernández and was blown away. Has anyone else read Macedonio?
Can you think of another obscure, hidden gem of an author?
>>8120945
I have been looking for an ebook of anything of his, with no luck.
>>8121315
All I could get my hands on was Museum of Eterna's Novel in paperback on Amazon.
Trust me, it's worth it. Imagine Jorge Luis Borges, only trade in JLB's calculation and precision for MF's passion and fluidity.
Urmuz.
From what I hear, he's some sort of Romanian cult hero of the avant-garde.
But, like Macedonio, he's almost impossible to find in translation.
Why most intellectuals hate him?
In fact, why do most intellectuals hate anyone who studies and takes seriously the subject of esotericism?
They're scared.
>>8120869
I find the direct opposite. Most "intellectuals" hate Freud.
>>8120884
this desu
>Sit down to finally write your masterpiece novel
>Oh shit, don't know how to write
Anyone else dealt with this situation?
I'm going to die in poverty after all.
God I want to cum on her face.
>>8120853
all the time.
Get good at manipulating people, and develop an ideology, it does wonders. Once you master poking and prodding how people work, the rest of it flows naturally.
You don't have to do that, but it's a good way to understand how human beings work, especially relevant today.
Its called not knowing how to write
accept you probably wont write your masterpiece until much later and it probably wont be recognized until you are dead, it makes things much easier
Best edition of Moby Dick? I want good footnotes (or end notes) and illustrations.
I don't necessarily want the edition with the most bloat, just one where I won't need to set down the book and start googling shit.
>>8120801
>illustrations
cmon bruh.
Hardcover, black leather bound Folio Society edition w/ supplementary commentary by Harold Bloom.
>>8120835
i mean like small pictures of maritime gear, or diagrams of whales. im sure most readers aren't immediately aware of what a sextant is.
Are video games the only medium where you can find a job as loremaster? And does this make them the primary /lit/ job market?
>>8120396
professors, teachers and experts in their fields are defacto loremasters of their specialization.
>5k / month for fucking dark souls videos
I mean they're fun, but the lore isn't that fucking deep.
>>8120465
this tbhladdeh. it's just a bit more esoteric/detailed than most games.
Hey /lit/
What were the names of the contrasting schools of thought as far as interpreting novels, on whether the author's personal life should be taken into account and the text should be used as a way to understand the author's feeling/intention/motive, versus judging the work as standalone and independent of who wrote it
I was going to say auteurism but that's a film thing.
The term for it in literature seems to have escaped my mind
thanks guys
>whether the author's personal life should be taken into account
Never. This is why prefaces are useless and cancerous.
>>8120389
I tend to agree, but I'm just looking for the term for it. I'm retarded so I have forgotten it.
>>8120380
Contre Sainte-Beuve? Death of the author?
when /lit/
WHEN
just watch the show, it's better anyways.
What are some books I can read that would produce a feeling of spiritual enlightenment. A moment of satori revelation.
>>8120239
>Searching for a "feeling" of spiritual enlightenment
>not searching spiritual enlightenment
Start with the Greeks.
>>8120500
It's a process.
Israel Regardie's One Year Manual would be a good place to start.
