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>be me
>decides to show my writing to friends
>they say it's shit
>I've been feeling sick and anxious for 3 days now
Does it get better with experience or will I suffer every time I try to show people my writing?
my personal experience is that they'll give you shit just because you're trying and showing passion. usually, they don't even read it and make fun of you for being dedicated and serious about something.
further proof: ive been on both sides of the situation and that the exact reason why I made fun of them
>>7823285
May I see it?
do your friends know shit about lit?
looking for some expansion on the basic themes, characters, context etc from Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. Studying it at A-Level (I know, simple text that doesn't suit the level of study - but we didn't choose it)
my teacher pitches everything below our level and I'm looking for some obscure references that I can draw on in my exam
general discussion welcomed
reference to the greeks would be cool too! I know a lot of the characters are based on greeks, but my teacher has never mentioned this (seems pretty important to me?)
Fuck off. 'Simple text'. You know jack shit. Don't even know the Greeks. I hope you aren't thinking of doing lit at uni, you waste of space.
There's a Sandman number about it. IT won a Hugo prize, if i remember well.
Hello, /lit/fags. First time poster here, I made a translation of a Bulgarian poem, one of my favorites by a favorite poet. I'd like some critique or betterment recommendations.
Thank you in advance and enjoy reading otherwise.
>>7823274
Quick addition, there exists a German translation in the Insel Bücherei No.567. Also perhaps a Russian translation somewhere in the internet, too.
I'll give the thread a bump, since you guys aren't really responsive, then deleting.
/lit/ is slow as fuck fyi
Are you biographists, /lit/ ?
Does knowing an author personally makes the interpretation of his work better / more legit?
bump for one of the most interesting questions in the theory of literature
i don't think it's better or worse, it's just a different angle
>>7823077
I think it's better for political works, and worse for aesthetic ones, since in that case the only purpose it serves is to tie the work to the world of gossip, slander, and other social power plays.
>inb4 all works are political
droning politicians who can't abide something existing without using it for power, plz go
I'm currently in a sort of dry spell, where everything I write and say is unoriginal, unfunny, and generally worthless. I always stumble and lose my place when I'm trying to say something, I cant write a sentence with decent syntax to save my life, and whenever I'm writing something for school I fuck up on a letter every other word. Anyone else go through periods where you cant write or say anything good? If so, how do you get out of it?
Pic unrelated
My whole life was EXACTLY like that until recently (couldn't put two fucking words together). I honestly think that in my inmost heart I just gave up or the drug damage took its toll.
Just keep practicing. Read "The Elements of Style," it should rub off on you.
>>7822998
eh just wait for it to pass
Has anyone on /lit/ read Life and Fate? What are your thoughts on it? Should I read this or Buddenbrooks first?
>>7822910
I read it.
The parts about Stalingrad are top tier. The parts about life in the Soviet state are obviously written with censorship in mind and while not bad, are a bit boring.
>>7822929
Ah right, so the soviet war is better than the soviet peace. Does the book speak about physics much? I know the main character is a physicist
>>7822983
Not actual physics, more like tenure battles in the context of Soviet system.
italian pedo shit
more like gep-pedo
more works in the vein of pedocchio?
what was he doing between 1973 and 1990?
Smoking weed and writing Mason & Dixon.
(I remember from another thread on the exact same topic.)
enjoying the prime of his life
Working as a technical writer and raising a family, probably.
Are Argentines deserving of their literary reputation, or do they have that reputation only because the rest of Latin America is shit?
With the exception of Borges (debatable) Argentina has no discernible talent
>>7822759
>(debatable)
you serious mate
>>7822742
Latin America has great literature, and it is beating both Spain and Portugal for quite some time now.
You don’t have even read anything of that part of the world and yet somehow find yourself in the position to call a lot of material “shit”.
So how many of you have latched on to literature as a way to deal with no qt gf?
Not me, writing and literature have gotten me more pussy than a toilet seat.
CAN YOU STOP PUTTING SALT IN THE WOUND
If you read literature to cope with no qt3.14gf it's probably a more endemic problem that is pervasive in all areas of your social life. To answer your question, no, I latched on to literature as escapism for being a hopeless NEET.
>"Do you fuck Mommy?" he asks. "You said I could," he pleads hastily, as he sees me gape at him in surprise.
What did Heller mean by this?
i swear lit is better than this
>>7823115
If only.
Prove me wrong /lit/
It is good, won't even try.
it was ok i guess. genealogy of morals is better desu
I discovered this board about three years ago and I had posted a thread asking which books to read for someone who has not read anything besides some books for young kids when growing up. The first comment was this book. I had purchased it and it still sits in my bookshelf untouched after realizing I couldn't get past the first 5 pages.
I've never read any work of Albert Camus so I've decided to buy pic related translated by Matthew Ward. What am I in for?
a practical example of an 'absurd man'
an extremely simple and barebones book that probably wont mean anything unless you read some explanation of it
>>7822225
graduating high school
Just fucking read it
hi dumbner-i mean /lit/.
why should i read books? will books get me a gf?
absolutely. you get one after 500 book. but? if you wait and get to 1000 book, you get to the next qt tier. they have to be real books though, no large-prints or cut-and-rebind short stories (I tried)
>>7822157
I don't care if you read books. In fact, I don't want you to.
Knowledge is for the capable and the ignorant unwashed masses shouldn't waste their time pretending to understand Goethe and Epictetus.
The Super Mario Brothers and My Little Pony are more your speed.
>>7822179
1. You were an infant once. It's never too late to start thinking.
2. Like what you do is challenging or important. Just stare at paper until you can drop names and point at other people's ideas. How's your cashier job treating you?
3. For the love of god never become a teacher or a parent you pretentious faggot.
>People consider this good writing
This is why I don't respect video games as a storytelling medium.
this is pillars of eternity, right?
it didn't have very good writing even by vidya standards. total disappointment
>>7822002
One of main problems with that game was bad writing. There were still some individual moments I liked, durance for example.
Some of the Ultima games have pretty good writing
