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¿What do you think about Antoine de Saint-Exupéry? ¿What is his best novel?
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In “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798,” Wordsworth goes on about the "The still, sad music of humanity" but what do you think he means by that?
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rato
how's high school?
>>7733704
hello
rato
I've heard Buddenbrooks is a good start. I really want to dive into his work, he seems pretty interesting.
>>7733703
ffffucking read book bitch
go for it. they're separate novels. it doesn't matter.
buddenbrooks and/or death in venice.
take a detour with tonio kroger if you like death in venice.
then go magic mountain -> doctor faustus - >joseph and his brothers
his shorter stuff can be sprinkled in where you want depending on interest. mario the magician is a personal favorite, and i think it works well to read it right before doctor faustus.
after that you can explore his other stuff as you see fit. holy sinner and black swan are a bit "out there" and very much involved in mann's particular interests, and felix krull is...
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>postcolonialist realism is just as relevant as postmodernism
one actually exists and is relevant to the lives of more than half of the world facing the legacy of Western imperialism and neocolonialism whereas the other doesn't really exist, is basically LELSORANDUMXD U DUN NO NUFFAN and is spearheaded by white males in their suburban basements making vapourwave remixes
>>7733657
in other words, one is produced by the natives of undeveloped countries, and the other by people with an actual command of art and the avant-garde therein.
>>7733642
>postmodernism is a thing
>modernism hasn't just been decaying for the last 100 years.
>"experimental" writing
a lot of it is pretty good though tbqh
much of the works of the surrealists in the early 20th century is very experimental and from that point onwards there is plenty of really good experimental writing up through the 60's and 70's
HEY LET'S COMPLAIN ABOUT STUPID SHIT AGAIN
>classicist writers with no interest in new emerging form
Can someone explain to me why reading fiction is so important?
I'm not condemning it. If you enjoy it, go ahead, I'm not here to shit on your fun.
I'm the kind of autistic though that only enjoys reading non-fiction. Every time I say this to my friends or family the response is either
>But non-fiction is boring!
>But you have to read more fiction anon
No one has ever given me a proper answer. So I hope my friends here at /lit/ can enlighten me.
There is no reason why reading fiction is important. The whole it gives you empathy reason is bullshit and used by autistic shut-ins to feel superior for feeling emotions to a fictional character that they would never with a real person. And given this board is filled with raging retards who live for shitflinging, the empathy discourse is even more bullshit on a stupid board like this, despite no one on this board actually reading.
Either it's fun or it's not. There is no intrinsic worth to reading fiction. It's a waste of time either way.
>>7733617
Your life is a fictional tale and you and me learn from the characters inside it. That is why you learn more about your real life from reading fiction than any biology textbook, at least good fiction that is.
>>7733815
That makes no sense.
