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anna karenina
Finished part 1 and it was great, but can anyone tell me whyNorton chooses Morini?
It doesn't make any sense to me, sure they're both sort of similar personality wise but there was never any indication that they were involved together, and then boom, after spending one night (not even a romantically engaged one) they're a couple? It doesn't follow.
>>7721569
Morini didn't fuck things up. You were meant to feel bad for him throughout the latter parts, so this was a happier ending for him
>>7721623
Yeah sure we as readers feel bad for him because we know he's sicker than he makes out to be, but Norton didn't necessarily know that, and to her he was just the same old Morini, that she was in no way romantically involved with. I'm not opposed to it, but it just seems so abrupt, almost non-sequitur.
he's an actually nice decent person who isn't a self-involved prick and she realises he's the one she cares about underneath it all
it made perfect sense to me
What is /lit/'s opinion of Elliot Rodger's 'My Twisted World'
Personally I think it is the best piece of literature ever written.
http://abclocal.go.com/three/kabc/kabc/My-Twisted-World.pdf
>>7720013
Elliot Roger is a byproduct of a society that has put too much emphasis on materialism. I have not read his whole manifesto, but part of me can't help but feel a little sorry for him.
>>7720013
I enjoyed it. The unintentionally funny portrait of a mass murderer as an unhappy young sperg. His miserable life was actually an interesting critique of our hedonistic status driven culture.
>>7720013
we've had this discussion many times
the general opinion (which i share) is that it provides a fascinating window into a mind warped by hollywood hyper-capitalism
a less well-shared opinion (though also my own) is that if it had been released without an attendant shooting it would have been hailed as a masterwork by certain lit quarters
is it the best ever written? no, you're trolling. but we take it seriously.
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Mнe нa плeчи кидaeтcя вeк-вoлкoдaв,
Ho нe вoлк я пo кpoви cвoeй:
Зaпихaй мeня лyчшe, кaк шaпкy, в pyкaв
Жapкoй шyбы cибиpcких cтeпeй...
- Osip Mandelshtam, the early 1930s.
há-de flutuar uma cidade no crepúsculo da vida
pensava eu…como seriam felizes as mulheres
à beira-mar debruçadas para a luz caiada
remendando o pano das velas espiando o mar
e a longitude do amor embarcado.
al berto
>>7718317
Und als sie endlich, fast von nahe, ihn,
aufruhend auf dem Thron von Turmalin,
sich türmen sah, so wirklich wie ein Ding:
empfing die rechte von den Dienerinnen
die Schwindende und hielt sie zu dem Sitze.
Er rührte sie mit seines Szepters Spitze:
... und sie begriff es ohne Sinne, innen.
>>7718526
Ach, wie erhaben, dieser Rilke!
>historical fiction is stupid made up bullshit
>comic irony and satire are played, done
>maximalism is over and unappealing
>surrealism is too weird to read
>realism blargh too depressing
Experimental fiction is the light, the only way.
First for Wolf Hall
Historic fiction is god tier when done correctly. I think someone needs to grow some balls and do realism for the facey B generation. Satire is never funny in books. Books are never funny.
Let's write a book like Tundra or Hyper full of haikus
Just throwing it out there
>>7733327
in the window I shitposted
my youth bitter pained and alienated
flush
What are some "literary" memoirs (i.e. non-celebrity) that you have enjoyed?
Contemporary recommendations are particularly welcome.
To provide some examples of ones I've recently enjoyed which I've never seen discussed on /lit/:
Tobias Wolff - A Good School
William Inge - My Son is a Splendid Driver
Paul Auster has a few, and I quite like him/them. If you want a title, then The Invention of Solitude is the first one, and then there's also Winter Journal and Report from the Interior.
Then there's always the big Knausgaard project; /lit/'s always bitching about it though, so if that third line's a criterion, I don't know if it counts.
>>7733076
Thank you for your suggestions. I've read Paul Auster's work and found it rather underwhelming. His style just doesn't appeal to me for whatever reason. He strikes me as a sort of American Murakami minus the erotic potential.
And yes I've read Knausgaard also, but thank you nonetheless.
>>7733058
Is this pepe referencing something?
Started this tonight. Any good tips or resources to help me along? Just beginning episode 3 specifically, which I've heard is a bit rough.
Thanks in advance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_schema_for_Ulysses
congratulations. You fell for the meme.
>>7732638
congrats on the worst edition of the best novel ever written
stupid fuck
Do we read just to put ourselves into a fantasy?
When I was younger, life was filled with such wonder, such splendor, it was as if I was living a fantasy. A world that was pointlessly beautiful.
Now I feel nothing. Every moment I'm not consuming something, I'm waiting to get my next fix. Whether it's food, it's video games, or even literature.
What can I read to get me out of this slump?
b-b-bump
write, draw, learn an instrument, etc.
1. that's a very juvenile reading (heh) of literature. it's more than just wishful escapism.
2. the world is in fact still pointlessly beautiful.
read the sot-weed factor.
Two /lit/ discussions going on in /pol/.
why aren't you with us, fellow /lit/izens?
>>65022489
>>65019306
huh, i thought that would work. ah well. anyway, i'm sure you can find the shit yourself.
>>7732651
>>7732655
THEY FELL FOR IT
Hey /lit/, I recently came across a question that i'm having a hard time coming up with an answer with, so I was wondering if any of you could possibly answer it.
Given that life is terminal(atheist view), and that their is no reward for ethical existence beyond this life, why should people live this life ethically.
Sorry if this is considered a childish question, but I'm really trying to see how an atheist point of view could justify a selfless life.
Guilt transcends all ideology. In fact, it's the foundation of all society.
>>7732626
Well, we have laws that pretty much fuck up your freedom if you don't live ethically.
But generally it's pretty self serving to not be a dick.
I scratch your back, you scratch mine. Makes life less of a drag.
>>7732626
>a selfless life
Doesn't exist.
A selfless life is either brain dead or just dead.
This is a good one.
Is there an epub for this? Not on libgen and NYRB ones usually are.
So, /lit/, I haven't been here for about a year and a half now, after getting a job and doing other real-life stuff, and, more importantly, leaving due to the mind-numbing pretentiousness of the board at the time, and here I am again.
I just finished During the Rains & Flowers in the Shade. Pretty outstanding novellas. During the Rains particularly, but that's besides the point. I'm using it as the image so you guys don't immediately dismiss this thread on first glance as a pleb thread (even though that's totally what it is)
Anyways,...
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>>7732554
You want a medal?
>>7732563
hows that apply to this thread at all you fuck
>>7732569
Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like? You've got to be kidding me. I've been further even more decided to use even go need to do look more as anyone can. Can you really be far even as decided half as much to use go wish for that?
Has /lit/ even read the starter kit?
Share your progress.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/97103.The_lit_starter_kit
Of Mice And Men
Huckleberry Finn
>>7732491
Brave New World
To Kill a Mockingbird
1984
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Catcher in the Rye
Fahrenheit 451
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
Huckleberry Finn
SiddharthaI was forced to read most of these back in high school tho
>>7732491
I've read all except these 6, many of them in school.
>Invisible Man
>American Psycho
>Of Mice and Men
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
>Siddhartha
Does anyone remember this?
What ended up happening?
Killed himself.
http://www.bgdailynews.com/police-man-found-dead-in-kansas-city-house/article_ad5d902c-dc26-567d-aced-88532511a7e3.html
>>7732901
How do you know this is the guy?
Wouldn't have even raised a eyebrow a couple of decades ago, let alone $current_year.
