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Books that are better in translation.
you monster
i have the same edition. is it considered a good translation? the book is too hard for me
>>7728736
It's considered better than the original, that's how good it is.
Plus Joyce had a hard-on for Italy (yes, even more than farts). I'm pretty sure his kids learned Italian before they learned English.
What's the most depressive, dreary, dark and heavy book you ever read?
Young Torless
Therese Raquin
The Rape of Nanking
ITT we make our own covers for the last book we've read. Can be of the photoshop or of the ms paint variety.
>>7723340
MY FUCKING SIDES
LITERARY MAGAZINE SUBMISSIONS THREAD
I'm going to submit a short story to a literary mag for the first time
anyone want to join me for March deadlines?
the two journals I'm eyeing are both due March 15th--I have like two short stories that are 60%-80% done which I'll be looking to finish
general lit mag submissions thread gobuckle-up borges-a-roos
I Love Argentinian Murakami.
>>7727808
Nice meme. What literary mags are you submitting to? That way we can join you and flood that mag till lit gets published.
>>7727808
Do they take flash fiction? I have something I'm too lazy to pad out that I could send them. There's this other story that I'm about halfway done with and could probably finish in a couple of hours if I actually worked on it too.
How to write love poetry without it sounding like pretentious, teenage, purple prose garbage?
fucking read love poetry first you twit
do many meisterstudien like they do in painting: take a poem you like and fuck with it until you have figured out how it works. Then try to write the exact same poem again, but with an understanding why you are chosing every words, sign and linebreak.
>tfw you will never have someone to give your love poems to
ITT: Literary characters that are literally you.
Mine's The Judge from Blood Meridian. Intelligent nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.
And yours?
ITT: masturbation
Mine's Professor Snape. Intelligent nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humour.
>>7722818
I'd say Meursault from The Stranger for those same reasons.
Well is he right, /lit/?
"And one trillion non-CG helicopters fell from the sky, crushing at least one hundred innocent, non-CG bystanders. "
>>7704457
No. It would be actually impossible to make film versions of Finnegans Wake or The Tunnel.
>>7704457
Yes. Don't believe the lies of hack directors and stuck up "authors".
>tfw can't afford to go to wrinting school
the library is free anon
I can teach you for the cheap price of $50,000
>>7730147
in my country is free
Is being a narcissist a requirement to be a writer?
To be able to write down a lot of words - just solidifying ideas and images you have, and to ask other people to look at them despite not having an objective measure of assessing their actual value like with other professions
Post more things like that picture, OP.
>Is being a narcissist a requirement to be a writer?
its a requirement of a good artist
also reminder that passion is inherently selfish
No that's generally what makes a bad writer or artist.
All good art and writing is genuine and comes from a place that feels true to the creator.
All bad art is exactly what you described. By your logic the most annoying hipster or instagram girl on the planet would be the greatest artist. No, the fact those scenes are intellectually false and only self-endorsement platforms and product placement is transparent, and that's why it's hated.
Good authors tend to have lived through some terrible times, and write a somewhat first hand experience...
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Who is better? Tolstoy or Shakespeare.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/01/30/writers-top-ten-favorite-books/
I really think that Shakespeare is the greatest (because it is inexplicable how a single human being could do all that wonders with language), but I enjoy more to read Tolstoy (and I think that his characters are much more life-like, while the ones of Shakespeare are artificial, some form of super-humans, mostly because of their language).
Inb4: no, Dante, Cervantes, Joyce, Proust, Goethe, Homer, Virgil are not superior to any one of the two mentioned above.
>>7712860
>ones of Shakespeare are artificial, some form of super-humans, mostly because of their language
That's called theatre.
Shakespeare is like a perfect woman.
Tolstoy is like the woman you end up actually marrying.
Equal.
dubs decides what topic I write my argumentative essay on
>>7729365
memes
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>>7729365
The relation between language and ideas.
Anal prolapse
Have you ever made a bong out of a book before?
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/consider-the-pothead-i-smoked-weed-out-of-infinite-jest
Mira G. does it again! Another quirky and wacky adventure by everybody's up and coming favorite author!
we did it reddit!
epic bacon narwhals for the win!
>>7718806
>I give the Infinite Jest bowl a 9.5/10. I would've given it a 10/10 if it was a book I actually read and enjoyed, and an 11/10 if the book wasn't written by a white dude.
Is this irony?
Just wanted to remind you guys
what? no
>>7730197
Lets see something better.
>>7730194
Memes
a lot of authors are legitimately pretentious though - they're simpletons trying to disguise trite and vapid messages through a veneer of intellectualism and depth. key examples that are relevant on /lit/ would be mccarthy and dfw
>>7725876
the key example would be your post.
>>7725900
Your attempt at a witty reply didn't make sense.cringe
Can another Brit please explain to me why our 20th century classic book covers are so unbearably shit?
>>7724620
Better than Wordsworth
If I can get the Penguin Classics version I always get that, its the perfect blend of not being gaudy/not being "le washed out 21st century minimalism"
Penguin Modern Classics is shit though
>>7724716
I like their weird Kafka covers
