Hello /lit/ I come from /a/. I am sick of being a mangafag and hunger for a world of carefully crafted stories.
Have I come to the right place?
If you're expecting moeshit and waifufagging, no
>>5573590
>moeshit and waifufagging
That's why I ran from that place anon.
You have found your salvation.
>>5573586
Haruki Murakami would be a good place for you to start.
if you like more fantasy, try wind up bird chronicle or kafka on the shore
if you like more realism, Norwegian Wood is for you
>>5573725
Thanks for the heads up anon!
read short stories. get them in anthology then pick out your favourite writers.
http://markmcbride.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/isaac-babels-the-story-of-my-dovecot-fulltext/
http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/kafka/inthepenalcolony.htm
http://www.eldritchpress.org/ac/vanka.html
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/fiction-podcast-joyce-carol-oates-reads-cynthia-ozick
http://www.scasd.org/cms/lib5/PA01000006/Centricity/Domain/1487/The%20Cat%20From%20Hell.pdf
long prose isn't comparable to mangas unless you're reading some pre-modern novelists, like Heliodorus, Rabelais and Cervantes or people imitating them, like Jan Potocki. starting with the 19th century most novels became mired in pretentious essayistics. imho it's meh.
>>5573819
rape goes in every circle
Anon-kun, you can be a patrician and still appreciate well crafted stories in manga.
>>5573831
>http://www.eldritchpress.org/ac/vanka.html
>>5573844
This. The medium does not stop the story from being well crafted.
>>5573931
I agree on that and I think I'll keep returning to manga for some of the best laughs the medium provides. I love Yotsuba in particular.
What I am looking for here are well crafted stories not ridden by terrible character cliches as is so common in even some of the best manga. I suppose you could say I want to acquire a patrician taste.
>>5573965
My post vanished, what the fuck?
Anyway, don't worry about "le patrician taste". Find shit you want to read and read it.
If you like Japanese shit read some Dazai.
>>5573979
Thanks anon!
>>5573586
Sort of. I enjoy manga from time to time but literature actually demands from you and rewards you accordingly.
Still, if you just swallow content it's pretty much whatever medium you chose, the idea is trying to go beyond a simple list of things happening.
In the sticky (it has no picture) is a link to the rec list that includes a ridiculously huge mediafire with japanese classic literature. It's surprising how well they write when they keep exporting the same stuff.
>>5574040
Start with the GreeksNicomachean Ethics and also Plato, Socrates maybe but not necessary
>>5573586
What type of book/story would you like to read?
>>5574040
You can try to cover your HS basis with something like this chart if you want to be comfortable posting around in /lit/, but it's not the same as with manga in which you have a certain number of genres and clear iconic works against garbage done for the money. It's centuries of material full of stuff that you'll probably never see mentioned here and it's still great, so you have a ridiculously large pool of stuff to pick from.
In doubt, though, charts help. If you start seeing stuff you like ask around for similar stuff.
Also, we're not as horrible as /a/ is with "board etiquette" or whatever, but if you want to make a good thread about something present some ideas in the OP instead of asking "yo, guys, what do you think?". No one wants to post in a thread where you don't know if OP will say something or you're just talking alone.
>>5574064
Alternate history would be nice.
>>5573666
>666
>most simultaneous classically beautiful and autismal points for pictures all day
>makes no mention of books besides Dante and uses US spelling
It's either Lent or this is some obscure form of heresy.
>>5574095
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teito_Monogatari
If you find an ebook share the link.
>>5574085
Looks helpful. Thanks for the tips anon.
I think I'm here to stay.
OP here again. How long do threads generally last on this board?
>>5574124
It depends. Usually half a week unless someone starts spamming or we get an influx of something.
