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Are there any novels that are completely devoid of plot?
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Are there any novels that are completely devoid of plot?
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>>8168156
anything by women or nonwhites
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>>8168156
Yes, it's practically a modernist staple
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>>8168165
what are some examples of such novels?
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>>8168162
Actually women and non-whites are plot centric desu
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>>8168167
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
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>>8168168
They can barely write, so to call it a 'plot' is insulting to white male authors who have mastered the medium and technique
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>>8168162
>>8168168
>>8168174
How have you not gotten bored by this already?
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>>8168162
>being proud of reading for plot
White males are such egregious retards I kind of feel bad for them. But then I remember all the billions of people they've oppressed/genocided/raped, and I again feel glad they're collapsing
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>>8168167
Ulysses
Finnegans wake
The waves
To the lighthouse
Most of Faulkner
My diary desu

If you want plot or narrative decay check out
V.
Or he
2666 was also good
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>>8168178
Name me a women writer or a nonwhite who has produced something similar to Paradise Lost, The Divine Comedy, anything by Shakespeare, or Ulysses.

I'll be waiting
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>>8168172
thanks anon
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>>8168174
Plot shit is for sci Fi and king fans. Anyone who writes plot centric lit is basically not white
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>>8168182
most of these have plots
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>>8168182
>Most of Faulkner
uh.. hmm..
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>>8168182
thanks to you too, anon

reading ulysses atm and it definitely has a plot, so the two anons above me have a point
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>>8168183
>Paradise Lost, The Divine Comedy, anything by Shakespeare, or Ulysses.
Literally none of these are good. Its all boring shit.
Stop trying to cosplay as a oblivion character by reading some archaic worded long poem

Ill give you some of Shakespeare bc R&J is good and so its Midsummer but get over the fact a girl was mean to you in hs dude
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>>8168199
>Literally none of these are good.
Kek
Just fucking kill yourself my man
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>>8168199
I would never waste my time on modern women in the first place, cuckold
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>>8168207
Sounds like youre the cuckold pal
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>hentai loving weeb detected
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beckett's 'the unnameable'

literally
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>>8168156
INFINITE JEST
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>>8168156
The entire plot of metamorphosis is the first sentence
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>>8168167
Naked Lunch and pretty much anything Burroughs wrote after that, with the exception of his last 3 books.
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The unnamable by Sammy Beckett
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there is always plot.
a goddamn user manual has a plot.
muh classic literature has plot.

most often in classic lit, the plot is just the motives of the characters, and it provides a framework for the themes.
>reading for plot
is the most ignorant meme you pseuds have come up with.
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the unconsoled by ishiguro
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to the lighthouse :^)

>>8170144
>a goddamn user manual has a plot
nope it doesn't
a bunch of instructions is not a plot
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not only the unnameable, but Company too (beckett).

4.48 Psychosis

Paris Peasant
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Banjo by Claude McKay. It says so on the title page.
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The Unnamable
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Dictionary of the Khazars
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Yes.
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>>8168179
This.
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