I just read Mme Bovary from Flaubert and I was wondering why would critics qualify it as one of the first modern book
pic related considered as the father of modern art
What's the signification of those claims?
>>7633771
define modern, you SJW cultural marxist feminist cuckold (I am redpilled)
How is that painting considered the first piece of modern art? Did the artist put it in a little glass bottle and piss in it?
I'm too ineloquent to tell you, but I can tell you that the answer to that is in Milan Kundera's "The Curtain".
>http://www.enotes.com/topics/curtain
"The Curtain is a collection of essays by Czech novelist Milan Kundera, author of L’Insoutenable légèreté de l’être (1984; The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984). The seven essays have a stream-of-consciousness quality. For instance, Kundera may begin with an observation, find a parallel between that and some incident from his past, consider how that incident reminds him of a moment in Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1857), draw a connection between Flaubert and Miguel de Cervantes, and so on. The Curtain reads less like a textbook than a lecture on such a book, taking ideas and then expounding and digressing. A familiarity with the subject matter at hand (François Rabelais, Gabriel García Márquez, and others) is recommended. ...
... The third essay relates how Flaubert was criticized by one of his contemporaries for not writing a more uplifting story. Painters or musicians can be commissioned by the Church or wealthy patrons to produce a work of art that furthers some particular agenda, and they can still produce something of genuine artistic value, but literature does not work that way. A novel must be an honest portrayal of the way people act and think, whether that shows them to be moral or not. This exploration of the human condition occurred in literature decades before existentialism took hold in philosophy and in fact laid the groundwork for that strand of philosophy."
Are arguments-by-old-soviet-joke legitimate?
>>7634621
*sniff* the fact that you criticizes my method of delivery *sniff* only shows a lack of substance on your part
this is what many call *full on NSA style beard search* an ad hominem
who here on /lit/ could actually debate Slavoj and win?
This may not be entirely /lit/'s domain, but you guys are my home board so I thought you might be able to help. I'm looking to make a film where the auditory dialogue is just gibberish and the actual dialogue is written in subtitles, but to such a point where it becomes clear that the narrator is writing the subtitles and they don't necessarily reflect the characters. Mainly, I just want to highlight the two forms of communication going on (unintelligible speech/body language vs. subtitles), and clearly distinguish the observer (the narrator/subtitle-writer) from the subjects (the characters).
Now, I'm a student, so I don't have the money to hire a bunch of actors/buy a bunch of equipment to make this work. I've been considering just using myself, but I feel that would change the work and I haven't done much acting. Does anybody have experience with writing screenplays and making (cheap) films from them? Any feedback on my idea would also be greatly appreciated.
>>7634512
Really just grab some friends with acting experience (we've all got at least a few) and direct the shit out of them until they do what you want. You can use an iphone 6 as a camera and apple earbuds as makeshift lavalier mics, it's much easier than you'd expect. Look up a movie called Tangerine, it was shot completely with iPhones
>>7634512
I saw a long time ago a movie similar to your concept, it was an old french student movie from the 60, with a clear situationist influence, I think it was called "them rock" and its really hard to find on the internet
>>7634564
Sadly, I really don't have any friends, it's just my first year of university so I'm having a tough time meeting anybody. I've heard of Tangerine, thanks, I do have a nicer camera though so I've been thinking of using that for quality. Do you have any other tips for meeting actors? Do you think I could/should do it myself? Why or why not? What should I keep in mind if I do? Thanks again.
>read a Russian novel
>half of it is in French
Why?
Most popular culture in the world of that time, second language for russian nobility.
The language of the Elite, in Dublin it was the same
>>7633637
Do translators just assume that the audience knows French?
Just finishes reading this. Is it good?
se on paskaa
No, Jimmy.
>>7631102
It's horribly outdated and racist.
Am I considered a published author if I got picked for third place in the New Yorker Caption Contest? Pic related but not me- don't want to be doxed
If you mention it ironically, yes.
Thoughts on University of Toronto Philosophy program? Reports say it's a top 15 uni for Philosophy programs.
What type of philosophy is the most exciting to study?
If you come here, I'll show you the best places to shit on campus.
>>7634829
hello my Indian friend
What a fucking waste
Why doesn't /lit/ talk about Hungarian literature? It's honestly pretty good.
Please describe the basic outline of Hungarian literature from the 19th century onward and name and describe some major figures so that I can go read some Hungarian literature then you Hungarian fuckface
Because Hungarian anons don't shill enough for it
I shill Borges every chance I have
>>7634373
http://theculturetrip.com/europe/hungary/articles/the-outsider-within-the-ten-best-hungarian-writers/
for some odd reason, it's required I read this behemoth for one of my courses. I'm overall not familiar with Dickens and or his work. Any thoughts on this boulder of a book?
>>7633708
I think that's the one with the great opening sentence featuring a dinosaur. Never read it, but the TV show starring Scully was good.
>>7633708
Are you a post-grad? Is this a course on Dickens? Is this related to your dissertation?
Reading such a huge book for an undergrad course is fucking stupid, and there is so much chance for something to go wrong in your analysis, especially since like all of Dicken's work it is subject to serial bloat. Would probably drop course desu senpai, unless it was a 100 level where I would probably read supplementary works and watch the tv show.
>>7633712
It's for my undergrad. The class is major movement in 19th century British literature. Fortunately and unfortunately, it's a 3000 level course.
Right now I'm sitting in bed with my macbook. I spend pretty much every night like this yet i'm flanked by a piles of books. I tell myself "tonight is the night, I'm going to read this book" but I can never bring myself to. I'll take some books off the shelf or fossick through the piles and flick through, but I can't seem to start and finish one.
Have any of you been in this situation? How did you get yourself to fucking get your respective act together and exercise some discipline and self-restraint?
Cancel your internet subscription. Cancel internet on your phone. I did that and now I just read and listen to music and clean when I'm at home. Works wonders on your sleeping habits as well.
Still use internet at uni though, so you're not completely detached from social shit.
>>7633558
Is there any other way to circumvent the internet without resorting to giving it the flick entirely?
>>7633617
Unless you have the willpower you admittedly don't have, no. Its really not that bad though, I live 6 months out of the year with no cell or internet service, I just do all that stuff when I go into town at the library once or twice a week. It makes me much more productive desu.
>Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.
Can't believe John Green said that! I HATE him!
Nabokov said this kind of shit about everybody, dude was so full of himself he couldn't give anyone else credit. Nobody takes his criticism too seriously
>>7630825
>implying nabokov took it seriously
idiot detected
>...Oates demonstrates, more powerfully than ever before, that even if our libraries ceased to exist future historians would be able to reconstruct the minutiae and meaning of our life and times from her expansive body of work." —Pulitzer Prize Jury
Damn, that's some high praise.
>>7630064
>that quote
lad...
what is the essential JCO?
>>7630064
My goodness, who is this and where do I start?
>>7630064
>that seaweed grabbin dem titties
Best book of stoic philosophy? don't feel like buying 10 diff books.
Get a library card you gawm
>>7634582
tough. You obviously haven't started or you would know that your bullshit is meaningless.
>>7634582
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45109
give me your best non-fiction books
extra points for being original and metioning something not in the wikia/sticky/charts
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Consider the Lobster
>>7634526
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
by Alistair Horne
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century, Revised Edition, with a New Preface
by Ross E. Dunn
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
by Svetlana Alexievich
To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance
by Chris Leuchars
The Conquest of the Incas
by John Hemming
Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon
by John Hemming
My last 6 since october.
Incas and Bitter End were the best, Chernobyl was full of feels tho.
What is the best edition of Marcus Aurelius's book "meditations" to read? including footnotes and a good introduction and all that stuff.
>>7634345
eh, really, any edition will suffice. there's no complex concepts to grasp, so it's not TOO translation senseitive...it's like a bunch of "notes to self"
Everyman
