Could you recommend some edgy literature? Morose, extreme, purgative, severe, etcetc
Books that go along with books like Paradise Lost, Greek tragedy (particularly The Bacchae), Naked Lunch, Notes from the Underground, The Metamorphosis, Bataille, Hamlet, Sade, etc.
>>7610977
Pessimisstic stuff like Schopenhauer, Cioran, Ligotti
bump for interest
>>7610977
Bumping because also very interested in this.
I guess if you want severe extreme literature, check out Las Casas' A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies. Hubert Selby Jr is pretty damn distressing too but maybe you've already read some of his works?
What do you guys think of Nick Land?
>>7609902
hes nhot saying anything
Love his earlier stuff. I still read his blog for the 1% of good posts, but he has mostly degenerated into something quite boring.
>>7609913
How so?
Fav subcultural group of all time?
Is there a good literary representation of them?
>Fav subcultural group of all time?
Jewish Germans
>Is there a good literary representation of them?
Do you really need an answer?
>>7609497
There's not a lot of Vaporwave books, in fact, I can't think of one.
>>7609497
>Fav subcultural group of all time?
White people
>Is there a good literary representation of them?
No
Who are the /lit approved poets?
Allen Ginsberg
>>7608255
Homer (^:
>>7608255
Ginsberg, Steve Rogenbuck, primarily all of Alt-Lit
how many books are you planning to read this year?
>>7602865
I don't have a number planned because I'm not autistic.
50 every year till i get dementia
I don't plan to read a certain amount, I just read whenever I want to. If I keep up last year's pace it'll be somewhere in the 40s though
How can you write about an inability to express yourself?
You don't
>>7612995
read DFW and realize that there's no point anymore because he described pretty much everything possible on that condition
>http://www.samuel-beckett.net/whatistheword.html
I've been getting deep into Keats
What other poets make you feel like you are falling asleep in a mossy grove in the woods?
Blake
Whitman
>>7612987
this desu senpai
http://therumpus.net/2015/10/against-realism/
Do you think Hysterical Realism has gone too far? That people writing in the Post-Pynchon/DFW world (e.g. Zadie Smith) are writing needlessly complex novels that pursue absurdity, humor, and irony instead of more traditional storytelling elements. And do you think that this is detrimental to the art of storytelling on the whole? Also, is it thus worthwhile to laud authors like Ferrante, who seem to buck this sentiment with hyper- rather than hysterical-realism?
Short answer: nah.
>>7612762
'real life' in the 21st century is needlessly complex and absurd as fuck. Fictional narratives have become integrated into everyday life, media shapes the course of events instead of simply recording them. If you want to describe the world as it exists today, you gotta deal with these things somehow.
>>7612762
Don't start to view fiction through the lens of these small scale isms. Leave trends and fads where they belong: in blog-o-sphere chatterings and manuscripts tucked under brooklyn apartment air mattresses
Why did Shakespeare make Shylock convert to Christianity? Anti-semitism?
if you look at the trial and shylock's plea you will understand shakespeare again outdoes expectations
>>7612383
That doesn't answer why he makes Shylock convert to Christianity, basically going against everything he did in the play.
>>7612391
Shylock was being a Jew, trying to swindle people and damage them irreversibly over a few thousand shekels. He was unjust and Portia made him piss poor and forced him to convert as the ultimate punishment.
I wonder what /lit/ thinks of Khaled Hosseini.
>>7612324
I only read his The Kite Runner, there are interesting tidbits of prose here and there, a coherent plot, bothered to use correct terminology in different languages (typical, given his background), but it just wasn't gripping. I hear ATSS isn't as good, either.
>>7612324
What do YOU think?
>>7612870
I just bought this book, mate. I'm barely 20 pages in. It's pretty good so far.
If so much of literature is about paying attention to the sublime in everyday experience, why aren't there more passages dedicated to food in fiction? Or are they, aside from bloom's livers and proust's toast, simply not well-known?
Thought you were gonna ask for passages on the beauty of the human foot
I lik eating my gfs feet
>>7612278
There's Steinbeck's meticulous, viscid depiction of the barefoot Joad women stomping the Grapes of Wrath.
Good night /lit/
>>7612225
good night lad
>>7612269
who sed i was a girl
Left this board for about two months, and coming back I barely recognize it. Can someone explain what the hell happened? I've seen stuff about Hypersphere blowing up on reddit and a bunch of redditors flooding the board, is this the reason for how utterly terrible it is?
How is this? Does /lit/ like Rainer Maria Rilke?
I read his Dunno Elegies and therefore some of the most profound and beautiful poems I ever read
>>7612215
Rilke is trash. Overrated.
>>7612215
Pretty good, only for artists to read, specially poets
Hey /lit/, is this a good title for a novel?
The Dead Parents Club: or Elternteilslosigkeitsgefühl in the Time of Angst
>>7612011
>The Dead Parents Club
>Dead P____ ____
>Dead Poets Society
thats at least what i thought first
>>7612011itwouldn't dissuade me from readingitifithad been well received by critics I respect, but I'd passitup at a bookstore without bothering to googleitor read the dust jacket ifithadn't.
Hehe what is going on on this forum :)
thoughts on barth? where to start? what's he comparable to?
The sot-weed factor looks so damn good, but I'm not too well read. What should one read before attempting this fine-looking work?
It's difficult and highly postmodern. I suggest you don't read it.
>>7612252
tried reading Lost in The Funhouse
felt like i was having a stroke, what a clunky and uncomfortable story to read
