post yfw you read about objectivism for the first time
:|
was inculcated by a high school english teacher who was a randian cultist. brought in robert bidinotto to speak and made the class participate in ayn rand institute essay contests.
i still feel fond of the fountainhead but in retrospect i also feel mindraped
Who is your favourite white man who wrote about non-white people?
I have to go with a classic and say Kipling, amazing writer. Toomai of the Elephants made me want to be a writer when I first read it.
>>7448606
H.P. Lovecraft
>>7448606
Lafcadio Hearn.
>>7448614
Of course, the first Weaboo. Very nice.
What does /lit/ think about collections of letters?
Are there essential collections? Do you have a favorite collection?
DFW's emails are essential
>yfw you realize that future historians will be combing through and publishing collections of your e-mails and texts...
>>7448588
As long as they can't find my /pol/ posts...
So I just did a report in my Masterworks of Literature class on Don Quixote and I think I am in love with it. I was using the John Rutherford translation from my textbook but I was wondering if the newer Edith Grossman translation was better, anyone have any thoughts on the subject?
Also Don Quixote general if enough people really want to discuss it.
Read it in spanish you faggot
>>7448526
I'm about to reread it, after having read an abridgement by accident, i got the tobias smollett translation, but yeah, isnt don quixote incredible? i remember being somewhat exasperated, until sancho started spouting his parables after becoming "wise" and finally realizing that the whole thing was supposed to be funny, it all just clicked for me, such a master, that ol' cervantes. i also own the edith grossman, and she definitely seems to be a heartfelt translator, so i doubt she'd let it go to waste at her hands, i have a slightly relevant video you might like to watch, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2ykytca6Y8
>>7448533
Fuck off, this is why donald trump wants to send you mexicans back to fucking cuba, you communist scum, just reckonmend a translation... Amurica.
so /lit/ i'm taking a class on detective fiction next semester is this a good reading list?
Some collection of Poe's stories I don't remember which
Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Dashielle Hammett - Red Harvest
Chester Himes - A Rage in Harlem
Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
Kawamata Chiaki - Death Sentences
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö - The Laughing Policeman
Gene Kerrigan - The Rage
>>7448414
it's alright
>>7448414
I have to wonder why the professor chose Kawamata over any of the many other works of Japanese detective fiction, especially since it seems he's going for the basics with the reading list. Why wouldn't he use Edogawa Ranpo?
You should ask, OP.
>>7448436
his reasoning was "people might like it because the ring is based off of it" almost verbatim quote. his alternate choice was hard-boiled wonderland.
dude told me he taught a class on war narratives this semester and i'm upset I missed it. it was a good reading list too
>Flannery O'Connor actively goaded a friend, deeply committed to the civil rights movement, with racist jokes.
>Not only did O'Connor know hundreds of racist jokes, she apparently relished them, saving them up and spinning them out in a series of letters that have never been published.
Where do I start with this woman and how do I find her fun "letters" ?
what was her problem exactly?
ARE YOU FUCKERS DOING A FLANNERY THREAD?
HOLY FUCKING SHIT IT'S A FLANNERY THREAD MOTHERFUCKERS!
yo but really can someone edit OP's pic like the "triggered" girl but instead write niggers.
Start with "Everything That Rises Must Converge."
So I'm reading this book, and god damn, is it really possible to live life and be this depressed? I've never felt so saddened by a book before.
What are your thoughts in general?
>>7448309
>is it really possible to live life and be this depressed
what, do you think he was dead the whole time and was depressed?
>>7448472
Shit man, if my life was basically what he wrote, I would've hung myself a long time ago.
>>7448493
please go back to facebook faggot
Can we please have a thread about the new meme trilogy?
>>7448142
>forced memes all of them
>>7448142
Has anyone here even read or heard of one of these? I only know of Arno.
i still think peterburg and finnegans wake should be there along with zettels traum.
the man without qualities isn't enough of a pleb filter
What went wrong? I haven't read it yet and /lit/ says it's extreme pleb trash that's only good for growing kids.
>>7448027
That is true.
>>7448066
and how? explain
>i havent read it yet but I form my opinion from other people on a Lithuanian wood carving image board
19th century literature vs. 20th/21st century literature
do you have something to say?
>>7447852
It varies per country, but my vote is for the 20th: you've got giants like Joyce, Proust, Beckett, Crane, Pound, Gaddis, Gass.
>>7447860
yeah, sorry, it's a question, i was just curious what you guys might think, i personally think the 19th century.
If not Kaufman, then whom?
>inb4 >translations meme
Feel free to share Nietzsche memes, too
>>7447758
you know who else liked nietzsche ?
>>7447922
And?
Nietzsche would have been disgusted that his thought had been used to such ends to be honest
German isn't even that hard you goatfucker
What are the main themes of your current work-in-progress, /lit/?
>>7447710
I don't think about themes. I just work on making a good story.
>>7447714
wot a faggot
Revenge or suicide.
I spared the Eplilogue of this for the night of my 23th Birthday (which is today). I love it, and i think it will be hard to leave it behind, since it was a honourable companion in a godless time of my life.
Still being apprehensive of remaining in a lightless nightmare.
>share your benevolent wisdom about The K-Bros with me by giving me your honorouble mentions about it
>the book made me more religious in a carthatic way
>Liked to proceed on Dostojeski which shall be the next
Keep in mind it's my birthday hence you're all invited to this /lit/-thread party. Lean back and dumpi accidently posted this in the thread with the blonde boobies in the subway before. I am really sorry for being a little bit too high right now
>>7447700
How's the translation of pic related ?
I've read crime and punishment by herrmann röhl but is svetlana geier that superior ?
It's plainly a fantastic book. The Grand Inquisitor, the dream about meeting the devil and the trial are the most prominent in my memory of it.
Read Demons next. It's not as 'perfect' as TBK, but it's characters, particularly Nikolay Stavrogin, are phenomenally interesting and of great relevance for todays society.
>>7449553
didn't read Hermann Röhl
but the language was vibrant and fluent, still old fashioned in but not archaic way. So i think that all laudatios for Svetlana Geier as you could read in the Feuilletonts were legit.
I assume that her work will be authorative for the next 50 years at least
I really want to read AntonCheckhov's stories but don't really know which collection to get, was hoping for a complete collection or bundle of all his work, please tell me your opinion on this matter
Also general short story thread, bonus points for collections/stories that would inspire writing and give you an idea how to base a good short story
did you try googling? this isn't hard to find. oxford chekhov is complete. i don't know why you would want that since he wrote a lot of shit.
I did I just wanted like sort of a second opinion from people who are into this stuff aswell, so you're saying you'd recommend just the pic related p&v edtion?
Borges is always great, and reading him really made me realize how much potential the short story has as a form besides just being a mini-novel like the ones I kept writing.
Is he right?
>>7447623
orwell can go fuck himself. write whatever the fuck you want. besides, doesnt his list seem a bit newspeak to you?
>>7447623
Rule no. 6 should read "Break any of these rules sooner than writing something outright barbarous" or something like that. In the original essay anyway
>>7447623
>If it is possible to cut out a word, cut it out?
If possible to cut out word, cut.
