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Has there ever been a greater passage written in English than the final sequence of The Dead by James Joyce?
>>8201820
I honestly don't think so.
>>8201820
The entirety of Finnegans Wake.
Yeah the end of Ulysses
I don't like him because he's never made me feel anything and that makes me feel bad. The only time I've ever felt ane motion in one hif sbooks is when he mentions the "little kid blues" in Inherent Vice.
is it considered low-brow for an author to even approach semtinality, feeling, empathy, etc? How could his novels be so good but missing the 1 thing (emotion) that is like the most important thing of all? Am I too dumb to get Pynchon? Thanks
Yes.
If you think someone has to make you feel bad to be a good author you are in fact stupid
>>8201827
I did not ready gravity's rainbow but I read mason and dixon and that too while being really funny didn't make me love any of the characters/miss them when theyw ere hone. Can you say your most emotional passage or part from a Pynhcon book?
ITT: Books that made you cry like a bitch.
>>8201738
Absolute tear-jerker.
Probably one of the most brilliant things I've read. Started crying oncehe started to realize he was losing his intelligence and starts begging to stay smart. Cried continuously after every chapter after that
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest made me cry multiple times. Had to put the book down and breath for a moment at certain parts (I'm a bitch)I want to hug Billy
Did this book miss the point of the Arab missing a name? I had thought the lack of a name made for the murder to seem more trivial to meursault.
> I had thought the lack of a name made for the murder to seem more trivial to meursault.
as opposed to?
>>8201745
As opposed to giving the murdered Arab a name.
>>8201723
The lack of name was probably to empahsize the apathy he felt, it literally did not matter what his name was, he was an Arab.
Recommend the person above you a book based on what they recommended the person above them.
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>>8201721
>>8201846
super Mario bros #1
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>>8201859
What's he trying to discern?
>>8201592
The end of postmodernism
>>8201605
Will be postmodernism remebered?
college
girls
Anyone know of literature that examines the cultural and philosophic split between the old hereditary aristocrats and the new money bourgeoisie?
And maybe the culture of the plebs too but that's of secondary importance.
in search of lost time
>>8201600
Really? I didn't know that's what that was about.
Anything more akin to an explicit analysis
anything by marx u stupid fuck
tinychat / 4chanlit
LETS DO THIS!
There is a guy with an octopus hat.
You can't not see that.
>>8201575
what is it mean dialectical?
>>8201585
Octopi are pleb, go away.
Is he a meme, /lit/?
>>8201501
We had to read The Kite Runner back in high school English class. I thought it was the preachiest, most exploitative, most self-centered, most airport-paperback-store book I was ever forced to read. I disliked this book more than I disliked A Separate Peace, and I really fucking hated A Separate Peace.
Honestly I think you'll find that his books seem designed to prey on the emotions of moms and blog-writers.
(just so you understand where I'm coming from, the style of lit I enjoy is Crime & Punishment,...
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>>8201501
I don't think you know what the word "meme" means.
>>8201675
I don't "think" you "know" what the "word" means.
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>>8201370
Oh fuck, I'm actually reading a book with this label on the cover of (salmon fishing in the Yemen)
It's actually terribly bad, should I just avoid books when I see that on the cover?
>>8201379
I'm reading A Walk in the Woods right now and it's delightful. The movie is tripe.
I've only read philosophy in the last couple months, suck it unless you're Debord.
What is the literary equivalent of the opening scene in TDKR? My professor told me ficciones by Borges, is that true?
>>8201364
>What is the literary equivalent of the opening scene in TDKR?
a badly drawn penis on a wet bar napkin
>>8201377
By whom?
>>8201364
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
Is it worth a read?
not even for the memes
Not unless you're 14 and/or wear a fedora.
>>8201385
It's funny. I've been on this board for a while and not once have I ever seen someone actually explain why this book is shit without memeing.
pic not related
this board has a list of essentials book like the list of essentials albums of mu?
i know that sounds silly, but whatever, i don't looking necessarily a list of books that will make me the universal expert or the holder of the absolute truth of literature, i just want a way to start and know some really good books
Beginne er mit den Griechen.
>>8201278
Infinite Jest
Gravity's Rainbow
Ulysses.
>anaximenes of miletus
i like him
Anaximander>menes
>>8201210
I really, really, really like this image
>Buy pic related
>Reading the preface
>He insists on 3 things
>"Read my book twice! Read 'On the Fourfold Root of Sufficient Reason', and be familiar with Kant's work!"
>"Ok, I guess I'm putting this on hold-..."
>"Also! Don't you dare read any second-hand accounts of Kant. Read straight from the source."
>Tfw...
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>>8201121
>Before trying to understand my work, start from the beginning
Wow, how unreasonable...
>>8201121
what is the point of this thread
if you haven't read kant what the fuck are you doing in the 19th century to begin with?
