Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 424. page
Images are sometimes not shown due to bandwidth/network limitations. Refreshing the page usually helps.
Educate me on German Idealism, please.
that pic sums it up desu
Durant's chapter on Kant in Story of Philosophy is surprisingly helpful for getting your initial footing in the subject. You can read it in like 20 minutes.
>>8081002
ty. I'm listening to 9 hours of lecture covering from pre-kant to hegel and got some books on history of modern philosophy to read.
another bump tho
My idea is very, very well fleshed out but it involves following the basic plot of a piece of literature. I've started writing 20 pages, but this bothers me. How do I not shit on it? I'm thinking about reading pic related to give me an idea of it.
Just shit on it.
First drafts will always be shit. Just write whatever the fuck you want and then re-edit/re-write when you're done.
>>8080790
Joyce did Homer on a whim.
I'd say your problem is that your idea is very, very well fleshed out. What you think about when not actually writing is usually worthless. Give yourself space to create, make adjustments as you go based on what (so far) lives on the page instead of some outline or grand ideal you have.
ITT post images that inspire you.
If someone else posts an image that strikes you, write about it: prose, dialogue, poetry, anything.
Starting with 10 images.
>>8080745
>>8080748
>>8080755
How is the Oedipus complex applied in modern literary analysis?
Sexily..
>>8080729
DADDY
just check the front page of spankbang.com, 90% of the videos of mother son fantasies
sm h
what is the very best stream of consciousness writing you've ever read?
My
dingaling
Is it true.
I'd fuck "It"
>>8080704
a tranny child?
I've only read the sequel.
Who are the best American writers of the 20th century?
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Gaddis, Pynchon, McCarthy, Roth, Updike, DeLillo
B$$TG$%FRGTV:$Gl4mtG$GTM:LM$G:VM:MV$:M:L$MTGV:M:$MGT:M:M$TGM4gtv4gvtmwhatdidehermeanbythisxdxdxdxDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXEBIBINRFED:lfegtfdePAYATTENTIONTOMEgtb4frgtvg4frrgtv4gfdefrtg4ygERNEEDHELPvgtRCEFERVGTFCGVRVFCRGVTRFCRGVBTGVRFCGGTRFGgtvrfbvrfbvrftrfIMINTREMENDOUSPAINFGVTG$FGTb4gvrgvvtrfgb4gtvrfgtvrggv4rggvrgvrfvgvtrfgtvrfICANTTAKEITANYMOREvgt4bgvcfrgt4vrfcgt4bgvr4tbtgvfrgv4trASAAAHAHAHAAAAAAATRRGHGHGHRFtgtgvt4b4gvtbgvrbhtgv
>>8080703
haha nice 1 XD
What does /lit/ think about "The Five People You Meet in Heaven"? I just finished it, so I would like to hear your opinions on it.
I liked it so much I watched that lifetime original with my family once.
checked its plot on the wiki
imo the afterlife should be something more interesting than sitting alone in some forever the same place to meet some recently died people related to you and when those end to sit there alone (ok, in the company of some phantoms) forever
>>8080649
>I just finished it, so I would like to hear your opinions on it.
jesus fuck. is this a meme to make such a stupid post?
WHY DON'T YOU TELL US YOUR OPINION OF IT FIRST YOU IRKSOME TADPOLE
Is 19 a fine age to be in a Siddhartha phase
>>8080571
there's never a fine age to have an ego as big as yours
>>8080571
It's cultural appropriation at any age
>>8080571
>siddhartha
>phase
I've been struggling to force myself to read recently. Since I was a child I've had trouble paying attention and when I try to read my mind wanders quite a lot. My reading ability is fine, however. Do any of you struggle with similar issues? If so, how do you combat them?
>>8080563
You might unlock the gates to heaven here.
It's called concentration and it takes practice.
diogenes was literally me
>>8080629
you're not diogenes until you go to your town square and make a fool of yourself.
Which book'll make me follow through on the ideas/beliefs i'm too lazy to enact?
None of them.
>>8080578
who's it by
bunp
Anyone else hyped?
Sure
>inb4 cover vomit
God that fucking cover
whats the big deal with the cover honestly
Just finished pic related and I honestly did not anticipate the sorrow I felt reading the last couple of chapters.
Is there supposed to be some sort of ultimate point to this story? Was it supposed to be a parody reflecting Cervantes's thoughts on Chivalry? Or was Cervantes's goal to write an emotionally provocative story with no 2deep4u meaning?
What do you think?
Does anyone really think this book is sorrowful or did they just get meme'd by Dostoevsky and other romantics?
It's hilarious and it would be impossible for Quixote's death to be more melodramatic. IIRC, Cervantes even explicitly states that he is killing off Don so that no one else can use them for their stories.
I mean I guess you could interpret that as 2 DEEP 4 U 27th dimension tragedy but come on, be real.
Still have to read this translation.
Has anyone read Svetlana Alexievich? Is she good? What should I start with?
>>8080170
she is not really a writer, she is a journalist
she didnt even write the book she won the prize for... its an oral history
its like me interviewing faulkner and winning the nobel prize for it
Let's get this shit rolling
>womemes
What is some of the best contemporary literary fiction? Good authors? Preferably from the 21st century
Is it possible to discern the current literary movement?
>>8080168
post another picture of david foster wallace and I'll blow your fucking head off.
>>8080180
lmao
>>8080180
