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I'll start with L-F Céline. His most famous book is probably Journey to the End of the Night. Other than that, he made himself known with a number of racist pamphlets, which were so radical and polemic in style that they were often mistaken for satire.
>Our French Republic is no more than a great gullet swallowing the negroizing of the French at the command of the Jews. Our governors are a clique of sadistic yids and yellow-bellied masons sworn to swallow us up, to bastardize us further, to boil us down by all the grotesque, primitive means of inter-mixture, part negro, part yellow, part white, part red, part monkey, part Jewish, part everything.
Yukio Mishima I guess. He was a nationalist that, failing to succeed in overthrowing the regime at the time, committed sudoku.
>>7994890
Ah yeah, one of the most prolific poltards. I haven't read anything of him yet, but his nobel prize winning book looks definitely very interesting. His view on Hitler was pretty naive though, he only saw his facade and not his nihilistic tendencies. His obituary to Hitler:
>I'm not worthy to speak up for Adolf Hitler, and to any sentimental rousing his life and deeds do not invite.
>Hitler was a warrior, a warrior for humankind and a preacher of the gospel of justice for all nations. He was a reforming character of the highest order, and his historical fate was that he functioned in a time of exampleless [unequalled] brutality, which in the end felled him.
>Thus may the ordinary Western European look at Adolf Hitler. And we, his close followers, bow our heads at his death.
I want to read some more contemporary fiction and poetry. Who/what should I read?
kazuo ishiguro
Books
Anyone else collect these?
>inb4 muh materialism
I always keep an eye out for these spines and have found many great authors/novels/short story collections doing so. Most are out of print or I wouldn't have found out about them otherwise.
>>7994816
I have a DeLillo and Ellis from them, but not really intentionally.
>>7994816
I have 2 and read 1
They sure seem comfy to hold in your hands, but are they really that amazing? They just seem like an average collection of acclaimed contemporary authors, but I've only read 1 so I dunno.
>>7994828
I've really enjoyed Thomas mcguane and Steve Erikson. Authors that really don't get much attention these days. Barry Hannah's Airships was amazing but he's more well known
In the opening of Julius Caesar there's the bit where Mark Anthony offers him a crown 3 times and he refuses. Then he gets an epileptic episode. But this is played off-screen. Why not have him do it in front of the audience to humanize the character, to give some contrast to his later extreme arrogance?
There's a similar scene in Richard III that's actually played out, with a crowd and everything, so I doubt it was an issue of stage logistics.
because the play isnt about caesar, it's about caesar's influence on the people and events around him.
Too generic, tufur.
Brutus did literally nothing wrong
What are some famous essays? I'm horrible at writing them and figured that reading some famous ones would help
Orwell, Woolf, Chesterton, Twain, and Bacon are some of the great essayists of the English language. Just pick any.
>>7994774
the problem with these essays is that they do not follow the strict rules that university essays require
Famous essays don't usually follow the "hamburger" format they push in schools. They're usually personal essays with lists, or experimental formats etc. All in all reading famous essays won't make your homework easier, but writing essays and then sitting down with your teacher or university's writing centre will.
If you're still insistant you can try
"Why I write" - George Orwell
"Black men in public spaces" - Brent Staples
"The origins of inequality" - J-J. Rosseau
"The Rebel" - Albert Cammu
Serious question: is he autistic?
He looks like it.
Also, I've always thought his glasses don't match his face.
>>7994667
No. He's always very open, friendly, and sociable in very normal American ways.
He is a huge pleb, though.
Only /lit/ knows
>>7994662
That dude was too real and too much for this earth. My role model.
I am as white as they come but he was undeniably right.
Where to start with Malcolm's work?
Who would he be like if he were real?
who cares?
he's a novelist written by TV writers who don't understand novelists or how to write them.
>>7994642
>doesn't care
>replies
A mixture of DFW and john green
Was this the best Dragonlance book?
Soulforge is excellent. Beginnings of the Heroes of the Lance, the writing is crisp, great atmosphere.
Still fantashit, but good fantashit. Like a comfort meal on a rainy day.
Chronicles is dope as shit. Tales was good. Skip the rest
>>7995748
I think my 'must read' is Chronicles for context and archetypes, Legends for a legitimately interesting story and further character development, and then the Soulforge and Brothers in Arms for further background on the Heroes of the Lance.
Everything else is pretty shit.
>>7994616
Not letting my thread slide into the Abyss quite yet.
Would /lit/ please tell me whether Sartre's Nausea is usually hard to read? I'm three pages in, and confused as all hell. And I don't mean "This character's motivation's confuse me", or "This plot is hard to follow.", I mean "I understand most of these words, but they don't seem to be combining into any kind of meaningful whole, and I can't visualise what's going on, because I have no idea what is."
I don't remember it being too difficult, you're only three pages in so just keep reading. Maybe try a secondary source like Wikipedia or sparknotes to get a better grasp on the some of the basics like plot, theme, philosophical background, and so on
>>7994586
First few pages are slightly disorienting. In all it's not that hard at all.
>>7994586
It's very easy to read you are just a cretin
In the few months that I have browsed this board I've seen a fair amount of contempt for Vonnegut.
Why is his work so hated here?
>>7994567
Because EVERYONE loves Vonnegut, because he's great and accessible.
/lit/ attempts to be better than everyone else, not in HOW they read, but in WHAT they read.
Everyone outside of this little community who reads loves Vonnegut. Therefore, if /lit/ is to maintain its "better than" status, they must reject Vonnegut.
The truth of the matter is that most people on /lit/ have never read much Vonnegut. They claim to have read Pynchon -- the "better Vonnegut" -- but truthfully they only read 25 pages of Gravity's Rainbow and then pretended to understand the writing style while searching the plot elsewhere.
READ VONNEGUT /LIT/. HE IS PYNCHON IF PYNCHON HAD A SOUL AND ACTUALLY TRIED TO BE ENJOYABLE. STOP GIVING IN TO PINECONE'S BS.
I liked Vonnegut when I was younger. I tried reading Jailbird yesterday but it didn't hold my attention. I think it's one of his shit books, though. His writing style is fun. He's simple and easy.
So it goes.
Should an artist respect the silence which serves as the foundation of all creativity?
that one vid of him getting prank called is so sad
but still
NO TALENT NO RESPECT
For all the shit he gets, its true.
>>7994559
how so
What would you say is essential in order to improve your writing? An active voice in the narration? Showing the reader how a character feels rather than telling them? Improve your grammar?
I really want to get into writing, but my writing is a mess. What are some ways to improve myself? I haven't taken any /lit/ related class in five years. What do you do to improve /lit/?
>>7994538
Sexy vampires and shirtless werewolves.
>>7994538
vocabulary definitely. i need a thesaurus in my brain.
>>7994538
>but my writing is a mess. What are some ways to improve myself?
write more
Say her name.
anais nin? Why?
>>7994518
he thinks he's being obscure right now
lol
>>7994524
I thought it was a sex thing lol
>want to get into /lit/erature
>read nothing but classics and other big boy /lit/ for a long while
>they're well written, sure, but you aren't really having fun at all
>think you need a break for a bit and go back to reading the pleb /lit/ you enjoyed before
>realize that the prose is messy, the stories are filled with cliches, the characters are one dimensional, and there's no deep ideas at all
>have to go back to reading only /lit/erature
>tfw not even enjoying /lit/erature but you have to read it because everything else sucks in comparison now
Enjoy your stay
>>7994479
Read nonfictions that are well written maybe?
>>7994508
This. There's a ton of great memoirs and interviews out there.
