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I'm not going to spend $900 on this, but want to read it.
Never heard of it, what is it and why do you want to read it op
why does it cost 900 dollars?
>>7993499
It's the author setting a fake price.
Protip if you haven't figured it out yet college literature is written by committee. Thomas Pynchon is a group project.
This is a media stunt.
Hey /lit/
Books for people who have been quite sad for many years?
Books than might provide some relief.
Thanks
>>7993384
the bible
>>7993391
I am not a religious man. I don't think I'll find solace in the bible. Thanks anyway.
>>7993407
Maybe your sad because you are so closed minded?
There are numerous boards dedicated to greenposting. I've worked on these threads like no tomorrow, but no board really has the general feel for writing. Should I post my work here, and will people read it? Is there a board specifically designated for creative writing?
I am a novelist, but love getting the feedback that this site can provide.
Reading this for the first time, from an existentialist perspective. Oscillating between fascination and complete boredom. There's a very long boring phase that really depresses me in the way anyone gets when disappointed by a classic when BAM, you find out how the murder really went down. You think it doesn't get any more dark and compelling than this when in the next chapter Satan appears.
Compound this with the fact that I was literally JUST watching Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal and was captivated by the knight's line. "They say you've been in league with the devil . . . I, too, want to meet him." She asks why. "I must ask him about God. He must know, or else nobody does."
In Brothers, page 597 of Dover Thrift Edition,
"Is there a God or not?" Ivan cried with the same savage intensity."
"Ah, then you are in earnest! My dear fellow, upon my word I don't know. There! I've said it now!"
Sorry for the long mostly nonsensical post. In the tradition of existentialism I didn't want to prove anything but share the experience of this book for me right now. Thoughts on this? Brothers in general? Dostoyevsky in general?
>>7993317
>whoaaaaa dude, it's so DAAAARK and stuff
Should I stay at current public university and graduate with little to no debt, or should I transfer to Swarthmore and graduate with lots of debt? English-History double major.
You should transfer to my dick
>>7993237
What are the benefits?
/lits Thoughts on pic related ?
Important post war literature or utter garbage ?
>>7993215
I'd buy it just for the cover tbqhwy famicon
It's a good book, although it's not easy to read and it's better if you have a little background on post WW2 Germany.
It's also not especially reader-friendly, but a good experience overall. I'd recommend it.
>>7993229
which one ?
Should I read this?
>>7993207
how have you not already?
>>7993207
Yes. It's very good. You don't really need to read Dubliners first, despite what the memes say.
But Portrait is necessary if you want to tackle Ulysses.
foetus
Can lit recommend some authors known for writing allusive fiction that defies full understanding on first reading like Wolfe is known for?
Oh, and check 'em.
>>7993200
start with history books on the holocaust
Jetson, Griffin, Flintstone, most of the post premodern metaists
Who's more autistic -- me for not understanding it, or Markson for writing it?
Why did our meme lord regard this guy as the epitome of modern experimental fiction?
>>7993158
Because he was a scientist I think and I'm pretty sure that he didnt mean that what he said was experimental as in different but more progressive and thinking about fiction.
>>7993158
Note that Wallace specifically said Witgenstein's Mistress -- not Markson in general -- was pretty much the high point of experimental fiction in the US.
Markson is well known for his mixing aphorisms, quotations, and other ephemera by and about famous authors rather than writing in the usual style. However, Witgenstein's Mistress doesn't really do this. There are lots of cultural references, yes, but there's a proper narrator and some sort of obvious progression. I think that book is a much greater accomplishment than the rest of his work.
>>7993158
Because he hadn't read McElroy
Has anyone here ever been involved in producing an anthology?
>>7993119
From a writing or editing standpoint?
I wrote a piece for a Christmas anthology of inanimate transformation fetish stories in 2014. It was organized by three trannies. One of them killed himself last year.
>literary fiction in its present form is a genre itself.
What did he mean by this?
>>7993057
That he does not read lit fic
I guess he thinks that lit fiction has become just as commercialized as other genres
>>7993061
he might not be wrong actually
guess who, 4chan. excited for "leave society?" know you loved Taipei
>>7993030
kys
Post an excerpt before you go to bed
>>7993030
cum emergere, pater dupicat?
Vapid pop philosopher or great mind?
If I could understand his speech I'd probably listen to him more.
ZIZEKKKK
>>7993013
read his book.
He is very intelligent if you get passed his nuanced way of speaking.
Can speech also be considered a "text" in critical theory? In post-structuralist analysis, doesn't that mean SJWs' problem with racism and homophobia lies within themselves?
>>7992986
I should clarify, speech like "faggot" or "nigger"
>>7992986
Can you clarify further for plebs like me who don't know what you're talking about
>>7992986
Yes. They consider everything a "text". But who cares? They're full of shit.
Is USA now a culture of victimhood?
Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning write about it.
https://www.academia.edu/10541921/Microaggression_and_Moral_Cultures
Here's a shorter, third-party abstract video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10B9Fc8BmR0
>>7992966
Only in places. People have always exploited pity.
