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Is this a postmodern novel?
>>7839725
yes.
>>7839725
if you go by the common definition of postmodern literature, yes.
>>7839725
regardless of whether or not it is, it reads like dicks
What does /lit/ think about Crane? What do you think about To Brooklyn Bridge?
>>7837639
Please delete this thread
>>7839629
Shit, man. Didn't see it.
>>7839665
Please delete this thread
>Ineluctable modality of the visible
what does it mean
Read Aristotle.
form
On average How long does it take you to read a general, 400 page book?
>>7839568
Around 20 hours if it's something that you don't have to think about what you've just read.
no such thing as a general book op
>>7839763
this fucker is right.
see this: https://readability-score.com/
why try anything if we are all going to die anyway
/r/ philosophy to motivate myself to make the most rational decision in my life: killing myself
>Give me an objective argument to make a decision that I'll only ever make based on subjective information
Ur right dude lmao, just smoke some nice Weeeed in your mum's basements. Repeat after me, kid;
smoke some nice Weeeeeeed!!! (smoke some nice weeeeeed) -____- *inhales some really nice WeƩeeeeed*Damn...... That is some nice Weeeeeeed o_____o heh
>>7839553
but it's an objective fact that we are all going to die, and what we achieve in this world is meaningless in long-term
I need this book, guys, on a pdf file, please. Thank you!
>Dirlewanger
/r/
>>7839419
I kinda knew this wasn't the perfect place for this request, but it's already been done... Cmon, guys, I need this book.
Do I need to experience the world to understand it, or is being well read good enough?
If the former, do I need to travel the world to experience it, or is understanding my small realm enough?
Come on man you know the answer. You just come here to let shut ins validate you.
>>7839413
Why not both?
Are some kind of working class philistine who can't afford to travel the world?
>>7839422
Yeah that's true. I guess my real question is how can describe my shut in life to sound patrician and just as fulfilling as a proper person's?
ITT: Post good short novels with less, or at least not notably more, than 200 pages
so, novellas?
Notes from the Underground is the best
>>7839593
NfU is not even the best Dostoyevsky novella. Better ones are:
* The Double
* The Gambler
* Notes from the House of the Dead
Seize the Day by Bellow.
Also theres a chat for this. Look at the sticky.
What do you guys think of the big elephant in the room of literature: Most of it is just not entertaining. Either because it was made in the past and did not have to complete with many other types of media, (see Dickens being paid per word). Or it has completely retreated in to modern art territory - completely divorced from entertainment and obsessed with being a talking point for the chattering classes. And the sums of money in literature are too small for CIA money laundering, so I think we can assume that they're actually serious.
Why are so many self-indulgent...
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ok
Entertainment, hear me out, is a buzzword. Everyone's got a different definition for it - it is positively useless in discourse. Doesn't mean we shouldn't care about it, but placing "entertainment" in such a powerful position ( the end all be all of literature ) kills a conversational dead before it has even begun.
You were aesthetically pleased by notes from underground , that is, you were happy with what of the novel was not necessarily attached to reality, like any perceived sort of social message.
I think that dichotomy is much more...
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dork
Other than that it's not popular to write in 1st person present tense, is it terrible to write "I look at the painting. It's beautiful."
Or is it better to be more stream-of-consciousness-like and write "Whoa, what a beautiful painting!" instead?
Depends on the context of what you're writing.
>>7839325
I mean, does it make sense that the person who experiences something, says "I look at..." ? Wouldn't he just do it and therefore it can't be written down?
paradigmatic too
>The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered, they lack many of the qualities that mark the civilized man: courage, dignity, incorruptibility, ease, confidence. They have vanity without pride, voluptuousness without taste, and learning without wisdom. Their fortitude, such as it is, is wasted upon puerile objects, and their charity is mainly a form of display
>Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews'.
>Thus it would seem hardly needful to state, if we desire to preserve that character and those qualities, that the Jew should be excluded from all those positions in which the chance or opportunity occurs of fundamentally modifying the character and customs of the nation. For, whether intentionally or not, it would seem as if the Jew could not help modifying these national features in a non-Occidental direction.
>the youthful Jew of the stock exchange is the most repugnant invention of the whole human race
Are you going to listen to Tao's podcast?
https://soundcloud.com/taolin/two-hour-podcast-about-my-writing-1
that picture
>>7838950
What on earth is he trying to accomplish with such a ridiculous picture
>asian dweeb
>leather jacket
>doesnt even play in a cool band
the bad boy of sitting in a room alone sipping coffee, writing sentences
>if you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish
Words of wisdom?
No, David Foster Wallace, the closest thing we had to a modern philosopher, never said anything wise.
>>7838929
You seem to be answering a question that hasn't been asked
>>7838949
>Smart people hit a target better than everyone else. Genius hits a target nobody else can see.
Who /level ā/?
Feels good man.
Oh dear
Ideology. I laughed.
I am infinite tier.
I have seen things others are too unwise to see; they'll never see what I've seen.
I'm infinity + tier; words, nor God, can describe my level of enlightenment.
My ideology you say?? Hm? ETERNITY.
>>7838914
This is utter ego stroking smut.
So /lit/
Any Romanian literature worth reading?
yep
Max Blecher, Urmuz, B. Fondane, Gellu Naum for starters
(also do remember that some members of the dada movement were Romanian: Tzara, Gherasim Luca etc)
>>7838897
That was quick
Any works in particular you would recommend?
>>7838897
no one cares about dada though
