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Can the good folks of /lit/ recommend me books that are the literature equivalent of Zdzisław Beksiński's art? Pic related
Posting a couple more of his pieces for reference.
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what the fuck?
i feel like he should've had to answer for some of this shit. the harsh phonetic spellings for seemingly no reason and random spam really get me
you're not supposed to read it at all
>>7820845
ok thanks
Puns like "toot and come in" a reference to Tutankhamun and Finnegan "Fin again", references to the cyclical nature humanity and Egyptian reincarnation are pretty common. He extensively references Hindu/Eastern myths and much of his language is chosen to express certain religious and psychological truths.
It really separates the men from the boys. The only way to "read" it is by audiobook tapes.
You listen to a round where on page one, a stereo tape plays (with an osculation between both channels), then you play a second (mono all the rest after 1,1 are mono) tape from the beginning when the begins page 2, then, when the tape reaches page 3 play a third tape from the beginning, when the first tape reaches page 5 play a fourth tape. Continue this for pages 8,13,21,34,55,89,144 etc playing new tapes when the first tape reaches each of these pages. YOU are page "0" and the work is page zero. O it's not over yet my bumpkins, when the first tape finishes the book you reset the tape and againbeginFinneganbeginagain you keep going ad infinitum until you starve to death, you are NOT allowed to eat or sleep. Water is okay.
Are most people on here actually intelligent and well read or are most of the people here pretentious and only pretend to have read the novels?
>>7820653
I read when I have time, it's fun to see books that you've read being discussed.
A lot of people on here are intelligent and well-read but they waste it all on poisonous attitudes and self-loathing.
Some people will say yes and they will be lying.
Some people will say no and they will be telling the truth.
Some people will say no and they will be lying.
Some people will say yes and they will be telling the truth.
Bloody stupid question, really.
Who are the best Hispanic American writers?
none good enough to mention
>>7820418
You probably think Pynchon is one of the world's greatest writers
Jorge Luis Borges
Juan Rulfo
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vargas Llosa
Julio Cortazar
Carlos Fuentes
Ernesto Sabato
Roberto Bolaño
Fernando del Paso
Juan Carlos Onetti
Alejo Carpentier
Poets:
Vicente Huidobro
Cesar Vallejo
Ruben Dario
Octavio Paz
Just finished this, let's talk about it
It really did help me, as a white person, understand race in the United States. I don't mean that in a meme-y way, it's that I genuinely felt I understood better what it was like to be black in America after reading it.
It's also a great novel in its own right.
Great book, Ellison's prose flows like water, cracks like a whip. The social commentary is oddly still relevant.
What you think of it, OP?
I haven't read it but I've heard SJWs hate it so I might check it out.
Did I fall for a Reddit meme reading this? The first book was bearable but Reddit made out like it would have me in stitches the whole way through. I snorted a few times and that was it. The second book was boring and it caused me to give up reading for three months it sucked so badly. Am I wrong in doing this? Am I missing something not reading these books?
>>7819864
They're not enjoyable after your teens unless you're a retard.
>>7819864
The book is overhyped mediocrity.
Not that funny, not that witty. Very fedora tipping sometimes and obtuse to the point of despair some other times.
I bet dogulas fagdams felt intelligent writing it
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Good day everyone, I've came to this board because I need a little advise of the real booknivores as I don't read a lot, but I want to start a novel. I would appreciate if you guys told me if what I'm about to write has been done before. Thanks in advance.
>The plot goes about an adult male who is basically the hands and guns of an organization which goal is to "Vanish" important people of high interest for said organization. The guy always forgets everything about the casualties and works he has done when he sleeps as the Organization implanted a chip on his brain that erase every detail about past jobs, because they are marked as "Confidential".
One day on one of those " Jobs" he is set to kill a woman, but every time he sees her, he forgets what he was about to do and everything related to the Organization or him. Not knowing who he is, stuff happens while his memory keeps "resetting" after every night but for some reason remembering the girl.
If it's a bit crazy for you guys or its not of your interest I will understand but please tell me if it has been done before.
>>7819613
>I don't read a lot
You should probably fix this if you intend on writing seriously
>>7819648
I have a certain category of what I like, and I'm just starting into writing. I know I should fix that, but I'm not the kind of guy who reads in a excessive way
sounds a bit like joe haldeman's "tool of the trade".
i know i've heard that plot before.
> i don't read a lot
> want to start a novel
why? seriously, why would you want to start a novel if you don't read? that's a little like saying you want to start a high end wine business but you don't drink the stuff yourself.
Find a flaw
ugly
flugly
Cro-magnon features, ears too circular, face too wide and short, nose points upwards.
>go to half price books
>purchase Siddartha, The Old Man and the Sea, and Voltaire's Candide
>cashier looks at Old man and the Sea and comments "I hated that book, too wordy"
But he's right. That book shouldn't have been written. Anything above 0 words is too wordy for hemmmmmmmingway
>>7818909
that didn't actually happen OP,
>>7818909
>posting banime outside of /a/
https://discord.gg/0ssJKGTbo2sD1sDG
Come one come all to 4chanlit Discord. Pretty good channel so far. Got a few reading groups gonig (Ishiguro, Dubliners, Shakespeare, Eastern Literature), and people seem nice and/or knowledgeable so far.
General channel for memeing and meme-free literature discussion channels are helping keep up the quality thus far. No cams so hopefully /soc/ing is kept to a minimum/in the meme channel.
I don't think advertising this is against the rules so hopefully thread doesn't get deleted. Just hide the thread if you're not interested. Cheers.
>>7818768
What's being read in the Eastern lit reading group?
>>7818781
Conference of Birds followed by something by Rumi is the current choice I believe. The plan is to start in the Middle-East area and move east-ish.
It's ok.
Do ya'll have any good literary recommendations that are about the establishment of the Roman Catholic church ?
>>7818629
I guess you can start with anything by Augustine and Ambrose.
>>7818629
the god delusion
>>7818629
The bible
Kill me.
My teacher is showing us slam poetry.
One of them had mansplaining as if it were a word.
>>7818042
>mansplaining
?
>>7818046
Sitting with your legs wideishly open on a tram.
>>7818046
Yeah, it's this opredsive thing men do to women wherein they recognize that a woman has much less knowledge than they do, and so they explain something to her as if that's the case.
Of course this is highly oppressive because men need to realize that women should be treated like genius queens, especially when they aren't: it's just being a good feminist!
You also have to keep in mind that once a woman hears a man say big words she knows that she can't understand, she immediately loses interest and starts to focus on other things, besides the information being communicated, and often zeroes in on the tone you're speaking with, because that's something her lesser intellect can comprehend the nuance of.
When will /lit/ realize Faulkner is the GOAT?
>>7817713
no, that would be me
>>7817713
He is pretty good but he is no Joyce
>>7817713
His corncobbish provincialism keeps him far beneath loads of others.
Can you recommend me some /lit/ male authors who don't just write about themselves and their personal struggles and don't indulge in portraying themselves but write about one or many people unlike them in a way that seeks to understand rather than judge them.basically I'm looking for the opposite of fedora core
>>7821579
Tao Lin- Tai Pei sounds exactly what you're looking for.
>>7821579
How do you mean '/lit/ male authors'? Male authors of literary fiction? Or male authors on /lit/?
What am I reading currently?
Pride and Prejudice. Re-reading.
What's it about?
Well, you know, you've got your Pride, of course, and that's represented in the character of, uh... and but then on the other hand, you've got Prejudice, and oh boy, I don't know which is worse. It's really a battle, I think, between the two. But in the end, of course, what do you know, it turns out that it's really the two together that really, uh, puts the spice in life. You can't have one without the other. That's my interpretation anyway.
What are you reading?
>What am I reading currently?
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Brazil's History
>What's it about?
Clearing some misconceptions taught in school e.g. there were no saint heroes or demon villains in hour history. Some famous cultural idols were nazis and there were a lot of ex-slave slave traffickers. Natives weren't the angels we were taught and most natives died in the hands of other natives that had sided with the europeans;
those natives wanted to expand their territories and were considered friends of the empire/king/whatever.
>>7821546
What is politically incorrect about spotlighting nazi's? That is among the most PC things there are. Bleurgh.
>>7821433
>What am I reading currently?
Memed, My Hawk
>What's it about?
Winner of Turkey's first literary awards, it follows the life of brigand Ince Memed as he basically acts like Robin Hood, except towards petty Turkish magistrates, often with gruesome and excessive violence. Parts of the plot feel ripped off by Braveheart.
![Joyce_wake[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/JpqCo7z.jpg "Joyce wake[1]")
