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what is Gruz 200 of literature?
I don't know. I've seen it though, and it fucked me up a little bit. The scene where he tosses her boyfriend's corpse into the bed was impressively disturbing, and I thought I was pretty immune to disturbing films.
>Cargo 200 (Russian: Гpyз 200 "Gruz 200") is a Russian thriller film from 2007 by Aleksei Balabanov depicting the late Soviet society. The action is set during culmination of the Soviet war in Afghanistan in 1984. The movie's title Cargo 200 refers to the zinc coffins in which dead Soviet soldiers were shipped home.
>Though it claims to be based on a true story, it is in fact based on William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, which was set in Mississippi in 1929.
OC like the professor of atheism going religion was complete nonsense but funny if you know where the myth is from. A lot of atheism professors became theology professors after the collapse of the USSR and they would naturally tell stories about how they were undercover christians all the time.
Is this book good? Is it about love?
Does /lit/ not read gay black books?
there aren't any black characters in it afaik
it's his best book
>>7743796
His best book is Another Country.
So I was a senior in highschool and just beyond babbon tier brain function. I was scheduled to take an AP literature class and was very excited. Supposedly we were going to read books and short stories, write about it and throw in a little discussion. This sounded wonderful to me. The problem is, once we read the story the teacher would TELL US WHAT IT MEANT and have us write our papers based on what SHE SAID IT MEANT. This pissed the never-ending hell out of me especially since our grade would be lowered on essays if we did not agree on the meaning. Her seasoning was "I am getting my masters in literature, and for that reason have a stronger grasp on the intentions of these authors." It didnt even matter how many quotes and how thoroughly you could support an interpretation, hers was right. It would honestly have been a pleasure if she came across as a bright mind with bright ideas, but instead she seemed insecure about her actual knowledge of the field and was trying to fight her own insecurities and seemed to belong in gender studies with her interpretations always being based around sexism against women. Help me.
>>7743704
Sounds like you need to grow up and be more assertive. Furthermore, you have not yet matured to the point where you have learned to function in an institution.
1. Give your boss, teacher, or professor what they want how they want it.
2. Self motivate and educate in your own time or during allowed discussion groups.
3. Repeat as you acquire merit and awards.
4. Attain scholarship or promotion, or resume fodder leave institutional constraints for better situation.
Stop being a child.
>>7743704
quit being such a bitch. just admit to yourself that you aren't some god-tier student and sometimes you are wrong. plain and simple. wrong. that's why in the beginning of some books, dubliners for instance, there will be an introduction to help guide you through the novel. no one expects you to get 100% on the first read through, but if you do, whoop de doo. congratz. you've gotten better at reading a book.
And as far as your teacher, she is just another thing you'll have to cope with. that's the way some people are. is it great? no. but deal with it and try to get through your course as best as you can. you're only really hurting yourself in this matter. worry about your own interpretations when it doesn't matter, like right now on this very board, where you could be creating a worth while post instead of that shit.
>>7743712
I did all of those things. that entire list was what I did when I saw what sort of teacher I had.
Hey /lit/izens, I'm looking for short story writers of the fantastic genre to read, besides borges, given that my smugness tells me I've had enough for a while.
Chesterton? Woolfe?
Thanks in advance
>>7743664
Wolfe, definitely.
>>7743664
Best short story writer is Chekhov.
Ward No 9, The Bishop and Rothchilds Fiddle are his best IMO
What's the contemporary take on sublimation (or related concepts) in intellectual circles?
Anything that concerns nofap, semen retention, avoiding pornography etc. and isn't biased nor purely scientific/empirical..
Some book recommendations or authors or a tl;dr would be great
>>7743649
>no recycling your semen
dumb as a bag of severe dicks, op.
>>7743653
Does recycling foreign semen count? It's always so disgusting after I came and stale semen probably wouldn't have the same efect..
are drugs an important part of being literary? is it worth sacrificing a portion of your intellect for some insight granting experiences?
>>7743625
Pretty sure doing shrooms a couple of times a year apart isn't going to make you dumber.
its probably not. I had a friend who lost -50 intellect when he did E
>>7743639
I've heard of this, but then I also know people who did a fuckton of E and coke in college who are going to good medical and other grad schools.
What do you guys think of this essay? Is Hillard right about genius being originality and madness being its dark counterpart?
https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2097/13324/Rhetoric%20of%20originality%20-%20publisher%27s%20PDF.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Is anyone even able to make sense of this shit? Or are you all just a bunch of dilettantes?
Floral Shoppe is the pinnacle of music. It is a genius deconstruction of all music and a harsh commentary on the superficiality of capitalism. Anyone who disagrees is unintelligent and does not belong on /mu/.
>>7745018
capitalism is so superficial dude. harsh criticism bra
>entire point of your career is to reveal the limiting presuppositions of discourse and free the dregs of society from tyrannies of meaning
>conduct all your writings in obtuse jargony idiom only comprehensible by bourgeois scholar-cultists with infinite leisure to learn the proper exegesis and read them
DESERVED HIS AIDS
>only comprehensible by bourgeois scholar-cultists
pleb detected
>>7743575
>conduct all your writings in obtuse jargony idiom only comprehensible by bourgeois scholar-cultists with infinite leisure to learn the proper exegesis and read them
its actually pretty straight forward
Did he regret his perversions in the end?
Why did he call it 1984 when the Patriot Act didn't get passed before 2001?
>>7743568
PRISM is scarier.
>>7743568
>everything is about america
dumb americunts
>>>/pol/
>>>/r/books
Saged
Which one do you own? What author do you want them to pick up? It will be cool if they pick Gene Wolfe.
I own some from Nabokov, Faulkner, Whitman, and Thoreau. The Thoreau edition is especially interesting as it contains several of the maps he made
I've got Whitman, Carver, and Vonnegut.
It'd be nice if they got Gaddis, but I doubt his works will ever be published with different pagination.
I own 2: Philip K. Dicks 60s novels and Wallace Stevens complete poetry and selected essays.
>a feminist reworking of Kafka's Metamorphosis...how can you rework The Metamorphosis into any damn thing
>>7743490
with Gene Wolfe's help, all is possible.
>>7743491
Why are you doing this
Why are women so fucking annoying?
what was this dude's problem?
It's difficult to live with large ambition but little talent.
>>7743473
Autism
>>7743473
He was born in Portugal.
What will happen when the allfather dies /lit?/
What will /lit/ be like?
>>7743464
His death will be the final nail in literature's coffin. He's like the last of a dying breed of literary academics who doesn't analyze everything through the lens of feminism or racism or some other -ism.
>>7743464
Gene Wolfe will ascend and take his place as the world's preeminent scholar of literature and literary criticism.
>>7743474
It decline of rationality in academics is unnerving, but to say Hardy here is the last of a dying breed is silly. Plus, just because he's in the right group doesn't mean he isn't a moron
Is Witty's private language argument sound? What's the problem with having a language spoken by only one person?
who cares lol :-P
>>7743476
Welcome friend, I hope you enjoy your stay here at /lit/ and I wish you many more (You)s.
>>7743457
I think it's pretty sound.
Language is a tool primarily to transfer information.
Since a single person would have nobody to transfer to, the language would be very restricted to the point of being completely useless.
Is there a more masculine writer than James Ellroy? Using the word "nigger" on almost every page has gotta count for something.
Nice squirrel gun, Pete Campbell.
Is that him?
Being so insecure as to posture like that is the antithesis of masculine.
