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Bulgakov and Kafka are my favorite writers. Recommend me some mind-bending stuff such as theirs.
>>7717066
Check out Hawkes.
>>7717066
Gogol
>>7717158
I'd prefer your guys opinions over just googling it. Lots of plebs on the intent and I trust you guys.
Do "dawn" and "don" rhyme?
>grammar
>>7716385
>>grammar
Are there any books without words with words?
It sounds non-sensical, but I'm sincerely wondering.
Check out Bukowski. His books are written with words, but the message they convey goes far beyond just words.
>>7718329
I really dont think that is what OP is looking for. OP, what are you looking for? And I notice you have a Hilter? Are you an edgelord? We don't get many edgelords around these parts...take off your fedora and explain yourself. We'll try to let you blow our minds!
>>7718351
>knowing so little about the art of post-irony
is this seriously the face of /lit/
We lost another great today :(
RIP Jurgen Habermas
nigga don't even
Howard Zinn dir: Farenhiet 9-11 and Where Should We Invade Next.
Hey /lit/, got any advice on writing compelling characters, or at least, authentic regardless of setting? I feel like I know the characters from the short story I'm writing reasonably well, but sometimes I end up second guessing if it's something they would do or not.
Got any tips or resources?
1. Make them relatable enough without resorting to using cliches.
2. Make them different, make them mysterious. Try making them hard to describe. But on the other hand...
3. Try making a character that can be described with another book entirely, not 3 descriptors or a little sentence. The more you can write about them the better.
4. Try making characters very different from yourself and each other and have many weakness in addition to strengths. The more you can accomplish this, the less of a Mary Sue character you're likely to write and the more interesting conflicts you will have.
5. Be creative.
What's a good place to start with Bukowski?
book
>>7718043
thank, which 1
Trash bin
>The best temperament for a reader to have, or to develop, is a combination of the artistic and the scientific one. The enthusiastic artist alone is apt to be too subjective in his attitude towards a book, and so a scientific coolness of judgment will temper the intuitive heat. If, however, a would-be reader is utterly devoid of passion and patience — of an artist’s passion and a scientist’s patience — he will hardly enjoy great literature.
Was he right?
Science has nothing to do with literature
Patience is not inherently scientific. Passion is the only thing one needs
>>7716673
>i cannot read hollisticly
Was he right?
http://qz.com/602956/these-are-the-books-students-at-the-top-us-colleges-are-required-to-read/?utm_source=FBP021916_2
Of these collated reading lists, which reflects the most patrician curriculum?
I'm leaning towards U. Penn, Yale, andBrown, if you're a leftist.
Feel like I could have predicted U. Chicago's
>>7716516
>if you're a leftists
But we're all reactionaries here. We drove the leftists out
>>7716523
cryptomarxist detected
>The Clash of Civilizations Huntington, Samuel
I thought he fell out of favor because muh bloody borders of islam
Also when I first got into reading more than genre fiction (in like 2000) I used the syllabi from Boston College and Harvard to find out what I should be reading from the classics department, it served me well.
Are there any books / authors similar to Death Grips in their style, the subjects they cover and their abrasiveness etc?
I guess Irvine Welsh is similar in Trainspotting, but I'm looking for American novels primarily.
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John green
Dfw
Any other talentless overmemed hack
What's with all these fucking music related posts on /lit/ lately?
MI don't remember anything /lit/ related being posted on /mu/ in the past week.
Did Joyce hint at gay sex in A Portrait?
>Citation
>>7715290
>You are very young, my child, he said, and let me implore of you to give up that sin. It is a terrible sin. It kills the body and it kills the soul. It is the cause of many crimes and misfortunes. Give it up, my child, for God's sake. It is dishonourable and unmanly. You cannot know where that wretched habit will lead you or where it will come against you. As long as you commit that sin, my poor child, you will never be worth one farthing to God.
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>>7715327
Masturbation?
who else /reading anxiety / here
>tfw it just took me 40 minutes to read 16 pages because I'm constantly recomprehending and revalidating what's in front of me.
I also have OCD so that might be a major contributing factor. Ironically, I'm reading a book that tries to help in pushing aside non-sensical thoughts.
Nothing like that happens to me anymore, but a problem I do have is trying to read with out subvocalizing for a couple of pages and then having to go back and reread it all since I didn't pick pick up a single word.
>>7713375
How'd you get over it? Just by practicing reading?
The reason I'm not a big reader (for you) is precisely because whenever I try I get anxious over my inability to actually read in a constant flow.
I used to do that.
Just stop.
Pick an easy book you don't care too much for and read it without ever rereading a sentence.I had OCD over the chance that I may be homosexual for two years and it was literally a living nightmare. I was imprisoned to my own brain. Reading anxiety is nothing.
lets compile a list of things pseudo-intellectuals cant stop talking about and constantly oversimplify in order to look smart:
schrödingers cat
sisyphus
everything nietzsche said ever
gnosticism
solipsism for secondary-tier pseuds
Determinism, definitely
I am working on a piece of music and would like to base it off some poem. Anyone suggestions for poems that depict a very colorful mood or story?
Thanks
La courbe de tes yeux fait le tour de mon cœur,
Un rond de danse et de douceur,
Auréole du temps, berceau nocturne et sûr,
Et si je ne sais plus tout ce que j'ai vécu
C'est que tes yeux ne m'ont pas toujours vu.
Feuilles de jour et mousse de rosée,
Roseaux du vent, sourires parfumés,
Ailes couvrant le monde de lumière,
Bateaux chargés du ciel et de la mer,
Chasseurs des bruits et sources des couleurs,
Parfums éclos d'une couvée d'aurores
Qui gît toujours sur la paille des astres,
Comme le jour dépend...
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>>7718132
english?
>>7718105
Iliad
Has anyone read this? Opinions? I wanted to start with his Metro series but this seems way more interesting to me.
>>7716608
Not read it yet, only read Metro 2033 but if his other works are anything like it, I'd say just dive right in, anon. He's an intelligent writer.
>>7716608
English translation anywhere? Researching on mobile is hard.
>buy hardcover version of The Idiot
>finish it quick, quite enjoy it, the main character is definitely an idiot
>accidentally pull off dust jacket
>the front cover actually reads it is Notes From The Underground
>mfw
>>7715150
I guess one could say that you were in fact "The Idiot" here.
>>7715150
