/lit/ - Literature

i am friend with a handful of professors and some literary people but for the most part i only know illiterates.

just today i was talking to someone who identifies as a leftist, but ignores the bulk of ideological critique post-marx and focuses on the fucking macro-economic part. not to mention that she dissed psychoanalysis as "unscientific", and tried to argue marx was entirely scientific in his work.

i hate that i care about these retards i know.

>>4216480
ohh ok. thanks anon.

>>4216460
I meant from the french to english, the quote is from a song.

>>4216371
i dig guillermo de torre. check out some of his poetry.

>>4216356
>The inherent difficulty of communicating these types of ideas (especially emotions) comes from a romantic view of the artist [blah blah blah]

i don't know bro, it's more of a derridaist view of communication. i don't buy your uniqueness thing, anyone who considers themselves unique would have zero use for communication in the first place.

>>4216338
well, of course, you would

My french is rusty, /lit/, how would you translate "te souciant peu que j'aie le mal de toi"?

"It bothers you little how I hurt for you"?

>>4216292
>you should attempt to express yourself in a way that doesn't require the solving of riddles or a degree in literature or art to understand.

no one does that out of mere contempt for the hoi polloi, it's just that true communication is incredibly difficult, and when it comes to truly communicating something that you yourself find difficult, then the circumlocution required to at least give you a sense of it will become exponentially more impenetrable.

>if you want people to see what you have to say

concerning yourself with mass appeal is for the marketing department to worry, not artists. as long as someone, somewhere, is able to connect with your work, it's all worth it

disagree. i agree with the first statement, but i don't see where the obligation for humility comes from.

>>4215738
>Have you read any Latin American lit produced in the 19th c.?

nope. but if you want to extend this to early 20th, i loved a lot of the ultraists.

>>4216214
then you don't understand either po-mo ironic detachment in the first place.

i didn't say that was intentional as a "oh but it's justifiably gay!". don't be so defensive.

>>4216206
no prob anon.

>>4216200
>to be fair, I never fully realised how try hard and gay it sounds until I heard tobey maguire's narration at the end.

i thought that was intentional. whatever his name is claims to be above judging others, but his deliberately flowery prose is just an assertion of superiority.

>>4216191
>I read Gatsby when I was 17 because of a class assignment.

i was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, mate.

>>4216164
tolstoi and dosty are pretty different, maybe you just read some washed-out translations?

bulgakov - isherwood

a ten year old has no capacity for aesthetic appreciation, which is why it was a bad idea to stick fitzgerald in the american curriculum. but, as a child, you were incapable of absorbing gatsby properly, so i don't begrudge your stupid opinion.

siddhartha because orientalism. steppenwolfe is better.

>>4216137
no, but they are usually direct about it. asking if you're in the right track is too white-gloved for /lit/m i guess. i'll do it, i suppose.

>The weight of the carcass was substantial

You don't need "the weight", and substantial is a weak adjective. You might want to start the sentence with Adrian (that's actually my name) as the subject and provide the heavyness of the carcass through some verb. "Adrian heaved the carcass over his shoulder." already provides most what you have in there.

>Death had freed its muscles of all tension

freed is an awkward verb you relieve or soothe tension, you don't free yourself of it. if you reverse the sentence [heavy rain... and death had], it's more powerful.

>primal animal smell

primal already has animal connotations, animal is redundant.

>His work shirt was stained with dirt and drool from the animal's unhinged jaw

i must sound like a broken record by now, but reverse the object-subject order.

>Leaving his vehicle behind and running, with only the headlights to guide him, he struggled several feet to edge of the road

how can he run if the weight is substantial enough to be noteworthy?

>the darkness of the night

redundant but it's minor.

>widened

wide

>Moving further into the depths of the forest the noise of the vehicles on the road above faded into the ambience of nightfall.

spatially confusing.

it's ok, but it seems like it was taken from the middle of a story. very little context and the imagery doesn't really carry it enough to justify the lack of it.

he's compelling. too early to tell if he's good.

>>4216118
el tunel by sabato
notes from the underground by dostoevsky
maybe hero of our time by lermontov

>>4216113
there's a difference between a coup de foudre and hemmingway getting a hard-on for some random spanish bitch

>>4216059
4/10

>>4216064
6/10

>>4216078
7/10

fix the last stanza and it'll be really good

>>4216082
4/10

last line is good tho

>>4216088
3/10

colombian/caribbean-american politics submerged in latin-american folklore.

>>4216086
there's no such thing, but i guess it rubbed him the wrong way how you hedged your request for a critique.

>crickets mock your premise