/lit/ - Literature

My mom reads things as Twilight Saga, 50 Shades Saga, and The Hunger Games.

My dad has only read one book in his life, The Catcher and The Rye, he doesn't like reading.

I see no influence in my tastes.

>>3317875

This reminds me of Woody Allen... Its was fun.

By the fireplace
the hippos
take a coffee cup.

All of my friends read, we all have different tastes and we are able to discuss authors, books, novels, plays, and we also learn very much about each other.
I really don't care about my parents, they don't read at all and we don't talk about it, we talk about other stuff.
It doesn't annoy me not being able to talk about Literature with someone. However, I tend to avoid people I consider uninteresting

I see no boxes... I see a pair of leather boots and I don't like leather boots.

Dreams in general, sleep depravation, lucid dreams when possible, social realities of my country, traditional art from natives, after a good jerk. Music helps sometimes, and sometimes it just blocks any inspiring thought.

Bumping with this text from Péret

TO MISS LANTERN
My dear friend,
Believe me that I was sincerely afflicted when I learned of the loss you have suffered: a steam powered urinal is not easily replaced. Yours, which had among other peculiarities, the ability to sing the Marseillaise when in use, was certainly worthy of the esteem you bestowed upon it. So, it is easy for me to understand the despair that your sister felt when it became evident that the urinal was definitely lost. Nevertheless, from that to suicide is quite a step! And, although I know that many fond memories were associated with its possession, I cannot but sondem such a fatal resolve. But this censure does not prevent me from profoundly deploring her sad end. A suicide is always, for those close to the deceased, a tragic and agonising event; but when it is accomplished by the means of jam, one cannot be less than terrified. Never would I have believed that your sister could resolve to die embedded in a vat of jam! And yet, all those unlucky enough to befriend her knew of her most morbid attraction to jam, even in jars. Do you remember how she could not contain herself when she saw it with desserts, how she had to caress it before even serving herself? Numerous incidents of this nature should have aroused our suspicions; but, blind that we were, we never understood their profound significance. Nonetheless, I shiver at the thought of how her last moments must have been.

Please believe me that I share your pain and approve of your descision to banish jam from your life. This is a healthy reaction and I can only commend it from the bottom of my heart. It demonstrates both your determination, and your courage in overcoming pain as well as your instinct for self-preservation. I am truly glad, that without jam, you do not, indeed, risk letting yourself be compelled to follow the example of your sister.

-- Benjamin Péret From Surrealist Games.

Underneath Napoleon's Hat

Napoleon: Megalomania, Historical Necessity, and Croissants.

1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

>>3261380
I enjoyed Naked Lunch. Made me feel constipated.
What would you recommend on Kerouac? I've just read On the Road.

Luis Buñuel, Alejandro Jodorowsky,

>>3261307
now this is me trying

hippopotamus when no longer tired all matters it is not taht important lamps lid up as stairways go out in the open you are no longer aware

>>3261286
Also Andre Breton and some other guys from his circle tried it out.

>>3261289
I'm not even sure if it is possible to make sentences out of it without some conscious effort. What turned out in that writing assignment? I'm curious.

>>3261290
Automatic Writing consists in letting your subconscious mind write by itself making original ouvres that should end up being revealing or mindawakening.. It was widely practiced in the Surreal Movement by obvious reasons.
Also, it is used by New-Age groups to contact spiritual guides or smthn like that.

Once a friend of mine was arguing with the manager about Murakami's quality.
My friend was quite mad at the guy because he kept saying Murakami was a tryhard while my friend compared him to Kawabata and Mishima.

How do you manage automatic writing?
Is it useful or just surreal tryhard garbage?
Any techniques on automatic writing?
What famous authors used this "technique"?
Have you, anon, done anything using automatic writing?

>>2541895
you gotta love Schoppy

>>2538295
Oh! A friend of mine also read it in French. The book is now thorn and old but he plans to give it to me as soon as he gets a new, better-looking, one.

>>2538251
I have Stendhal´s Le Rouge et Le Noir waiting for me on my shelf. I think it may be too complex for my low-level french.
Have you read anything in French or any other language that isn't English?

>>2538230
LOL, it´s been a more than a year of my search of a Spanish Ed. of Francois Sagan Bonjour Tristesse. I'm actually thinking of just steal the French ed. of my grandma.

>>2538102

You got me. I read the spanish Ed.

This one precisely:

http://www.gandhi.com.mx/index.cfm/id/Producto/dept/libros/pid/390399

Long time since I saw a thread like this. I always tell because of the pic.

Last Five:
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
The Doors of Perception/ Heaven and Hell - Aldous Huxley
Tokio Blues: Nowreigan Wood - Haruki Murakami
The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe

Currently Reading:
Nausea - J.P. Sartre

Next Five:
Faust - Goethe
Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
Hermann and Dorothea - Goethe
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
Les Fleurs Du Mal - Baudelaire

1. how does the book begin, it is a good way to start it off? motivate.
With a Castle on a cliff that once belonged to
Dr. Frankenstein. This is a reference towards early terror-fiction works.
Scene is later used by Kafka in his book The Castle, where he defends Orthodox Judaism.

2. how do you meet the main character in this story and what kind of impression do you get?
Her name is Salomé and she has several stomachaches. She is hungry and decides to enter the castle for some help.
Impression: She is quite poor, doesn´t have a family and is probably related to Herodias.


3. describe the person in the book besides the main character that made a big impression on you. motivate.

Jeeves, the waiter. He constantly bings blood martinis to Count Dracula and his vampire friend Alexander Dumas.

4. was there any turning point in the book?
Twice, When Salomé turns out to be pregnant, when she is about to be beheaded by Count Dracula after killing Jeeves.

5. what was the book's message?
The sanctity of life should always prevail, we should embrace moral values of gentleness and hospitality.

You are welcome, I hope you get a great grade!

Today I finished Naked Lunch and found that it was quite enjoyable at certain points. However, I had to push myself through several chapters I found boring.
I would give it an 8/10 basing my score on the fidelity the book has to the Beat Generation, my experience while reading it, and its structure.
My favorite parts were:
interracial homosex, Dr. Benway appearances and actions, William Lee and the Agents, that preface at the end, and the appendix regarding drug effects
This is the only Beat Generation work I have read, planning to read Kerouac's On the Road as soon as I get a copy.

>Rate Naked Lunch, Favorite or/and Least Favorite Parts, discuss.
>Beat Generation General.

This thread needs more Tom Wolfe.