/lit/ - Literature

>>2499134
Do you understand the main purpose of a dystopian novel?

Hellzapoppin'

>>2415442
Anything by Murakami...

>>2410918
Well, I personally don't believe that word of mouth is a good way of telling something is shit.
I don't think intuition is trustworthy either.
You have a point however on Reputation, maybe this is the most proper way of telling something is shit without having read it.
But you have to admit that to be certain something is "shit" for us, we must have at least taken a look.

>>2410913
Try* lol, mea culpa.

>>2410905
It maybe (certainly is) prepubescent rubbish as you say, but how would YOU know that if you didn't even tried to read it?

>>2410735

I'm so dissapointed when people talk about books as if they read them, when they obviously have not.
>Finnegan's
>Finnegan's
>Finnegan's

And no, Finnegans Wake and Ulysses do not make English any superior... I can see that argument being upholded with maybe Shakespeare or some other writers, but not with the experimental work of Joyce.

Is there any difference between pop culture and mediatic culture? I saw them refferenced as something different by my art teacher and would like to know.
Personally, I've always thought of pop culture as the one that is boosted by the media and then accepted by the people.

>>2400724
Schopenhauer has a posthumus publication on how to use fallacies to win arguments. Check it out.

Herro! We are sorry but we are not inredested in your rame shat.
Stop promoting yourserf prease.

Yeah.
Finishing:
'Instructions to Destroy Reality - Oscar De la Borbolla
will read:
'Some plays by Oscar Wilde
'Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
'Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
'Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre
'Maybe Through The Looking Glass... not sure though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlYAhSffEDM

You're welcome OP.

>>2398859
Edgar Allan Poe is no surrealist.
I mean, not even a "proto-surrealist"

I vote for Proust.

>>2398824
Get out of this board if you praise your talent. Save yourself before it's too late.

Why are you reading a book you don't want to read?

>>2398692

Go watch Midnight in Paris anon, I'm sure you will enjoy it.

>>2398664
Wow those are harsh.

>>2398618
>FUCK MY NOTIONS, DATA ON 4CHAN MUST BE ULTIMATE TRUTH.

>>2398595
I highly agree with this.

Well OP, I can't say that books will reveal your passion. Just try different things and see what you like and what you don't, what you want to do an what you don't, then do it.
It's Socrates all the way down...

Bitch please.

>>2398268
>>2398280
That is probably a misconception people have on his psychotherapeutic method.
Jodorowsky's Psychomagic is intented to work as follows.
1.The subconscious works with symbols, therefore it takes metaphorical acts as actual acts.
2.To "heal" the mind, a metaphorical act is created, using diverse symbols.
3. the Patient does the "act" and cures himself.

I've read psychomagic and I believe it is quite an interesting technique.
On the Placebo effect part, Jodorowsky explains that at the end it doesn't matter if he is right or wrong, as long as people keep getting cured. He says that this is what occurs in "Magical Acts" that shamans use, he calls placebo effect "The Sacred Lie".

Surrealist - Dadaist General.
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I've been reading Jodorowsky's work lately (mainly his philosophy and Psychomagic method) and I'm planning to read his plays sometime soon.
Highly recommendable if you feel intrigued by his cult movies.
I also haven't been able to get any of Fernando Arrabal's works.
I'm currently reading Oscar De la Borbolla, more specifically Instrucciones Para destruir la Realidad (Instructions to destroy reality) which is a compilation of his fiction journalism, his work has Dadaist tendencies.
Planning to buy this monday Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Comments on it?
I highly recommend Jeff Nuttall's Bomb Culture, as it is full of references on countercultural movements from the 50s and on.

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I actually enjoyed Howl

>>2396385
Yeah. and spice up that surrealism with some Beat Generation poets and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe.