/lit/ - Literature

>>5945475
>Even they themselves say this.
The same way someone who happened to live under a communist regime isn't an expert on the economical aspect of the system, just being trans doesn't mean you fully understand yourself. It's a pretty common thing in the US that trans people have to convince themselves that they are sick to receive hormones and physical treatment, obviously 20 or 30 years of that will convince someone that things are that way.
The real question should be why would it matter how natural it is. Someone feels like that, people have felt like that all through out history. You shouldn't have to justify if you like music, if you want to go to law school or if you feel like the opposite gender.

>>5924270
It's a book to be read with a certain mindset. As you read more you get used to catching the role that was meant for the reader to take, in some cases that makes the reading easier and in others it's the only way to enjoy and get something from the book.
Just, read more and try to check the short stories, if the writer has some of those, before jumping into the novels.

Good luck, hope you enjoy your stay.

>>5924274
I like you!

>>5921407
Your not relaxing and letting things go. Weed is horrible when it comes to helping you actively manage things

>>5924088
;__;

>>5924055
>The age gap is interesting, but it certainly isn't a Nabokovian situation.
I haven't read the light novel, in the manga the age difference is used to show how people deal with a similar sense of isolation while being a young adult and a college student.

>>5924033
>post-marxist watered down Frankfurt reactionary
>for a hegelian matriarch

>>5923993
But it's an exageration of what society has become. You have to remember that when the story starts Sato doesn't even download porn from the internet, in many regards he and the society around him grew in similar ways.
I wouldn't consider it some sort of global geist, but the following and the growing trend of similar works (and even the depression manga concept, which is completly new to this time) are part of Japan's geist.

But no, OP, you are not in Japan. You're just a weeaboo.

>>5923738
>>people put mugs directly on table
This gets me pretty mad, why do people think watery glasses go on top of exposed wood? What do they think will happen?

>>5923529
It's sort of hard to notice but we have a sticky with a link to a ton of rec lists. CHeck the starter pack, most of the books there are under 300 pages and pretty catchy, check the synopsis to see if it's your cup of tea.
If you like science fiction, want to be better and still don't understand the importance of history you should check Dune. At least the first one, at most the first three.

By your age and gender I would recommend the beats. Check Kerouac's On The Road and inmediately after Big Sur; if you don't you'll walk out with the idea of him being a dumb party man who couldn't take decent decisions, Big Sur gives some depth to his character and lets you catch some of the thinking underneath OTR that isn't in the paper. Bukowsky is big among young males, you'll probably at least get a laugh. Hunter Thompson is a thrill ride, try to consider election trail or some of his more focused works instead of the wakcy funny FaLiLV or the subpar Hell Angels and Rum Diaries.
yes, I'm considering all of those beats, got a problem?

>>5923930
>dealing with japanese tropes and mixing them with the western tradition.
Some people do that, France is really big into westernized manga since they have been reading it since the 70's and it has became the sort of thing that is part of the culture. But why would you go for the crutches from the get go? Japan abuses that kind of stuff because they have ridiculous schedules where the manga writer has 2 hours of free time weekly and the animation studio rarely manages to meet their dead lines so they live stuff to get fixed in the blue ray. They aren't choosing to do that stuff, they have no alternative. And yes, cool stuff can come from those limitations, but you can't have those limitations and it's not the same when you pretend to have them. Try to write the best thing possible and cross your fingers.

And if you want to write for a team or at least another person keep a full portfolio with a variety of things so you can show around. Be friendly and go to places where your services might be welcomed.

>>5923937
In a similar vein modernism is actually many movements through a very long time. Even though there are general characteristics it's hard to unify impressionism and fordism.

Postmodernism is a complex response to the many facets of modernism, it's almost impposible to simplify because someone else will come with different interests or priorities and their focus will make it sound quite different while just caring more for other aspects.

As general as I can make it, it's about realizing that the meta stories are bullshit (the idea that communism, free market, catholicism, etc will eventually lead to a perfect world), instead most authors present pre-modern texts and non european societies as examples of how history (and all the human constructions that appeared through it from society or text to gender roles or markets) is a constantly changing construction than can be dissected and analyze with a kind of depth that is inherently resulting of the modernist focus on registers and cross examination.

Did I do good? Did I fuck it? I'm sure someone else will correct me.

>>5922510
Why would you recommend a dual language book to someone posting in spanish?

>>5922414
Even more considering that they probably cared for him anyway, they did give him sheep without asking questions when one of them had just 3 sheep to sustain his family.

Qué recomendarías a alguien que está buscando tener un entendimiento general de la poesía española a lo largo del tiempo?

Because young people write YA and they have wikipedia to lack for their lack of name ideas unlike people like Dickes who had to work with what he could come up with.

>>5919377
And he would had never known if he didn't read the introduction. Most of the time it's wise to read the translator's notes.

>>5919067
>Mari Yaguchi
How are you so sure a pop idol would write like that?

>>5919067
>ryotaro shiba
http://www.boekendingen.nl/wp-nieuws/?p=4794

Those aren't all that impressive, it's almost 50% superlatives and it could have a better structure (in the first one he dedicates the second paragraph to the synopsis and the awards, for example).
Just read, read better stuff than what you expect to write. Look around for some Barthes.

>>5919188
>one has to imagine that Sisyphus is happy
>one has to imagine he works for a cutesy cat

>>5919112
Actually it's part of the first division out of /r9k/ since it was one of the main topics the board dealt with and 7chan also had one. It was more of a priority than /adv/ and /soc/. Arcanine used to be cool.

the pic isn't horizontal enough for you to be VTP

>>5919010
Marx since he's the most influential post-Hegelian. But you won't impress her, your wikipedia knowledge won't be new to her at any point. You could try to learn more to hold a decent and insightful conversation with her. It will take time, though.