/lit/ - Literature

>>22548185
Ambrose Bierce is great. Read An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.

>>22453760
I read An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge again a couple days ago along with a rewatch of the 1962 film adaptation. Both are so incredible, but in different ways. And knowing that it's a French film always fills me with American pride. Yes, adapt our stories, Frenchies.

Why isn't he required reading for American highschoolers?

The most anal writer about proper English in history (see “A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults”), invented the typographical smilie. How do we feel about this?

What's the /lit/ verdict? Should I get his collected works?

Ambrose Bierce on Wilde
>The limpid and spiritless vacuity of this intellectual jellyfish is in ludicrous contrast with the rude but robust mental activities he came to quicken and inspire. Not only has he no thoughts, but no thinker. His lecture is mere verbal ditch-water — meaningless, trite and without coherence. It lacks even the nastiness that exalts and refines his verse. Moreover, it is obviously his own; he had not even the energy and independence to steal it. And so, with a knowledge that would equip an idiot to dispute with a cast-iron dog, an eloquence to qualify him for the duties of caller on a hog-ranch, and imagination adequate to the conception of a tomcat when fired by contemplation of a fiddle-string, this consummate and star-like youth, missing everywhere his heaven-appointed functions and offices, wanders about, posing as a statue of himself, and, like the sun-smitten image of Memnon, emitting meaningless murmurs in the blaze of women's eyes. He makes me tired.

>>21441992
based Bierce

>A Man Running for Office was overtaken by Lightning.
"You see," said the Lightning, as it crept past him inch by inch, "I can travel considerably faster than you."
>"Yes," the Man Running for Office replied, "but think how much longer I keep going!"
This is supposed to be a joke. What did Ambrose Bierce mean by this?

considered by some scholars to be the greatest American writer of all time - but he is unknown to the mainstream, why?

>one of the most diverse author in American Literature
>influenced both Lovecraft and Hemingway
>dissapeard in Mexico in 1914
How come nobody talks about Ambrose Bierce?

thoughts on him? is he the real patrician's horror writer?

Great writer, passion in everything he writes, and it comes from real experience. God-tier comfy core too depending how you view it. Anyone else read Bierce?

>A bullet had clipped a groove in his skull above the temple; from this the brain protruded in bosses, dropping off in flakes and strings. I had not previously known one could get on, even in this unsatisfactory fashion, with so little brain. One of my men whom I knew for a womanish fellow, asked if he should put his bayonet through him. Inexpressibly shocked by the cold-blooded proposal, I told him I thought not; it was unusual, and too many were looking.

What /lit/ can tell me about this guy? what's /lit/'s opinion?

>>7296890
it's something about the stache