/lit/ - Literature

No

but why?

CAMUS IS SUCH A FUCKINNG HACK WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE HIS BULLSHIT ITS SO FUCKING BAD

What's his reaction right now?

>>8609951
>Pseudo.
>Esque.

After hearing an interview with the world's most wonderful windbag I've decided to memorize a work from the western canon. Right now I'm thinking Paradise Lost, but I'm not certain. I want your opinion. What work should I commit to memory?

Disagree with Harold Bloom on some point in this thread.

>tfw someone deleted your hot DFW x harold bloom BDSM fanfic

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>>8559032
>paying £3 for a book you could get in a charity shop in the same condition for 99p and talk to the shopkeeper about the book

>>8555793
>SJW in academia is a boogeyman

Has this man made any comments on popular literature of the 10's?

>>8550614
>show a modicum of intelligence raising you above the herdmasses
>"m-muh you must be fun at parties! h-heh, time to go waste my bottomfeeder life rubbing against women's asses and doing cheap designer drugs as the strobe lights put me into an hypnotic trance..."

>>8546627

Harold Bloom, professor of literature and author of the western canon, shook his delightfully provocative rump.

Round and and round it spun,
buttocks clasped and splayed
by his arthritic phalanges, fully exhibiting its tufted liver spots.

"Dance for us, Bloomie, Dance for us, chum," the youthful lads laughed. Harold's cellulose-filled, hemorrhoid-riddled ass wobbled as he gyrated his increasingly accelerating hips.

>reads harry potter once

Why does he always look so fucking sad?

Does constantly defending the canon from the onslaught of Harry Potter and Stephen King novels take this much out of you?

I started reading lit ever since I found this board and it has made me depressed even more than what I was before. Is this a good sign?

The last five books i've read have been:
Infinite Jest
The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
Stoner
All Quiet on the Western Front

>mfw plebs in this thread blog about reading books "for moral instruction"

Divine kek.

As I Lay Dying.
Bits and pieces of the Gospels.
Moby Dick. Kids should at least read an abridged version.
Hamlet.
And one famous piece of literature from your own country to round out the list.

>JAG: And then you overrate Dickens.
>HB: Oh no. No, no, no. How can you overrate a writer of that fecundity and power? Dickens is as cióse to a novelist of the stature of a Cervantes that you can find in English. Dickens is the major novelist of the English language, surpassing Henry James, surpassing even George Eliot.

>it's a DFW plays a trick on his grumpy old man neighbour Bloom episode

>In The Western Canon (1994), Harold Bloom criticized Thus Spoke Zarathustra, calling the book "a gorgeous disaster" and "unreadable".

Why do bazinga-tier New York Magazine-style lefties hate this guy? Is it because he is actually patrician and talks about high culture rather than memes like slam poetry?

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