/lit/ - Literature

>>7441918
>Thankfully, they can be skipped without losing any of the plot, really.
This is it, this is current /lit/.
How should we feel?

>not first or second Maccabes
>not the most bloody, violent, war-filled generational tale in the entire bible
>not the stories of heroism and bravery including where a dude precedes Legolas by a few thousand years and kills a fuckin elephant on his own

You plebs, I swear.

It's in the Catholic version

>Even though it is a novella, I kept wondering when it would be over. The main character could literally blow away, and I only know he was a character because he had all these things attached to him. He was more like a fence that collects themes, traits and ridiculous philosophizings like windblown garbage than he was like a person. If it'd been Bellow's first book, we wouldn't know who he is.