/lit/ - Literature

>>6023664
No?
I'm reading some Pynchon and Faulkner at the current moment.
Going to school
working part time
partying every weekend
slamming puss on the reg
going to my favorite sporting events most weekends
playing the vidya
going out drinking with friends
every week
reading doesnt have to make you a recluse

Ulysses was an insufferable read.
I basically got through it just to say "I read Ulysses" at the end of it.
It's a book about books. It's impossible to enjoy unless you are well-read. You might see that as pointlessly elitist. There is some justification for it though: at that time (the period know as "Modernism" / "the Modernist period") authors were becoming increasingly aware of the history of literature from all cultures. One of the defining features of Modernism is its syncretism (its meshing of different beliefs and cultures). Therefore, Ulysses is seen as a great "modernist text" because of how its literary form combines so many elements of past cultures into a whole, thus it stands as a symbol for modernity.

p.s. I haven't enjoyed this book and never will because I always found this great project of syncretism dull. But that's why it is appreciated by the critics (I think).


Also
Naked Lunch
Blood Meridian
Journey to the end of the night

these 3 were recommended to me by lit and I hated them all