/lit/ - Literature

>>7559592
I do what I can, anon

>>7559584
I do what I can, anon

>>7556213
Always wanted to go to Ireland. I feel that your history of troubles with GB makes you honorary latin americans our us honorary irishpeople.

>>7531284
you're welcome

Mh... right now I'm not at home and can't really look around to see. Some generic recs would be:
>Anything by Einsestein
Although has last book is undoubtedly the best. He pretty much figured out everything you can do with montage and had an incredibly expanding vision of audiovisula narrative way ahead of his time. He was about to do a film version of Ulysses before he lost his eyesight (and Stalin's interest) and he got to take acid with Joyce. That alone should make him a /lit/ hero
>Sculpting time
On the other hand, Tarkovsky explored everything you could do with a single shot. It's pretty interesting and will help you see how film relates to other arts.
>that hitchcock interview book by truffaut
It pretends to be an interview but it's pretty much a history of how both of them worked the medium, cool stories and interesting points of view.
>that book by bazin oh god my memory sucks
Bazin pretty much invented film criticism, the different ways you can deconstruct each item and compare it to others. It's a bit dated but it's a very important first step into being able to translate to concepts everything you see.
>Audiovision
The first and best book about sound in film, it will help you realize how present and varied sound is and the different uses it can have.

I'm very sorry, I'm sure that there are extensive threads about this in warosu.

>>7277083
tripfriends and avatarfags are trash.

>>6909155
Some people would include Bazin too, first time I read him I found it comically outdated and limited, but his later works have some very good insight. If you happen to pass by any Cahiers du Cinema give them a chance, it's a mixed bag of entry level and needlessly obtuse stuff that might or not interest you. General History of Cinema by Jean Freiburg is pretty interesting too.

If you want something more anecdotal you have Hitchcock by Truffaut that shouldn't be seen as more than a series of rants exchanged between a young idealist and a worn out old man who has done it all and the world wouldn't thank him for it. Also How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood And Never Lost A Dime, Roger Corman's autobiography, is very funny and has tons of pretty realistic experiences in sets.

>How old are you?
25
>How'd you discover 4chan and/or /lit/?
4chan thorugh epic memes and word of mouth about being the worst place in the internet. I was already here when arcanine got split into other boards and /lit/ was my main reason to visit it so it came natural to remain here.

>Do you have any serious literary aspirations?
I'd like my work to be really good and I'd love to get published. I don't work enough on it to call it serious, though.

>If you use the critique threads how much weight do you give anons' critiques?
Gaiman once said that you should always listen when people tell you that something doesn't work but never listed to how they think it should be.

>When and why did you become a serious reader?
Mh... maybe when I was a teen. I'm not one of those 50+ books a year guys so I'm not the most serious reader.

>Who's your favorite author and/or greatest influence?
I don't have a favorite, I like different people for different reasons. Right now I'd guess that what I'm doing is pretty on Philip Dick's dick, but I'd rather be closer to other authors if I could.

>What's your favorite work of literature?
Again, there is no favorite since the things I like can't really be compared.
I find El Que Tiene Sed one of the most powerful novels from my country I've read, today I was reminded of how awesome and strangely poetic Storms of Steel is, and Big Sur has a special place since it help me better deal with my feelings for my father.

>What's your favorite literary movement?
What's the name of that modern realism thing Carver was on? I really like that dry style.

>Which other boards do you browse on a regular basis?
/m/, /lit/ and /lgbt/

>How do you take your coffee and/or tea?
Coffe blakc no sugar, tea with sugar maybe milk if I'm in the mood but it's not for everyday.
I mostly drink mate though.

>>6682246
Puking is horrible before you start, and as you go you start feeling that it wasn't as bad as you imagined and that you feel better through it at least. You can't stop even if you want to, if you just let go it will be fast and less painful.
Afterwards, when the legs as shaky and you're covered in sweat, you feel the silent validation of someone who went through suffering and is now satisfied.
Writing is just like that.

>>6495679
Feminism, like any identity politic, is a way to divide the mass and distract them from their potential to overthrow the system. Carl Schmitt even wrote how important doing that was back in the 30's so people would tolerate fascist states, and it can be applied to any kind of state.

>>6435155
Dead of the author is a tool among others, it just means that you shouldn't take the authors opinion as a final word, something that a ton of idiots do.
Implying that you can't take information from other works, context and declarations of the author is just hurting your own interpretation.

>>6435175
You're saying that authorial intent is the same as the argumentation the text have. That's pretty dumb, friend.

>>6414640
La vida es dificil, lindo.
Cuando haya un hilo de /ñ/ posteá un pastebin con tus cosas y prometo un critique and comment, bueno?

The concept of "postmodern literature" goes against postmodern theory, since its a critical theory and not a particularly constructive one.
A lot of people think that vanguards like surrealism or dada are postmodern but not only did they come before but the spirit they represent (change and evolution, breaking through the present into what should be reality) is clearly modernist (they carry metanarratives)

The Work of Art in the Time of Mechanical Reproduction.

>>6358820
I loled.
I still wonder where your obsession with me comes. I'm not even a prominent poster, I could switch images and I wouldn't even have some sort of e-reputation to recover.

>>6339429
No, we're very normal stereotypes.

>>6315481
Argentina here

You learn that pride is for dumb people and move on. It's about what you do, not ow you think you look doing it.

>>6212435
I love you Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ.

There is no good or bad prose, you don't win or lose prose. Many things make up a particular prose and you might like them more than others, they may be very poor or overused or cheap or evident in their intent; but there's no perfect mix to make it good or bad.

>>6055567
>there are more standards nowadays
There are more sets of standards, undoubtedly. More scales demanded too, since there are more works to force into them. I'm not sure people would be as adamant in their ideas as they used to be, though, so in that regard some standards are laxer (like eating etiquette or how you regarded old people).

>>6055594
You pardon mine, we're more than even.

>>6010423
that's not how you spell avatarfag

>>5958818
I had a really long post and accidentaly erased it.
I just have a few notes and snippets with me since it's summer break here, but you should check On the Fetish-character in music and the Regression of Listening if you haven't. I believe that's where someone might get that he didn't like jazz, he discusses cultural industry and how that forces a certain homogeneization that takes away any strenght art has.

You might also want to check Dialectic of Enlightment by our good Adorno and his pal Horkheimer. That texts goes in deatil about why he sees the marketization of art as a huge problem.

Hope some of that helps! Please post anything interesting you find.

>>5791441
Try to make that twice as long. If you want to show off you have to show off, if you rush it you make it look as if you were just trying to obscure your ideas. Even if you want a clear aesthetic intention you should remember that the point is communication.

Does that make sense or did I miss read your work?