/lit/ - Literature

>>9543057

>>9504426

>>9398936
>Christian themes
>In McCarthy

>>9333708
The role of bug collecting in Woman in the Dunes is aping science and its inability to understand the world, especially the world of human society. It has nothing in common with Nabokov at all except for that fact that Nabokov collects butterflies. Note that the main character in Dunes makes fun of people who only collect pretty insects like butterflies. We might as well compare the character to Hemingway because they both had two legs. They is only incidentally related.

>mfw I memorize all 500 pages of Paradise Lost

How come the best i.e. non-spooky and pragmatic parts of stoicism and epicureanism were never really developed upon philosophically? You know... the ENTIRE reason why people even see value in authors like Epictetus, that thing about personal ethics. attaining peace of mind etc. WITHOUT the damn metaphysics you'll see the next two thousand years? Really scruffles my jimbos desu.

inb4 "practical philosopher" Aristotle and theists shit up the thread anyway.
inb4 neetcheesies

>>9197678
>I hate the long sentences in this book. Everything is like "and x rode on through town x and did x and saw x and went through x doing x and and and and and..."
>I also don't like Faulkner who does the same thing in many books
>I think DFW has better prose than Faulkner

Can we ban philosophy threads to /his/ already?
I'm having to go to page three to fine a single thread about actual literature

>>9143204
>Don't touch American Pastoral, whatever you do

"Well, we have four living writers in America who have, in one way or another, touched what I would call the sublime. They are McCarthy, of course, with Blood Meridian; Philip Roth, particularly with two extraordinary novels, the very savage Sabbath’s Theater and American Pastoral, which I mentioned before; Don DeLillo’s Underworld, which is a little long for what it does but nevertheless is the culmination of what Don can do; and, of course, the mysterious figure of Mr. Pynchon."

>>9131486
>Stephen King
>Dan Brown
>Good reads
>Lovecraft is good
>Still in school
Bloom was right.

>>9124482
Everyday we move father from the light of God.

>>9100053
>zero k and not white noise or underworld
come again?

>>9076685
>He thinks Homer lived in 300 B.C
Why do I keep coming back here?

>>9049357

we also have finished Kappa by Akutagawa, Makioka Sisters by Tanizaki, and Wild Geese by Mori.

>>9041751

>>8992323
>Bach's sons
>Anything other than abominations onto the legacy of the father

>>8955536
>He's extremely dismissive of metaphysics
No he doesn't. What the hell is his conception of Will if not metaphysical?

Why doesn't he like DFW?

>>8951683

>>8925373
>People who think he is rubbish are all just insecure jerks
>That being said he is pretty rubbish

>>8924589
>He thinks modern philosophy is all materialism
This is as bad as the people who just assume that since they think morality isn't real the whole of academia agrees with them despite not actually knowing anything about contemporary philosophy.

>>8922738
>He thinks Catch-22 is anything other than a Ready Player One tier reddit book

>>8909773
>People on lit actually think this