/lit/ - Literature

Step it up /lit/, all I see is babby plebs reading genre fiction here.

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>>5442588
Hate to be 'cliche'......but this book made me see things I never knew existed in literature.

Hi /lit/,

I'm taking a short fiction writing class in college and haven't taken any other english classes. I took it for fun, and write a bit and so want to improve my writing. But the thing is, I read a lot of older books, like 1800's stuff. I think the newest stuff I've read was Pnin, Lolita, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, and some other stuff, well the point being I'm not as familiar with modernism as I am with more traditional routes of story telling.

But the first story we critiqued appeared to be a modernist piece, and I couldn't help with his vision as much as I wanted to, and could only think of things like plot or characters to improve it and get his message across better. As it were it seemed to me a bunch of ramblings that weren't really coherent, and I mean I've read notes from underground, it's rambling, but it also has clear characters and clear motives

But it's not modernist.

How do I critique modernism, where all rules are out the window? Like when I watch Weekend, I see it as modernist, and there's all this shit that happens out of nowhere, and it's commenting on the random chance of life, I get that, but again I haven't actually read a lot of it

So what are some good modernist works (short stories would be best so I can read them before the next critique) to get me acquainted with it a bit better and also in general how do you critique something that has no boundaries