/lit/ - Literature

Wouldn't it be better if everyone on the planet just learned one language from birth?

Sure, you could have your pet linga franca in your homecountry, but I think it would make for a more free and connected world if everyone learned English from birth.

you and me baby aint nothing but mammals
so lets do it like they do on the discovery channel

Racists, xenophobes, nationalists, homophobes, theists, and genre fiction readers are responsible for nearly every human-inflicted ill. It is necessary to combat them every single chance you get.

Nothing to do with literature, but I needed to say it.

>>2156446
And who is this i may ask? A bloody idiot who doesnt know two shits about kindly helping out a common fellow because of their alter ego? Fuck off, its the internet.
Please, bitch elsewhere if you are of no advise. Thank you.

>>1965673

no problem man, it's better you found out from me that if you called a czech a czechoslovakian to his face

also does Žižek count as Slovenian literature? How much of his stuff is translated from Slovenian?

>>1960654
It's cute that you were convinced, but it's bullshit. Go eat a cunt.

it's just ideologies, man. It's not their fault they were born into an islamic family/country,

Islam literally means 'submission'. The functioning of their ideology exhibits itself in ways which are antagonistic even to the relatively pacifist ideals of democracy and freedom.

Things like female circumcision, wearing clothes which are intimidating and lucidly symbolise female oppression, encouraging the view that western civilisation is decadent to young people, the failure of moderates to deal with extremist movements within the religion etc.

A big part of the problem is not only that the Islamic ideology still has a place for jihad, which makes it extremely difficult to subvert islamic violence against 'infidels' with scripture, but also the crucial fact that moderates are prevented from condemning other muslims, regardless of their destructive actions.

Getting the moderates to help attack the extremist aspects of Islam is the only answer to quelling the extremist threat.

>>1945757

definitely the nigga with the chalk at the top telling it like it is.

>>1881988

>>1833519
That's all based on personal preference. There's no way to factually declare one version better or not. They're just different.

Most people who still read literature over-analyze and think they're deepfags just because not as many people read as they used to.

None of you are special snowflakes. Stop shitting your pants over small trivial things that don't matter. Life will go smoother.

The Plague is my least favourite of his works, for L'Etranger is by far his best.

It seems strange to me how people are often so polarised between L'Etranger and The Plague, although I'm convinced it's something to do with the reader's personal taste rather than some philosophical disparity.

L'Etranger is probably my favourite book because it perfectly intwines the human and the philosophical.

The Plague felt more like a compromise between the two dimensions.

>>1760201

Ask a dyed in the wool theist if there is any argument or evidence you could present that would change their mind and make them stop believing in God.

9/10 they will say no.

This is the reason I no longer debate religious people.

>>1741693

>You seem to mistake a disregard for human life with a willingness to take it.


The two are intimately linked.

And you seem to be assuming that be executing people you are somehow protecting human life.

Really you are placing the absolutist idea of vengeance above human life, and that the value of someone's life someone's life is relative to how much respect you have for them personally.

Death is the ultimate confession that life is too much for you.

Persisting to find happiness in a world without meaning is the ultimate rebellion.

>>1706125

But when you start to idealise science as the ultimate 'cure' for the neurological, social and ultimately political issues of humanity, and you disregard other important things such as philosophy and art, that our perception of science as an idea is twisted into becoming a totality rather than an instrument of freedom and equality.

>>1706131

fuck you i'm enjoying this.

Yeah but it's just a really awkward, shitty way of saying it.

What is magical realism? I did search around a bit and I found some different opinions. Can /lit/ explain what magical realism is? Give some examples perhaps?

>>1654895

>healthy state of mind

I would say it was more of a disorder than an unhealthiness.

I'm still not convinced that love can be a purely natural or 'authentic' emotion and not a socialised expression of lust.

But if even if it is natural then I don't think children have sufficient depth of intelligence or individual character to be the object of such an intricate emotion, let alone express it themselves.

Whats the worst? What is the best, then?

This is the best literature board on the internet. U jelly?

>>1646429

>I never got any practical use out of a painting.

I'm not talking about the practical use of the painting itself, but our association with the art. Hanging a painting on a wall in your house is a practical choice because it's easy to see and you can enjoy it, and the fact that other people who come into your house and see it is incidental, and may give you some egotistical enjoyment but it's secondary to the locations primary function.

>>1646430

>Could you separate the sculpture from the medium? Probably not.

This is similar to my views on banksy's painting of the cows. In this sense the medium compliments the art, but the art does not serve to compliment the medium.

>>1637037

The movie very quickly abandoned any of the interesting sentiments present in the book and became a crass romance.

Some people like love stories, but Truman Capote's 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' is very far from that.

It's a social and philosophical deconstruction as gritty as Capote's tru-crime.

>>1632674

They can definitely be art, but because the graphics are just as -if not more- important as the words in conveying the messages I would rather say comic books are more of a cinematic art.

Hey guys.

So, I got a Kindle recently. Wonderful little piece of tech. However, I had a crippling addiction to paper books. I love having a physical library just as much as I love reading, and I fear that if I go down the rabbit hole (i.e., plug in to #bookz and start grabbing free shit for my Kindle), I'll never go back to buying paper.

Anyone else had this problem? What'd you do about it?