/lit/ - Literature

The more I read about him, the more I find him to be a completely insufferable person. I feel the same way about countless other 90s figures

>>20565906
I don't think I've ever seen less than 3 Nietzsche threads in the catalog at any one time, and this despite the fact this board is entirely full of either Communist or Christian larpers both of which while completely anathema to Nietzsche seem to be wholly obsessed with him. It is truly strange to behold until you actually bother to read some of these threads and realize no one here actually reads and most posters genuinely understand Nietzsche worse than those who have never heard of him, the excellent posts in this very thread demonstrate as much.

>>19719849
zelazny is so mediocre i truly i dont understand why hes praised. I guess compared to sanderson hes a genius but is that really the standard genre fiction goes by? (it is)

I left this board in 2017. Tell me how things have been going. Do you still vote yearly charts? I’ve noticed that a certain namefriend is still here. Who are the new meme writers? Hylics need not reply

>tfw burning with the desire to write poetry
>have never written anything before, 30 year old mook that I am
This is a terrifying swell within me, passion with channels and the inevitable revelation that I have neither the talent to tell nor anything worth speaking in songs I presume to sing.

Is it cowardice to presuppose mediocrity spare oneself the creative pangs of purpose?

>>17778981
>>17778999
Imagine reading this vulgarian and calling it literature. Art is meant to elevate, not to distract or indulge in filth and sickness. The French only ever produce the latter and seek to conflate it with the body of good and true works, more and more I view them as a blight upon the world. In fact I am hard pressed to think of a single French author who doesn't revel in this described depravity, who rejoices in the contagion of their sickness and who creates only to destroy.

>"Of course she might have loved him just for a minute, when they were first married--and loved me more even then, do you see?"
>Suddenly he came out with a curious remark.
>In any case," he said, "it was just personal."
What in the ever loving fuck did he mean by this? My Professor insists that the entirety of understanding Gatsby comes together in this remark. I don't get it.

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>>16265084
extremely based, i liked black company, especially before they went south. Godspeaker sounds good too. The type of books I like are ones with a decent amount of magical action and a bit of edginess. I also read a lot of wuxiashit so as long as theres cool magic fights ill probably be happy.

If you have any comfy magic powering up type books that I havent read id probably like them. Brent Weeks is a good example of the kind of trashy stuff I like, especially the prism series even though i know its trash. I think the most important factor in my liking a book is that it doesnt feel really YA or anime-y as sandersons works do. If it doesnt feel like any of the characters are at risk of getting to raped to death by goblins a la prince of nothing the whole narrative usually doesnt hold my interest. Thanks for the recs again.

he lives on in every copy of Hamlet

>>15183102
If its part of the canon, read it.

>people actually like T.S. Eliot
I will never understand this, the only thing remarkable about his works is how they manage to be so vulgar and so pretentious at the same time.

>>14633175
>anon, you just posted cringe bro...

>MUH SHAKESPEARE

ITT: the school of resentment

Read the canon.

>>14329646
NA thinks that liberal arts are racist and sexist and homophobic, so instead of Shakespeare and Homer kids get to study tranny-lit instead

>>14082751
>historicism
oh no my dear

>>14050805
>May the Bard bless you my dear

>>13994046
>For Shinji is not, like the Sweet Danish Prince, a master ironist who steals the quill from his author's hands and writes his own play; rather the boy resigns his will to the sadistic never ending flow of the penstrokes. Here Evangelion is most distinctly haunted by Kafka, that Writer-Trickster herald of Anxiety, surely the most original of all major twentieth century writers, leaving aside Stevens at his most Apocalyptic. And it is with Apocalypse that this Great Work is primarily occupied. Not the Apocalypse of the Book of Revelation, which so influenced the inimitable Dante, but the Apocalypse of Freud. Freud, more prophet than physician, invented the metaphor of the libido, (which, like all metaphors, is partly a deception), the particular energy that fuels sexual desire and our Will to Live. Its antithesis, Thanatos, the death drive, is a concept that Freud entertained but feared too much to explore. The former can be witnessed within Evangelion in the radiant image of fiery-headed Asuka, a forceful figure of femininity, the adolescent poetic heir to Shakespeare's fearsome Cleopatra. Like her Egyptian foremother, Asuka's rage is a channel for her delight in the world's splendour and ugliness. She is one who rises to meet life and gleefully returns its scorn when the time calls for it. She steals the narrative from under the nose of her opposing force, Shinji, squire of Thanatos, and fashions her own place within it, becoming the self proclaimed protagonist of a story never told.
>Alas, her creator is no Shakespeare: Sad Anno cannot contain a universe within himself and so cannot conceal himself from our gaze . He, like my dear Hart Crane, has sounded his Whitmanesque yawp out into the void and found its echo slight and wanting. His failure is his clay, from which he has fashioned his Monument to the New Century.

I started with Woodcutters

Why is "read" the same word present and past tense?

Is it worth reading Bloom if I've barelt dipped a toe into the canon?

>>12531162
the school of resentment strikes again