/lit/ - Literature

>>19638245
Based high performance fags

>>18799047
Then we're agreed.

Can't say if he was the greatest but I sure love his work.

>>17953981
>I'm reading a century old Finnish translation which is in Homeric metre. Pretty hard.
My swedish translation is also a little over a century old and in dactylic hexameter. It's the epic form; anything else would be cheating.

>>17892241
Keep going, anon.

>>16250443
I like the comma. Sometimes I indulge and use a semi-colon.

>>16138468
Good luck, anon. It's a brilliant book! I'm not reading it in english myself, and I don't mean to stoke the autistic translation fire of /lit/, but I have heard many times over that the Moncrieff-Scott translation is a work of art on its own.

>>15264655
Novels are the best form of literature and short stories are just very short novels.

I accuse them of obscurantist elitism and call whatever it is they do banal

>>13823901
No problem, anon. Corpses are far less interesting, and scary, than people think they are.

>have you ever seen a dead body?
>UUUUUUUUUUUH

I watched Das Boot last night and now I am obsessed with submarines.

>>12288664
Moberg was one of the working-class autodidacts alongside people like Harry Martinson, so yes, he quite literally was a plebeian author.

nigger loving kike that supports white genocide, not based at all

>>12006710
>That's how we end up with people here praising Pope's and Fagles' Homer, for example.
Everyone knows the dopest translation of Homer was done by the swede Erland Lagerlöf.