/lit/ - Literature

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>My difficulty, however, is that not all the readers to whom I talk in this or other classes are experienced. A good third, I should say, do not know the difference between real literature and pseudo-literature, and to such readers Dostoevski may seem more important and more artistic than such trash as our American historical novels or things called From Here to Eternity and such like balderdash. However, I shall speak at length about a number of really great artists—and it is on this high level that Dostoevski is to be criticized. I am too little of an academic professor to teach subjects that I dislike. I am very eager to debunk Dostoevski. But I realize that readers who have not read much may be puzzled by the set of values implied.

holy shit Nabokov just BTFO'd shitski. Was he right?

>>14471036
Seeing those fat jailbait tits flop around on screen was a highlight of high school.

> I wouldn’t even call her a BBW, just a BW…BIG WOMAN!


bretty good

>>12565581
This unironically

"The associative sense of the Russian nozhki (conjuring a pair of small, elegant, high-instepped, slender-ankled lady's feet) is a shade tenderer than the French petits poids; it has not the stodginess of the English 'foot,' large or small, or the mawkishness of the German Fuesschen" (vol. 2, p. 115).

Is it possible for someone to be equally captivating on talking, as much as writing? We don't talk the way we write, so what might be great to read on paper might not be on voice.

What is /lit/'s top three?

Mine are:
1) Vladimir Nabokov (which is interesting, given that English wasn't his first language);
2) James Joyce;
3) Cormac McCarthy.

Plot is next-to irrelevant. A good prose-stylist can make ordering from Taco Bell sound interesting.

Honorary English-translation author goes to Friedrich Nietzsche.

>(But this transparent thingum does require
>Some moondrop title. Help me, Will! Pale Fire.)
wdhmbt

Is it generally accepted that Nabokov is a pedo?

>>7362682
Was Nabokov aware that he was the most patrician man of all time?

Also, I just started Invitation to a Beheading today. It's pretty great so far.

Was Nabokov aware that he was the most patrician man of all time?

>people actually pronounce it nuh-BAAW-kawwv

Don Quixote. A cruel and crude old book.

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