/lit/ - Literature

>>12938371
>it takes courage and vulnerability to unironically write about happiness and good people, at least for literary writers
That's deep anon, I'll put that in my essay

>>12513466
Goofing up on my trip is what I get for phoneposting.

What is "bad philosophy"? (pic unrelated)

Does anyone have Ralph Matlaw's revision of Garnett's Notes From Underground?
If so can you post a pic of the first pic, I want to see how they translate the 'I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man.' passage

Can anyone recommend some really good /lit/ interviews? I know pic related is a meme but the actual interview was really interesting

Has anyone ever had a /lit/ professor that they just couldn't stand? I've only had one, but he was a bad one.
>Have guy for pre-Civil War American lit
>His doctoral area was "literature & social justice"
>has us read Hope Leslie (which is shit btw)
>he talks about how it was incredibly successful but those ebil academics don't want you to know that
>we get to Poe later in the semester
>he argues that, because Poe was not an abolitionist, the orangutan was a black man

20

>DFW
>Dostoevsky
>Huxley
>Camus

All I got. Rec me more based on those?

dave.. easy on the footnotes

>let me just read some casual 20 pages of IJ real quick
>middleway through it, come across a note
>specifically note 110
>note is 20 fucking pages long

pictured

what are some other authors/books similar to ulysses? that are long, complex, 'complicated', but still beautiful, genius and greatly rewarding books (preferably modernist/postmodernist)? I am a bit scared that I won't ever find a book that will have such a great effect on my as ulysses did.

*other than finnegans wake and pinecone, please

(am going to start IJ today)

>>6884696
based dfw has no cringy photos

>“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?”

>Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge can put them in the right place.

>I say things like, "to the library and step on it

post your face when you realized everyone is just a massive pleb pretending they're not

>>6621270

>tfw you realize you left the house without your bandana

>>6518627
Is that why he had no talent?

>>6510454
>$50,000
>mfw my university is ranked significantly higher than this and it cost like $5k/y

What the fuck man

>>6503488
>be me
>taking AP literature test
>do everything perfectly, write some of the best essays i've ever written in my life
>know im going to get a perfect score
>two months later waiting for results and they lost everyone's test

motherfuckers

>Go to /lit/
>Everyone says to read DFW
>Buy all his books
>Browse /lit/ some more, suddenly realize he is hated far more than he is liked
>No discernible talent
>I can't even enjoy any of these books now
>mfw

>>6484861
I agree with you for the most part m8 but why are you saying it like you're a wizard

>tfw you take qt girls into the stacks of your university library and lick their pussies and asses
>tfw mysterious library cuck

>yfw he tries to convince you analytic philosophy is more meaningful when it mostly glosses over the humanities as opposed to continental philosophy which uses it for inspiration