/lit/ - Literature

I've never posted my writing before, but it's something I've been wanting to do for a while. This was something I wrote on a whim around the random topic of learning languages. It's short, however, I think it's enough to get some feedback on bits that others find better potential for.

“That’s it, I’ve had enough” – he had cried the previous night. However, here he was, brushing along his textbook’s fourth chapter expecting to develop an understanding of a language that sounded as strong as his temper towards studying. Each morning would be the same; his timetable dictated an hour-long German lesson upon his three (and two-thirds) legged chair face first into the day’s vocabulary. Pronouncing vowels and umlauts in a fashion akin to stuttered slurring, he thought back to the coffee that had promised him sufficient energy to pull through. Regardless, spelling ‘kaffee’ with one ‘e’ and the misplacement of an umlaut was the last straw. “That is it, I’ve had enough” thundered the man in an unconscious attempt to break his routine – even if it was just one additional word.

>>16267635
If you have never seen that image before, go back to your fedditsub. Again, (a) it's not my post, and (b) you haven't even read any bio of your big idol? dumb fuck

>>16216603
>national character
spooky

>it groups together wildly different countries, assuming they are all alike.
Good to know you assume the different regions of France are all alike, then.
To profess a canon is not about everything being the same, it's about shared historical trajectories, reciprocal inspiration and influence, and a sense of tradition and belonging, not flat-lined homogeneity.

>>8749806
This desu

>>8749761
I haven't read it yet but Korea: Division, Reunification, and US Foreign Policy by Hart-Landsberg may be of assistance.

>>7927058
Basically. Or, winners of major award like the National Book Award or PEN/Faulkner are usually worth checking out (but not the pulitzer which is a fucking joke). Recipients of MacArthur fellowships too.

What's on your reading list for 2016, /lit/? Here's mine:

The sound and the fury
Mason & Dixon
The Ghostwriter
Phenomenology of the Spirit
Absalom, Absalom!
Being & Nothingness
Carpenter's Gothic
A Frolic of his own
Tropic of Cancer
The Book of Disquiet
Rabbit, Run
Faust
V
Libra
Zero K
Murphy
The Sailor who fell from grace with the Sea
Pale Fire
The Elementary Particles
Soumission
Sabbath's Theater
The Decay of the Angel
Revolutionary Road
A Naked Singularity
Behead All Satans

Thoughts?

>>7359901
I like it anon

>>6748043
Yes, OP, I personally recommend this one.