/lit/ - Literature

>>19308458
You're an idiot

>>19301256

>>19268539
It's kino of the highest order. Just keep in mind that every single detail means something and Wolfe obfuscates with his word usage. Good luck.

Do you guys have any good wallpapers or art from the Book of the New Sun? There sadly seems to be virtually nothing on deviant art or google images related to this masterpiece, and I really wanted a good wallpaper from it. Pic related is the only decent one I've found.

>>8750718

>>6419792
P.S.

>You have to give David Foster Wallace some credit – he was better at making his fans bash themselves than any other writer of the Pynchon school. His magnum opus, Infinite Jest, is a 1000-page novel full of intestinally-shaped sentences and fine-print notes on calculus, organic chemistry and VCR programming. Normally, when a book like that comes out, people realise its purpose right away: terrorising B.A. students into meek submission. Wallace, however, found a very shrewd way to counter this by pretending that his work was really “a late-night conversation with really good friends, when the bullshit stops and the masks come off.” So instead of menacing the reader in the old Joycean way, Wallace chums it up whenever the technical stuff appears, acting like he really doesn’t mean to discourage anyone. Swapping lecture theatre dread for tutorial group paternalism – that’s the aesthetic in a nutshell. (And even if he IS being dense on purpose, it’s all for our own good of course.)

Face it, Gene Wolfe's novels are quite dense. But at least they don't have these fucking notations.

Also Umberto Eco's multi-layered novels.

>>6417328
>2015
>still not realizing that Book of the New Sun is the Ulysses of sci-fi

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>>5058998
That's fan-art, right? It's not an actual cover? Please tell me it's not.

I really like Gene Wolfe, especially New Sun. What should I read after him? Is Borges good? Chesterton?