/lit/ - Literature

>and don't have to worry about being harassed at night

>>22637634

>leftist writes about honor, love and family values

>studying literature

>>22282663
>Perhaps you could just trust me on this one

>>22122085
>Beyond hunger

ITT: /lit/ funnies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmKEltYUy6k

>>22029380
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe, monsieur?

Every character you meet in the story turns up again, hundreds of miles away, to reveal that they are someone else and have been secretly controlling the action of the plot. It feels like the entire world is populated by about fifteen people who follow the narrator around wherever he goes. If the next two books continue along the same lines, then the big reveal will be that the world is entirely populated by no more than three superpowered shapeshifters.

Everyone in the book has secret identities, secret connections to grand conspiracies, and important plot elements that they conveniently hide until the last minute, only doling out clues here and there. There are no normal people in this world, only double agents and kings in disguise. Every analysis I've read of this book mentions that even the narrator is unreliable.

This can be an effective technique, but in combination with a world of infinite, unpredictable intrigue, Wolfe's story begins to evoke something between a soap opera and a convoluted mystery novel, relying on impossible and contradictory scenarios to mislead the audience. Apparently, this is the thing his fans most appreciate about him—I find it to be an insulting and artificial game.

There is simply not enough structure to the story to make the narrator's unreliability meaningful. In order for unreliable narration to be effective, there must be some clear and evident counter-story that undermines it. Without that, it is not possible to determine meaning, because there's nowhere to start: everything is equally shaky.

At that point, it's just a trick—adding complexity to the surface of the story without actually producing any new meaning. I know most sci-fi and fantasy authors seem to love complexity for its own sake, but it's a cardinal sin of storytelling: don't add something into your story unless it needs to be there. Covering the story with a lot of vagaries and noise may impress some, but won't stand up to careful reading.

>>21791365
>Nietzsche is Indonesian

>>21559899

Because capitalism is a train without brakes and we all know in the pit of our stomachs that not enough will change before the century is out, and the mega rich will bunker down in New Zealand while the rest of us won't be able to farm outdoors.

At this point, contributing to the human race feels like trying to hoist the mast on a sinking ship. It gets more obvious every passing year.

>>21501552
>a writer who I know has been criticized in the past for writing in this style in the past so I was guess I was hoping he might have grown past it
Holy shit, do people even read what they write?

Trying out for the first time
This cringy shit of poetry.
Here's already the third line
Take your time, there's no hurry.

>>21397701
my sides

>>21331987
>>21331963
>autistic blank canvas hero with plot-armor and powers that surpass everyone
>does whatever he wants without major repercussions
Nice moral lesson.

>>20761891
He can't write because Trump. Who cares at this point? I never read his books anyways and the guy looks like your typical fat bugman who grew a beard. I guess, if his beard had more white strikes and the guy would tan himself brown he'd look like a budget Achamian.

>>20498654
Still not reading it.
>Who asked?
I asked.
>Not my problem.
I accept your defeat.

>>20466249
>>20466253
Still, I am perplexed that someone will read garbage like this. It seems comical, nothing else. Stats?! Jesus Christ.

>>20329959
Based
>>20329991
Based
>>20330009
Cringe kid

>>19953581
>I'm calling you out for the fairy beta bitch you are for thinking this tactic is viable
Well of fucking course you don't think it's a viable tactic, probably because you're a seething zoomer incel who's too pussy to even go about talking to a girl IRL (let alone approach one), and you've basically taken everything I've said way too personally because it hit a little too close to home for you, lmao.

Now here's another pic of an animated frog.

>>19950543
>he listens to a bunch of academic fart-smelling incel music
lol what a loser

>>19949576
>>19949647
OH NO NO NO NO

>>19942487
Look at this sad incel! Point at him and laugh!

>>19915324
>this is the kind of pretentious garbage /lit/tards jerk themselves off to
James Joyce really was a world-class shitposter.

>I love you more than Hegel and Satre
Fucking kek I love YOU faggots