/lit/ - Literature

>>19658846
I'm italian and I read Blood Meridian in english, the almost total lack of knowledge of the various plant/animal/geography names definitely created a certain atmosphere of being an outsider on uncharted injun land. I have a C2 in English and know most of the vegetation/animals he mentioned, but only in Italian, not in English. I feel that those specific words are only picked up if you are a native speaker or interested in that field. Like, "vinegarroons" mentioned in the burning tree passage: american kids probably know what this is before elementary school, but I had absolutely no idea what the fuck a vinegarroon even is. A spider? A snake? An owl? So I had to look up every word like this and discover the american
desert word by word. I suspect americans also experience part of this "outsider" atmosphere with the spanish bits, which ironically were the most comprehensible parts to me, an italian. Also I had to keep a pdf with the translation by my side to help with some passages until I started getting familiar with his prose, also mostly to get through long descriptive passages with lots of unknown specific terminology.
A true spaghetti western kino experience.
>shillelagh
Cool word

So what did he do to the man in the outhouse?

Just read Blood Meridian for the first time, can anyone point me towards more villains / antagonists like The Judge? Something about his otherwordly-ness, and the *slow burn* in the readers revelations about his sinister character has really stuck with me, like in my dreams stuck with me. Not to mention the author's description of his physical strength, his omniscience and omnipresence.

>>16651863
He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

What fictional character landed the biggest, most personal impact on you and why?

Need to start my Thesis in June. What can I write about pic related?

Maybe compare it to Butcher's Crossing by John Williams ?

>>12082450
This. I suppose I just didn’t “get” it. The violence didn’t really shock me as expected and it was so common that it became pretty boring. I suppose that was the point, mindless violence, but it doesn’t make for an interesting read. Compared to American Psycho, where the way sex was tied into the violence and the way the books winds you up over and over to climax was so unnerving I didn’t want to finish it. Patrick Bateman was just the better character for it. That doesn’t make for a good read either but the deep sense of disgust it invoked was impressive. Generally though extreme violence is more interesting when it has a purpose and is significant to the plot and has some downtime inbetween to make it more significant. The endless landscape descriptions got pretty tiresome too after hearing them for the thousandth time with even more ridiculous thesaurus words.