/lit/ - Literature

>>22253590

>>12453471

>>9153734

diggin up an old meme just for you

>>7922803

>>6207995
>>6208001

>>4039547

>>4031428

>Can't get the title right

>Tarring an entire culture's intellectual output just because reading is hard

>>4013668

>>3995874

To me War and Peace is the greatest novel of all time, and maybe be the best book of all. Shakespeare, in my view, is greater than Tolstoy, but the wealth of his talent is more diffuse and scattered over a large number of statements, dialogues, speeches and scenes. Shakespeare is, by far , the greatest poet of all time, the greatest master of verbal manipulation. I'm with Nabokov when he says: "The verbal poetical texture of Shakespeare is the greatest the world has known, and is immensely more to the structure of his plays the plays."

I also like the early opinion of Tolstoy about art and literature: great wrtiting is not about ideas and phylosophy, but about life, about people, about nature. Here is Tolstoy:
"The aims of art are incommensurate (as the mathematicians say) with social aims. The aim of an artist is not to solve a problem irrefutably, but to make people love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations. If I were told that I could write a novel whereby I might irrefutably establish what seemed to me the correct point of view on all social problems, I would not devote two hours to such a novel; but if I were told that what I should write would be read in about twenty years' time by those who are now children and that they would laugh and cry over it and love life, I would devote all my own life all my energies to it."

>>3299542

>>3046227
U mad bro

>>3046233

>>3033484
i leled

>>2954612
oh i know this is a troll but i can't resist

>>2805457

>>2644307
nobody cares.

>>2611430

>>2595077

>>2584348
>reaction images are /b/ related
do you like this one?

>>2584351
>There's no correlation between brief posts and anger.
It's not that it was brief, it was more about the tone you used. I'm not spouting anything, I did a legitimate question. I'm not getting worked up at all. I know what sage is, and in my last post I covered that bit, don't "spout" the same shit.

>>2571561
>>2571561

>>2548795
just all the ones they don't have a name or face for, right?

sure sure. that makes it better.

>>2490270

>Protip, if you're not in charge of your woman, you don't deserve a woman.