/lit/ - Literature

im looking to explore modern japanese literature. what should i read? (i already know of haruki murakami and yukio mishima)

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I think it was Pynchon. His explanation of stuff in CoL49 was on the fringes of something another could deduce, it seemed he was exasperated no one could figure it out so he explained how he came to it.

i.e. no one automatically hears a word and then thinks of the latin root and then an author's life based on the latin root and thinks thats the answer to the story. Except the person who wrote the story and was offering (unsolvable clues).

That being said, his messages seemed rather devoid of substance, just an obsession with connecting the dots of literary figures. Who really cares if Joyce read Bram Stoker's terrible novel and then alluded to his brother in an unreadable mass of masturbatory text like Finnegans Wake. Both Joyce and Pynchon seem obsessed with putting in insignificant clues and allusions, that don't really offer any artistic value. The difference is Joyce actually wrote good novels before his descent into Riddlin' (schizophrenia?)

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I've read the ones on suicide, suffering, immortality, vanity of existence, etc. Working my way through first volume of world now. Don't really know what you're trying to say though. The way I see it is the will only exists in itself, and is indestructible.

Can we have a thread where we try to help each other remember the title of a book we once but have now forgotten?

In highschool I read a scifi novel following a man from a primitive tribal society living in ruins. There were several other species of intelligent yet equally primitive lifeforms living around them and they all hunted and ate each other. There was no agriculture only hunting of other races. So this guy finds a fallen meteorite that is actually a sphere that can translate all of the languages of those other species into his and there's some sort of adventure or whatever. In the end it turns out they were basically a reality show that was made up of members of all of the alien races in the galaxy. At one point they're on a raft in a river full of intelligent yet malignant aquatic animals. I also remember a group of humans fighting a big one-sided battle towards the end

Thanks for the help