/lit/ - Literature

>>20380225
The discussion about whether you can call him an ironist is pretty interesting and I would say he isn't one; also an irony that settles out in the will of the writer to be primarily sad is I think unheard of.
He does use irony to make fun of irony, to unroot the readers expectations in jokes and let#s them think beyond.
Still, I cracked many laughs reading, there is this weird kind of gap between what it is meant to be and what it evokes.

>>12433059
No, I refuse.

My thread was raided by /pol/, so I'm reposting it
I think this is fun. Write out what your remember about your highschool experience in the syle of David Foster Wallace. Have fun.

I think this is fun. Write out what your remember about your highschool experience in the syle of David Foster Wallace. Have fun.

>SOME REMARKS ON KAFKA’S FUNNINESS FROM WHICH PROBABLY NOT ENOUGH HAS BEEN REMOVED

>What Kafka’s stories have, rather, is a grotesque, gorgeous, and thoroughly modern complexity, an ambivalence that becomes the multivalent Both/And logic of the, quote, “unconscious,” which I personally think is just a fancy word for soul. Kafka’s humor—not only not neurotic but anti-neurotic, heroically sane—is, finally, a religious humor, but religious in the manner of Kierkegaard and Rilke and the Psalms, a harrowing spirituality against which even Ms. O’Connor’s bloody grace seems a little bit easy, the souls at stake pre-made.


what did he mean by this?

Composers>Poets>Novelists>Short story writers>philosophers

Can we all agree on this?

>>10211108
>never start a sentence with and but so