/lit/ - Literature

Have you read /them/?

JD Salinger is the greatest American writer of all time. No others compare.

What Twain and Faulkner did for the South, Salinger did for the North. Holden's narration was at least as innovative in American literature as Huck's narration and the plethora of narrations from TSATF & AILD.

>inb4 Faulkner was more prolific
>inb4 Twain & Faulkner were wiser about America

Don't forget all of Salinger's short stories and the vein of the Glass family running through them, and his love of including things like notebooks and letters (Phoebe's, Franny's, Esme's (all written by women --- something Faulkner & Twain could never do with success) etc…)

As for wisdom, Twain never went beyond satire and skepticism, and got along well with the same rich people he satirized since he was famous in his lifetime. Faulkner stopped at the homely superstition, simplicity, and religion of black folks and outsiders. Salinger advocated complete religious/psychological detachment from the world and only attaching yourself to the young and innocent in order to protect them. And unlike Twain and Faulkner, he actually saw war. (Faulkner was too short to join the American army).

>inb4 "what about---"
There's no other candidates besides Twain, Faulkner, or Salinger. Sorry. Even if you bring them up, I'll still be able to clearly tell you how Salinger bests them.

One example of Salinger's depths:
According to medical science, a vitamin B-12 deficiency or problems with your pituitary or thyroid gland can cause premature graying of the hair that’s reversible if the problem is corrected.

>It's really ironical, because I'm six foot two and a half and I have gray hair. I really do. The one side of my head--the right side-- is full of millions of gray hairs. I've had them ever since I was a kid.
>But this damn article I started reading made me feel almost worse. It was all about hormones. It described how you should look, your face and eyes and all, if your hormones were in good shape, and I didn't look that way at all. I looked exactly like the guy in the article with lousy hormones. So I started getting worried about my hormones.

We need to glorify THE GET with the best author of all times.

Okay, let's be honest here.

He was a pedophile.

Hey /lit/

I don't feel like reading entire collections of short stories. Please rec me some great short stories

Hey lit

I don't feel like reading entire collections of short stories. Please rec me some great short stories

I feel like if you need so many words to convey an idea, than you're not talented. I like simply, plain language. Big words come off as dishonest and make authors who use them a lot look stupid.

Salinger, J. D.: By far one of the finest artists in recent years.

>tfw your favourite author gets some respeck

Suck it highschoolers, Salinger was brilliant

I've read Franny and Zooey and Nine Stories. They are breddy gud.

What is your genuine opinion of Salinger's work?

Even Nabokov called one of his short stories "one of the finest stories I've read in years"

>On 28 November 2013 a user of What.CD uploaded scans of three unpublished stories by American author J. D. Salinger. Similar to the response to the COFEE upload, an administrator removed the torrent. It is not clear how the unpublished material was obtained, as the original sources came from two different locations (the University of Texas and Princeton), suggesting that the works were obtained on separate occasions and then combined. These stories quickly spread over to open BitTorrent sites like The Pirate Bay and image sharing sites such as Imgur. What.CD Staff said of the removal: "Due to this case’s rare and unlikely circumstances, due to the unnecessary and unwanted attention the Salinger leak has brought, and due to our desire to comply with the desires of the Salinger estate or other involved parties in this matter, the content has been removed from What.CD. It is not to be re-uploaded under any circumstances, and anyone found doing so will have their account disabled."

Have you read these RARE stories?

"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."

Seriously, Salinger?

I hope /lit/ sees the absurdity of the real world and really 'gets' the phonyness of society in general. Let me ask you this, do you believe there is censorship in MSM from above or self-censorship? Do people just know how to play along or are they ignorant of what is really going on? Look at 9/11 and other false flags and tell me why nobody dares to speak their mind in the media.

What other books than catcher in the rye made you aware of how everybody is just basically acting? Mostly just to be comfortable.

Should you take this board's advice seriously?

Who else here thought The Catcher in the Rye was shit but kept reading to see if Holden would get laid?

Why were so many writers into Vedanta specifically?

pic related (is thomas pynchon)

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>"The government... The American government... they're sneaky, they're liars, they're cheats, they're rip offs... America *is* a third world country and people don't recognize it and I think that's pretty goddamn sad that they don't recognize their own country as a third world, third rate, third class slut."

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In his novella 'Seymour: An Introduction', Salinger describes Vincent Van Gogh, Soren Kierkegaard and Franz Kafka (as well as his own character, Seymour) as "the four variously notorious Sick Men", four people he turns to when he wants "perfectly credible information about modern artistic processes".

All these men were great artists (either prolific writers or painters). According to Buddy, they were also "sick" in one way or another.

Can you think of any other writers that could fit into a category of 'Sick Men'?