/lit/ - Literature

>>17778201
Oh yeah, a lot of it is trash, but then again a lot of Western film is trash these days, and a lot of Western literature is trash these days, too.

But I feel like one thing a decent amount of anime do really well is the entire idea of "slice of life." Of kind of slowing life down to tiny moments, here and there, and dwelling on those moments, and the slow rhythms of everyday life. But not in a way that makes them mundane, but in a way that celebrates their preciousness, and which makes you feel that time is fleeting, and that little moments here and there are to be prized for the tiny beauty they contain.

I feel like there's a rather substantial amount of anime that do a good job making you dwell on this idea. But what is there in Western literature that engenders this feeling? I feel like it's not common in the West. Joyce and Proust are the two names that come to mind, when I think of writers who force the reader to dwell on fleeting moments. And they're two of the greatest geniuses of the 20th Century, which only reinforces the fact that this idea just does not seem to be common in Western literature, or in Western storytelling in general.