/lit/ - Literature

>>4644121
>Opus Magnus

>>4164400
Thank you, I will have a look on them.

Also, dubs.

Do you dog-ear your pages? After I read Anne Fadiman's "Ex Libris" I started doing so shamelessly.

>>2113250
this to an extent.

Genre in general is almost a marketing conceit, these days, so it's made obvious to the right people that this is a book they'd enjoy.

Earlier, it might have been more tied to form. The Epic was a form as well as a genre, as was lyric poetry.

>>2065365
Brofist for Barry Lyndon, that has to be the best Kubrick for me.

Otherwise, I like Fellini, particularly his earlier realist stuff like I Vitelloni and his later impressionistic stuff like 8 1/2 and Juliet of the Spirits, Herzog and Wenders for pure brilliance, Haneke in general, but maybe more as a sort of playwright than anything else, Days of Heaven for its unsurpussed visuals, the vast majority of the stuff Welles produced, moments in Bergman's filmography, Manhattan, Truffaut on occasion, Bertolluci's style in Il Confirmiste, the Coens as a sort of guilty pleasure (A Serious Man, Barton Fink, Fargo, Lebowski, only however; sometimes, Miller's Crossing), likewise Almodovar (not so much kitchen sink stuff like Volver, but more the really clever plotting of Bad Education and El Piel que Habito), Paul Anderson for his last and hopefully his latest, Altman for his late 70's and early 90's stuff.

This all said, I've got a long way to go with film and I think I'll be better stocked to talk about it when I've watched the likes of Parajanov, Tarr, Teshigahara, Dreyer and that Thai guy everyone creams over.

>>2054706
How much is this Pynchon and drugs shit legit?

I mean, it wouldn't fuck with my sort of conception of him but I just see a consistent paucity of biographical information. If someone could supply me with something, an article maybe, that would be nice.

>>1872809
>by definition
So onionring when's the last time anything that is 'by definition' told us anything particularly informative about the world?

>>1518482
cheers

>>1347386
>he's so... butthurt.

I'm glad I was in on it the whole time

>>1279768

cheers mang

I'd rather enjoy the book
without all the distraction
lest all my focus be shook
by its mundane abstraction.