/lit/ - Literature

>>18577063
... Italo Calvino's 'Why Read the Classics?' is a great book on WHY a Canon is important, and why quality control needs to be maintained without racial pandering.

>>18577080
The novel I'm writing is about the disintegration of a family, and a protagonist who prefers the imaginary world to the real one. The family disintegration in the first part represents in many ways the rejection of classicism by the later Romantics, who elevated the Self and held imagination superior to reality, which, In my view, is a flawed way of thinking about the world. Those are a couple of the themes it explores. I won't post any here because I know that plagiarism checkers some publishers use trawl through cached pages and all 4chan threads are still archived. I am less of a fan of Shakespeare's comedies. I can appreciate the are good technically in the same way I can appreciate Aristophanes is good technically, but I will always prefer tragedy. /lit/ humour threads are okay, but get old when you realise how rare new funny content is. The issue with /lit/ is that think it's mostly high school seniors and undergraduates with no real life experience. That was fine when I was a high school student and undergraduate, but when you start exploring texts on a deep level and start accumulating life experience (heartbreak, illness, loss, happiness, travel, financial worries) and grow in maturity, texts hit different. I never appreciated Hamlet's soliloquy as much as I do now until I myself went through a phase when I felt suicidal. Deeper readings and connections to works really do 'unlock' as you 'rank up', I. E. Age. And therefore most discussion on /lit/ is inherently superficial at best. Things are both simpler and more complicated than you think they are aged 18 or 21.

>>18577091
Both truth and falsehood in this. I find on 4chan there is an extreme mentality that if you are white you won't have any success in the literary sphere. I am a straight white male who is working in academia alongside many other straight white males and females. I have had short stories published. My cousin, a straight white male, has published a novel. There is still plenty of opportunity and it baffles me how people think competency is somehow an irrelevant factor now. No company in the world will keep on someone who can't do their job.

>>18577125
I do plan to, or did. I'm 31 and friends are married so feel like I should get a move on. But I feel you grow more cautious with age, too. I am possibly not even halfway trough my natural life, she has been a part of it for years but people change too. I don't believe in 'the one', I think there are lots of people you can be compatible with and falling in love with someone makes them 'the one'.

>>18577428
There seem to be a few schools of thought when Shakespeare is posted here. You have the staunch denialists who blame his popularity entirely on a kind of Borges-tier conspiracy by 19th century figures like Goethe and Schiller... (cont)

I'm also a black hole that devours all the positive energy from people around me.
>Book for this feel