/lit/ - Literature

Fuck me bros. This is some of the saddest shit Ive read.

This book is amazing and made me want to love myself a little more. Poor Mr. Stevens. Also, having nightly cocoa with a cutie is pimp shit, I can't believe he never spun it into some puss but I guess that's the character.

>>18999391
>Remains of the Day by the author of Remains of the Day

kek

What am I in for?

What are some novels that deal with clinging to security and/or giving up your agency out of fear of risk and/or vulnerability, and wasting your life in the process? Something like pic related.

To the anon who recommended this book yesterday, thank you so much.

This book has joined the small collection of novels that I would consider a masterpiece.

Consider this a strong recommendation to any anons who haven't yet opened this piece of art.

Why did none of you tell me how good this guy was?

>>16599385
I've read most of the great classics and many depressing novels but the only novel I can think of that made me shed a tear is The Remains of the Day. A scene in Growth of the Soil also made me come close to crying.

Was he autistic?

He deserves his nobel. This is probably the best novel I've read this year.

Whether it's a character that you are still preoccupied with or themes that you still contemplate, what novel has exerted the largest influence on you?

>>13865903

Asian author but book is about humans

>>12426522
>reserved, laconic, understated, wryly humorous, somewhat eccentric, without retention or hyperboly, somewhat quaint, often dark but ultimately life-affirming

this book comes to mind

Post some future classics.

Post 'em.

INFJ

Remains of the Day is pretty great in this regard.

> “But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably drive oneself to distraction in this way. In any case, while it is all very well to talk of 'turning points', one can surely only recognize such moments in retrospect. Naturally, when one looks back to such instances today, they may indeed take the appearance of being crucial, precious moments in one's life; but of course, at the time, this was not the impression one had. Rather, it was as though one had available a never-ending number of days, months, years in which to sort out the vagaries of one's relationship with Miss Kenton; an infinite number of further opportunities in which to remedy the effect of this or that misunderstanding. There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.”

>>11155650

>>10381336
pic related

La Belle Dames Sans Merci, by Keats

The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock, by Eliot

Also, some of Catullus' poems explore the theme of separation, and Dylan's music was supposedly influenced by him in the mid-60s. Haven't read him personally though, so it's a shot in the dark

>tfw you will never be the autistic butler of a British nazi lord in the 30s

What books give you the feel of nostalgia?

Remains of the day is nostalgic and comfy

While reading pic related I was convinced there was some Alzheimer's unreliable narrator shit going on.

Tell me about the retarded doomed theories you've come up with.

>>9420348

You tricked me into wasting my time with an old women's book. Thanks /lit/.