/lit/ - Literature

>>10923743
you're correct

>>10923736
but just for fun:

being a good novelist is the most difficult in regards to technical skill. more words, requires higher order processing to simulate characters, unless you're suicidal and write epic poetry.

becoming a good short story writer seems like it might be the most difficult to build an actual audience with. who among the average public actually reads short stories?

this is true for poetry as well, but poetry is by far the easiest thing to write. computer programs will write poetry indistinguishable from that of humans with the next few decades.

>>9886486
close, but the library of babel is better.

>>9886562
try again, it's like 12 pages long.

>"And so on to infinity..."

what did he mean by this?

*clears throat*

>>9510894
he's the most intellectual author who ever lived.

Library of Babel and The Lottery of Babylon are my favorite.

I don't really get why The Garden of Forking Paths is held in such high esteem. I've read it twice but the "twist" or whatever just doesn't do it for me.

>>6733794
Borges wrote a pretty good commentary on the whole story where that quote is from.

>>6524244
for me its the visuals. the robotic way its described at the beginning works well to give me an image for something that is impossible

Borges.

And McCarthy when he dies before winning. All because he is an American.

Anyone here have a blog? What do you write about? Does anyone read it?

On mine I post links to my short stories as they get published and also post commentary on whatever stories/books I happen to be reading at the time. I try and do this at least once a week. Nobody really reads it to my knowledge.

Let's try and keep the names of our blogs out of this so we don't all become whores.

Why haven't you blinded yourself yet? That would remove a lot of distractions and help make you into a great writer.

In this thread: We tell each other about the most cherished books in our personal libraries with regards to their personal value, uniqueness, monetary value or memories surrounding them.

ITT
Best book you've read
Good but too short
Meh book
Worst book
Kill it with fire

Mine:
Bridge on the rina - Ivo Andirc
Good Omens - Pratchett Gaiman
Dubliners - James Joyce
Red Harvest -. Dashiell Hammet
Not decided yet

>They were not really poets or writers at all. It was a trick they had learned, and they had learned it thoroughly—except four or five, I should say—seemed to think of life as having nothing poetic or mysterious about it. They take things for granted. They know that when they have to write, then, well they have to suddenly become rather sad or ironic.

Simple question: what's your favourite character?

The most well-written, the one you identify yourself the most, or admire, or tastefully despise, the one that is just a joy to read.

The Library of Babel by Borges.

Possibly the greatest fantasy short story of all time.

Borges sort of is the epitome of literature in a way...I think he mastered allegory and philosophical fiction.

So, /lit/, tell me why I should bother reading anything by Derrida when this man can sum up his ideas in a two page long detective story?

Oh, and he did it 20-30 years before Derrida.

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