/lit/ - Literature

Horrible little man.

my mother is a fish.

what you're reading, last song you listened to, and the last TV show you watched

Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner

King of Carrot Flowers by Neutral Milk Hotel

Scrubs

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currently reading and last song you listened to

Sanctuary by William Faulkner

Undone (The Sweater Song) by Weezer

1. William Faulkner
2. Franz Kafka
3. Virginia Woolf
4. James Joyce
5. Gertrude Stein
6. Anton Chekhov
7. Samuel Beckett
8. Vladimir Nabokov
9. Marcel Proust
10. Fyodor Dostoevsky

*blocks your path*

Faulkner
Dostoevsky
Kafka
Woolf

probably the greatest novelists, right?

>The Chaneysville Incident - David Bradley
>At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'brien
>Ada or Ardor: a Family Chronicle - Vladimir Nabokov
>Our Lady of the Flowers - Jean Genet
>The Illuminatus! Trilogy - Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shae
>Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner
>Light in August - William Faulkner
>Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
>To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
>O Lost - Thomas Wolfe
>Of Time and the River - Thomas Wolfe
>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

>The Chaneysville Incident - David Bradley
>At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'brien
>Ada or Ardor: a Family Chronicle - Vladimir Nabokov
>Our Lady of the Flowers - Jean Genet
>The Illuminatus! Trilogy - Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shae
>Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner
>Light in August - William Faulkner
>Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
>To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
>O Lost - Thomas Wolfe
>Of Time and the River - Thomas Wolfe
>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

let's all post our fav0rite books!

>The Chaneysville Incident - David Bradley
>At Swim-Two-Birds - Flann O'Brien
>The Illuminatus Trilogy! - Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shae
>O Lost - Thomas Wolfe
>Of Time and the River - Thomas Wolfe
>Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Vladimir Nabokov
>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
>Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
>To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
>Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner
>Light in August - William Faulkner

1. William Faulkner
2. Franz Kafka
3. Edward de Vere ("William Shakespeare")
4. James Joyce
5. Gertrude Stein

1. William Faulkner
2. Franz Kafka
3. Virginia Woolf
4. James Joyce
5. Gertrude Stein
6. Samuel Beckett
7. Anton Chekhov
8. Vladimir Nabokov
9. Marcel Proust
10. Fyodor Dostoevsky

1. William Faulkner
2. Franz Kafka
3. Virginia Woolf
4. James Joyce
5. Gertrude Stein
6. Samuel Beckett
7. Anton Chekhov
8. Vladimir Nabokov
9. Marcel Proust
10. Fyodor Dostoevsky

1. William Faulkner
2. Franz Kafka
3. Virginia Woolf
4. James Joyce
5. Gertrude Stein
6. Samuel Beckett
7. Vladimir Nabokov
8. Anton Chekhov
9. Marcel Proust
10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ok, so everyone has for years told me how great a writer William Faulkner was. So, I read As I Lay Dying- mediocre at best, and no real strengths at characterization are revealed. Instead, a bunch of yokel stereotypes. So, I mark that off as just one of those things. Then I read his Collected Stories. Atrocious! Nothing but stereotypes in every tale. The Southern grotesques are not as noxious as in, say, Flannery O’Connor, but the tales are all wooden, dull, and generally- a mess! So, I read Sanctuary, which comes with the preface that it was Faulkner’s ‘deliberately commercial’ novel, and the one that ‘broke him’ to readers. So, I think if the high literature of As I Lay Dying, and his acclaimed short stories, is bad then, perhaps, the real gem lies in his ‘commercial’ novel.
I will have to read The Sound And The Fury, but I’ve given up on having any high expectations for it. Perhaps, that’s the key, and I will be pleasantly surprised, although I doubt it will change my overall view of Faulkner as one of the most grotesquely overrated writers of all time. He constipates me with his plodding narratives, ridiculously stilted conversations, and outrageously thin plot machinations. I need an enema after all that, but sans that- pass the corn cob!

>>9409062
kys yourself

>>8831012
>browses lit
>thinks Faulkner is shit
I think you got lost on your way to reddit friendo. Don't worry I'm sure you will find your way home.

Where should I start with his work?

Where should I start with Faulkner?

>writers need to be able to empathize with other people
>writers need a wealth of experiences to draw inspiration from
>writers need practical knowledge of how the world works, even parts of the world that don't have anything to do with them
>writers need to be able to ramble on whimsically, enough to fill entire pages with incidentals
>writers need to not be boring

When did you realize that all writers are normies?

tfw my mother is a fish

Writers of /lit/, have you grasped the power of iambs yet?

Have you learned to hear the bob and weave of English? Melville got it right. So did Faulkner. Have you?

Where do I start with Faulkner?

>le Mississippi man