/lit/ - Literature

What book will make me more like chad?

>>9658591
>>9658602
>when pol derails every thread and complain that people don't like them

"Pevear and Volokhonsky finished “Anna Karenina” in September, 1998—or so they thought. Despite their growing reputation in the United States, they failed to impress the editors at Penguin in London. “They told us the book was unreadable,” Pevear said. “They told us it had to be more ‘reader-friendly.’ But Tolstoy himself is not reader-friendly! They said it was not at a stage to be copy-edited.”

<http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/11/07/the-translation-wars>

"Tolstoy notes the susceptibility of his contemporaries to the "charm of obscurity". Works have become laden with "euphemisms, mythological and historical allusions", and general "vagueness, mysteriousness, obscurity and inaccessibility to the masses". Tolstoy lambastes such works, insisting that art can and should be comprehensible to everyone. Having emphasised that art has a function in the improvement of humanity - capable of expressing man’s best sentiment - he finds it offensive that artists should be so wilfully and arrogantly abstruse."

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Art%3F>

You guise

What would happen

If like

One of the Eagles wore the ring???

>tfw someone calls your prose overwrought

>>8506232
>>8506225
Why do people say these things...?

>creative writing class
>poop in my pants

Why are there so few authors of note?

For postmodernism in America there was only Pynchon, Gaddis, Foster Wallace. Then lesser (crummy) ones like Delillo. If i'm being generous there are 9 postmodern American authors total, most of them shit. Why are there so few?