/lit/ - Literature

>learned to read AND SPEAK latin fluently
>learning to read ancient greek
>spent a year studying only shakespeare, Homer, Ovid, and ancient classics
>literally a classics major
>listen to only classical music pre-1900s

Who else here /hopelesslyromantic/?

>come up with absolute genius idea for a book
>in a flash of inspiration, think of concept that can revolutionize the novel
>create a huge, sprawling outline that beautifully ties in all the ideas I came up with
>prose still sucks

Holy fuck, /lit/ how do you improve your prose? What writers should I read? My style game is lagging so far behind my substance game right now. Should I just say fuck it and pull a Dostoevsky?

>>8748009

So what is the final verdict on them if one eventually wants to be a writer? Is English as shitty as people say it is?

Is humor the most superior philosophical value? If you have a sense of humor and laugh about everything in you're life, are you innately superior to everyone?

What is the best way to gain a deep understanding of the way that fiction works? Of how the structure ties things together, makes the story function, of why certain choices are made by the author.. Should I read literary/critical theory?

Minority/women authors that are /lit approved or most /lit approved? I want to make sure that I'm able to know some of these authors so I don't get called out by women calling me a white male sexist/racist etc. So far, I've only liked Joan Didion, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf. No black authors yet. You got any names for me, my main men?

>>8122303
Abraham loved Isaac. Isaac was not only his best (recall the sermon described by Johannes the Silentio) but also his only son given to him on the power of the absurd by God. This already highlights the special position of Abraham and his relation to God.

The movement in question happens when the universal (i.e. the relation between father and son, not just killing in itself) is suspended and the individual (Abraham) is placed outside of it in an absolute relation to the absolute (God).

Thanks to this special relation to God, Abraham "believed that God would not demand Isaac of him". After all, he was promised to be the father of a prosperous offspring. He had continuously renewed faith in God, because that would make true the promise, ergo he had faith that Isaac would be returned to him.

Johannes wonders if "Abraham has acquired proprietary rights to the title of great man, so that whatever he does is great, and if anyone else does the same it is a sin, a crying sin? If so, I have no wish to take part in such mindless praise."

Johannes obviously continuous to praise Abraham, though not mindlessly. Question is whether Johannes believes Abraham, though not inherently 'great', is a special case because of his (proven) relation to the absolute? I think he does.

If it is true that Johannes believes this, it remains the question whether Kierkegaard himself believed such a teleological suspension of the ethical possible for anyone but Abraham, or if it served primarily as a rejection of Hegelian ethics and concept of faith?

What about the fact that what was to be sacrificed was given to Abraham by God? Surely, this goes against the 'argument for fanaticism'.

>>8051385
>bragging on the internet period

:') your self esteem is so low (and you won't admit this to yourself) that you have to validate yourself online on a chinese cartoon forum. did you not get laid in high school? did your fat girlfriend Ursula cheat on you? either way, I wish you well in the future

Who would win in a fight between The Kid Diddler Vlad, and Corncobber Bill?

Who would win in a math contest between DFW and Tommy?

What is Delillo's best work? I read White Noise and thought it was mediocre, but I'm willing to give him another chance. I've heard mixed things about Underworld. What does /lit think?

Does anyone else have a lot of ideas and "stuff to say" but not enough technical ability to get it out in a good way? This is honestly a retarded dilemma because it feels like I have to spend years making my writing better before finally expressing (in a relatively acceptable manner) what I have to say in this current moment. It's like holding a shit for 3-5 years straight.

>>7866881
>rackmaninov

wew

more like neil old amirite

>>7858748
which Which Wich?

>>7830497
well look who ...
i thought you were too good for this place now
(why even use the name?)

>>7813147
>implying he didn't just write for audience pussy

what is a meme?

David Foster Delillo