/lit/ - Literature

>>11370790
I'm glad someone else sees it, I enjoyed Pale Fire but it's the only Nabokov I've read and to me the prose wasn;t worthy of all the adulation he receives

>>11203349
>Doctor Zhivago
>patrician
you've been memed hard

>>10626005
>a corncobber is buttfrustrated becuase Austen's subtlety flies above his head

>philosophical discussions
ey bb, your bf seems like a didacticist cuck, dump him and suck on deez aesthetist nuts instead

>>10144349
>marries the image that is born from the people
Translation: a closet folklorist and a second rate hack (who, by the way, had a tin ear). Serious embarassment for anyone over 20 to list Yeats as a favourite poet.

Thomas Mann was a topical writer whose pseudo-baroque sentences impress plebs by piling cliches upon cliches of images. Nowhere is this more apparent when tries to capture Goethe's thoughts in Lotte in Weimar, embassing and romanticist in the worst sense of the word.

>>9970833
>period piece instead of AK

>x pages of platitudinous whining thinly veiled as fiction
what's there to understand

>>9872409
>Hey, at least we aren't short of material to work with in future literary works.
Naturalists already tried that le science based literature schtick, it produced nothing but didacticist dreck.

>muh moral lessons

And there are people who have the audacity to claim that peterson is not shilled by retarded redditors. Stupid dumb didacticist scum.

Like any genre, it has potential,in reality it's mostly cop out for hacks like Sienkiewicz to write glorified melodrama.