/lit/ - Literature

>>13364386
You're probably also critiquing badly. You just think it's easy because critique rarely has to stand up to scrutiny like produced writing does.

>>13358249
Poor monolingual.

He is a native russian speaker, why doesn't he write in Russian instead?

>>11487694
*blocks your path*

>>11077363
It's mostly marketing.

But there are ways to generally categorize. This requires painting broadly, but...

Genre fiction is basically pornography. It mechanically fulfills a need for distraction, repeating a vigorous, familiar in-out to achieve a predetermined outcome. The genre--the need to scratch the sci-fi itch or the western itch or the romance itch--guides the work almost like the progression of a PorhHub vid. Fast-forward to BJ, doggie, missionary, cumshot. You know what you're getting, and the interest is in the newness or perfection of those things.

Literary fiction, at least when it's any good, is more about discovery--of surprising new stories, unexplored aspects of unusual characters and inner lives, of stunning moments of connection between words and images. Literary fiction scratches a shapeless kind of itch.

The surface of genre fiction (sci-fi tropes and the like) has entered the literary fiction, so you might make the mistake of thinking there are no meaningful differences. But then you should think a little harder.

Why didn't Nabby follow up and write the obvious sequel "Shota-kun"? Talk about not being able to roll with the punches

>The name's Vlad and I fucked your daughter
>The po-mo bitch screamed out 'this is water!'
>But I invented that shit, ever heard of John Shade?
>Or my tryst with a nymph in a moon-lit glade?
>Like a butterfly's wings I've come to open girl's thighs
>Watch out cunts, don't get hurt by my size
>Cos I'm the meanest biggest impaler you ever heard of
>That's right kids, here comes daddy nabokov

Old one died.

>implying a fruity plebbles would read that masterwork

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HE'S GONNA TAKE YOU BACK TO THE PAST

Imagine not being able to appreciate the best writer of the last 100 years because you had to pay a chipotle burrito in dollars to get one of his books

And you only know one language and he knows like 3 or more

/b/, What do you think of Spring in Fialta?

Why do Americans seem to think Nabokov is a great author?

What does /lit/ think of Nabokov?

Cena? A favorite between the ages of 8 and 14, but no longer. Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me. Awful.

You're in the club when this guy slaps your nymphet's flat ass. What do you do?

What's /lit/'s recommended reading order for Nabokov?

I've read Lolita (annotated edition), and one of his short stories called 'Cloud, Castle, Lake' and throrougly enjoyed both.

Where next?