/lit/ - Literature

>reading Sartre

>>4205610

>selected works

>>4024787

>Kaufmann

>>3914228
>>3914229
you will never be deep&edgy

>>3759231

>Reading Hegel

At least trying to cure cancer has some possibility of success

>>3748794

>>3735962
While this is correct, this explanation is still short on the fact that sage is relatively unimportant for image boards, where threads are regularly pruned and have low bump limits. If you go to a Japanese imageboard you can see this, as almost no one uses sage, at least in comparison to here. For a quick illustration I just looked at two threads on Futaba that had over 100 posts; the first one had 1 sage post, the other had 0. It's an extremely important feature for text boards, though, what with threads being more and less permanent and having extremely high bump limits, normally 1000 posts. Threads can last a long time and it makes sense to not clutter them all over the front page. Concerns like this are irrelevant on an imageboard, even a slow one like /lit/ as threads are still pruned within a reasonable time. There's no reason to use sage as much as we do here, regardless of the fact that it does not have a negative implication. I'm going to use it ironically in this post, though.

>French philosophy

might as well say 'french arithmetic'. the gauls haven't turned out an philosopher of consequence since Descartes

>tfw I would kill myself if my life ever came to the point that I had to get a real job

>Asked about novelist David Foster Wallace, who took his own life in 2008, but who has a new book out, “The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel,” put together from manuscript chapters and files found in his computer, Bloom says, “You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘Infinite Jest’ [regarded by many as Wallace’s masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.”

>It’s all a clear indication, Bloom notes, of the decline of literary standards. He was upset in 2003 when the National Book Award gave a special award to Stephen King. “But Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left. [Wallace] seems to have been a very sincere and troubled person, but that doesn’t mean I have to endure reading him. I even resented the use of the term from Shakespeare, when Hamlet calls the king’s jester Yorick, ‘a fellow of infinite jest.’

>“It’s sort of a dark time. Imaginative energy I think is very difficult to summon up when there are so many distractions. There’s a kind of Grisham’s law [in literature]; the bad drives out the good.”

>Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace

How much of the Western Canon do I need to read before I can attain this level of swag?

>>2877428
If you want to talk about that conservative skank's literature, you should probably go to /pol/

>>2847526

> your visage when you're reading a Harold Bloom edited anthology of essays on one of your favourite books and in the introduction Harold Bloom knocks it for being "impermanent" and not rising above some oedipal rivalry of authors of which Bloom is sole judge

> your visage when he keeps insisting that anxiety influence isn't Oedipal

I bet if Shakespeare was alive he'd slap his face and tell him something like "Hamlet wasn't that good, bro"

tiny cat

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>>2424743
>"You have the aura of election upon you."

Fucking LOL

> yfw Freud had a Shakespeare complex

My favorite viewing, and this is the first time I have ever admitted it to anyone, but what I love to do, when I don’t watch evangelicals, when I can’t read or write and can’t go out walking, and don’t want to just tear my hair and destroy myself, I put on, here in New Haven, cable channel thirteen and I watch rock television endlessly. As a sheer revelation of the American religion it’s overwhelming. Yes, I like to watch the dancing girls too. The sex part of it is fine. Occasionally it’s musically interesting, but you know, ninety-nine out of a hundred groups are just bilge. And there hasn’t been any good American rock since, alas, The Band disbanded.

I watch MTV endlessly, my dear, because what is going on there, not just in the lyrics but in its whole ambience, is the real vision of what the country needs and desires. It’s the image of reality that it sees, and it’s quite weird and wonderful. It confirms exactly these two points: first, that no matter how many are on the screen at once, not one of them feels free except in total self-exaltation. And second, it comes through again and again in the lyrics and the way one dances, the way one moves, that what is best and purest in one is just no part of the creation—that myth of an essential purity before and beyond experience never goes away. It’s quite fascinating.

>>2355463
Five stars.

> Wolf's allegation against Bloom is this: During her senior year, in 1983, she took an independent study with him. Somehow much of the semester "slipped away" without a meeting.
> Finally Bloom invited himself over for dinner at her house—Wolf lived with one of his graduate editorial assistants and her boyfriend—during which he drank several glasses of Amontillado.
> Afterward, he cornered her and breathed, "You have the aura of election upon you." "The next thing I knew his heavy, boneless hand was hot on my thigh," she tells us.
> Wolf says she fended him off and vomited in the sink and that Bloom packed up the sherry and snapped, "You are a deeply troubled girl."
> like a boss

Harold Bloom: 1
Stupid egotistical women with an inferiority complex: 0

>>2240548
>>2240548
Looks like you just did...faggot. Joke's on you.

>>2228690
Five Stars

>>1938753
Bloom is so fierce.

How many literary critics do you see modeling?