/lit/ - Literature

So i've put this picture to BTFO everyone and everything.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina
Invitation to a Beheading

>>12805740

1. kys nigger

Leave this board and never return if any one of these apply to you:

>you read any form of genre fiction
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you don't have at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight

>>12784901
Chandler and Hammett are there, so it makes sense. He's as good as them.

>>12766820
cringe

>>12762989
newfaggit

>>12749595
Nothing to do with the Jews. Those ***values*** had their day and then they got replaced with something else. There is no going back to pre-critical and pre-aware condition. Williams is a hack and simpleton in every possible way when compared to Barth, Barthelme, Gass and others.

>>12741785
then you are absolute fucking dolt.

>>12716250
great film. lars is based.

>>12713016
not even close sweetie (and kys).

>>12691849
fuck niggers.
me out.

>>12690948
Use Book Depository and Blackwells. Search for good offers on ebay uk.

Ja sam odustao od ***naseg*** jezika i citam, gotovo, iskljucivo na eng.

>>12628339
Woof you say? Into the bin it goes.

What do you guys think about Coetzee? Cmon, I posted about this before and got no replies.

I like Gass (dies just, like, one year ago). Houllebecq can be good. Coetzee, Ligotti. I can read Gibson and Pynchon too. Most great South American writers are post ww2 and I've read them all.

But we have LOTR on our lists? How can we justify that?

Life is too short to read those cunts.

>>12546929
yes, this.

yikes

>All american writers are shi-