/lit/ - Literature

>>8774796
DUDE UNORIGINALITY LMAO

>>8774770
>he doesn't think the quest for beauty is the most noble of ambitions.

>>8325115
In terms of pure influence, it would be this stud, but, influence aside, a good case could be made for Melville, Faulkner, Hawkes, Pynchon, or Gass.

>>7492676
The best way to read pic related is, undoubtedly, chronologically.

>>7488274
This is a good thing, anon.

>>7471214
This nigga along with Gass, Hawkes, and McElroy.

>>7469804
>Yep! boards.4chan.org/lit/. To be fair though, lots of memes, trolls, and rather uninspired discussions, but occasionally you can find a real diamond in the rough

The Recognitions or A Frolic of His Own

>>7408340
This hot ass bitch. Niggas a 10/10

10/10 funnies
10/10 writing
10/10 themes
11/10 hair

Nigga so fine I'd give him my ho for christmas.

Hey /lit/, I can't remember the name of a short story someone on here introduced me. It was about a boy and a dog and maybe his dad. The prose was pretty weird. I think the author was someone like gaddis or gass.

>>7326084
>misanthrope
>Love of irony
>unapologetically elitist
>Educated to hell and back
>Love of unattributed dialogue and Dutch art

>>7326084
>misanthrope
>Love of irony
>apologetically elitist
>Educated to hell and back
>Love of unattributed dialogue and Dutch art

>>6769881

Homoousian or Homoiousian?

hello, "right here", I'm William Gaddis and I'm your truest successor in the 20th century

> reading The Recognitions
> Asian man sees me reading it
> "sees" me reading it, rather
> his mouth curls into the shape of a "calcurus" integral turned on its side
> his eyes become those korean letters that are shaped like the letter "O"
> his hair rises like a Mao revolution
> the shy countenance of his soul is like a Kabuki mask that presumed itself reality
> pockets full of ramen and stray dog-meatballs
> gets up out of seat like old Confucius saying: "man who sit on tack, better off"
> turns red in the middle of the very Caucasian metro, clearly emulating his national flag in his time of need
> rides over to me on a magic carpet
> "hey champ what'cha reading"
> "the Recognitions"

ITT we make the most postmodern incipits of all time

Even Camilla had stately enjoyed squat telephones, I mean octopuses, and was stuck screaming across the first of the canti on the gunrest.

"I'm really smart"

>>6172090
walce thread post walce

Are there any Gaddis scholars on here?

What is The Recognitions about really? Do you need to know much about art history before getting into it?

Why was Gaddis asked to leave Harvard?

enough women you fags