/lit/ - Literature

Yes

>>23481182
That you can be sure of

>>23437764
Oh I embrace the mid-wittery. I can't brag about my intelligence but let no one say I'm not self aware

>>23318351
Hmmm, I don’t know about that interpretation, but maybe. In fact, it struck me how surprisingly conservative/reactionary Roth seems in some works, like in this one with the leftist revolutionary chaos of the 60s and 70s being portrayed in a rather bad light. Radical interpretations of feminism emasculating men, and leftist race politics targeting Whites (and by extension I guess sometimes White-passing middle-class and upper-class Jews like Swede Levov, so MAYBE it’s something like a “warning against assimilation” like you say?). I think there are definitely at least some ways in which more conservative/reactionary-tending Jews like Roth have some sympathy for those who feel beleaguered by political correctness and race politics. He also explores some of the excesses of political correctness in The Human Stain, with (mild spoiler) Professor Coleman Silk jokingly wondering aloud whether two students enrolled in his class yet never having showed up yet some way into the semester are “spooks” (ghosts), but with this being misinterpreted as him calling them “spooks” (racial slur for Blacks), even though he didn’t know they were Black students when saying that, yet they are, causing a massive uproar which leads him to resign, and all the rest of campus politics and political correctness in academia explored, etc.. He was also funnily enough regarded as a “self-loathing Jew” for his poking at the values, self-consciousness, and sometimes insularity of middle-class Jewry in books like Portnoy’s Complaint and Goodbye, Columbus, so I found that a funny part of Roth. Wasn’t there even some case of rabbis and some Jewish intellectuals/critics being in an uproar over one of them, I think Portnoy’s Complaint?

I think Roth is a cool guy, eh calls out both Jews and Gentiles and doesn’t care about anything

https://youtu.be/F_lama_Zwmo?si=T6ndzmdi7lhIUWaw

The Exorcist

>>22416501
Even without all the psychedelic stuff pynch is still a world class writer. His prose is downright poetic

>>22343790
>>22344548

>>22313778
I like bitches too

>>22160301
Huh, thanks.

>>21721067
All solid opinions

I'm 32

>>21617833
>and to you, dear reader, thank you for fucking my wife

>>20969761
Starting Strength

>>20652926
>I follow the herd!

OK

>>20530676
John Carter was a good movie

>>20393803
You do not need to read V.

>>20164247
Fair enough