/lit/ - Literature

It's Hemingway, isn't it?

>>3378160

Bro fist.

Who else would like to have met Hemingway?

/lit/, I have a quick question. I have to write an essay but I have a doubt with the terminology. I'm a Spanish native speaker and was wondering if there's concept, phrase, idiom, etc. to refer to the modern criticism to the "evolution" of society towards one with less or no moral values whatsoever. In Spanish we'd call it something like "Incomodidad moderna", or modern uncomfortability/awkwardness (?). Anyways, can you guys help me?

Pic obviously related.

havent to time to read post:
Read, all your favorite. Again READ and learn Write poetry, Write novels.Live your life, travel around the world, etc.
Still need to write, go for it....

>>3024261
Hey /lit/, first time posting here. I have an idea for a short story about an old man and the sea.

Well /lit/ I'm seriously considering writing a fictional book. Not to get it published. Just to write one, order a copy or two and stick it on my shelf so when someone picks it up I can point to it and say "I made that." I don't want to get old and wish I'd written a book; I want to write a book. If I feel it could be published I will try to do so but I will be satisfied so long as I complete the task.

I've read little more literature than what was required in school although I am attempting to remedy that(starting with The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway).

I have a question for you since most of you have probably read more literature than I:

>How do you feel about child abuse in literature?

I think if it is done appropriately it can be a powerful facet of a character's history that serves to explain the character. More often than not, particularly in television and film, an abusive past seems to be an afterthought. Someone said, "I don't think this character is deep enough," another responds, "We'll give her an abusive parent and the viewer will pity her," and the room erupts into applause.

Even worse is the variant "We'll kill her parents," and it provides instant "depth." Maybe "commercial depth" would be the term.

What are your thoughts? I will likely pose a few more questions if I get a response and I think of some.

What does /lit/ think of Ernest Hemingway?

>>2703611
Look at this square-jawed mug of handsomness

Ernest Hemingway was a hansom man as well.

Hope everyone’s night is going well enough.

Personally I am not one for abstraction but I’d like some help for this exception. I am very fond of Hemingway’s, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” and would like to isolate the portion of this excerpt which isolates the essence of the short-story without sacrificing too much of its meaning.

“What did he fear? It was not a fear or dread, It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was a nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.”

The reason for this request is I am attempting to get a tattoo though was told that wordiness (dependent on the size of font) is more likely to blur over time, hence the necessity for efficiency.

I had considered taking out the first several sentences leaving:

“Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.”

Continued...

>>2338081
you call those perfectly proportioned features? and I can grow a bigger beard than you.

You're too self-effacing! It's not manly!

>>1894079
mfw

>>1887322
Many established writers are not even taken seriously as writers. Think of all the belittling and downgrading you see here on /lit/. 'Such and such sucks, and here's why...' etc.

Write from your gut, and only write what is true, and only write what you feel like writing. Because if you don't want to write what you're writing, it won't be any good.

Fun fact: Hemingway's third son was transgendered and had Sexual Reassignment Surgery,

>>1805291
I lol'd. Here's another pic of Hemingway. Young Hemingway.

>>1741938
id totally suck him off

he could cum all over my face and id be happy :3

He wrote. It was good.