/lit/ - Literature

at the end of the day, is this book mainly just about nostalgia, and trying to reclaim what you once felt?

what is it about the prose of great gatsby that is just so wonderful? i just haven't read anything else that really conveys that feeling of beauty and longing and loss.

I just cant find another book with as gorgeous prose as this. Where almost every line is beautiful or really strikes a deep emotion. The rhythm of the lines is just sublime. I dont know how he did it

Gatsby
Tom LeClair
The University of Cincinnati
If badness is related to perceived greatness, then I offer The Great Gatsby (1925) as the worst novel in American literature. I haven’t read it for many years, since the only time I used it in a Modern American Fiction class, but I remember it as incredibly smug about its relationship to the traditional realistic novel.
While Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and others were taking chances, F. Scott Fitzgerald was manipulating conventions to create
a book that would be “charming.” One could blame Nick the narrator, but I think Fitzgerald is responsible. I turned to
Tender Is the Night (1934), usually
considered a bad book, to give students a Fitzgerald with more aesthetic courage and, for all that novel’s sentimentality, more profundity about money and marriage.

http://americanbookreview.org/PDF/Top40BadBooks.pdf

what the fuck was his problem, bros?

New to /lit/ and going through the starter kit.

Give me your thoughts on this book. Is it worth the praise it receives?

Hard mode: you actually explain your reasoning

>>10619479
I feel like there's usually more thought going in to sci-fi and fantasy book covers in that the art is much more clearly related to the actual plot. A lot of the time it seems like more "literary" works just have very simple pieces like the one you posted or public domain art that isn't very clearly related to the subject matter.

It's nice to see cover art that really captures and exemplifies the story within. I think pic related is a great example from a non sc-fi/fantasy book.

It's a novella