/lit/ - Literature

Fuck minimalism.

A little bit of fun copied off another literary forum:

"Let's say that the Literature Nobel prize was awarded every five years on January first, starting with 1519 to celebrate Charles V becoming Holy Roman Emperor, King of Spain, etc.; and let's assume that it was funded by Spain with all the money coming from the conquest of America, so it would be the (Spaniard) Nobles Prize. And let's pretend judges had access to the whole world of European literature published at the time. What would it would look like?

Well for the XVI Century kinda like this:

1519: Gil Vicente, for his monumental contribution to Portuguese and Spanish Drama
1524: Niccolo Machiavelli, for his innovative plays and his moderate political treatises
1529: Ludovico Ariosto, for his masterful and unparalleled contributions to the epic genre
1534: Erasmus of Rotterdam, for the most read literary corpus our age has yet produced
1539: Juan Boscan, for his renewal of Spanish poetry.
1544: Teofilo Folengo (Merlin Cocaius), for his invention of the macaronic epic
1549: Francois Rabelais, for his expansion of the farce and his contributions to the novel.
1554: Pietro Aretino, for his revival of the ars amatoria in literature
1559: Maurice Scève/Joachim Du Bellay, ex-aequo for their reinvention of French poetry
1564: Etienne Jodele for his modernization of French drama.
1569: In Absentia to the Author of Lazarillo de Tormes, for creating the Picaresque genre.
1574: Pierre Ronsard, for bringing beauty out of mount Parnassus and back into this world
1579: Luis Camoes, for his reinvention of the epic genre
1584: Jan Kochanowski, for his redefinition and expansion of the elegy.
1589: Michel de Montaigne, for his creation of the Essay genre
1594: Torquato Tasso, for his Christian epics
1599: Edmund Spenser, for his redefinition of sucking up to a monarch.

What are your favorite /lit/-related websites? besides /lit/.

>http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/literary.html
One of my favorites, it's one really long page dedicated to Unusual, Neglected and/or Lost Literature. There's a huge range of authors covered, from popular authors like Italo Calvino to lesser-known ones like Stanley Crawford. But all of them are strange.

>http://writersnoonereads.tumblr.com/
Like the above, its purpose is "highlighting forgotten, neglected, abandoned, forsaken, unrecognized, unacknowledged, overshadowed, out-of-fashion, under-translated writers." Marcel Schwob, Ladislav Klima, and Junnosuke Yoshiyuki are a few that were featured recently.

>http://neglectedbooks.com/
Another one dedicated to neglected books, with this one focusing more on English-language books. There's a massive backlog of recommendations though, and a ton of useful publisher links.