/lit/ - Literature

>>11295940
yes

Can we have a thread for this based individual? The man who made me /lit/.

For me, it's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem.

>>9712286
Daily reminder that Catcher is a fantastic book and anyone who dismisses it as "edgy angsty teen shit" is objectively wrong

When exactly did American literature ascend to its modern day status as the most influential, entertaining, innovative and rewarding national literature on the planet?

I think it was probably after WWII, but there were portents of its coming dominance over European literature during the interwar period.

How do I get into William Faulkner?

I started with his short stories thinking they would be easier to digest before diving into his novels but I'm just scratching my head here.

The Southern accents are annoying as fuck, his sentences have such a weird structure and go on forever so that by the time you're at the end of one you forget what the original point was supposed to be, his characters are one dimensional, nothing happens in his stories, and every time I get to the end of one I say "Why would anyone ever take hours out of their life to write a story about a guy hiccuping? Is this what passed as comedy in the 20s?"
I just don't get it. And I'm usually able to tell what an author was trying to go for even if I may not be a fan of their style, but Faulkner is a mystery to me so far.

If I don't like his short stories, should I not even attempt the novels?
Please help me not to be a turbo pleb.

I have a hard time believing a Mississippian is one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century, but i'll give him a shot.

>As I Lay Dying
>The Sound and the Fury
>Light In August
I have access to these three novels atm, which is the best to start with Faulkner?

>I didn't let him I made him watching me getting mad What do you think of that? Red print of my hand coming up through her face like turning a light on under your hand her eyes going bright
>It's not for kissing I slapped you. Girl's elbow at fifteen Father said you swallow like you had a fishbone in your throat what's the matter with you and Caddy across the table not to look at me. It's for letting it be some darn town squirt I slapped you you will will you now I guess you say calf rope.
>I didn't kiss a dirty girl like Natalie anyway not a dirty girl like Natalie. It was raining we could hear it on the roof, sighing through the high sweet emptiness of the barn.
>There? touching her
>Not there
>There? Was it there it hurt you when Caddy did ran off
>Oh her blood or my blood oh
>oh oh oh oh
>I used to hold like this you oh
>I hold to use like this I mean
>oh oh oh oh

What did he mean by this?

Faulkner thread?
>best book
>best character
>Highlights and shortcomings of his prose
Discuss.

I once read that an author was working on a book and a ranchhand accidentally threw it into a fire. The author, distraught, got drunk and stayed up all night rewriting it. For some reason I thought it was Faulkner writing "As I Lay Dying". Has anyone else heard this tall tale? Who was it and what did they write?

I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing; I have not had time yet. So I must speak only of the ones I do know. I am thinking now of what I rate the best one: Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, perhaps because this one expresses so completely what I have tried to say: a youth, father to what will, must someday be a man, more intelligent than some and more sensitive than most, who (he would not even have called it by instinct because he did not know he possessed it) because God perhaps had put it there, loved man and wished to be a part of mankind, humanity, who tried to join the human race and failed. To me, his tragedy was not that he was, as he perhaps thought, not tough enough or brave enough or deserving enough to be accepted into humanity. His tragedy was that when he attempted to enter the human race, there was no human race there.

>didn't really "get" As I Lay Dying in high school
>used to be a huge Nabokov fanboy
>considered the Nobel Prize to be more a curse than a blessing or recommendation
>fucking James Franco
>ended up avoiding his work for a large part of my youth
>finally cracked open The Sound and the Fury
>not one of the best books I've ever read, but really good
>read Light in August; better
>plow through a lot of his short stories
>jesus christ, how could I be so blind?
>read Absalom, Absalom!
>turns out to be one of the best books I've ever read
Has this happened to any of you? Did you avoid an author for no reason only to find out they were perfect for you all along?

>>8446162
Simple solution, don't only ravenously consume, but actually produce your own work as well. Stop imposing artificial barrier upon yourself, you don't need a degree to do what you love. You shouldn't strive to be an artist if you aren't willing to suffer for your art. Whatever suffering happened in the past will only make the reward sweeter. Also, drop the fucking trombone and learn a real instrument.

Probably this guy right? Or any of the other required high school reading authors like
>Melville
>Hemingway
>Whitman
No not you Fitzgerald. Fuck you.

Faulkner hate thread
The Sound and the Fury is fucking unbearable with its pretentious vocabulary. Stream of consciousness be some retarded shit. Also the main character is literally retarded.

Why are so many authors such terrible human beings? Hemingway, Dostoevsky, Faulkner, Joyce etc. Who are some genuinely good people that have written great works of literature?

>inb4 any saints

I. Is there a flowchart for Faulkner's books?
II. What is his best book?
III. Does he shit on Hemingway?
IV. Would you count him as continental and/or existentialist?
V. Is he the American Tolstoy?

Also general discussion.

Oh boy this one is going to be hard.

I'm writing a book, and for a part of it I need to do some research on solipsism. What books should I read?

Pic unrelated.

It's time for a thread about the greatest writer who ever lived.

Sound and the Fury is his best novel, in my opinion.

>>7878740
Which it is,

And isnt.

Where do I start with William Faulkner?

Anyone have the picture of Mishima doing dumb bell bench press?

I need it... for reasons.

"My mother is a fish."

>>6435623

Bruh, not even a good shot of him.