/lit/ - Literature

These are the last relevant authors in the history of literature and when their debut work came out. What does /lit/ think of them?
>Philip Roth (1959)
>Thomas Pynchon (1963)
>Joyce Carol Oates (1964)
>Cormac McCarthy (1965)
>Toni Morrison (1970)
>Don DeLillo (1971)
>Salman Rushdie (1975)
>Haruki Murakami (1979)
>David Foster Wallace (1987)
>Jonathan Franzen (1988)
>W.G. Sebald (1988)
>Zadie Smith (2000)

Here's how you decolonize literary studies.
>Freshman year
The Sumerians, Greeks, Romans, Indians, and Chinese all from BCE
>Sophomore year
The Italians, Japanese, Arabs, Persians, British, Indians, and Chinese from 0-1699 CE
also including Epic of Sundiata from Mali, Kebra Nagast from Ethiopia, and Popol Vuh from the Mayans
>Junior Year
The Americans and the British in the 19th century
>Senior Year
20th and 21st century literature from around the world

American education should begin foreign language education at kindergarten, and everyone should be taught in the following languages
>Ancient Greek
>Latin
>Spanish (access to most of central and South America, pretty easy to learn Portuguese if you already know Spanish)
>one other European language of their choice
>Arabic
>Hindi
>one East Asian language of their choice

The storm roared outside of the window, the face of the young man looked at her and smiled. When everything screamed all of the terrifying spirits were sleeping, the white horse looked down on the sea of stars, and then Ten Swords Crown quivered.

The darkness of the day was like a blazing furnace of millions of knives striking against the shield at the edge of the high mountain, his disciples dove down into the sword valley, saw the spot where the magic shield was dazzled, and a large number of people were wearing black cloaks, was the giant shadow of the first generation.

He stood behind the people with the big cloak, his beard like a sea, his eyes were like lakes and snow, his sound was like endless water, he yelled, “Secret Martial Arts, make a decision, the main hall is nearing!”

Secret Martial Arts, come, three hundred people were standing at the outset of the high mountain, the sound of countless sharp swords, together with three silver-haired emperors, his sound like a raging stream, the morale of the qing gong knights was like a tidal wave, they all shouted, “Secret Martial Arts, Come, eight hundred people, go, make up for our mistakes!”

Xgao was befuddled, all this exotic force was more than four times as large as the force of the three sects, like the sea, divided into three groups, then the main group plunged into the sword valley.

“Thirty mortal enemies, prepare to die!”

Women are. Men become.

If you have no interest in being an actual short story writer like George Saunders, Jorge Luis Borges, or Flannery O'Connor, is it still worth it to publish short stories in an attempt to get a novel approved, or is it preferable to attempt going straight into novel writing? According to Brandon Sanderson, these days it's easier to just go into novels, but he deals in the world of genre fiction.

everything you can conceive is a byproduct of your brain's activity, even this sentence, the meaning of this sentence, the very concept of meaning. there is no way to know the representation we have of the universe is correct, even the terms of this sentence are mere representation. The only limited truth we can attain is located inside your brains; hence we must reasonably believe in our senses. Now I've seen people die, hence death exists

>>9943398
Maybe less of a role model and more of a 'way out' Emma's fate. I mean Emma is trapped, she doesn't like Charles and she has 'higher' yearnings. Obviously Flaubert mocks those but if you go the other way you get Charles' way of a life, which can't be the one Flaubert agrees with since, you know, he's a writer, an 'artist', not a countryside physician. So the solution cannot reside in simply suppressing these yearnings, and ultimately discarding them. You could say she fucked up with Lheureux but had she not she still would've cucked Charles and thrown away by Rodolphe.

Then comes Larivière who's venerated by his students, sharp, generous with the poor, friendly. and most importantly he scorns decorations and 'practices virtue without believing in it'. Those few things ARE Lariviere, we know nothing else about him, not his looks, not his family situation, etc. His position as chief surgeon is only a reason for him to intervene. The only other scene in which he is involved gives us absolutely no information about him, which is remarkable since in the conversation he has with Homais what he says or how he reacts to Homais' ramblings is weirdly, simply not written down.

the symbolism is then obvious: 'he', that is his behavior, arrived too late in Emma's life

>>9907807
I haven't done much reading on derrida, so please excuse my plebbing.

My question is: isn't deconstruction a confirmation of structuralism, in a way? I mean, to actually be able to deconstruct means there should be a structure somewhere to be dismantled.

Also, how can we as human make sense of what we read if there is no solid structure that governs our understanding of meaning? What does he says in this regard?

>>9126635
fuckin' fight me

>>8887815
If someone is presenting an idea, you look at the idea first and judge it based on it's own merits.

If the idea stands on it's own, then it stands on it's own. If it doesn't you look at the person who presented it and in what context they were presenting it and ask yourself why it doesn't.

To be blunt, it doesn't really matter if someone doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about if they end up being right regardless of that. I.E. If someone says 2*2=4 without knowing what multiplication is it doesn't suddenly mean that 2*2 isn't four.

Throughout all their travels together the judge never touches the kid. Even when they're enemies he only taunts him.

What changes? The kid becomes the man, shoots the boy, and has sex with a prostitute.

By losing his innocence he becomes vulnerable and the judge can destroy them.

The judge scalps the little Indian girl when no one is looking, and when he throws the puppies in the river it's someone else who shoots them. I feel it's also important that he saves the idiot's life when he's drowning.

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>>6596387
They will if you kill a lot of people.

Is there such a thing as a good female author?

I just went through my entire library and I noticed that all the authors are men.

d-d-does that make me sexist?