/lit/ - Literature

>be me
>be in
>find out my sister has some kind of cancer of bone marrow thing
>visit up the her at the hospital
>ward is almost empty and I ran up the ward
>was trying to find her at the ward and she started
>"anon!! what took you so long!"
>she looks unhealthy, bones marrow showing through to the top surafce
>look out the window
>see sister there
>dcotor says it up isn't the ward
>fuck

welp.

It's a term I'm reading a lot here and I was wondering if there was any acceptable definition other than "it's what comes after modernism." Superficially, it seems to me (correct me if I'm wrong) that there is a distinction between philosophical postmodernism (like Foucault, Deleuze, etc) and literary postmodernism (like Gaddis, Pynchon, etc). What is postmodernism? A movement? A woldview? An aesthetic? A style? I would like to know if any of you have a definition. Also, are 'postmodern' and 'postmodernist' the same thing?

Recommendations for books written with a robotic, almost screenplay-esque simplicity? All that describing shit in-depth is fucking gay

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Anyone else notice the similarity's between Oedipus and Job?

Of course they're still radically different, but I mean the difference can't be denied, especially in old age. Both "perfect men" if you will, in their own ways. But this merely strengthens the similarity.

What are some good books that feature protagonists who are extremely neurotic, self-hating, and obsessed with their past mistakes and/or with how others perceive them?

"Crafts" are manmade things of functional or aesthetic value.

"Art" is a type of craft that attempts to create a simulacrum of reality.

Crafts: pottery, textile crafts, smithing, architecture.

Art: literature, painting, film, videogames.

the main character in my diary

Any books where the protagonist resents his family for making him undergo psychiatric treatment?

Asking for a friend