/lit/ - Literature

>>10746154
The complete works of Frederick Nietzsche

Charles Dickens

people say Kazua Ishiguro but I doubt any of us have actually read him

>>10746170
I did in high school, he's ok but hardly Nobel worthy. His stuff is elevated YA

totally proust.

Ezra Pound

>>10746180
t. only read never let meg o

>>10746158
Dickens is low-brow, though not in a bad way

>>10746190
True but I'm familiar with Remains of the Day too, its nothing impressive

>>10746198
"i'm familiar with it"
so you haven't read it

>>10746200
Nah, seen its adaption which given its positively Victorian structure is just the same

>>10746207
trust me the adaptation, while fine as far as book adaptations go, completely miss the point of the novel. The book is way too internalized to be good for a screen adaptation, unlike NLMG.

Almost everything France has ever produced, in literature, philosophy and also music desu.

>>10746385
Big if true

>>10746394
Turn up the Erik Satie!

Peterson.

>>10746154
DFW
Franzen

>>10746154
Go to any used book sale and look at the contemporary fiction section. You'll see what I'm talking about
The art of racing in the rain, the bridges of madison county, the curious incident of the dog in the night time, and so on

>>10746405
>Canadian academic
I hope this is bait

The "existentialists". Buncha fuckin psueds

>>10746185
>most obtuse, theoretical and referential poet of the 20th century
>middlebrow

>>10746170
I read half of Buried giant before giving up.

>>10746464
Intellectualism is middle-brow, yes.

>>10746154
>midwit philosophy
Empiricism, 90% of Neoplatonism, Fichte, Young Hegelians other than Marx, early Husserl, most Marxists, Jung, Jacobi, Neokantians, Russell, Utilitarians.
>literature
Pic related.

>>10746454
>>10746385
These

>>10746495
>that comment
>that pic
brainlet post of the year

>>10746495
>pic related
Le prose and style are more important than substance may may.

>>10746468
brainlet

>>10746503
>he genuinely believes there aren't conditions of experience
>he genuinely believes most neoplatonists other than Plotinus had the slightest idea what the fuck they were doing
>he likes Fichte
>muh humanity
>muh religion
>muh ego
>he lkes Psychologism
>he doesn't understand the scope of most marxists I'm using and his brain translates my text to 'most marxist philosophers' because he can't fucking read
>he likes Jung's comically complex theory of conditions of experience
>he doesn't understand the problem with Jacobi's criticism of Kant
>he doesn't get Hegel
>he a cuck
>he a bigger cuck

>>10746154
pretty sure middlebrow is just another /lit/ buzzword that hold no meaning outside of "i don't like it and want to be a smug prick."

>>10746533
>muh substance and moral truths
This line of thinking is why the academia is in its current state.

>>10746495
>it's an inaccessibility=substance episode

>>10746495
>college professors and literary critics don't know about James Joyce

how fucking retarded would you have to be

>>10746536
>>10746562
You're a very depressing man.

>>10746551
No it was actually invented by Virginia "I'm better than you" Woolf to insult plebs

>>10746194
>>10746158
>He hasn't read Dickens
>He doesn't know what Pynchon thinks of him
>Doesn't know what Bloom thinks of him

stop, plebs

>>10746568
Wtf I am two persons at once now

>>10746571
so i was right then.

>>10746575
Wtf me too.

>>10746190
Still pisses me off that Meg never got to o

>>10746562
Lol, it's the complete opposite. Academia is the way it is because moral relativists like you took over.

>>10746536
>>he genuinely believes there aren't conditions of experience
Wait no one can be THIS much of a pseud this has to be a mista-
>>he doesn't get Hegel
Oh no never mind, you are just a useless pseud. NEXT!

>>10746495
>William Gaddis
>Flann O'Brien
>roughly the same level
Really? I found O'Brien to be one of the most immediately funny authors of all time, right up there with Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh" and Italo Calvino (or Chaucer and Aristophanes). Gaddis, on the other hand, is dense with historical allusions and flatout references. Both are good, but I thought O'Brien was very accessible.

>>10746565
Not that they don't know about but that they don't truly KNOW his work.

Kierkegaard, Kant, any Marxist who is not Marx, Stirner, all analytical philosophy, Lacan, Derrida, McLuhan, Nabokov, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Goethe, Locke, Rousseau, Shakespeare, all of the Romans except Virgil and Ovid, Dante (should be considered master of pleb with Shakespeare), Beckett, Camus, Sartre, Hemingway, Faulkner, almost all English writers and philosophers, Evola, Guenon, Augustine, Aquinas (any christfag), Aristotle, Euclid, all of the German racialist writers from Lanz to Rosenberg, that Weninger nerd, Marinetti the futurist homo, Mishima, all Japanese authors, all female authors without a single exception in human history, any writer who was a bad poet, Borges, Stoics, Epicureans, Aristophanes, Sophocles (infinitely worse than Aeschylus), Marlowe, Baidou, Stein, Roth, the whole of the Beats, Emerson and Whitman, Thoreau, Miller, Mailer, Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, Jung, Spinoza, Parmenides, all non-Mahayana or Theravada buddhism, Esoteric Hitlerists, all WN lit like Siege, Turner Diaries and The Foundation, any books or philosophers that show timidity of spirit and an unwillingness to encounter the world and Self
>>10746571
women aren’t human they don’t get to coin words, whoever the first male was that interpreted her barking is the one who coined it
>>10746536
this is incredible shadow boxing

>>10747022
>ho is not Marx, Stirner, all analytical philosophy, Lacan, Derrida, McLuhan, Nabokov, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Goethe, Locke, Rousseau, Shakespeare, all of the Romans except Virgil and Ovid, Dante (should be considered master of pleb with Shakespeare), Beckett, Camus, Sartre, Hemingway, Faulkner, almost all English writers and philosophers, Evola, Guenon, Augustine, Aquinas (any christfag), Aristotle, Euclid, all of the German racialist writers from Lanz to Rosenberg, that Weninger nerd, Marinetti the futurist homo, Mishima, all Japanese authors, all female authors without a single exception in human history, any writer who was a bad poet, Borges, Stoics, Epicureans, Aristophanes, Sophocles (infinitely worse than Aeschylus), Marlowe, Baidou, Stein, Roth, the whole of the Beats, Emerson and Whitman, Thoreau, Miller, Mailer, Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, Jung, Spinoza, Parmenides, all non-Mahayana or Theravada buddhism, Esoteric Hitlerists, all WN lit like Siege, Turner Diaries and The Foundation, any books or philosophers that show timidity of spirit and an unwillingness to encounter the world and Self
How do you reconcile this ludicrous opinion with the fact you're some fat loser on the internet with no achievements comparable to any of these people?

>>10746572
>He hasn't read Dickens

EVERYONE has read Dickens

>>10747022
Superp bait m'lord! Bit too much effort though.

>>10746572
>but X & Y think highly of Z!
wow, you sure showed us

>>10746156
ayy le fonni mayme

>>10747041
lol at you
>>10747130
all serious opinions especially women and shakespeare

>>10747262
I don’t believe you

>>10746495
This pic is terible because it mixes style and substance. Joyce is a great stylist but rather shallow. He should be nowhere near the bottom.

my diary desu

>>10746154
>midwit/middle-brow philosophy?
all of it

>>10747262
>>10747022

>>10746154
Sam Harris

The more you grow, the more you realize American Poetry is the peak of the brows.

>>10746154
Malcolm Gladwell

>>10747317
To be fair with Joyce the style is the substance

>>10746533
>muh psy ants
>substance

>>10746495
>other than Marx
wew

>>10747022
>t.

>>10746563
et the pancake cot

>>10746154
This thread is the embodiment of D E G E N E R A C Y.

Even the OP picture succeeds in describing the mood of this thread.

“Hi, what do you dick wavers think is shit so we can feel like we’re of superior intellect.”

Then it’s >insert /lit/ author because kek and super edge.

Hurr durr learn to appreciate art for what it’s worth get your inferiority complex out of /lit/, back to >>/b/

David Sedaris

>>10746181
t. brainlet

>>10749554
Someone's a little salty tonight

>>10749251
U mad

>>10746620
Wrong brainlet. MUH LITERATURE SHOULD SERVE A MORAL PURPOSE fags like you who don't have the faintest idea of what aesthetic appreciation is are the currently dominating strain of critics.
Dumbfaggot.

>>10746154
Joyce