/lit/ - Literature

bible bunch and salinger

>>11511546
Borges is one of those writers that people love to name drop without ever even saying what they specifically like about him. He’s the Yasujirō Ozu of literature, in that people bring him up all the time just to look cool.

>>11511559
>He’s the Yasujirō Ozu of literature, in that people bring him up all the time just to look cool.
Dumbest shit I hope to read on this board today.

>>11511546
delete this, then sell your computer

>>11511546
Pleb

>>11511572

You leave Bulgakov alone, meany.

>>11511572

Leave /lit/ and never return

>>11511573
>>11511576
T. pseuds.

>>11511559

>>11511559
Good post, subtle irony

>>11511553
>not realizing how pretentious Salinger felt when writing, but still did it as an act of love to the youth of his time.
Salinger is the opposite of pseud

>>11511559
But I genuinely like him, not my fault you Anglos can't get his sensibility.

>>11511569
chin up bro. the day is still young

>>11512947
what a beautiful man. there's really no other author like salinger t b h

joyce is brilliant, but a lot of his fans approach pseud territory. same goes for marlowe (people like to name drop him), moliere, brecht, proust, coelho, and ted kaczynski.

I like Nick Land but his fans are this biggest bunch of faggots on earth. Exibit A:
https://youtu.be/3QSOuVnFhEw

rimbaud

>>11513115
>FANS are not faggots
no such thing

>>11513165
This nigga speaks tha truth 100

This guy for sure.

The only writer/poet I can think of that is only possible to like by pretending to, and is posted about here, is Ezra Pound.

>>11513181
fuk u ur a pseud

Just based on the bulk qualities of their readers:

Nietzsche
Julius Evola
Marcus Aurelius
Machiavelli
Blaise Pascal (his non-math work)
Adam Smith
GWF Hegel
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Leon Trotsky
Julius Martov
Vladimir Lenin
Theodor Adorno
Derrida
Freud
Carl Jung
Lacan
Katharine Briggs
Clarence Myers
Slavoj Zizek
Robert Pirsig
Ayn Rand
Noam Chomsky
Adam Smith
John Maynard Keynes
Ludwig Von Mises
Umberto Eco
Paulo Coelho
E.E. Cummings
Sylvia Plath
Vlad Mayakovsky
Ogden Nash
D'Holbach
Christopher Marlowe
Honore de Balzac
Apollinaire
Rimbaud
Bertrand Russell
Richard Dawkins
Christopher Hitchens
Peter Hitchens
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Howard Zinn
John Foster
Walden Bello
Tariq Ali
Alan Greenspan
Phyllis Schlafly
Betty Friedan
Sapphire
Mark Danielewski
Theodore Kaczynski
L. Ron Hubbard
Joe Pizzorno (naturopathy)
Alexander Lowen (exercise physiology)
Bill James (sabermetrics)
Phil Gordon (poker)
Eckhart Tolle
Jordan Peterson

>>11513237
also Josh Cohen, DFW, and certain books by McCarthy

>>11513115
>ray brassier
>land "fan"

>>11513237
Plath isn't my favourite, but I wouldn't say her fans are pseuds. They are mostly sad girls who need a boyfriend.
Zizek fans however are the worst. I once knew a guy who called himself an "anarcho-communist- in thoery" and was a fan of Zizek. The only book of his he had read was his one on the migrant crisis and had never read Marx (but rest assured, he; "understood his thoeries"). He stopped talking to me because I asked him what his opinion of the alt right is and he got mad when I corrected his misconceptions about what they believed. I am not Alt-right.

>>11511546
Hegel

>>11513261
Nobody actually reads Hegel

>>11513237
Kantian faggot

>>11513237
>>11513249
+
René Guénon
Nassim Taleb
Spinoza
Sam Harris
Daniel Dennett

>>11511546
Good pick, OP. I'd add Melville.

>>11513237
Practically every Economist, Psychiatrist, Theologian, Philosopher, or wise-cracker will a self-proclaimed idea of humanity belongs on this list.

>>11513034
too easy, sweetie

>>11511546
Ayn Rand & Ann Coulter

>>11511546
This stupid-looking hack.

>>11513237
Add Shakespeare

>>11513237
This s an overall good list but

>Blaise Pascal
No. Read it. And read a commentary on the wagger and you'll see it's actually brilliant (because I know you and I know this is the only thing you have on your mind).

>Machiavelli
Nah, you just gotta understand he's being sarcastic and not be an edgelord about it.

>Honore de Balzac
No, he's pretty good.

>Apollinaire
>Rimbaud
No. I'm french and I can tell you when bothered writing in actual verse they produced some great stuff. Rimbaud is obviously overhyped but a genius still.

The rest is good.

>>11513335
Thanks. Time for me to revisit some Frenchmen.

Sorry to speak out of turn.

>>11513237
+HL Mencken, Thomas Wolfe, Timothy Leary, Jack Kerouac, Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, a bunch of other social critics

>>11513237
dont forget Adam Smith

>>11513485
lmao

darwin

>>11511559
I like his stuff. The stories aren't too long and there's a nice peaceful vibe to them. He was "late", though... whatever that means. There is something of the poison of the contemporary world already working in his stuff. Perhaps all his talk of olden days and dust and books is a reaction, a way of trying to fight against that... but yes, I like him because his stories are short, and simple, but also very complicated and profound.

>>11513115
Why do you like Nick Land? He's one of those abominable people who think that politics and philosophy are like poetry (that is, that they are a place where the imagination should run free).

Whenever something is the slightest bit good people are so liable to swarm around it like flies pretending they like it that it would be a better thread if OP had asked about authors only psueds dislike.

That is the problem with literature today: its merits are too well recognized. It's become a prestige medium, for the most part, and you can't discern the real voices from the savvy jews and idiots and apers and losers who just wanna look cool. RRRGH!!! IT'S BULLSHIT!!!

>>11513017

It's a documented fact that Anglos ruin everything good on the planet. Hopefully immigrants breed out the English ASAP

>>11511546
>>11513320
absolute plebeians.

>>11511559
i like his prose — though anglos will probably have a harder time with this —, i like the labyrinthic imagery, i like his occasional sense of humour, i like the fact that his stories are short and comfy to read and i like when shit gets meta and he starts mixing real stuff with made-up shit; it's very simple yet he does it very effectively.

there are a fuckton of authors i could namedrop to try and look cool. Borges just IS cool.

J.K. Rowling. Grown adults who read Harry Potter and consider it "Quality Literature" and not a children's book are why this is true.

>>11511559
Specifically, he does a good job of presenting ideas using rich, clean language.

He's a like Hemingway in that his focus is very masculine.

The Intruder, The Dead Man, and Blue Tigers are all GOAT imo

>>11513485
I've actually read Smith. Idk, why someone would go around saying they're a fan of his writing. Wealth of Nations is like 20% tables of wool and gold production in 16th-18th century Britain.

He did elucidate some important principles of political economy but you can get all of those principles in a much quicker and easier to understand format by listening to a youtube lecture or by reading a contemporary primer on economics.

>>11514006
kill yourself and your family

>>11511572

You fucking degenetate faggot cocksucker. How can you read The Master and Margarita and think that?

>>11513610
>implying politics has even the semblance of meaning it once had
With exceptions to comparative politics, or studies in that same vein, how would politics be so sacred as to not be adopted freely?

>>11515035
How can OP read 'Ficciones' and think that? Life is full of mysteries.