/lit/ - Literature

>>11904613
Lol no moby dick
Lol no Faulkner
Lol no Eliot or Stevens
Lol no Emerson

>>11904618
This desu

>>11904618
As I Lay Dying sucked

Haven’t read any other faulkner

>>11904696
Did you go to the poor people school anon :(

>>11904722
Yes desu. Rural Kansas, I only had 34 kids in my high school graduating class.

>>11904618
I was trying to bait people into replying

Of Mice and Men really is a perfect novella tho

>Inifinite Jest

19 year old white boys were a fucking mistake.

Lolita
To Kill A Mockingbird
Old Man and the Sea
Sound and the Fury
Moby Dick
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
All the Pretty Horses

The Wings of The Dove
The Golden Bowl
The Ambassadors

>>11904613
My guy! No Moby Dick!

>Leaves of Grass
>Moby-Dick
>Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
>Huck Finn
>Angels in America
>The Sound and the Fury
>Lolita
>Blood Meridian
>Collected Stories of Ernest Hemingway
>The Waste Land

>the cantos

>>11904613
Where's Culture of Critique and Fanged Noumena?

>>11904952
Nick Land is a bong

Whitman (preferably the first edition of LoG, although the Deathbed version is a lifetime’s dedication)
Dickinson (the originals, without any of the early editors’ meddling)
Emerson (formal writings>journal)
Thoreau (journal>formal writings)
Hawthorne (short stories first, then novels)
Melville (haven’t read all of his poetry, Confidence-man, or Israel Potter, but everything else is top-notch, except Clarel does drag in some spots)
Poe (pretty much everything)
Twain (TS and HF are a pretty good encapsulation of his career: he went from writing bright colorful tales to satirical and sarcastic condemnations, and following his career from one to the other is fascinating)
H James (every novel is a portrait and every tale is a landscape)
Faulkner (had to put him in because I couldn’t choose any other single writer, all around amazing)

>>11904969
He's also full of shit

excuse you motherfuckers

>>11904613
Stoner desu

pretty much everybody agrees on moby dick, leaves of grass, and huck finn

dickinson is also obvious but she didn't really have any "works" in the proper sense

also I'm a poetry pleb

but if we are only doing 1 work of fiction per author then the rest is as follows:

the ambassadors
miss lonelyhearts & day of the locust
gravity's rainbow
the sound and the fury
going to meet the man
confederacy of dunces
winesburg ohio

Catch 22 deserves to be on these lists

A Farewell to Arms is much better than The Old Man and the Sea.

The Sound and the Fury
Absalom, Absalom!
As I Lay Dying
Light in August
Go Down, Moses
Moby-Dick
Huck Finn
Blood Meridian
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Grapes of Wrath

>>11904941
based

>>11905908
James is too European and the rest aside from Faulkner is too mediocre

>>11904613
Lolita is Russian

>>11904613
Your list is dogshit, sorry.

>Moby Dick
>Portrait of a Lady
>Absalom, Absalom!
>Cannery Row
>The Great Gatsby

>>11904613
Why does no one except for OP mention The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? Carson McCullers is great and I can see why OP would mention her debut, especially alongside something like To Kill A Mockingbird, a book that pales in comparison to THiaLH imho.

>>11906259
>Cannery Row above Of Mice and Men

>>11904861
Of Mice and Men was the worst book I've ever read

>>11906316
>Of Mice and Men
>Not the vastly better East of Eden

How's high school?

>>11905772
He was by far the most talented writer of his generation but he just fucking squandered it.

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Spend ten racks on a new chain
My bitch love do cocaine, ooh
I fuck a bitch, I forgot her name
I can't buy a bitch no wedding ring
Rather go and buy Balmains
Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang (Gucci gang!)
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Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang (Gucci gang!)
Spend ten racks on a new chain
My bitch love do cocaine, ooh
I fuck a bitch, I forgot her name, yeah
I can't buy no bitch no wedding ring
Rather go and buy Balmains, aye
Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang

My lean cost more than your rent, ooh
Your mama still live in a tent, yeah
Still slanging dope in the jets, huh
Me and my grandma take meds, ooh
None of this shit be new to me
Fucking my teacher, call it tutory
Bought some red bottoms, cost hella Gs
Fuck your airline, fuck your company
Bitch, your breath smell like some cigarettes
I'd rather fuck a bitch from the projects
They kicked me out the plane off a Percocet
Now Lil Pump fly a private jet
Everybody screaming "fuck West Jet!"
Lil Pump still sell that meth
Hunnid on my wrist sippin on Tech
Fuck a lil bitch, make her pussy wet

Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang
Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang (Gucci gang!)
Spend ten racks on a new chain
My bitch love do cocaine, ooh
I fuck a bitch, I forgot her name
I can't buy a bitch no wedding ring
Rather go and buy Balmains
Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang (Gucci gang!)
Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang
Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang (Gucci gang!)
Spend ten racks on a new chain
My bitch love do cocaine, ooh
I fuck a bitch, I forgot her name
I can't buy no bitch no wedding ring
Rather go and buy Balmains, aye
Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang

Lil Pump, yeah, Lil Pump, ooh

>>11906450

>>11906450
Yeah, I'll hit a bitch, 'cause I got nothin' to lose (pew, pew, yeah)
Bought it all cash, I got somethin' to prove
And I'm just fuckin' with 'em, I got nothin' to do
Runnin' through these checks, like the ones on my shoes (woo, woo, woo, woo)
So don't get geeked up (bitch), might get beat up (ho)
Tell that ho I'm movin' in 'cause her lease up (get the fuck out)
So don't get geeked up (bitch), might get beat up (ho)
Movin' how I wanna, with my feet up (woo, woo, woo, woo)

Yeah, my nails pink, but my hunnids blue (hunnids blue)
Runnin' in these threes, to these W's (runnin', bitch)
And I might let you chill if I fuck with you
I don't wanna meet ya mama, I ain't cuffin' you
60 a show (60 a show), look at this dough, look at this
Back of the Ghost, that's how I roll, I'm on some whole other shit
Diamonds colored like a Rubix cube
My name Bhad Bhabie, bitch, who is you?

Yeah, I'll hit a bitch, 'cause I got nothin' to lose (pew, pew, yeah)
Bought it all cash, I got somethin' to prove (somethin' to prove)
And I'm just fuckin' with 'em, I got nothin' to do
Runnin' through these checks, like the ones on my shoes (woo, woo, woo, woo)
So don't get geeked up (bitch), might get beat up (ho)
Tell that ho I'm movin' in 'cause her lease up (get the fuck out)
So don't get geeked up (bitch), might get beat up (ho)
Movin' how I wanna, with my feet up (woo, woo, woo, woo)

[Lil Baby:]
I'll one night ya (night)
I might taste it if I like it, I won't wife ya (wife)
Pull up Viper (Vipe)
All my jewelry the right one
Ballin', I go Mike Jordan
Get head while I'm recordin'
On FaceTime, won't record me
60 for a show, I'm important
All my spots got glass windows (yeah)
She want snow, no December
I'ma go slow, go deep in her
Runnin' through checks, they keep appearin'
I don't get scared, I'm God-fearin'
New G-Wagon, I barely steer it
Paid all cash, don't do leases

[Bhad Bhabie & Lil Baby:]
Yeah I'll hit a bitch
Leases (pew, pew, yeah)
Bought it all cash
Mothafuckin' ballin'
And I'm just fuckin' with 'em
Just fuckin' with 'em
Runnin' through these checks, like the ones on my shoes

[Bhad Bhabie:]
So don't get geeked up (bitch), might get beat up (ho)
Tell that ho I'm movin' in 'cause her lease up (get the fuck out)
So don't get geeked up (bitch), might get beat up (ho)
Movin' how I wanna, with my feet up

>>11906324
Most popular Steinbeck is unbearable socialist propaganda. It really amazes me that the communist fad of the 30s has retained positive critical assessment over the decades.

Somehow people still think we should teach children that if your dreams don't come true, it's society's fault and you have no choice but to murder your friend. Or that capitalism destroys everything, steals from the truly productive, and that only in a literal FDR commune can there be a productive society.

Steinbeck came up with the worst, least persuasive arguments against American culture. I guess that's why he's popular with high school teachers and students, because they're the only ones dumb enough to uncritically listen to him.

>>11904613
>infinite jest
>not gravity's rainbow
why?

>>11906514
this post gave me brain damage

>>11906519
Pynchon is empty.

>>11906530
But that’s a good thing

>>11906514
Easy on the ideology bugs. Steinbeck is a good writer. He does have a tendency to be overly romantic but his novels are compelling and have their merits. Also Steinbeck renounced his socialist thoughts later in life.

>>11904613
>American lit
>Nabokov
Imagine being such a literary non-entity of a country that you have to count a Russian writing in English as "American".

>>11906567
But Anon, how can America be a non-entity when we happen to have pioneered Post Modern lit?

>>11906514
>Somehow people still think we should teach children that if your dreams don't come true, it's society's fault and you have no choice but to murder your friend.
I did not read this way at all. He killed him because he loved him more than anything else on this world and he knew that they'd never get their farm with him always fuckig things up.
Do you have to politicize everything you read? Is your mind so infected by politics that you've lost the ability to think beyond it?
I mean, it's hard to doubt that part of it was social criticism but it wasn't the core of the text.

>>11906567
Coглaceн. Haция cвинeй пpичиcляeт к cвoим пaчкyнaм нaшeгo мacтepa.

>>11904613
critically probs Sound and the Fury (though Absalom and As I Lay Dying are better imo), Leaves of Grass, Poems of Emily Dickinson, Moby Dick, and a tie between Gatsby and Huck Finn. James is too hotly debated still, Hemingway wrote all his best stuff not on US soil (same for Eliot), Salinger was a two hit wonder, Nabokov wasn’t really American, Steinbeck was a literal meme, all of our short storyists and playwrights are cheap magicians, and the only notable books of the past 50 or so years have been Blood Meridean and Gravity’s Rainbow (neither of which are internationally received well, or nearly as well as our “classics”).

>>11904613
the toppest of keks

also
>Infinite Jest
damn, you niggers actually think it's good. fuck.

>>11906652
(((Dugin))) pls

>>11904861
It is a fine work, but if you're going to put Steinbeck on any list, East of Eden and Grapes of Wrath clearly have to come before it. And I would personally also rank To a God Unknown and Tortilla Flat higher as well.

>>11906822
Чтo?

>>11906538
why

>>11906852
The Grapes of Wrath is a more flawed East of Eden imo

>>11904889
AtPH was great but nowhere near the greatest, not even McCarthy's best.

>>11904618
>moby's d*ck
you are an unlearned swine aren't you?

>>11904613
Huck Finn
Moby-Dick
The Sound and the Fury
East of Eden
Blood Meridian

All their poets suck.

strictly speaking, Lolita is not American, just as Hamlet is not Danish

>>11908289
>Lolita is not American
He wrote and published the book in America, as an American citizen.

THE
SOUND
AND
THE
FURY
BY
WILLIAM
FAULKNER
OF
MISSISSIPPI

>>11908381
Lolita was first published in Paris, France.