/lit/ - Literature

>>12384496

Oh good! A Roth thread no one is using. Start with Goodbye Columbus then go onto Portnoy. From there check out the following: his essay on Bellow, The Counterlife, The Breast, American Pastoral, The Plot Against America, Everyman and then everyone’s favorite, Sabbath’s Theater

>>12384625
Cheers mate. I was just going to start with Portnoy's Complaint but I'll take your advice.

Start by preheating your oven, of course.

American Pastoral then Sabbath's Theater and then forget about him.

>>12384496
What do you guys think about his swan song: Nemesis?

>>12384496
>Take the book and throw it into the trash where it belongs
There

>>12384724
Shit list, absolutely shit

Where is Horacio Castellanos Moya, Lydia Davis, Yoko Ogawa, Paul Beatty, Marilynme Robinson, Sergio. De La Pava, Louis Armand, Deborah Eisenberg, Ngugi Wo Thiongo, Gass, Elfriede Jelinek, William Vollmann, Alexander Chee, Michael Cisco, Joy Williams, and Evan Dara?

This list is good, but absolutely bound by B&N culture, nothing at the forefront except Enrigue, and even then you couldn't include his wife?

3/10

>>12384625
This man is correct, but also read Operation Shylock; Roth considered it his masterpiece and you see its DNA in the next generation of writers, Cohen obviously taking it verbatim.

>>12384761
Make your own list, faggot. I don't care about any of those writers save Castellanos Moya, Gass and Vollmann. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o? Are you shitting me? A literal nigger who hasn't published anything relevant this century? Fuck off.

>>12384703
This post is controversial and unwarranted. Please cut it out.

>>12384761
>Yoko Ogawa
Opinion disregarded

>>12384793
>Hasn't read Wizard of the Crow or literally anything by Eisenberg

You will never make it, brother. I tried to help you but you gave hate back. Come back after reading some of my sampled. In time, you might learn to love language too.

>>12384703
>>12384737
Antisemitism isn't cool anymore.

>>12384806
Try Kobo Abe instead, but never touch Murakami or whoever tainted the world with The Lonely Bodybuilder.

>>12384761
>Alexander Chee
are you serious?

>>12384807
I prefer that list over your literally who nigger-friendly list. Consider suicide.

>>12384816
Every pseud I know talks about his nonfiction book, but flip through Queen of the Night at a local bookstore. Some oneoff blog compared it to Carpentier's historical fabulism, and I'm inclined to agree. Very opera, though, so go in knowing it's effusive.

>>12384817
You really should google authors before you talk shit. Also, pretty hypocephalic of you to enter a thread about Phillip Roth and LARP about race. He wrote the Human Stain for you fags.

>>12384815
Who do you think you're talking to?
lmao

>>12384811
Nothing to do with antisemitism
He is pure trash

>>12384839
That's a colossal misreading of The Human Stain. I don't need to google your pathetic list, having a Wikipedia page doesn't mean they're greater or even at the level of the ones in the original list, save the exceptions I mentioned.

>>12384851
Nice collection, I've not yet gone further into Kawabata! My point still stands, The Diving Pool is great. She gets myopic characters well in a way I haven't read since Mishima's Decay of the Angel.

And if you didn't like? Fair enough, but you should recognize her great tension.

>>12384869
I dunno man, seems like you read literature less for language art and more social politics, then. If you don't know or like Eisenberg by this point? You really are fucked.

>>12384851
>reading translations of Eastern works

opinion disregarded

>>12384879
Poor me so fucked for not knowing let alone liking some contemporary living American female writer without a single Wikipedia page of any of her works. God, I'm so fucked. The absolute state of niggerlovers, ffs.

>>12384889
Better than not reading them at all, elitist.

>>12384897
>Gass' stories have no article either

You really are a kikefag

>>12384912
I made my exceptions, which included Gass, and I was talking about Eisenberg. Learn to read, faggot

>>12384936
Read more books and stop being asshurt someone called you out.

Literally all the books in your picture have been curated by publishing industries for single, humanities focused men between 21-36. You fucking idiot, you are as stereotypical in your tastes and sensibilities as the guys who get vasectomies while playing the latest nintendo. Break your mold and read a book.

>>12384957
Call me out on what? I curated the list, you colossal niggerlover. You are duller and more boring in your taste than the cheap toiler paper I use to whipe my ass everyday. I included only a taste of the best literature from this century, if you don't like it, then make your pathetic list full of literally whos, light writers, and niggers. Now fuck off once and for all.

>>12385015
>Zero K, Nemesis, and Your Gay Tomorrow are the best literature from this century

Somebody stop this mixed race autist! Just stop posting on /lit/ if you care this much about middlebrow.

>>12385029
I said a taste of the, faggot, not the. Keep your lame straw man for your gender studies debates. Like I said, make your bown pathetic list and see how it goes. Show us, oh niggerlover master of 21st century literature, or else stfu and kys

>>12385061
Okie dokie! I'll post it in my MFA too.

>>12384496
Portnoy is a trashy but entertaining novel. Perhaps the only novel in the last century that is honest enough to be of any use to a young man. Haven’t read any of his other work.

>>12384703
kek

>>12384496
>wrote a book about a black university professor pretending to be a Jew who gets accused of racism by the political correctness police
why isn't Roth a bigger meme here? is it really just that /pol/ doesn't read?

>>12384496
bagels

He is pretty great. Read American Pastoral, The Human Stain, Sabbath's Theater and Portnoi's Complaint. All are pretty terrific. His funniest is definitely Portnoi out of all those. I can definitely see how some people might not dig him though and that's fine.

>>12384724
>Littel#
>McEwan
>Knausgaard
>Delillo
>Mitchell
This is so painfully middlebrow a new york times tab spontaneously popped up in my browser.

>>12384724
You picked a failed screenplay made successful film over Blood Meridian, a 9/11 novel over literally any of his other works, Austerlitz over Emigrants, Polio over Portnoy, and then threw the Bardo on there just so we knew you are a /lit/ fraud and trash. Congrats, pseud.

>>12386925
>blood meridian
>21st century