/lit/ - Literature

>>12724307
I already read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Is there anything else?

Women can’t write.

Women unironically can't write fiction that men would enjoy, because they have zero sympathy for the male experience and men in general.

Jacqueline de Romilly is the last woman I read. (nonfiction of course)

BRONTEGANG

Imagine wasting your time reading meaningless garbage written by a stupid whore when there is a near infinite number of legitimate pieces of literature written by men, who actually have something to say.
Do you also read books written by children?
The only purpose of women is to create more men.
Men ARE humanity.

Pride and prejudice

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>>12724420
Incels SEETHING that the greatest English-language author is a woman

>>12724458
Oh god oh no
>20 goodboy points have been deposited into your account. You are only 980 away from getting a whiff of used up vagina!

>>12724307
Only woman author I like

>>12724322
elaborate...you may have a point here

>>12724307
women dont exist

>>12724322
They sympathy for Chad
The rest of us are cannon fodder though

Marianne Moore for me

>>12724511
I don't get it?

>>12724511
you know he's a man right?

>>12724322

>'''Unless a writer can relate to /my/ experience it's not worth reading''

Do you think the majority of writers can relate to the experience of a mid-twenties Bhutanese tennis board lurker? You shouldn't only read things which you can relate to yourself, you should also read things which speak to an experience different than yours.

>>12724600
Fuck what I should read
School is done
I read whatever I fucking well please
Please me or starve

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>>12724307
This underrated Canadian princess

>>12724545

Can someone post synopsis/buttpirate link?

>>12724786
>buttpirate
A man who pilages another mans anus.

Charlotte Lennox.

>>12724322
/thread

>>12724511
Based retard

>>12724307
Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre is pretty good so far desu

I highly recommend everyone read this

>>12724307
aliette de bodard

>>12724307
savitri devi

>>12724420
this completely unironically

>>12724458
>incel tee-hee

>>12724966
Yes. Lightning and the sun is ace

>>12724307

Clarice Lispector

great prose and a certified qt

>>12724322
Read Memoirs of Hadrian.

Even then, why would women be obligated to write something that men can identify with? That doesn’t decrease a work’s value.

>>12724762
Who? Google search doesn't give a name.

reminder that bronte is literally /ourgirl/

>>12724458
You're here among us for a reason filth, get back in line.

>>12725125
Jay Macpherson (1930ish-2012)

>>12724307
Has there ever been a bigger feminist hero than Nin? She fucked whoever she wanted including her own father. She truly paved the way forward.

>>12724600
people who watch too many cartoons think that a work is bad if they can't "empathize" with the "MC". sad!

it´s a fine day to start with Schopenhauer

>>12724307
>I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
>We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
>You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.
>I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.

beautiful quotes desu

Gonna read Emily Brontë's poems after the recent autism threads. Also Marguerite Duras

>43 posts
>no George Eliot

>>12724307
>The earliest Women's Day observance, called "National Woman's Day," was held on February 28, 1909, in New York, organized by the Socialist Party of America at the suggestion of Theresa Malkiel.
>The daughter of a well-to-do Jewish family that immigrated to New York City in 1891, she was well educated and literate in German and Russian.
>Soon after her arrival in New York she joined the Russian Workingmen's Club. In 1892 she organized the Infant Cloakmaker's Union of New York, a group of mostly Jewish women, and became its first president.

>>12724307
All you subhuman incels deserve the rope.

Also Mary Oliver is based, finished a few of her collections this year already.

>>12725498
love you man

>>12725498
BASED

>>12725498
why is everythign jewish

>>12725567
People think there's a big conspiracy but honestly we're just better than Euros.

>>12725581
why do you want to live inEuro countries then

>>12725585
Because it's easier to subjugate Euros than muslims.

>Ctrl f Ayn rand
>Zero
Are you all delusional? Do you have a mental illnes?

>>12725221
What’s the best place to start reading her? She sounds cool.

>>12724446
Why do people like this? It's such a boring generic fairy-tale inspired women's fanfic.

>>12725682
Delta of Venus or Little Birds is her smutty stuff
I also enjoyed Henry and June her diary about her affair with Henry Miller (and a couple other guys) and her unconsummated lesbian obsession with Henry’s wife, June.
That’s all I’ve read of hers.

>>12725486
I read Silas Marner awhile back and liked it quite a bit but haven't read anything else by her.

>>12725724
>it’s the template for the entire romcom genre
>Austen’s use of free indirect speech was revolutionary
>it’s actually a proto-feminist social satire on marriage politics

Austen is a good novelist. Not my favourite by a long shot, but her inclusion in the Western Canon makes perfect sense.

>>12725760
I like artsy smut alot, so that’s interesting. I’m assuming that Nin’s smut is deeper than just plain pornography?

>>12725724
Its good?

>>12724420
sad but true
i feel like we've created this illusion of gender equality to make us feel less alone
but man truly is alone

>>12724307
She needs no introduction.

>>12726053
Please introduce me anyway

>ctrl+F
>Zero results for “Jean Rhys”
>Zero results for “Wide Sargasso Sea”
You’ve disappoint me more than usual /lit/. This gem here isn’t exactly obscure.

>>12725871
I don’t know if Nin’s smut is deeper but she does have nice prose
And though she had some sapphic crushes she really did love the dick

>>12725760
Would you know in which one she talks about her affair with her father? Remember jerking off to it some years ago but now I can't find it.

>>12726074
Clarice Lispector. Ukrainian-Jewish-Brazilian author.

>>12726544
Incest: From a Journal of Love

I haven’t read it but that’s what I came up with on google

>>12726566
>Ukrainian-Jewish
next

>>12724307
Simone de Beaouvyoiere
You make sure french surnames have all the vowels, right?

>>12726566
Post a stunning quote from her.

>>12724322
>implying you have to have sympathy for the "male experience" to write enjoyable fiction

>>12724325
and with zero replies. thanks for posting this.

>>12726673
"One large bread and two croissants please"
"Thanks, you too"

>>12726905
Thanks for the laugh anon.

>>12724307
Respill me on Savitri Devi

>>12724458
>what if a write like a fucking retard
>that'll show them!

Legitimately the funniest thing to happen to Western literature in centuries.

alice munro short stories (moons of jupiter at the moment)

>>12727068
Woolf is like Joyce except that she's better, tbqh.

There were points in Joyve's career where he went to far with his experimental writing style. Woolf meanwhile, struck the right balance between being experimental and while still being focused and concise.

>>12727080
I can't stand either of them. Pretentious and boring, but that's just what I've read of them. Ms. Dalloway and half of Ulysses.

Anything you'd recommend of either of them?

>>12727102
The Waves is good

But now the circle breaks. Now the current flows. Now
we rush faster than before. Now passions that lay in wait
down there in the dark weeds which grow at the bottom rise
and pound us with their waves. Pain and jealousy, envy and
desire, and something deeper than they are, stronger than
love and more subterranean. The voice of action speaks.
Listen, Rhoda (for we are conspirators, with our hands on
the cold urn), to the casual, quick, exciting voice of action, of
hounds running on the scent. They speak now without
troubling to finish their sentences. They talk a little language
such as lovers use. An imperious brute possesses them. The
nerves thrill in their thighs. Their hearts pound and churn
in their sides. Susan screws her pocket-handkerchief. Jinny's
eyes dance with fire

>>12727102
Dubliners is Joyce at his least experimental. You should at least read a few of the stories from there.

I'm personally a big fan of The Waves when it comes to Woolf, but that's her most experimental work. You may or may not like it as a result. Woolf is similar to Proust in the sense that her primary strength is her prose rather than engaging plots and such.

Woolf is also one of the best essay writers I've seen. People like to praise A Room of One's Own to high heaven (quite rightly), but The Three Guineas is also a good one.

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>>12724420
Have sex

>>12724935
Damn Penguin. That cover is so deceptive.
Do you have that copy, anon? Or does anyone know the title?

Reading some short stories from Tove Jansson and some essays from Ursula K. Le Guin. The Wave in the Mind. I recommend both often enough