/lit/ - Literature

>>12953749
The best decision I ever made was to give up reading any pomo shit besides Pynchon. It's all garbage written to make the reader and writer feel smart. It's a literary movement for soulless stemfags, by soulless stemfags.

Read Tolstoy

>>12953749
It means you have a low attention span, or arent smart enough to connect those types of sentences. Yikes.

>>12953772
bigger yikes

>>12953817
If something doesn't add anything to the story in the first place, and if someone were to criticize it, don't just make reddit-tier comments that add nothing.

>>12953749
to interrupt your immersion

>>12953845
>reddit tier comments that add nothing
Oh like yours? I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I am. Fucker

>>12953845
Bolaño's language is simple as fuck, man. His sentences arent even that complicated. If you're struggling with his prose you might want to read some Stephen King or James Patterson. very easy to handle sentences and nothing but straightforward plot.

I only read the first part which was so sinfully boring I decided that to continue would be an act of masochism.

>>12954702
>Bolaño's language is simple as fuck, man. His sentences arent even that complicated. If you're struggling with his prose you might want to read some Stephen King or James Patterson. very easy to handle sentences and nothing but straightforward plot.
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Its not that the language is complicated. It's that the idea of having multiple worthless subideas that interrupt your immersion within the book. The title clearly says >because it keeps interrupting the flow of the writing. If you can't read the title Patterson may be to hard for you to read.

just wait till you get to the story about the horse race lmao. its something like a four page long sentence

>>12954763
but they dont? the diversions are thematically within the narrative, and either way Bolaño's books are free form when it comes to the structure. maybe give us an example of what you're struggling to keep up with, because I dont ever remember being confused or too sidetracked when I did it, but then again I read it in spanish.

>>12954901
Thank you because if the diversions somehow relate to the theme you answered my question. I was originally confused why an author as good as Bolaño would create something that would take away from the flow from his work.If the diversions relate to the theme then it makes sense thank you. I will continue to read it.

>>12955999
checked

>>12953749
Dumb frogposter

>>12953772
>It's all garbage written to make the reader and writer feel smart.
this

>>12955999
>bolano's flow is interruptive, it doesnt even add to the story
>oh it "relates to the theme" okay
>i'll read it now

the fuck
no one gives a shit if you read it or not, like it or don't, you need permission or reassurance to read it, who gives a fuck

>>12953749
Read the whole thing. You can do it. Once you're finished, it will become one of the best books you've ever read, i promise you.

>>12953772
this is like second level pseudery. third level is when you accept that pomo writers are moderately smart and have something to say and you just need to learn how to read them to uncover it

>>12957216
Dude,, there's nothing to learn about pomo books that can't be uncovered in a quick wiki search

>>12954812
Hehe I realized that halfway through the sentence and had to chuckle. It was actually fun to read.