/lit/ - Literature

>>13108563
>>13108563
>not thinking this manlet is /ourguy/
>5'6 manlet
>college dropout
>alcoholic wage cuck
>speciality in prose
>wrote one of his most acclaimed works as a factory worker having written most of it in the free time available to him in the wagey life

>>13108595
>eurofags will never truly understand Cormac or Faulkner

feels good being 'Murican

>>13108605
What kind of retarded statement is that, mutt?

Why does the proustfag tremble before this man?

>>13108563
>>never gives interviews

he did one with Oprah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3kpzuk1Y8I

>>13108623
Cormac stated that he didn't like Proust and doesn't consider Proust real literature. It says a lot about Proust that the homosexuals have co-opted his work

>>13108615
don't you have a drag queen music festival to attend? We Americans are too busy contributing to the canon while Europe dies a slow undignified death

>spent the 60s blowing up vietnam fucking shits
>devout Catholic
>blessed the world with Pringles
>barely ever gives interviews
>had a correspondence with Tolkien in his youth
>has never even heard of a female protagonist

Step aside.

>>13108659
>tolkien correspondence

Go on

>>13108656
Please be a shitpost.

>>13108665
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Letter_to_Gene_Wolfe

>>13108605
how hard is faulkner to get through? I'm reading Conrad now and doing just fine, but I remember feeling quite daunted looking a copy of AILD when I was younger (prob highschool)

>>13108773
if you can handle Conrad you can handle Faulkner. But the first Faulkner is always tricky. If you're going to read As I Lay Dying it wouldn't hurt to look at a character guide so you can keep up with the dozen or so different narrators

>>13108773
Just start with S&F before AILD.

>>13108812
would not recommend

>>13108563
I hope we get a good biography of McCarthy someday, he seems like he’s been very calculating in how he has let his persona develop, it would be quite interesting to me.

>>13108859
I'd rather have a new McCarthy novel or a posthumous release at least

/lit/ how do i get /out/ like Cormac? It seems hard to do alone

>>13108844
I remember the structure of AILD being more confusing than S&F. But there are so many guides and discussions at this point that I don’t think it matters.

>>13108659
He fought in Korea, not Vietnam.

>>13108605
I understand them alright
t. Mexican

>>13108659
Oh and one of his books has a female protagonist. Pandora, By Holly Hollander

>>13108563
>>13108595
Rreminder that these men were ignored until late in their careers specifically because they didn't pal around with the New York litterati set.

>>13109199
and they're better men for it

>>13109215
Yes. It thrills me with joy to think of artists divorced from New York nightmare world. I feel blessed

>>13109199
What is the New York litterati set, exactly? Who would you count as part of it?

>>13108646
>Cormac stated that he didn't like Proust and doesn't consider Proust real literature.
I'm not a fan of Proust, but the second part says more about Cormac than Proust.

>>13111012
He said that when he was young and arrogant, though.

>>13111012
Cormac has said he's not a fan of writings that don't deal primarily with life and death. That's what he doesn't consider "real literature." Not just Proust.

>>13108615
Literally every white I'm friends with here in America is %100 European or close. The Mutt shit is a weak meme

>>13108563

That’s a watered down version of Tolstoy, the real chad (and vastly superior in his art).

>>13108595
Secondary reminder that being a myopic virgin manlet are the inherent prerequisites of the literary art form.

>>13111322
European is not race. They're just Caucasian, not Europeans.

>>13111384
So what Europeans aren't white in your opinion

>>13111409
Idris Elba.

>>13111420
He's African

>>13111420
So are Charlize Theron and Elon Musk.

>>13111426
He's British, therefore, European. Charlize Theron and Elok Musk are also Africans btw. John Travolta is American, he's not Italian.

>>13111440
By citizenship you fucking idiot, not by blood. Holy shit now I know you're fucking with me.

>>13111451
Europe is a geographical region. Caucasian =/= European.

>>13111426
British, actually. Making him a Black Briton.

>most /lit/ man alive
OH NO NO NO

>>13111458
I have not once said that European is a race you bushitter.

>>13111465
You're not fooling anyone

>>13111449
By that metric Native americans aren't a race either since the Americas are a geographical region

>>13108563
ive always told myself english is the most malaeble language. reddit cucks would disagree and be mad that they spend every sentence they type worrying about grammar and punctuation

>>13111473
>Literally every white I'm friends with here in America is %100 European or close.
The shit Americans say.

>>13111479
Exactly. I'm fully convinced that some euro bois are trying to yank some American dick and not actually this stupid

>>13111479
Native American is not a race, though. It's an ethnicity (race + culture + language + whatever). They're Mongoloids who got to the Americas via the Bering Strait.

>>13111479
>implying Native American is a race
OHNONONO HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>13111490
You frail child, your weak stomach can't handle a healthy amount of cringe?

>>13111509
> %100
>believing Native American is a race
What are burgers so stupid? Aren't you supposed to be first worlders?

>>13111521
I never said native Americans are a race?

>>13111373
Cope

>>13111529
Sorry, it seems like I'm talking to different people.

>>13111521
I never even said European is a race. In fact no one in this thread actually even claimed that. You're all just really stupid

>>13108605
tfw americans will never understand shakespeare because they don’t pronounce god correctly

>>13111542
I'm too American to understand what this means

>>13111490
>>13111536
How can someone be (sic) "%100 European or close", then? Which metric are you using?

>>13111501
Can we not speak of 'indigenous Americans' and 'indigenous Europeans' and everyone gets what that means?

>>13111542
Most Brits don't pronounce Shakes correctly either. "Apparition" is pronounced "Apparision" not "Apparishon". If you don't pronounce Shakespeare in the original pronounciation you're just memeing yourself into experiencing a travesty
.

>>13111560
"Indigenous" just means "native to the place", it's not related to race. And by adding "indigenous" to your terms you admit there's other kind which isn't indigenous but still is American or European.

>>13111552
Of European descent (meaning Irish or swedish). It literally is listed this way on DNA tests also

>>13111586
Yes because no certain races of people come from certain geograpic locations. We fall from space

>>13111586
>>13111501
autism

>>13111638
Buzzwords don't mean shit. Bring arguments or save your reply to yourself.

>>13111649
Where is your solid argument then idiot

>>13111604
Totally misguided. Spaniards and Italians are not Europeans for you, I imagine.

>>13111653
First refute those comments you're citing as autism.

>>13111655
I would say they are actually, why the fuck would it they be

>>13111668
>>13111604
This is bait, right?

>>13111684
No

>>13111684
No.

>>13108781
>dozen or so different narrators
>darl, addy, vardmann, cash, anse, the sister, one or two others off the top of my head
>each section is literally named to correspond with narrator/character
this board’s retention rate:comment ratio is a joke. faulkner is not difficult. start with AILD and the short stories (Rose for Emily and Barn Burning in particular, The Bear later) and proceed to SatF, LiA, and then Absalom. Literally the epicenter of American Lit.