/lit/ - Literature

Well have you read it to confirm your thoughts?

It only is with pedos

>>13144068
ofcourse mr. anon sir.

>>13143976
Did you read it?

>>13143976
because pseudo-intellectuals are too afraid of enjoying something that falls outside of the acceptable elitist water table in case other's think less of them.

>lolita is shit

>>13144142
Someone could just as easily write a generalization about you and your tastes. If you honestly believe what you wrote, I don't think you should be involved with art of any form.

>>13143976
Why is the Iliad considered one of the greatest epic poems of antiquity?
Homer's talent as a multigenerational tradition of illiterate bards aside, this just seems like an "x-men" for the 8th century bc.

>>13143976
Because it simply is one of the best of the century? The bar isn't exactly high. It's not at all like Gone Girl.

>>13144163
good prose doesnt translate automatically into a good book saying something powerful or innovative.

>>13144123
did you not see the chicken?

>>13144186
>its the best because its the best
rigggggghhhht

Great prose and a moving story. What more can you ask for?
Also what's wrong with Gone Girl? I've only seen the film and it was alright. Maybe there's something in the novel I'm not privy to but it didn't seem like Lolita at all.

>>13144296
>good prose doesnt translate automatically into a good book saying something powerful or innovative.

name three (3) books you like and for each explain what makes them (a) powerful and (b) innovative so we can establish what you even mean by these platitudes

>>13144296
>literature is only good if it serves a utilitarian purpose

>>13144318
>middle age man getting his end away in a 12 year old
>moving

gone girl film atleast was good just not great. just comparing it in terms of being a type of high selling turnpaging type book that le plebs buy.


>>13144336
GoT is on in a few hours and you want me to do this? efforted, anon; purely efforted. Remains of the day, hundred years of solidtude, the quiet american. Character, Mythos, Magnanimity.

>>13144673
>game of reddit

stop posting

Because of the controversy surrounding it, the bongs trying to get it banned in France, etc

It's not one of his stronger works imo. Ada, Pnin, Pale Fire, are all better

>>13144693
Not even close. It was one of the few bridges between modernism and pomo with an unreliable narrator and a use of dark comedy not common at that time. Nabokov is the missing link.

>>13144693
Is pale fire the book for that clint eastwpod film where hes the cowboy helpin that town to protect itself?

>>13144701
What would you say is the great pomo novel?

>>13143976
I've always found Nabokov to be more veneer than depth. His book "Invitation to a Beheading" that communicates essentially the same crux of Kafka's Trial but just demonstrates how sophomoric of a writer he was. It misses the infinitely recursive nature of the state justice apparatus. It creates a disjointed narrative when it's not necessary and doesn't add to the story at all. His prose is honestly mediocre.

>>13144797
> His prose is honestly mediocre
Beheading was one of his early Russian-era novels. His prose is top notch in his English novels. Lolita, Ada, and Pale Fire, certainly.

If you judge that book by how good its plot is you simply didn't get it. Go read some Stephen King faggot.

>>13144701
>Not even close. It was one of the few bridges between modernism and pomo with an unreliable narrator and a use of dark comedy not common at that time. Nabokov is the missing link.
He didn't have a high opinion of it as compared to his other works. There's nothing present in Lolita that's really original except the style itself

>>13143976
>Nabokov's talent as a writer
You answered your own question

>>13144827
The eloquent and unreliable narrator was relatively new for the times. Add to that the subject matter and you have a modern classic.

>>13144827
Finally a somewhat reasonable voice from the madding crowd

>>13144827
"I would say that of all my books Lolita has left me with the most pleasurable afterglow—perhaps because it is the purest of all, the most abstract and carefully contrived."

He didn't have a high opinoin of it? Stop talking out of your ass

>>13144839
honestly i think its abit iverrated but feel forcedto mention it

>>13143976
Have you read either of the books you referenced?

>>13144827
>theres nothing original in [book] except [original thing]

>>13144752
GR

>>13144827
So what? Death of the author, etc.

>>13144888
Death of the author is a meme. Also see: >>13144851

>>13144892
No it isn’t. The author doesn’t necessarily understand their work. You dumb as fuck.

>>13144897
>the author doesnt necessarily understand their work

>>13144897
>"You dumb as fuck."
>disgusting ebonics
Opinion discarded. Death of the author is a meme used by old academists to force their shitty theories onto works of fiction. And Nabokov thought highly of Lolita, you fucking nigger I was supporting your claim.

>>13144910
Read interviews with Faulkner, Joyce, etc people pull out ideas unintended. The intention or understanding of the author is not always present and...quite frankly is one of the dumbest points by anyone.

>>13144915
Thanks. I’m sure we’ll all be amplified by your pimples if we can ever get them on cam.

>>13144938
stfu niggerfaggot lmao

>>13144952
I’m sure. Do you even frequent book stores?

>>13144961
>>13144952

>>13144693
>Pnin
i didn't read yet
>Pale Fire
I read it, and i think that lolita are better
>Ada
I didn't read it yet, but i listen that it's similar to Lolita. Recomended?