/lit/ - Literature

>>14280936
There is a place for both styles. Personally, I favor maximalism versus minimalism, when it comes to descriptions.

>>14280936
i love cock

With steely determination, eyes reflecting the virtue of a youth wasted in the august halls of academia, till they had become june halls, then a short break spent with family on the Mediterranean beaches of France, then back again, Arther Rimjeaub picks up his pen and channeled all the prowess of his MFA program into the page.
His girlfriend Jane sits across from him. Plain. Flat. Sticklike and bookish, with the exact short cropped hair and empathetically virtuous personality one would expect. A. furrows his brow, straining to express, in terms both suitable and dignified, all the embellishment langauge provides. To summon for a moment from poor plain Jane an illustrious Beatrice. Arthur is neither a madman nor a cuckhold nor a rapist nor a womanizer nor a pedophile nor a paraphilletic, nor is he paraphyletic to this company of great and sexually maladjusted artists. Sexuality, paticularly male, has always struck him as something paticularly toxic, something those musclebound brutes at second and third tier state universities subjected his poor Jane to before he rescued her and showed her the value of self respect, but he cannot help but admit that it makes for great artwork.
So he begins to write. A little Nabokov, a little Poe, a little Baudelaire, here he can feel his member becoming engorged and to calm himself throws in a splattering of Henry James. Soon he has constructed a veritable Frankenstine’s Monstress, with all the words and evocations of those great writers, great because he has studied them, because they are studied. With his honed academic precision he takes Jane, boring, brown haired, freckled, bored, spoilt, stuffy, sexless Jane,
and turns her into a carnival mirror by which he can reflect the whole experience of his life. He gives her an introduction, “Jane sat accross from me with velvet lips and amber eyes, blush red cheeks and and fleshy thighs”, three body paragraphs (not her body of course, with its misshapen areoles and sagging ass, but the body he used to imagine her having before he saw her naked), and a conclusion— “oh my heart, my loins, my soul, my fire, my flame— shall I sing your praises three times from the tip of my tongue?” Just like he had learned, and relearned, and forgotten he had learned, until it became as natural as walking.
Then he takes a look at his manuscript and smiles to himself. “Babe, this shit is fire” he tells Jane, who grunts her agreement without breaking her eyes from her phone, too engrossed in dreams of the perfectly instagramable carribean getaway to find her mutilation at the hands of this Jeffrey Dante either insulting or flattering.
A couple of years later he gets a book deal. The Boston tribune calls it a tour-du-force, he does a couple of signings and lectures, and eventually settles down to the comfortable job as teaching assistant (assistant professor he likes to tell his friends at dinner parties) and admissions counsellor at a nearby college.

>>14280936
Good. Hemmingway is a shit anyways

>>14280936
the secret is that Hemingway omitted stuff because he was a halfwit and a charlatan

hemingway fucking sucks and i hated him before it was cool

>>14282327
This. Hemingway spent the early part of his career writing terse journalism for businessmen, the twitter of his time. This shaped his writing style completely, and thus he brought his low-brow proclivities to his long form literary works.

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>>14282351
t. plebs

>>14282062
LOL

>>14280936
reaction against the iowa writers workshop industrial complex

>>14282287
He was a better writer than (You), anyway...

>>14282327
Low IQ people won't understand but the Omission principle is real.

>>14282384
if you're omitting something, actually, and not using it as an excuse for your poor journalistic style and lack of deeper thought (besides fucking bulls and fishing)

>>14281572
Based. Let the style fit the story

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>>14283107
Which is all well and good but modern literature is 99% flowery vernacular with assertive topic sentences. All published and acclaimed and sitting on the clearance table of your local Chapter's.

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>>14283075
If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing."

>>14282062
impressive, very nice

>>14282062
Legitimately good, ty anon

>>14282062
Rimjeaub is fucking brilliant btw good show anon

>>14282363
What is the the iowa writers workshop like

>Iceberg theory
I think you mean the "Hemingway is a shitty author but I'm going to pretend that he's super deep" theory.