/lit/ - Literature

>>14400332
Shit thread.
More Guenon.

>>14400332
it is both based and bluepilled

>>14400339
Disagree; I think it Harry Potter is rather cringe and redpilled, as reflected in this handy chart.

Harold Bloom on JK Rowling:

One can reasonably doubt that “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” is going to prove a classic of children’s literature, but Rowling, whatever the aesthetic weaknesses of her work, is at least a millennial index to our popular culture. So huge an audience gives her importance akin to rock stars, movie idols, TV anchors, and successful politicians. Her prose style, heavy on cliche, makes no demands upon her readers. In an arbitrarily chosen single page–page 4–of the first Harry Potter book, I count seven cliches, all of the “stretch his legs” variety.

How to read “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”? Why, very quickly, to begin with, perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do. Is there any redeeming education use to Rowling? Is there any to Stephen King? Why read, if what you read will not enrich mind or spirit or personality? For all I know, the actual wizards and witches of Britain, or America, may provide an alternative culture for more people than is commonly realized.

Perhaps Rowling appeals to millions of reader non-readers because they sense her wistful sincerity, and want to join her world, imaginary or not. She feeds a vast hunger for unreality; can that be bad? At least her fans are momentarily emancipated from their screens, and so may not forget wholly the sensation of turning the pages of a book, any book.

And yet I feel a discomfort with the Harry Potter mania, and I hope that my discontent is not merely a highbrow snobbery, or a nostalgia for a more literate fantasy to beguile (shall we say) intelligent children of all ages. Can more than 35 million book buyers, and their offspring, be wrong? yes, they have been, and will continue to be for as long as they persevere with Potter.

A vast concourse of inadequate works, for adults and for children, crams the dustbins of the ages. At a time when public judgment is no better and no worse than what is proclaimed by the ideological cheerleaders who have so destroyed humanistic study, anything goes. The cultural critics will, soon enough, introduce Harry Potter into their college curriculum, and The New York Times will go on celebrating another confirmation of the dumbing-down it leads and exemplifies.

no because you see if harry potter wizarding world was real you could totally magic yourself into a tranny the same way I use instagram filters, but for meatspace

>>14400461

Okay Boomer.

>>14400442
>women
>redpilled
>ever

Huh?

>>14401017
>blocks your path

>>14401017
>blocks your path

>>14401017
>blocks your path

>>14401040
>sexual degnerate and drug addict
>based
Pick one

>>14401046
i didn't say she was based but she is redpilled.
and when the redpill hits too hard you can spiral out of control and die.

also, i am skeptical of the legitimacy of those claims.

>>14401046
what do you expect from royal blood?

>>14400461

Can you post the link to the article or do you have it archived? I tried searching for it on Google and the Wall Street Journal article doesn't have the full article, I need a paid subscription to read it.

>>14401025

I used the Google image search and it says the picture is of Savitri Devi, a Nazi who helped Nazi Germany during World War 2 by committing espionage against the Allies. Does anyone have a digital copy of her "The Impeachment of Man" work? I'm just curious as to what she has written.

>>14401505
she is basically guenon but a women

>>14401536
*evola

>>14401536

Yeah, I don't know who that is, I'm just asking about Devi's "The Impeachment of Man."

>>14401040
>Literally a man
Great example

>>14401568
>>14401574
>>14401536

Never mind, I found a link to some of her work.

Here is the one for "The Impeachment of Man."

http://www.savitridevi.org/impeachment-contents.html

>>14401594
she's a ye olde reverse trap

Bump.

bump

>>14401536
More like woman evola

>>14400332
she wasn't even transphobic
Maya just didn't like this fat bugman who wanted her to use they them pronouns for some bizarre narcissistic reason

Bump.