/lit/ - Literature

>>14759142
what does that say about female writers...?

>>14759142
Virginia Woolf

Mind you I believe there is literary merit to Rand and enjoy her 2 novels, but Jane Austen, marguerite yourcenar, Hannah Arendt, woolf, bronte sisters, George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Mary Shelley are all better.

>>14759142
There's plenty of philosophical merit to her works, but not literary. Atlas Shrugged is awfully written.

>>14759150
based.

>Virginia Woolf
>Murasaki Shikibu
>Sappho
>Sei Shonagon
>Ono No Komachi
>Flannery O'Connor
>Zora Neale Hurston
>Edith Wharton
>Mary Shelley
>Jane Austen
>Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë
>>14759295
This is the opposite of the truth.

>>14759189
>>14759472
I forgot flannery and Dickinson. Looks like we agreed for the most part though. I would not put zora and have no idea who those ASian writers are

>>14759566
Fine, I'll swap Zora for Lorraine Hansberry.
>Murasaki Shikibu
She wrote Genji.
>Sei Shonagon
She wrote the Pillow Book.
>Ono No Komachi
Top-tier Heian poet.

>>14759150
this

>>14759150
Came here to say this.

Anglos won't know about this one.

>>14759142
women are incapable of writing about anything more substantial than "men generally, or men other than my white knight prince, are mean and won't let me be whore!" Even the most technically skilled with their language; it is all totally vacuous.

>>14760577
>implying women want to be whores
They don't, which is why they don't want to fuck you.

Le Guin

>>14760583
They surely seem to. Have you ever read the diary of Anais Nin?

>>14760566

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Santa Teresa de Jesús

take the breadpill

>>14759142
>>14759142
Rand is one of the worst writers of all time and her writing and social circle is one of many things that ruined the 21st century. Not only that but she folded on her principles and betrayed her friends at the end of her life, dying alone and miserable just like she deserved. I realize this is bait so w/e

>>14760594
one woman=all women got it, big brain on this guy

>>14759150
>>14759144
>>14759146
These three sassy grils.

>>14760538
>>Murasaki Shikibu
>She wrote Genji.
wow never even thought to look up the author, always assumed it was a man. Never read Genji though, so that's why.

emm... true.

next question?

>>14759142
>Enheduanna
>Phintys of Sparta
>Ban Zhao
>Yeshe Tsogyal
>Sei Shonagon
>Marguerite Porete
>Catherine of Siena
>Tullia D'Aragona
>Theresa of Avila

Anna Akhmatova lived through and dealt with Soviet communism in an authentic way. Her poems live on as staunchly anti-totalitarian. Rand not only fled, but wrote disingenuously and abandoned her convictions in the twilight years by accepting govermint monies and welfare. She died a fraud. The quality of her writing openly predicts this.

>>14759295
>"Hey guys? Guys, seriously, listen to me. Guys? ...No, I can't afford to pay you to listen to me, but... Guys, what IF reality exists INDEPENDENTLY of our perceptions?"
>"...So, your philosophy is what everybody already thought BEFORE Plato's 'Allegory of the cave'?"

>>14760583
cope

>>14759142
Sylvia Plath

>>14759142
wtf why she have a burrito on her hed