/lit/ - Literature

>>15278128
Hegel

>>15278128
Zadie Smith

>>15278128
Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain was extremely comfy. Miyasaki used some concepts from M.M. for his last movie, The Wind Rises.

>>15278137
seconded

>>15278128
Unironically, pic related

>>15278128
Either DFW or Melville really. Lots of amazing and simple enough insights.

>>15278128
Schopenhauer

>>15278128
F. Scott Fitzgerald. Not the most complicated but he balances all the variables very well.

> Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice—and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man—by choice; he has to hold his life as a value—by choice; he has to learn to sustain it—by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues—by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

Bolano, Kafka, Delilo.

For me, Peake.

>>15278455
BolaÑo, you mongoloid

>>15278514
That's wrong.

wtf does 'pleasant style' mean
this question is inane and unanswerable

oh wait let me try: arno schmidt
fuck you

>>15278128
For me, it's Georgie Borgie, the Argie virgie.

Ayn Rand.

>>15278455
>Kafka
Read the Castle and say it's pleasant

>>15278567
>Argie virgie
he was not the only one

Maugham

Simple effective prose is underrated

>>15278585
It's a subjective thing faggot. And I have.

The Master, Henry James

>>15278128
DFW has unironically has a pleasant writing style, I don't know he does it because mostly he doesn't write interesting things, but still manages to pull it off.

>>15278709
>It's a subjective thing

>>15278743
Hmm..

>>15278787
Actually, my bad. I just did exactly what I hate 4chan for, inability to have an actual discussion.

What do you find pleasant about Kafka's prose? I'm actually a fan of Kafka but pleasant isn't the word I'd use to describe his prose, especially in the Castle. I thought it was an attempt to kind of replicate what K was going through, or the bureaucratic system. Huge walls of text that often repeated their points multiple times that I though was pretty funny. But it was almost miserable reading it, in a good way

Pynchon, Melville or Shakespeare

>>15278803
The content might not be pleasant but it needs a "pleasant" writing style to make it readable, no?

>>15278128
Armistead Maupin

>>15278569
THIS

Nabokov.

>>15278566
>arno schmidt
Incredibly based

>>15278128

"Pleasant", eh? Let's define it as "engaging; not too demanding; produces a comfy feeling; gives the impression it would be nice to sit next to this author on a long flight".

>GOLD
P.G.Wodehouse

>SILVER
Mark Twain

>BRONZE
Damon Runyon

>>15278128
Charles Portis

>>15278128
Hemingway

Short and to the point. Like his dick.

>>15278128
Turgenev, any of his books is blissfully easy and pleasant to read. Absolute opposite of Dostoevsky, unbearably disgusting to read even a single page.

Related question: which author would be most fun to talk to?

>>15281637
I want to get shitfaced with kafka.

>>15281519
filtered by prose with a nervous, electric energy

>>15278128
Ernest Hemingway

George Eliot, so comfy

>>15281679
I dont know I think kafka was a bit like a 2010 tumblr girl. I believe he completly overhyped his own melancholia to be artsy. He was mandatory reading in my school and I like his stuff, but I doubt the guy would be cool to hang out with.

>>15278128
Unironically either Hemmingway or Stephen King. Both just capture human beings down to their simple core.

>>15278803
Anon progresses

>>15282586
His short stories show people getting rekd and he was a lawyer. We would have a lot to talk about. I think he would be so disassociated by the system in which he lives he would be able to drink in a dim lit bar and complain about the world while cracking jokes and telling stories. Basically I just want to hang out with another depressed lawyer who writes.

why the fuck hasn't anyone said camus yet

>>15278128
to me, ernest hemingway

>>15279470
Well I mean the prose feels like it was designed to be tedious just as K's struggles are

>>15278730
It's precisely because things are mundane, so the mundane almost verbal way of writing completely fits

>>15278730
DFW is good, but wouldn't call him pleasant. the jarring nature of his content, combined with inspired delivery, is what makes him a genius, but infinite jest was absolutely squeamish to read in parts.

if you want an example of what this looks like with less mastery, read burrough's naked lunch.

>>15282885
Camus would be the dude that only talks to you to fuck your female friend and ignore you the whole time. If you think camus is pleasant, you would be one of the girls he's trying to bang.

>>15282916
in what universe is DFW better than Burroughs? and a genius? genuinely asking. maybe it's a matter of taste but to me Burroughs has an infinitely more interesting mind whereas DFW, even if his prose is considered better, comes of as a tryhard

>>15282972
idk i feel like he's a pretty chill guy, would like to have him round for sunday roast

Mikhail Bulgakov or Oscar Wilde

>>15278803

>>15282898

You're right on that count. That didn't come off as tedious to me tho. It felt..more..natural? It was very easy for me to breeze through.

I also like oral prose (like Pessoa or Celine or Salinger), which I think Kafka does as well. His books are meant to be read out loud. Plus I absolutely love the long winded sentences (also why I like Proust, Pynchon, DFW, Bolano, Musil and others)

>>15283347
Fair enough, just different readings of it. Don't get me wrong I love Kafka and still enjoyed the Castle. I'll definitely have to try reading his work out loud

>>15278128
I fell in love with Patric Rothfuss.
His writing felt cozy.

McCarthy

amos oz

>>15281929
He's unbearable