/lit/ - Literature

His only good book was Portrait.

By filling it with pathos and emptying it down your gullet

>>15987950
He got gud. Simple as.

He was irish

>>15987964
No love for Dubliners?

I admit I got filtered. I thought it was unreable garbage. I'm pretty sure I actually threw the book away.

Knasgaard is also good at this. Things that are mundane are boring, but they're also relateable and sometimes comfy. We realize that there's a difference between how we see everyday interactions and objects and our lack in being able to adequately describe how they make us feel. Every once in a while an author comes along who is able to do this a bit more proficiently than the average person, and it gives us comfort. And it's also fun to read.

>>15989444
>The dead
>The best short story ever written in english
>Unreadable garbage
Yeah you definitely got filtered. I don't know how anyone can read the end of The Dead and not find it sublime if they have a functioning brain. And most of the other stories in Dubliners are very good as well

Literary realism. Nothing is more fascinating than daily life if you are reminded of it.

I would probably hate Dubliners if it was contemporary

It's a boring collection of boring stories about boring people, written by a pretentious bore.

>>15989697
Eh maybe, but the brilliance of Dubliners comes in its simplicity. The settings are at once vividly regional but universal. The stories have a sort of allegorical quality that I think would still resonate if written today - although of course it would be entirely dependant on the skill of the author.

>>15989722
The Dead is perfect. Explain what's wrong with it.

>>15989576
Effabling the ineffable.

>>15989834
Let's not pretend that he actually read Dubliners, anon. It's impossible to not find at least one story that you love from the collection

>>15989444
Is this why /lit/ is so shit these days? Do we have actual retards here? Anon do you even have a high school reading level?

Winesburg, Ohio is an equally great if not better collection of short stories centered on one town.

>>15990648
>equally great
Let's not go that far, but it is very good

>>15990882
Not him, but I like it more than Dubliners. Both are still perfectly good books.

>>15989444
You're probably a low level reader that just goes through the text waiting for something to happen instead of enjoying the writing itself for it's quality and style.
Try somethin more your speed like action novels, fantasy or sci-fi
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