/lit/ - Literature

Ignore the movie and people who like the movie.

they're on the 4chan lit wiki.

WHAT IF I WANT TO READ NOVELLAS OUTSIDE THAT LIST? :(

MISS LONELYHEARTS

>>1637021

Oh damn, I see it now.
Fuck me, I'm so blind.

Thanks anyway

I'LL THROW IN A COUPLE MORE
THE READ LAUGH, THE SEVEN WHO WERE HANGED - ANDREYEV
THE LAST DAY OF A CONDEMNED MAN - HUGO

Lin- Shoplifting From American Apparel

>>1637022
But, I liked the movie, how can you not love Audrey Hepburn?

>You will never fall in love with Audrey like Gregory in Roman Holiday

>>1637037

The movie very quickly abandoned any of the interesting sentiments present in the book and became a crass romance.

Some people like love stories, but Truman Capote's 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' is very far from that.

It's a social and philosophical deconstruction as gritty as Capote's tru-crime.

>>1637045
But Capote himself said that Breakfast at Tiffany's was just a little bit of mindless fun and that no one should read too much into it.

>>1637047

NOPE.jpeg

>"I think I've had two careers. One was the career of precocity, the young person who published a series of books that were really quite remarkable. I can even read them now and evaluate them favorably, as though they were the work of a stranger... My second career began, I guess it really began with Breakfast at Tiffany's. It involves a different point of view, a different prose style to some degree. Actually, the prose style is an evolvement from one to the other—a pruning and thinning-out to a more subdued, clearer prose. I don't find it as evocative, in many respects, as the other, or even as original, but it is more difficult to do. But I'm nowhere near reaching what I want to do, where I want to go. Presumably this new book is as close as I'm going to get, at least strategically."

>>1637047

And T.S. Eliot despised The Waste Land later in life. So?

>>1637047
Well, this >>1637056

And, authors intention has little to do with what a reader takes away from their work personally. Plus it's not uncommon for authors to be dishonest or vague about their own writing.

HOW ABOUT INSTEAD OF ARGUING WE:

Recommend me some classic (old or modern) novellas, /lit/

>>1637047

All the arguments I would have made have already been said by three separate anons, I hope this comfortably addresses your point.

Did you enjoy both the novella and the film?

>>1637069

>Hey guys stop debating the merits of authorial intention and focus on me for a second!

>>1637056
So essentially, Capote said "Breakfast at Tiffany's" was shit. And there I was only trolling.

>>1637015
Not a novella (around the same length as a novella so I'll allow it) but I would suggest reading "The Duchess of Malfi". It kicks ass.

>>1637072
NAH, I JUST ALSO WANTED SOME MORE BOOKS TO ADD.

BUMP

READING SIDDHARTHA AT THE MOMENT, DEFINITELY RELATED

herman hesse and late wittgenstein

I'M GOING TO START BILLY BUDD TODAY.

JUST SAYING, BECAUSE NOVELLA AND YEAH...