/lit/ - Literature

I am Mitya

>>17358592
I am William Lee

I am Quentin Compson.

Even playing in this dumb game means you're Ignatius Reilly, and you all know it, too.

Bernardo de Soares

I am Blazes Boylan. Must suck not being a chad.

>>17358592
im robert cohn and reading the sun also rises really fucked with me

>>17358672
>Ignatius Reilly
That's actually of of /lit/

>>17358592
Santiago, from the Alchemist. Just a simple boy in a world of majesty

>>17358592
I fucking hate Oliveira so much. He sounds like an insufferable pseud.

>>17359121
You're goddamn right, and he's literally me

>>17358661
Do you want to fuck your sister?
>>17358672
this is the answer for every anon in this board

William Stoner

>>17358605
Hello brother,

T. Alyosha

>>17358592
I'd love to be Levin

>>17358592
Victor Frankenstein's re-animated man, or commonly known as "monster".

>>17358592
I wanted to be Ernst Jünger in Storm of Steel but I'm really just the Prince of Denmark.

>>17358592
The main character of At Swim-Two-Birds, I think most /lit/ users would relate to them a lot

>>17358592
I am Isak. Can not deny how having a lady be pleased with me doing the simple things I do makes me feel. Just hope a Geissler comes along to show me the folly of my pride before it is too late.

>>17359081
lying about getting your lapel’s flower from a woman? really? damn even Bloom’s got you there

>>17359614
ridiculously based but sad if true
excellent self-awareness anon

My name is dr Hilarius

The Flower of Cath
>Now I will try to sleep, and forget than I am alive

Howard Roark

>>17360413
just finished this book last week, how in the world does Geissler “show [Isak] the folly of [his] pride?” He seemed to admire Isak as something better than himself and helped him in every way he could because of it

I'm literally Neoptolemus.

>>17360479
Geissler does not admire Isak, he sees him as an equal, neither quit, they are driven to go until they die and work, always working. They are the same and both ruled by their pride, one is of the city and the other of the woods. Isak realizes this when trying to get up the stone, he does not want to be like Geissler giving up what little he has just for his pride. While others see Isak as having a great deal, he sees himself having no more than he needs, when he needs more he takes the appropriate actions, just as Geissler does.

The book does not actually make life in the wilds out to be better or more ideal than the city, it shows them to be much the same and one becomes the other. It being written from the point of view of the wilds makes the comparison subtle, but for every person in the wilds, they have an equal in the city, for every event in the wilds there is a parallel in the city. It is more a book on the nature of man than nature and mans place in it.

>>17358672
Whats the equivalent of Ignatius but in the body of a cute twink?

>>17360520
I think that the book clearly supports the wild over city throughout. Hamsun’s other political life supports this, and I think your presupposition that Geissler is Isak’s equal is just incorrect — Geissler has much more than he needs, doesn’t have strong family ties, admires Isak (saying things like “if only the country had more of you!”) and tries to help him because of his respect for Isak’s superiority.

>>17361989
Isak has more than he needs for most of the novel as well.

Why does Hamsun make all the parallels between city and wilds which do not favor one or the other? Was this just accident? Why are most of the people of the wilds no better than most of the people of the city?

Geissler flatters everyone he likes, not just Isak. He does not always have more than he needs, he loses it all, but he still gives gifts, as long as he has something to give he will give it even if it is his last, it is his pride, and he keeps working. This is what Isak realizes when he goes at the stone, his pride will cause him to end up like Geissler, he will have nothing left but his pride if he keeps at it.

The book is more realistic than just "simple life = good life", it shows that some people are more suited to the city, some are more suited to the wilds, but the same characteristics pay off in both and ultimately the growth of the soil is the birth of a city.

>>17358592
>Call me Ismael

>>17358592
Not a character, but I found myself relating a lot with Michel de Montaigne, even though I'm nowhere near as well read, intelligent or interesting as he was.

>>17360350
What's your favorite passage of Paradise Lost?

>I am Andrei Bolkonsky
>You are Pierre Bezukhov

>>17362168
>it shows that some people are more suited to the city, some are more suited to the wilds, but the same characteristics pay off in both
Ok, I completely agree with this, fantastic argument and well reasoned.

>growth of the soil is the birth of a city.
This I don’t agree with at all, I think that the title was mourning a set of values that Hamsun was watching die, the growth of the soil being a connection and attendance to the natural world (indifferent to human attention) that became immediately dismissed as reactionary or idealizing the past.

>>17358592
No one will know who he is, but I sometimes see myself in inspector Béchoux, awkwardly shaped, rather intelligent, but still looks like a fool most of the time.

I am Juliette's boyfriend

>>17362369
not Frankenstein's monster-poster but the "Is this this the Region, this the Soil, the clime" is pretty good

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>>17362504
From where

>>17362535
from Juliette

>>17362458
>This I don’t agree with at all,
reread the last half dozen or so paragraphs, the symbolism is fairly clear.

You are in for a treat, with your future rereads. Growth of the soil is insanely subtle in its points and it makes nothing black and white. I have probably read it 5 or 6 times so far and I am still finding new little details and there is no way any of it can be accidental, it all ties together so intricately and perfectly. Think it is time to read it again.

>>17358592
I am Tchitcherine

>>17363770
You really seem more a Pökler.

>>17362535
From Hoboken, NJ. Where are you, Anon?

Buck Mulligan

>>17363923
What do you think about the theories of Buck being gay?

>>17362331
>well read but prefers the company of physical laborers
>captivated by the sea
>finds hard work conducive the though
i feel it

>>17362331
>well read but prefers the company of physical laborers
>captivated by the sea
>finds hard work conducive the thoughy
i feel it

>>17363934
I seen one of them, it's pure bullshit even if you want to go and see the person Buck was based on; that being Oliver St. John Gogarty who would cycle 200 odd miles a week to get pussy.

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>>17358592
sorry op, i pretty much made your thread over again. its easy to check if theres already a thread for a specific book but for something like this not so much.

>>17358592
sorry op, i pretty much made your thread over again. its easy to check if theres already a thread for a specific book but for something like this not so much.

>>17364157
It takes two minutes to scroll through the catalog. It is not difficult.