/lit/ - Literature

>>18715482
No, why would it be?

>>18715482
start with the greeks

>>18715482
Funny how all Americans can do in literature is suthn folk tale bullshit or needlessly complicated prose wanking challenges.

>>18715822
Not even American but this is retarded

anyone that says they knew anselm castrated himself in the bathroom without looking at the wiki is a fuckin liar

>>18715869
It makes sense after but I agree. I thought him acting like a dog was normal because he is so autistic.

>>18715869
Yeah, had no idea. I did feel like the subway bathroom was an eerie place for him to end up by himself. Usually you only see him with other characters to play off of and ridicule. But seeing his mother, and the state of mind he was in for the hundred pages before, I knew he was doing something odd.

>>18715861
Americana is a mindset, not people or race.

>>18715482
No. This is.

>>18715822
>filtered by nature and travel writing

>>18715482
Not even close.

>>18715869
LOL

>>18715482
why so many recognitions posts lately? is it really just
>woah people say this is a hard book.. people didnt read it because its dense.. now i have something new to smugly dab on plebs with...
you understand that nobody in the real world gives a fuck and you could have just said any book and it would have the same effect because nobody is going to open that tome up anyway?

>>18718064
jannies this guy's underage, get him

>>18718071
underage? the OP called this shit the "final boss of literature", and i'm underage? is this why you read? the only reason he's getting this resurgence is because DFW mentioned him in an interview once and there's 1-2 faggots here that can't get halfway thru a long novel without messaging everyone they know about it.

woah anon you're so cool. you can read "difficult" novels that aren't even remotely difficult. everyone is so impressed with you.. fucking loser

Step aside troglodytes

>>18715482
The final boss of literature is when you follow annotations so far back in time that eventually the books you're reading reference things that are no longer extant. You have the trace knowledge of something deeper and further that did exist, but no further depth to plumb.

Cherish your peach fuzz and don't worry about racing to the final bosses.

>>18718064
It's a good book that recently got reprinted last year

>>18718071
listen anon, i felt bad that i called u a fucking loser. deleted my comment. you are a fucking loser but i need you to know i feel bad about it. you are a loser in this world (and the next), this is not the final boss of literature, and only someone either underage or (worse) overage with an underage mindset would think that Recognitions was the final boss of literature. it's just "difficult" in the sense that not all sentences are totally clear. a little like Faulkner in that sense, but not really difficult at all.

>>18718191
>good book
how is it good from your framework?
>recently got reprinted
and you think this has to do with its surge in popularity here? nobody sits around caring about reprintings, especially for a 70 year old tome that got no popularity for 50 years because no reviewer had the time or energy to finish it, especially when the reprint is the same ugly cover as the original

>>18718270
>how is it good
because I like it? what kind of question is that

also it was pretty hard to get an inexpensive copy of the recognitions and JR before they got reprints last year

>>18715482
No
>>18716886
This

>>18715869
Facts