/lit/ - Literature

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not enough YA novels, not cool

>>19118204
tournesol?

You are most certainly NOT cool. Sorry, it's nothing personal.

pristine spines on all the NYRBs

/lit/ is now just another social media website for narcissistic normalfaggots to get validation.

Absolutely fucking disgusting.

>>19118240
Its just a bunch of booktubers in denial

>>19118235
Have you read an NYRB? Their spines are stiff and sturdy. They don't show wear and tear.

>>19118240
Post links to all your insightfult posts.
>inb4 you can't link to posts
It's called warosu newfag.

>>19118204
Meh. OK-ish selection, I like Balzac, Hemingway, Murakami, and a few other Russian writers too. But it's not big enough of a collection to be cool.

>>19118250
i checked the only one i own, it's got a crease down the middle of the spine, but only one tbf... nothing Penguin-tier

>>19118254
>muh posting history
>muh archive
oldfags are the worst

>>19118257
It's not my full collection. My full collection is too powerful for /lit/ to see it. All would kneel before me.

>>19118211
Saw My Struggle and got excited then saw it was the wrong author

>>19118277
Cringe

>>19118275
I kneel to nobody

>>19118277
Imagine translating that title

>>19118404
Can you feel it?

>>19118404
How could a mere /lit/izen stand up to me when he knows what's on my shelves?

>>19118204
Henri Bosco has a gorgeous Provençal/Latin style in French, I wonder how much the translation ruins it.

>>19118404
Not to mention the vast majority (200-300 tomes) lie unphotographed for posterity in plastic Rubbermaid tubs.

>>19118404
If those photographs were to be produced. All would kneel.

>>19118428
>>19118433

Consider ever reading a single book-length work of non-fiction one time in your entire life

>>19118446
anons seethe when they see a patrician shelf.
>but where's the chomsky???

>>19118466

There's a difference between seething and mocking a woman-tier collection of things that never happened.

>>19118466
I'm taking that post as a question rather than a condemnation.
>>19118446
The answer is no. Not at the moment. Maybe when I'm older. Right now I'd rather escape into art.

>>19118471
>NOOOO STOP APPRECIATING ART

>>19118489
Please don't soijack. The other poster may confuse you for me (OP) and believe he has the upper hand.

>>19118489

It's fine to have a woman-tier collection of things that never happened. After all, it can be a useful dating strat. The problem arises when that's the entirety of your library. Having absolutely no interest in any non-fiction topic of any kind is either impossible or else indicative of low test.

>>19118503
>outing yourself a pleb and a forevercel in the one post
classic

>>19118530
I'm OP. I'm probably a forevercel as well. The main reason I keep my books is to remind myself of all the time I've wasted reading. They remind me that if I had been more social or present in this world, I may have had a better social life, a girlfriend, friends, a wife, kids. My shelves (and tubs lol) will remind me of the failure I am and the reason for thay failure. These books serve as a monument to my ineptitude. Etc etc etc

>>19118204
Out of my way, nigger

>>19118550
I take it back. I kneel before you. How could I have been so vain!
>à la recherche mon ami!

>>19118214
>Sickness upon Death
You cool aight

>>19118428
>>19118433
>007 "books", lots of them
>barely any non anglo
kek
>>19118439
reasonable stack
>>19118444
burn HP and it's nice

>>19118466
The only nonfiction book he has is a single Kierkegaard

>>19118550
Based
I sold all mines when I needed money for drugs, including some uncommon Simpson's comix (Radioactive Man and the like)
The woman I love had just attempted suicide and I needed to drink
Her bf called me asking ME where she was
I have no fucking clue, I'm not the one who fucks her, maybe she's at (friend's) home

Didn't even make much out of them

>>19118204
There's a definite lack of meme books. NOT cool.

>>19118204
>Victor Segalen
based

>>19118204
Speedboat is great. How was Witch Grass? Only read Exercises in Style by him so far, loved it, the lit equivalent of recess.

Disorganized and eclectic Chad coming thru yall

>>19118665
Witchgrass is hilarious. It's well worth the read. There's a funny bit where a schoolboy and a man send threatening letters to each other because the schoolboy caught the man jerking off to his mom. It's also unique because the whole novel is the narrator imagining the life of someone he sees everyday leaving work. The unknown man becomes real when he stops to notice how something changed in a display window. The novel is just hilarious and a great send-up of vices. There's a very devilish midget who annoys people by obstinately moving in with them. It's just a crazy novel.

>>19118204
Have you read invention of morel? Was it good?

>>19118701
That sounds like fun. Thanks, anon.

I love nyrb cover and spine design but my god it frustrates me that they rotate the logo on thicker copies.

>>19118715
Yes. Yes.
It's really short and it's a good read. I don't want to spoil it but it's got a good storyline. It's seems to be about obsession and wanting to leave your on the world. It's a strange novel.

>>19118240
always was you never discussed deep theology here

>>19118731
Thanks I'll put it on my list

>>19118784
The problem is we actually do go through phases of solid discussion on various topics. Newfags show up and there just happens be a spurt of good discussion on a topic they are interested in, they fixate on it and ignore all the shit going on in the other threads and then when that phase ends they start exploring other topics and start complaining about how it used to be better. We had a very good bit of theological discussion going on before the tradcaths showed up, they killed it and discussion on the topic with their need to be right, reduced it to a born again circle jerk.

Lasting on /lit/ without hating life requires you to accept this, there will be long periods where all you do is give the board a quick scan once a day and only posting when it is worthwhile. Unfortunately the general trend here seems to be moving towards people filling their day with 4chan regardless of there being anything of worth to post on.

Are Americans really capable of only understanding English? Do they really think their literary opinion means anything when you've never interacted with a language that was not native? Were there any great writers who only spoke and read one (1) language?

>>19119050
Damn you look like an idiot. Maybe read the thread before posting lol.

>>19119072
High school Spanish doesn't count, Kyle.

>>19118549
Kek. You'd have it no other way
Same here btw, but with far finer shelves

>>19119086
Damn you like an even bigger idiot now.

>>19118628

You sound like a real winner.

>>19119792
I can sense the sarcasm, I'm immune to it
I can't afford buying new ropes, I'll check in the second hand store

>>19119126
lmaooooooooooooooooooooooooo

>>19118204
Basically you have a 4chan board where a personality should be.

>>19118433
okay you do drugs and have sex we get it. hipster. I should top you but I'm straight

>>19118220
How do you like that edition of The Making Of Americans?

>>19118446
Nonfiction is a waist of time.

I'm suspicious of English-language writers who don't have British or Irish surnames.

>>19118240
You realize this is an IMAGE BOARD, right?

>>19121673
It's awful. These publishers are lazy and use AI or some gay neural network bullshit to do the editing/proofreading. There's a typo everypage. The AI kept mistaking capital I's for capital J's. It has more typos than Waldun's L'Académie. It's still readable, but you should not buy it.

It's also rather large and unwieldy since it's printed on 8x11 paper.

>>19118610
>barely any non anglo

Celine, Dostoevsky, Murakami, Nabokov

Ok maybe learn some more authors bro

>>19118428
thoughts on Daniel Deronda?
I just started it. The first 3 chapters really impressed me.

>>19122311
yeah, barely, and only /lit/ pl*bshit

>>19122326
It's pretty good. It's one of those large sweeping Victorian drama's with lots of melodrama and shocking moments. All I can remember right now is the gambling scenes in the opening and Daniel Deronda's search for his origins, and some pretty dramatic drowning attempts. It's good. If you liked any of Eliot's previous novel's you'll enjoy it. Although some 4channer's may not like a certain theme of this novel.

>>19118204
OP, you strike me as a deeply closeted gay man

>>19118211
Hey, how's volume 2 of The Man Without Qualities? I have one collecting dust.

>>19121684
>waist
Brainlet confirmed
Also,
>Fiction is a waste of time
FIFY.

>>19122745
Not as good as the first part, but definitely necessary to read. I only read half of it, because the other half is just excerpts from his notebooks, notes on characters, revisions of the final chapters, different versions of different chapters etc.

I can't say anything definitive really. I enjoyed reading. I enjoyed the idea of thia guy thinking he was some sort of incomplete and weird person and his paradoxical views. If I remembere right the second half is more about the main character and his sister Agathe. And no they don't fuck.

>>19122898
I was looking for something german and depressing since winter is going to be here soon. I think I'll take a crack at it but I diffidently don't think I'll marathon the 2 volumes.

>>19122695
Could you expound more on this? I get this quite a bit in life. My mom has asked me multiple times if I'm gay. People who I befriend aren't sure of my sexuality and tell me it's ok to be gay. A girl (perhaps multiple girls) in high school was shocked I wasn't gay when I went to prom with a girl. I'm 25. Have had 1 girlfriend for 2 months ovee the summer when I was 16 going on 17. And have had 3 sexually charged encounter with women, each isolated events, one resulting in sex but I didn't cum. That last encounter was three years ago, and was the last time I was intimate or close with a woman in a more than business-like relation. Am I doomed to bachelorhood because people wrongly assume I'm gay?

>>19122914
>I was looking for something german and depressing
Clown - Heinrich Boell

>>19122936
>Am I doomed to bachelorhood because people wrongly assume I'm gay?
That's not the reason, imho
Sometime people think I'm gay but I'm not
Women don't care if you are gay, they would suck you anyway if they felt like it
A girl I know dated her best (female) friend for a while - she's not even bi. Both are super hot btw

>>19122289
Bummer. Thanks for the info

>>19123858
Just buy the Dalkey Archive one
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Americans-American-Literature-Archive/dp/1564780880/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Making+of+Americans+Dalkey&qid=1632682238&sr=8-1

>>19118204
I was not expecting to think you're cool but I think you are. What are your top 10 favorite movies, OP?

>>19124119
The Wrestler
The Fighter
Breathless
Umberto D.
For a Few Dollars More
Hostel
Deep Red
Whiplash
The Hunt
Delicatessen

I guest that was 10 or 11 I didn't count, and don't know if they're my favorites. They're just 10 movies that came to mind.

>>19124247
I'll also add Asghar Farhadi's A Separation. I want to fuck Leila Hatami so bad.

>>19118204
Not impressed. NYRB books are generally shit anyways, so leading with that is horrible.

But you posted books.

>>19124247
I've seen most of those. I have been meaning to watch The Hunt and A Separation for a long time. I've heard of Delicatessen but never seen it. Wasn't that interested in Hostel but might check it out now. Thanks for the recommendations, anon. Btw if any other anons have any recs, let me know. I love movies even more than books but /tv/ sucks.

>>19118229
professor ?

>>19118550
Anon...

I genuflect!

>>19118628
That sounds like a very sad and tragic story, anon. I hope you are doing better now. I hope she is doing ok too. What ended up happening?

>>19124110
They’re currently working on a new edition, I believe. That’s why I asked about the other one because I was thinking about buying it. I don’t want the current Dalkey edition because I think the cover is ugly as sin

>>19125318
Anon, do you understand what you're getting into when you're going to read The Making of Americans? Maybe I'm assuming too much, but if you really care so much about the cover of the book you won't buy an edition, I'm not sure what you're going to make of Gertrude Stein's prose. Have you read any Stein before? I would suggest reading Three Lives, specifically Melanctha's section and Tender Buttons before you tackle this. Although technically in terms of prose Tender Buttons goes beyond The Making of Americans. But the step from Melanctha to The Making of Americans isn't that big of a leap. I think I'll post some random pages just so you can see what you're getting into. If you already are aware, then I'm sorry for being a pedant.

>>19125318
>>19125643
I randomly chose these pages. They hold no significance. But these pages are exemplary of every page of this novel.
1/3

>>19125663
2/3

>>19125667
3/3
I'm not saying the novel is bad, in fact I love it. It has great rhythm and is very philosophical in nature. As the narrator says it starts off as a novel about the Hershland's and turns into a novel about everyone that has ever been is being and will be. But you can see why some will get filtered or say it is bad.

>>19125643
I have already read Three Lives, Tender Buttons and The Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas. I want to read the book, but if I'm going to spend money on a copy I want it to look nice and be accurate. Thanks for your concern though

>>19125202
I don't do drugs anymore but I do drink and have suicidal thoughts
I haven't seen her in a long time, at least 6 years or something
She followed me on instagram 2 years ago (not that I'm that active or have an interesting profile, I just follow hot sluts) after years of not talking
We exchange a couple words from time to time, some months ago I said some stupid shit about her sexuality
I basically don't know her anymore, too much time has passed
I think of her daily, it's pathological
Pic: not her, but basically her twin

>>19126189
I'm glad you don't do drugs anymore. I hope you feel better eventually. There is no advice I have to offer that you haven't heard before. Most of the standard advice about improving one's self is actually quite solid but it doesn't need to be repeated for the thousandth time. I'm sorry you still think of her so often. That's no fun. It's a weird place to be in when you know you no longer want to be with someone and there is no possibility of you being together but you still can't get her out of your head. The best cure for it is meeting someone new but quality people are hard to come by. Good luck out there, anon.

>>19118204
Holy shit OP. Look at all those pristine NYRB you have. That's amazing. And is that Books of Numbers by Joshua Cohen???? Someone clearly has their finger on the pulse of modern literature.
The Complete Works of Shakespeare!! Naturally, of course someone as cultured as you has that. Obviously.
De Sade AND Anais Nin too. Hey. Nothing wrong with a little steamy late night reading. Wink wink nudge nudge.
There's so many unusual books that show you have extremely sophisticated tastes. Balzac, Stein, Dos Passos, Musil, Gaddis! Oh my! I congratulate you OP. Some day I hope to reach you're level of reading.

>>19126189
A lot of women do this. They'll try to contact you again a few years after they leave you or break up. They'll do this because they're lonely and want a friend (just as a friend and nothing more) or because they want to confirm they did the right thing by leaving you. They basically want you as a pocket friend. Someone who is there whenever she needs them and can use as an emergency backup plan in case they breakup with their current boyfriend. They want that reassurance that they'll never have a moment where they're single unless it's their choice. And they'll do this with multiple guys. They don't care about you for you. They just want what you can give them.

Yes you can be friends. But you can tell if you are if conversation with them is very natural and without tension. When you feel tension, when you think you're censoring yourself to not rock the boat, when conversation feels too happy and generic, etc. You'll just know it. It's a feeling you get. Your instincts will naturally tell you. It's a feeling where your gut is telling you something is up and there is a disconnect between what you think and reality. Women have this cold blooded thing where they can act like all the intimacy you had together just never happened. Like it literally never existed.

bought these new books