/lit/ - Literature

>>19697041
I've read one book of her and it was a bunch of pointless stories imo
What am I missing?

Alice Munro sat on my face in 1994, AMA

>>19697048
Elaborate.
But write it on her style.

>>19697047
Same but about Tolstoy, Joyce, Melville, Faulkner, Dostoevsky

Unfortunately we have to take a break in the general to address some rumors spread about my literacy in an earlier thread regarding the Sopranos. In this thread, I made a simple address to the state of aesthetics in literature as compared to a show like the Sopranos, and how I preferred the Sopranos. For whatever reason, I was called an autistic sperg and multiple users claimed I “don’t read.” Alas, had they read the thread before posting, they’d have seen I made multiple direct comparisons to writers, and the few things I find admirable in contemporary literature — had they.

I found myself regrettably unable to address these idiotic accusations before the thread died as I was pre-engaged in an area without wifi. Let this be enough to undeceive all men.

>>19697041
>>19697047
The style is so perfect and nicely captures the comfy, familial feel of middle-class rural life. It helps you characterize people and is very good with dialogue.

>>19697047
She’s a more prolific Tolstoy

>>19697083
But didn't you mention the lack of any good modern literature as an argument for the Sopranos being good?

>>19697373
The argument wasn’t necessarily that the Sopranos was superior to modern literature, as much as it was that the Sopranos represents modern life better than modern literature

>>19697401
I see. But all I said (iirc) was that cinema is a lower artform than literature. It doesn't necessarily mean the Sopranos can compete with historical literature in representing modern life.