/lit/ - Literature

>>19742697
sorry to be a dummy but what is meant when he says "suicide by anastomosis"

>>19742810
a-answer my question... now!!!

ahem *clears throat* IF ONE OF YOU FUCKING RETARDS DOESN'T EXPLAIN WHAT NABAKOV MEANT WHEN HE WROTE "suicide by anastomosis" IN HIS SHORT STORY FIRST LOVE, I'M GOING TO CRASH THIS FUCKING PLANE... with NO survivors.
(also, bump)

>>19743822
>>19743270
>>19742810
kek hold on anon, I'm reading it now - I'll try to make some sense of it... won't be too long

>>19742697
I want to reccomend we read some William Somerset Maugham.
He gets slept on but he is one of the best writers of short stories in the English language.

>Indelicate verisimilitude it completely outranked the painted tin of my clock work trains.

Dropped

>>19743893
Should be
>In delicate verisimilitude it completely outranked the painted tin of my clock work trains.
I believe, there are similar errors throughout.

>>19743822
sorry anon for the wait - reading nabby's story made me remember an old childhood memory of mine, somewhat reminiscent of his own.
as for what "suicide by anastomosis" means - I believe its referring to how the parallel rail line, in converging onto another rail line (via anastomosis), thereby ceased to exist (suicide), being subsumed by the other rail line. hope this helps!

>>19744123
>sorry anon for the wait - reading nabby's story made me remember an old childhood memory of mine, somewhat reminiscent of his own.
That's ok! The first couple of pages definitely triggered some memories I have of travelling with my parents and staring out windows.
And thank you for the explanation, it did help! I had guessed that was basically what it was saying but when I looked up that medical term I couldn't exactly understand it and therefore wasn't 100% sure my interpretation was correct.

Good Thread

Hey ma'am, we're sorry to bother you but we've had reports of a bump in your area. Have you heard anything or do you have any information that might be able to assist us in our inquiries?

*burp*

>>19742697
speaking of short stories by Nabokov, I really REALLY liked Signs and Symbols

>>19742697
>Shakespeare reading club
>Short story reading group
Looking like a better year for lit, keep it up bros. I'll read this tomorrow morning when im alright.
please include som Buzatti, some of his short stories are very good

>>19744893
I'm sorry, a what you say?

>>19742697
Good thread. Reading tomorrow. Keep this up.

>Generic story about nostalgia for childhood
Bravo Nabby! Another masterpiece, you pompous boring ass. Honestly who reads this shit thinking it's great literature?

Keep up these threads though!

>>19747013
I sometimes wonder if Nabokov's detractor's truly dislike his writing, or dislike him and have convinced themselves they dislike his writing.

>>19747075
NTA but I enjoyed Lolita and thought this story was dogshit. It reminds of the kinds of stories that John Gardner complains about in one of his interviews, "sensitive little recordings about a time we went ice skating in Wales".

>>19747116
>"sensitive little recordings about a time we went ice skating in Wales"
but that sounds like a nice story . . .

>>19747116
Word. I love Nab but Signs and Symbols is better for you (I can tell you are a fellow person who has sex, and so you’ll agree with me. Our ilk must retain some degree of cohesion).

>>19747153
It's basically just journalism, which is the death of all good literature, turning what should be concerned with the eternal into observations du jour.

I kinda want to try printing these and putting them into a binder of sorts... Could be cool.

>>19747366
Ended up doing. My journey to get /lit begins. I plan on adding footnotes/sidenotes to remember words I don't know and actually analyzing some texts.

>>19747366
>>19747614
Cool idea!

I'll read it tomorrow

>>19747614
Does anyone remember the anon who did a whole thread on how to print and bind your own little books? That was one of the best threads we've ever had.

Meandering and worthless.

um

Ok faggots I'll read this shit now better be worth my time

>>19750023
make sure to report back!

>>19750032
Boring journal entry from a talentless hack. Maybe next one.

>>19746193
I would've joined the Shakespeare reading club if it was chronological. Also this year we have poem of the day threads. May it be a good year bros.

>>19742697
Very nice initiative OP. I have compiled the first ten short stories in epub/azw3/pdf format for the sake of convenience and in the hope that more anons will join in. Happy reading.

epub: https://file.io/gjAm1H12iwAh
azw3: https://file.io/dnDa8pW5c1lF
pdf: https://file.io/azZHLxDTbBfm

>>19750882
Apparently file.io deletes the file after the first download. Does anyone know some other service I could use to provide you guys with these files?

>>19750893
Put them on libgen and they'll be available via b-ok.cc too which is what most of us use to download books

>>19750906
Alright, hopefully this will work:

epub: https://library.bz/fiction/uploads/85DE58B4F2A9987D16E018F4E9EF8C04
azw3: https://library.bz/fiction/uploads/30D71B44C587EC8AB7F774D26792BAF4
pdf: https://library.bz/fiction/uploads/F3F69F6619F023B196EA2ADE0FA54E15

>>19751005
Don't know about anyone else but it asks me for a username and password?

>>19750882
Host it on mega or as a gdrive link.

>>19750882
>>19750906
>>19751005
Sorry about all the repeated links, but after uploading I realized that the version of "First Love" from fullreads.com had multiple errors with the formatting. I sourced a different version of that story and have now updated my epub/azw3/pdf files. Also, the pdf version is now significantly smaller thanks to the "The Pugilist at Rest" now being the raw pdf file instead of compressed PNGs.

TLDR: Use this links instead:
new epub: https://library.bz/fiction/uploads/9A9E3DDB71E3DD9DA2C1FDDCDABE7F26
new azw3: https://library.bz/fiction/uploads/C1AED163B2A065E4112B979007D7A306
new pdf: https://library.bz/fiction/uploads/2C98BBFC8320614832A13310255A6ADF

>>19751207
I don't know what you're doing anon. You're probably sharing the edit link not the public link

>>19751207
>>19751217
Yeah it's the creator link. Now anyone can modify it given that the user/pass are public.

>>19751217
Yeah it seems I fucked up.
These should be direct links. If you can't reach them I suppose that they are still uploading somehow:

epub: https://library.bz/uploads/fiction/9a9e3ddb71e3dd9da2c1fddcdabe7f26.epub
azw3: https://library.bz/uploads/fiction/c1aed163b2a065e4112b979007d7a306.azw3
pdf: https://library.bz/uploads/fiction/2c98bbfc8320614832a13310255a6adf.pdf

>>19751246
Still password protected unfortunately

>>19742697
Reading this shit rn

>>19742697

>>19751257
Mega link is up now
https://mega.nz/folder/MdcyULqY#GYZ6xrTTG9H6LcXAg8xkJQ

>>19751361
Thanks for this anon, it's a nicely produced PDF

>>19750882
OP here, very nice work, anon. Good job and thank you!

>>19751246
Bro you didn't generate the ToC for the PDF... The one that allows you to navigate by opening the ToC in the PDF viewer and clicking things.

>>19751361
Thank you very much for you effort anon. This is awesome

>>19751270
Just finished reading. Haven't read any Nabokov before so I have no idea how this compares to his other work. But it really grew on me towards the end, especially when it became more a story with the introduction of Colette as opposed to a meandering story with colorful description only he'll really understand. As a short story I enjoyed it and are some beautiful sentences in here, but I'm glad it's no more than 9 pages.

>>19743885
Maybe a John O'Hara story too

>>19751406
>>19751413
>>19751520
Thank you very much anons.

>>19751433
Yeah I can see that. Hopefully the ToC on page 2 is somewhat helpful. In either case, I recommend that you go with the epub version since it allows you to tweak the text formatting to your liking (+ it has chapter information).

>>19751361
Thanks

>>19742697
>This week's story has been a delightful little tale called First Love by Vladimir Nabokov
Just finished this. Didn’t really know what to expect and quite frankly I’m not exactly sure of what I got. I didn’t dislike it in any way but I certainly got filtered to some degree. Excited about the upcoming stories though, I am sure that it will be very stimulating and enjoyable. Thanks for putting this together OP.

>>19742697
Finished reading it. I liked the imagery, which is a good thing considering the story seems to revolve around imagery. I noticed that colors are a focus of the story, pointed out again and again.

>>19743885
I would definitely second this. I'm kind of shocked OP managed to put together 51 short stories without Maugham

>>19751361
Great job!

>>19746193
>>19750102
It'll be a productive year hopefully with all these threads actively encouraging reading. Hopefully they'll stay up. It's too bad we lost Bookie though.

>>19753926
>It's too bad we lost Bookie though.
What was Bookie?
>>19743885
>>19751615
>>19752840
Kafka's story in March is just a paragraph, so I am sure that there will be opportunities to squeeze in another few stories here and there for those who want to. Or what do you say>>19742697? Also, what specific stories would you guys recommend we read in that case?

>>19754486
I'd recommend The Bucket of Blood - John O'Hara.
The story coming up now is also only a page and a half I think

>>19753926
Ye I also hope these threads stay up throughout the year and people actually try to participate. The Shakespeare one seems to doing alright so far but this one, surprisingly, seems to struggle a bit. It's only a short story a week brahs. Give it a read.

>>19754618
>Give it a read.
I did. It was shit. Nothing worth talking about.

round where I'm from, they call this bumpin'

ayo here's another bump you lazy fucks

it's time for some mothafuckan (((stein)))beck

>>19756096
Hey now, cool it with the anti-Semitic remarks

The book is up on libgen etc too https://b-ok.cc/book/18784529/f68d4e

>>19742697
I'm new and know I'm a midwit so I just lurk, but after reading posts here and finding little discussion of the work I feel a need to contribute (even if I contribute little/contribute dogshit)
When I actually got to the point of the story after all the train imagery, and read the description of the girl, I was not expecting what followed to be so innocent, considering Nabokov wrote Lolita.
I'm not imaginative, and as another anon pointed out, this is really just sense impressions, so I definitely got filtered to a large extent, especially considering how ornate and confusing his writing style can get, typical Russian. But I can somewhat appreciate his style; after another anon here cleared up what he meant by "suicide by anastomosis" I now really enjoy that line.

>>19758080
Based lurker keeping /lit/ alive

Well the Steinbeck was pretty cute. I agree with him. It's nice to have breakfast. Do you think he's making the point that women feed the whole world with the emphasis of the fact that she's nursing a child while cooking a serving the men?