/lit/ - Literature

>>19989328
>ulysses in translation
lol wtf read Terra Nostra or something

>>19989328
you've managed to make it even more cringe by reading it in spanish

>>19989332
Wallace improves in translation. The others, not really.

Ulysses is definitely meme, but it is fun as well. I enjoy following the train of thought and how it deepens as it goes, reminds me of my own thoughts and has made me a more clear and depthful thinker. It takes ages to gear up to read another chapter, and some take me several tries (I don't force myself if I don't feel like it).

>>19989336
Ulysses is definitely better in Spanish.

>>19989328
Do people really read that shit? Or is it just a meme?

menudos tostonazos

>>19989336
>>19989478
:roto2:

>>19989328
Ulysses and Gravity's Rainbow seem to have gained an extra few hundred pages in Spanish, is that because they are a bitch to translate or are they critical editions or something?

>>19989328
No tiene sentido leer Ulises o El arco iris de la gravedad en traducción. Leete a Jose Cela.

>>19989328
Me recomiendas leer esas cosas en español?
T. Spik indeciso que está leyendo The Tunnel de Gass en inglés y ya está harto

>>19989328
5,000 pages of vastly overrated garbage. One good line out of the bunch (that line being, "A screaming came across the sky.) God I wish these books were good or profound but they just aren't, they're gibberish and their "profundity" is false and forced.

>>19989627
spanish is retarded, just look at gravity's rainbow it took 5 words to write the title alone lmao

>>19989331
First time I’ve seen this book mentioned here, have you read it? I’d like to start on it next month

GR and IJ and half of Ulysses is what I have read.
Would I recommend them? Yes, mostly.
Will I read them again? Maybe in 20 years.

Have an anime girl. A concession I make to thee so that you can easily disregard my post if you don't like it.

>>19989328
Read Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest (twice for IJ). Have yet to conquer Ulysses.

>>19989336
two problems with what you said,
>Wallace improves in translation.
and
>improves in translation

>GR
Read this maybe ten years ago. Liked it a lot.

>IJ
Got halfway through and dropped from boredom. Might try again one day.

>Ulysses
I have no interest in this.

>>19989328
I'm working through portrait still, it's fun to bust it out on kindle at the pub tho

>>19989844
Yeah it's good, huge scope, sort of a mashup of all the major archetypes through the history of Spanish lit, peak magical realism IMO. Maybe a bit "too ambitious" but that I believe that quote from 2666 is apt here:
>What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench.

I've read all of them. I will not be taking questions.

>>19989478
>these are the midwits calling you an anglo

>>19989812
It could just be Arcoiris de gravedad, honestly.

For me it’s Don Quijote, 2666, y Cien Años de Soledad.

>>19989478
this is absurd

>>19989328
jesus christ they're thick. does espanol use more letters or something

>>19989997
>cien ANOS de soledad
Kys

>>19989328
Out of the three I've only finished Infinite Jest. I plan on finishing the Bible and Plato before moving on to other memes.

>>19989904
>He brings his Kindle to the pub
That's pretty BASED my man.

>>19989331
cope

>>19989328
jajajaja

>>19989328
>knows english
>reads translation
SMH2svyt

I finished GR a while back. I took a detour over to Gaddis, but Ulysses is next for me. DFW is too recent for me to feel comfortable reading him, at least until I've finished the novel I'm working on.

>>19989328
midwit trilogy

>>19989478
next level cope

>>19989627
There's some extra content that couldn't be communicated in English.

>>19989478
>>19989336
These guys get it. Monoglot goons will never understand the power of minds like Pynchon, Wallace and Joyce.

>>19990162
Wtf are you talking about. He got the title right, you got it wrong

>>19992032
Are you really this retarded

>>19989627
English is a very short language compared to Spanish

>>19992830
The usual term is pithy.

>>19989904
>>19991128
unironically yes. very alpha male.

>>19989393
its a meme of people who havent read that much to call ulysses a meme desu

>>19989907
never read Bolano but this quote that keeps getting posted ensures i never will. why are the postmodernists so shit