/lit/ - Literature

it's okay. overrated by groupthink wannabe hipster faggots

>>20476828
read mostly by obese boomers on the cruiser tours. worthless.

>>20476848
>basing your opinions on mainstream behavior
absolutely pathetic

>>20476828
I plan to actually, its on my libraries ebook service so I'll give it a chance eventually.

>>20476828
I read the first 10 pages. Interesting, but didn't blow my skirt up.

>>20476828
No thanks. i am not a fag

>>20476884
Well then, get the fuck off /lit/.

>>20476828
I liked how everyone wanted to fuck Lenu once she hit puberty and got massive tits. That really put Lila in her place.

>>20476828
>best novel published in this century
Still not something noteworthy.

>>20476828
Jesus. Imagine actually writing a novel in Anno Domini 2022. Just pissing into the void.

>>20476828
I already did

>>20476995
You can't read a post, how can you read a book?

>>20476995
>mann
>good
Hahahahahahaha

>>20476828
Sorry, I only read female authors.

>>20476834
hipsters came to these books literally years after they'd already sold millions.
the trash-by-association tactic doesn't work in this case

>>20476985
Author got rich, worldwide fame and hundred thousands of readers?

Is it worth learning Italian to read these?

>>20476834
>>20476848
>>20476884
samefagging this hard.
who hurt you, babe?

>>20477052
>Is it worth learning Italian
Yes
>to read these
No

>>20477053
>WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHwhy wont anyone read my schlock
>ahhhhhhhhh you must be a samefag

>>20477052
It won't help, because you'll also need to learn Neapolitan. Most of the characters speak in Neapolitan throughout the novel and they rarely use Italian because it's seen as a class thing.

>>20477050
>hundred thousands of readers
sales are well over 10,000,000

>Lenu: reddit
>Lila: 4chan

is there a more obvious example of a difference of opinion between the two websites?

>>20477063
naw, it's basically the same comment over & over

>>20477070
Yeah to someone who is essentially illiterate

>>20477052
there's a level of fluidity in the prose that everyone praises that is carried to other romance languages. not sure other languages give off the same feeling.
>>20477065
the book is in italian, including the dialogue. it's only mentioned in what situations they speak italian or dialect. the tv show is like you say.

>>20476828
First book is only rated 3.99 on goodreads, and that site is dominated by women, the subject of the novel

>>20476854
>engaging in mainstream behaviour
irredeemably pathetic

>>20477101
Women hate women. They want to read about billionaire werewolves.

>first book has a bride on the cover

Those books practically smell of vags and bobs. You can pat yourself on the back for reading menstrual shit that almost no one on here would read.

>>20477498
it's pandering to women, they are a huge market. if the cover is so important to you too, look for more sober editions.

>>20477537
Look dude, you can't convince people on /lit/ to read contemporary fiction, let alone fiction by women. It's a fool's errand. I've tried and you just end up getting mocked and called a fag. No one will seriously engage with you, even if you were to give a very academic analysis of the book. I know. I've tried. It's not worth it trying to engage seriously on /lit/ with contemporary literature. It's too tempting for the peons to shit on it because there's no Harold Bloom or decades of academia to make them feel safe in reading the book.

>>20477352
never heard of that book but you are nonsentient

a writer's writer

where does lila go in the end?

>>20476828
the best novel that nobody has ever heard of...

nice try

>>20477653
I read this novel in a college course on Modernism. You're just an uncultured pleb.

>>20476828
>female author
Hard pass

>>20476828
Nice try, Elena

>>20477053
>replying to every criticism
>>no I am not ButthurttTTT!
go back faggot

>>20477622
after sending the package, her work was finished. she got fused with the city of Naples and was able to see Tina again.

>>20476828
I want to but I can't find it anywhere
I gotta hope to find it a local fair or some shit, like I did with Munro

this century? gotta be this

>>20477050
>>20477066
>sales are well over 10,000,000
How much do you think she earned?
A dollar a book?
How can we estimate it?

>>20477052
>>20477065
>It won't help, because you'll also need to learn Neapolitan. Most of the characters speak in Neapolitan throughout the novel and they rarely use Italian because it's seen as a class thing.
So they speak the language of ice-cream, so what? BIG DEAL!

>>20477537
>>20477598
>Look dude, you can't convince people on /lit/ to read contemporary fiction
You both, recommend me five books.
I might give it a try. Go!

>>20479175
it's about that, 5-10%, publishers get the big slice. however when they sell a lot, authors can negotiate, and this was a 4-book release, that was an immediate best seller worldwide.

>>20479244
>it's about that, 5-10%, publishers get the big slice.
Man, this is so unfair.
I thought they got much more. It's so hard making these big numbers in this industry.

>>20479236
>My Brilliant Friend by Elene Ferrante
>My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
>In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
>Witz by Joshua Cohen
>Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen
>Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

>>20476828
>female writer
into the trash it goes

>>20479236
I was being poignant on the OP, I mostly read the classics too. But here's the best contemporary fiction I can think of, while avoiding books/authors you see often on /lit/:

Zone, Mathias Enard
Disgrace, JM Coetzee
We Shall Fight the Shadow, Lídia Jorge
The Gardens of Light, Amin Maalouf
The Dream of the Celt, Vargas Llosa

And the OP, of course.

>>20476828
nobody cares about literature this century. no reason to read anything other than classics and non-fiction

>>20477067
>ships
>af
>anarchism
I will now never read your book.

Written by a female,think i'll pass

>>20476828
You mean this?

>>20476828
Not even the best Italian novel published this century

Is Ferrante better or worse than Rooney? Are they on a similar level?

>>20477065
>Most of the characters speak in Neapolitan throughout the novel
Lol absolutely not true. It's in regular italian.

>>20476828
Thanks for this post, anon. I read about this book awhile book, meant to write down its name and forgot.

>>20476828
Cormac’s got two coming out this fall.
That will satisfy my contemporary lit itch for another 5 to 10 years. Nothing after 1939 after that.

>>20481643
>Is Ferrante better or worse than Rooney?
MUCH better.
>Are they on a similar level?
Not even comparable.

>>20477059
why would anybody ever want to learn italian?

>>20477598
I encourage you to post about it, I don't care for much of contemporary lit myself, but if you can find it in your heart to make posts that are 1) sincere/in good faith and 2) about books and their actual contents in some degree of depth, rather than being an excuse to post the most absolutely mind-numbing political/religious drivel for the 10000th time, or an excuse for surface-level identity signaling to show off one's intellectual dick size, or an excuse to vent personal frustration about mundane things, or just the most surface-level "interpretations" imaginable by ill-read people who are nonetheless unwilling to admit they might have something to learn; if you can do that, you would be doing me a personal favor and raising the quality of the board by a considerable proportion.

>>20481643
Way way better, but I don't consider Rooney very good at all

>>20477598
Get a load of this fag

The Godfather by Mario Puzo