/lit/ - Literature

I think it gets a little less comfy as it goes on and veers in to less pleasant themes, but it still pretty good. the beginning when he is dragging stuff to his settlement through the snow is absolutely wonderful

Thanks for the discovery of this author.

>>21930493
Even on its grimmest, it still evoking a strong imagery of a comfy life on the outdoors.
Barbro and inger's sister deserve suffering tho

>>21929539
I read the plot section of this book's Wikipedia page and I've got to say that this is probably the worst book I've ever heard of.

>>21929539
Bumpu ~

>>21929539
This book is awful.

>>21931647
amateurish bait

>>21932018
Your reply is a great example of cognitive dissonance.

>>21930883
Why did Axel accept Barbro at the end? Why was he such a pathetic cuck

>>21929539
Words cannot express how bad this book is.

>>21932008
Why

i enjoyed this book, and hunger and pan as well. sucks that hamsun was a racist weirdo and a nazi tho.

>>21929539
I was in the hospital when I started reading it and my health's deteriorarion coincided with the times where I read this book the most. I stopped and was out in less than a week. This book is honestly a disgrace to literature.

>>21932514
What the hell? I had terrible back pain when I started reading it and I had good posture and all but the moment I finished it was the moment I felt the biggest relief ever, like a weight was lifted off my back -- literally. I hope people steer clear from this book, it's so bad.

>>21932032
Not really. I just took the opportunity to bump a thread.

>>21932514
I have a similar experience. I was dealing with a viral infection, and as I read this book my condition only got worse. By the time I reached the last few chapters, I needed to be hospitalized, and only recovered after pushing through and finishing it. This book nearly killed me

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>>21932746
I had erectile dysfunction when I started reading this book. The very moment I put this book down my dick shot through the ceiling and collapsed the roof, killing everyone inside.

>>21929539
I have bad memories about this book because my grandma died on the day that I decided to start reading it. I almost cried when I saw the front cover as the picrel. I haven't picked it up since. Also I fell down the stairs and broke my leg.

>>21929539
I hate this book.

>>21932235
Why didn't he answer?

>>21929539
10/10 until the fucking woman shows up

>>21933018
Isn't that like page 40

>>21932055
Being alone sucks

>>21929539
Beautiful book

>>21931647
“Plot summary”
Can’t be serious.

>>21929539
I can’t believe you retards are hating on this beautiful peace of art. Please fuck off and stop polluting this place.

>boohoo plot is boring

You should genuinely feel horrible about the state of your mind.

Hunger is better.
/thread/

>>21933952
dreadfully newfaggy post

mysterier bros rise up

Novels are inherently comfy. A novel that purposely tries to be comfy risks being sleep-inducing.

what happened to this board?

>>21934221
Cuckoldry.

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>>21932018
You're acting like there is something mystical within the writing to overwrite how bad the plot is. It's downright disgusting what I skimmed over, I can't imagine what the people who read it went through.

>>21933950
This book was so bad that I went outside and threw it in a public trash can. It wasn't even worthy of being in my trash and you're worshipping it? Lmao.

>>21934221
Your subtle implication of veterancy under the guise of outward criricism should've made you feel humiliated - yet you posted it and thought that we would affirm your identity.

>>21933952
This is the correct opinion.

>>21934141
I disagree. Hunger showcases much more literary inventiveness and has an energy and uniqueness that his later authorship completely lacks. While Growth of the Soil is a very worthwhile piece of craftsmanship, it is squarely within the genre conventions of standard-issue pastoral elegies, and as sympathetic as its message is in the wake of World War I (the reason he received the Nobel prize for it), it is not nearly as compelling a critique of modernity (which was his overarching project throughout the entire authorship) as his earlier works, Hunger included, where he manages to illustrate, via stylistic invention, the dionysian and dissolving effects of modernity on subjectivity itself. I cannot stress this enough. This is the source of Hamsun's genius and why he was lauded by artist-intellectuals like Mann and phenomenological philosophers like Heidegger.
Johan Nagel is one of the greatest characters ever written, mercurial and paradoxically, oblique and transparent at the same time. He is the archetype of modernity. I consider Hamsun's stream-of-consciousness even better than Joyce's in the three works of the 1890's that merit GOAT status, especially in Mysteries. And needless to say, more original. The lyricism of Pan and Hunger are unmatched in the rest of his authorship and among the GOAT of all literature. At times, Pan reads like prose poetry in the vein of Baudelaire, but singing to the praise of all creation rather than the abject dread of the gutter - reading it is a nearly religious experience. All three of these, Hunger, Mysteries and Pan outrank the rest of his authorship, and the majority of world literature - which is frankly insane, that he could produce three absolute masterpieces in the span of 5 years - the frenetic energy of his production mirroring the frenetic energy of his works.

Do you have any idea how fucking great it is to make the narrator of Hunger try to disprove Kantian practical philosophy with a stump of pencil and a scrap of paper, so he can sell his essay and eat? This is Hamsun summarizing the entire ethos of the fin-de-siecle modernity shitting on Kantian enligthtenment thought, in a profoundly intellectually compelling way, in a dry joke. It's the sort of divine inspiration found in mania, and Hamsun manages to infect you with it in his early works - if you are receptive to it.

Growth of the Soil does not have that. I am not saying it is bad. I am saying that 1890's Hamsun is GOAT so hard that it makes your head spin.

>>21934221
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>>21929539
This book sucks.

>>21929539
The worst book maybe ever in the history of literature.

>>21929539
People like this book?
Lmao

>>21933046
Yes

>>21934778
Nigga you are DUMB, read books nigga damn no one gives a fuck about your whinging and bitching especially when you don't even know what the fuck you're talking about. Dumb nigga really just said plot summary

>>21929539
Comfy? More like boring af.

Posts like these >>21936406 are why we need unique ID tags

>>21929539
This book should be regulated as a medicinal-grade sedative.

Extreme samefaggery ITT
Imagine getting this upset about a vintage cottagecore novel

>>21929539
I'm reading it now, when does it get good?

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>>21934778
> skimmed
> plot


Why the fuck are so many retards on this board?

>>21936993
Is this real?

What the fuck happened in this thread with this samefaggotry? And why with this book?

>>21934778
Tanizakifags are such retards

>>21937263
There is an anon who wants someone to articulate a reason for why the book is good, likely because he found himself in some position where he articulated the standard-issue /lit/ opinion that it is good, but he doesn't know why.
Hence, he baits for someone to effortpost some original insight he can regurgitate, should the need ever arise, without having to think for himself, which he can't.
Unfortunately, effortposts are few and far between, and the only one made in the thread so far favors early Hamsun over late Hamsun, and goes into some detail why Growth of the Soil is a more mediocre work.

>>21934896
Good post, but keep in mind Matthew 7:6 going forward.

Why are the penguin editions so expensive

>>21929539
OP, did you like the book or not? You make one post about it being comfy and like 20 that are hating on it.

>>21929539
This book? Throw it in the trash!

>>21929539
Mid book.

>>21929539
Very not good.

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This is much comfier, IMO.

>>21929539
Dumb book.

>>21933018
You mean Inger or Oline?
I fucking hated Oline. Inger was cool in the beggining but after her comeback she's just your average "wife that you hate".
Also Geissler is so based, loved him. He's a force of nature.

>>21938689
Inger is ugly. You like a book that praises the ugliness of the woman by marrying her off to the main character? Disgusting.

>>21938672
I kinda agree.

>>21929539
Geissler is my favorite character.
Also this book taught me that women ruin everything.

>>21934221
It's a "Slow/fast" board. In that we have no jannies cleaning it up so 90% of threads fall off the board with sub<20 replies and endless new threads about nothing//pol//women are spammed pushing each other off. This thread needs text controls like R9k where there's a minimum post length to start a thread.

>>21938723
She was ugly but very hard working. After her comeback it's stated multiple times that she was beautiful and the only thing that made her ugly was her harelip.

>>21939246
She loses the harelip but still has a scar so she is still ugly despite what the book says.

>>21938298
excerpt? qrd?

>>21937374
Whom is that.

>>21938298
thanks for the recommendation, this is excellent
I hope it doesn't have a tragic ending

>>21929539
Bump (I'm not OP)

>>21932790
So are you dead?

>>21941634
Yes

>>21929539
Book was dumb.

>>21929539
I seriously don't understand the appeal of this book.