/lit/ - Literature

>>22322351
Its funny

>>22322351
it predicted /lit/

>>22322401

Like Maya Angelou, Sandra Cisneros, and Amy tan, John Kennedy Toole shines a light on those left in the shadows by the dominant culture, and his work belongs as much to forbidden anthropology as it does literature.

>>22322351
Its over.PNG
Also: together with 'catcher in the rye' and TPK it forms a kind of holy trinity.

>>22322351
It's about (you).

>>22322519
TPK?

its basically my diary desu. I got embarrassed and destroyed it after reading this book.

>>22322351
Cool cover. Haven't seen that edition before.

>>22322437
>forbidden anthropology
At first I thought this was a pretentious way of putting it, but the more I think about it the more insightful it seems. It reminded me that Saul Bellow studied anthropology instead of English. What is The Adventures of Augie March if not a vast collection of field notes from the weird, scattered tribes of the Great Depression?

>>22322577
The Pale King

It's funny, that's it.
I'm tired of reading depressing and lol so deep shit.

it's okay. catch 22 and infinite jest are better books of the same "genre". the guy who wrote it was having trouble getting it published and you can tell he modified the ending to try and make it more publishable before his seppuku, the ending was completely stupid.

>>22322732
Really? What’s it about?

>>22322767
>catch 22 was better
>the ending was bad

Retard take

>>22322351
Is Ignatius legitimately intelligent? Never read the book but some of his quotes make him seem smart but lazy.

>>22323044
No he isnt very smart. His character has no good traits. He is not likeable in any way. And as you read you think okay so the point is that this book does something new in providing a character that has no good side. He’s fat, lazy, childish, hateful, dirty, and self-inflated. But youre laughing the whole time. Then by the end of it you reflect back and realize he was actually BASED the whole time.

>>22323044
he's a genius and very sympathetic, I say this without an ounce of irony

>>22323044
he's literally me, so yes

>>22323058
It’s been like 12 years since I read it but isn’t he a doctorate or something in the novel? Was that just satirizing idiots with degrees that make them feel intellectual?

>>22323390
He's a scholastic LARPer with a master's degree in Medieval History. Edward Fesser even looks like him

>>22323044
Yes, but he’s extremely autistic.

>>22323409
How the fuck are you supposed to know what he looks like? And that guy has no mustache...

>>22323485
>How the fuck are you supposed to know what he looks like?
Gives a description of him in the book. And the cover art and actor's portraying him have been pretty consistent

>>22323485
Books typically describe how important characters look you dork

>>22323491
>>22323543
You guys are the dorks. A book cannot give a very accurate description of facial features, so unless the book somehow said "he looked like Ed Feser" as if it were written by James Patterson, there is no reason to make such a comparison. And I already said one reason that comparison is unfounded is because of the lack of a mustache.

>>22322351
Why can't far right dudes resist Jewish women?

>>22323576

>>22323034
catch 22 was significantly more chiseled. it had jokes that were built up over the entire course of the book. dunces was carried by the personality of the MC and nothing more.

>>22323584
Is cover art really canon? And more importantly, does that picture look anything like this guy? >>22323409

>>22323598
Fesser's smirk is channeling Ignatius in his purest form.

>>22322351
supposed to be satire
boring disgusting crap
projectile diarreha
author died
his mom convinced pulitzer comittee to vote for him
another leftist farce

>>22323579
No man of taste could resist such a mousey little minx.

>>22322787
Its about a wasp kiddo who tries hard to larp as a Holden Caulfield but ends up as a Ignatius Jr.
When the fun begins the novella stops on the short side [spoiler ] BC writer ACK's himself [/spoiler] which is a Kitty though.
BC the work tackles some hitherto untackled themes of modern technological society in the style of Pynchon.

>>22323579
Her pale complexion, frail body, messy black hair, baggy eyes, and generally neurotic appearance all beg, nay DEMAND, to be conquered by a virile goyim penis.

>>22322351
it's literally you

>>22322767
>infinite jest is better
LOL

>>22323058
Extremely low intelligence reading

>>22326362
quite literally fifty times better. dunces was not that good of a book. it just had a compelling and funny main character. there is a reason the guy couldn't get it published.

>>22322359
>>22322751
These.

catholics: the book

>>22326371
Dunces is a very very good book. IJ is crap.