/lit/ - Literature

>>23339168
I'm the biggest Hemingway dick rider alive. Not even as far as reading his books but I read a 200 page neurological research book about his brain and his mental illness.

>>23339168
Pic related


>>23339181
>200 page neurological research book about his brain and his mental illness.
That sounds interesting. What's the book called?

>>23339168
Jane Austen comes to mind

>>23340225
Hemingways brain by Andrew Farah, basically a catalogue of Hemingway being insane and a neuroscientist's perspective on why he was like that.

>>23339168
Is your picrel a joke? It better be

>>23339181
When you read Hemingway what you are reading is Stein made safe for a middlebrow audience.

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>>23340358
Could you elaborate on that?

>>23340658
Even her juvenalia is good. Lady Susan might be the best novel ever written by a teenager, and the rest is at least still funny

>>23340487
Who gives a fuck

>>23339168
Poe is one of the only ones where I'd say this is true. Nice choice. Everything he wrote really is gold.
Mark Twain, 90% of his stuff is good too.
I enjoy everything Dostoevsky wrote, it just takes 200 years to read it all.

>>23339168
Homer
Virgil
Milton
Blake
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Whitman
Hopkins

>>23340706
>Wordsworth
Bloated as fuck.

Kazantzakis. His prose is not for everyone but I love it.

>>23339168
Jack London, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, William Faulkner, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gustave Flaubert, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller, Plautus, Horace, Homer, Milton, Chaucer, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Novalis. I'd like to add Nathaniel Hawthorne, but if I'm honest there are a couple things he wrote that just aren't that good. Same with Poe, regardless of how much I love him.

>>23339168
Read as "autists that their entire work is worth reading", and he applies to my label and OP's label

>>23339168
I think the only objective answers to this question are Homer, Plato, and Shakespeare.

>>23340968
I strongly disagree with this choice just because of "Walking". That essay alone made me lose so much respect for him. Sucks, because considering how much I like walks, I thought it'd be my favorite of his.

>>23340972
...really? That's one of my favorite pieces by him. What do you dislike about it? I think it nicely articulates the experience of observing thoroughly through an inherently slow form of transportation

>>23340971
Shakespeare has mid stuff, so no.

>>23340480
you are the only joke here

>>23340962
what makes novalis good?
would you put flaubert over balzac?

>>23339168
Wish he wrote more. Am in love with the atmosphere that his stories evoke.

>>23340706
You might go insane if you want to read all of Coleridge’s prose as well. You might as well become a full on Coleridge and regency literature scholar at that point

>>23339168
Flaubert for sure, mainly because he didn’t write that much since he was notoriously meticulous over everything he wrote. Especially compared to his French contemporaries whose output can approach actual graphomania (like Hugo who literally couldn’t stop writing even unconscious) and whose full works are bloated by like volumes upon volumes of poems or journalistic hack work or other. I say that but all of Flaubert’s works differ considerably from one another and not all may be to a person’s taste but it will be interesting to say the least

Brian Jacques

>>23339168
Dambudzo Marechera
Amos Tutola
Osamu Dazai
Richard Wright
Thomas Bernhard
Roberto Bolano
Samuel Beckett
Almost feel the same way about:
Ishmael Reed
Samuel R. Delany
Dennis Cooper

>>23339168
This beautiful faggot right here

>>23341710
Agreed: Novel, essay, short story, poetry and theater, all written in a competent way.

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>>23340748
This is Wordsworth:
>The Pleasure-house is dust -- behind, before, this, is no common waste, no common gloom; but Nature, in due course of time, once more shall here put on her beauty and her bloom.
>She leaves these objects to a slow decay that what we are, and have been, may be known; but, at the coming of the milder day, these monuments shall all be overgrown.
>One lesson, Shepherd, let us two divide, taught both by what she shews, and what conceals, never to blend our pleasure or our pride with sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
This is Plath:
>You do not do, you do not do
>Any more, black shoe
>In which I have lived like a foot
>For thirty years, poor and white,
>Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.
I prefer the bloat, as would anyone with anything remotely human in their makeup.

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>>23339168
Oh can't forget Stapledon

>>23340706
>Blake
>Wordsworth
>Coleridge
Lol no. Thats what 'selected Poems of' is for

I love this crazy nigga like you wouldn't believe

only correct answer

>>23341312
>it's another poem about why sexy people should have kids

Agatha

>>23341685
I keep considering reading Madam Bovary but I am afraid it will turn me fag, will it?

Le him

>>23344641
She had a few misses

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>>23344655
If you're truly afraid, read Salammbô first and you'll receive a +15 bonus to HR (homo-resist).

>>23340706
I have a book of Wordsworth's "Major Works" and it's still 700 pages long, reading every one of his poems would drive someone insane

>>23344655
Lol genuinely curious where do you get that impression from Madame
Bovary? That you’ll end up hating women so much after reading it you’ll become gay? That certainly would be an interesting side effect but Flaubert isn’t Proust, although to be quite truthful the other author I know who both loved and hated women as much as he did is Tolstoy. Weinigger only hated them after all. Of his entire generation of French writers I think only Flaubert and Maupassant ever came close to seeing the true nature of things behind the thin veneer of art, Flaubert is possibly the most ruthless stripper away of illusions in all of 19th century literature.

>>23344918
Wordsworth is all comprehensible and more or less grounded, try reading some of Coleridge or Blake’s longer poems to be truly baffled at what opium and schizophrenia did to the former and what genuine delusions the latter put down on the page. Crazy to think Coleridge and Wordsworth were such close collaborators in Lyrical Ballads when you see how far their careers ended up diverging from there

Hitler

>>23339168
Corncob was the first author whose work I read in its entirety (essays and plays included). It was worth it.

Truman Capote

>>23345071
does Bovary rhyme with Ovary?

>>23339168
Dostoevsky

>>23344680
Basé, Le Malade Imaginaire is pure gold of comedy and still very funny today

>>23345966
The v is silent