/lit/ - Literature

Yeah, her stream of consciousness technique was a bit off. Other authors that used it a bit easier to read.

I was completely lost for the first 20 or so pages with 'To the Lighthouse', then I started over from the beginning and it all made perfect sense. I think it's just that the stream of consciousness was thoroughly unfamiliar to me.

>Does anyone else find Virginia Woolf's prose a little awkward?

NO.

YOU FIND IT "AWKWARD", BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT ACCUSTOMED TO READ OVERLY LONG STREAMS OF DESCRIPTIVE EVENTS.

I INFER THAT YOU MOSTLY READ "SPARSE" & LINEAR "STUFF".

>>2860701
>ZKiNDeReGG
Americans won't get that reference.

>>2860709
Sure we will.

>>2860714
That's terrorism.

>>2860701
Well maybe that is it. I'm not criticizing her prose; I'm just saying I find it hard to digest myself and wondered if anyone else had a similar issue.

Perhaps you could recommend some more entry-level stream of consciousness lit to ease me into Woolf's work?

>>2860709
>yfw europoors require identification to purchase kitchen cutlery

>>2860721
You mean "yuropoors". I'm not British.

>>2860723
>You mean "yuropoors".
I'm a true American free spirit, I don't have to abide by your arbitrary commie rules.

Yes, it's awkward, but bare in mind that the reason that she's so famous is because she was one of the first ones to use that technique, not necessarily because she was good at it.

>>2860738

Not really. Portrait of the Artist had been out for nearly 10 years before she ever wrote in the style.

Hey there, /com/rade slinging by. Just wanted to check if you guys were just as cancerous as the rest of 4chan. Turns out you are. Thanks.

>>2860781
Blame /pol/.

>>2860781
Good to know basic concepts like irony haven't filtered through to comics yet. Feels good to still be king.

>>2860738
she was really good at it though

to the lighthouse is a fucking great book

Useless writer, honestly. A woman infatuated with "Literature" and bourgeois refinement, her writing is too vain and self-conscious.
Anybody that gets too attached to the idea of being "literary" and clever is pretty much bound to be a second-rate writer at best.

Jane Austen and Emily Dickinson are examples of serious female authors, serious in the sense that they're main purpose in writing isn't to satisfy their conceited view of themselves as a "writer".

>>2860661


I'd do her.

>>2860810
Is that what people who dislike post-modernism actually think? By the way, if there was ever a writer incredibly obsessed with what it is to be a writer it's Dickinson, so that's being extricated from your anus.

>>2860834

What does post-modernism have to do with anything?

>>2860839
I think he meant modernism

>>2860810
I really dislike Jane Austen's prose, they were horribly boring and wordy.

I think that Virginia Woolf was the perfect female writer because no only was her prose great but her ability to write characters that one can empathize for was amazing. She truly understood human emotions and how to convey them.

>>2860839
I was strawmanning the post-modernist haters in my head, ignore that part.

>>2860854
I'm sick of seeing "strrawmun hnnng ad hominonominuhhhhhhhh"

Promptly kill yourself. Also, anyone who invokes any of the logical fallacy names

I've only read Mrs. Dalloway, but it was very perceptive and I adored the prose.

Think I'll read To the Lighthouse Next

>>2860834
I have no problems with movements like modernism or post-modernism in themselves. I'm only trying to identify whom among them is bad and whom is good. I don't think Woolf is one of the good ones, she's an imitator. And not even a good imitator like Virgil was an imitator of Homer, because Virgil was discerning enough to find what was great in Homer, whereas Woolf imitates things that aren't worth imitation.

>>2860918

You should try Orlando or Between the Acts. They're very different from her typical modernist stuff, and a whole lot better, I think.

>>2860907
>use a word to describe something you did
>"I hate seeing these words, please stop using them"
Why? Just because they irritate you?

>>2860907
>>2860975
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

>>2860981
Take it to the river guys, lets not cast stones here.

>>2860922

Orlando is god-tier.

>>2860994
shut upyou guy, with your words. i will kill you i swear, youve really gone too far thus time

>>2861040
Dem prose

>>2861040
>her most most accessible work

>>2861153
How does accessibility change quality?

>>2861193
This is /lit, do you even have to ask?

>>2861193
It doesn't. I just wanted to bump the thread

British authors from that time tended to abuse the shit out of commas, and Woolf is no exception.

>>2861237
Commas are sexy, I put them fucking everywhere, it adds flow to my sentences, no seriously!