/lit/ - Literature

Shortest thread ever.

Already seen the charts?

I don't really like Morrison. She got too political. Song of Solomon was pretty good, but even still.

I was annoyed not to see Angela Carter on the first one but then saw here >>2959902

Is it just me or are the majority of these women British?

>>2959905
British is what people know. The posts were made by people here, and you can't deny that many of the posters here are much more into English language literature.

I included all the ladies I could from foreign areas - Korea, China, Japan, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Romania, etc. If you have any to add, feel free to mention. I've been hoping we could have another iteration of the thread someday for a third info chart.

>>2959904
did somebody just compile female writers or what's the purpose?

jean rhys up in this bitch
also
marguerite yourcenar
elsa morante

>>2959911
It's just a list of good female writers to throw up in those "women can't write" and "all female authors suck" threads that used to happen pretty frequently. The charts in >>2959898 and >>2959902 are more informative and actually give you detail about what they write.

>>2959904
Sei Shonagon's such a snobby bitch you have to love her. Her greatest hour had to be the time she broke off all contact with her ex-husband because he was too dumb to get her poetic allusion.

What do you think about those on /lit/ who exclusively read male works?

>>2959957
They're missing out. Do you mean the ones who purposefully read only male works, or the ones who just tend towards that?

>>2959962
I think he or she is referring to me.

I do not think I am missing out on that much. When I run out of the best of the best written by men (which is why I limit myself to up to 1950, because nothing after really compared to the greats written prior to then) then prior to going post-1950 I will read the most influential works written by women prior to that time.

I doubt this will ever happen however. I am inundated with books to-read. It's such a pity.

>>2959965
You doubt it will ever happen in the 50+ years you have left to read books? Even taking into account rereadings, that's at the very least another 5,000 books for someone who reads at your pace.

>>2959957
well the problem is that outside the world of romance and books for children female writers are a minority, so you don't stumble upon them as much

if you straight up avoid reading literature writen by women, you are an idiot. if you just don't stumble upon it very often, that's perfectly acceptable.

>>2960011
There's a few good female writers but most of them have fallen prey to imitating male authors, which they do worse than men imitate other men. A lot of female fiction is just a caricature of the literary world.

>female writers

>>2960036
Seriously? Which female authors have you read?

Idiots, pic gives it all a way: a woman dressed as a man.

OP is a troll.

>>2960047
Eliot, Austen, Brontes, Dickinson, Stein.

>>2960049
Yeah, you really need to branch out before making generalizations like that. Especially into non English language women authors. Those few you mentioned represent a very narrow range of writing.

>>2960052
You're probably an English speaker. I'm superficially familiar with the memoir tradition in Europe which is heavily dominated by women around or in courts up until the early 19C. All of their whole intellectual/authorial activity is parasitic, journalistic, diaristic, epistolary, and in a word, nothing.

Hildegard of Bingen is one of the most spiritual female authors I know. She's the female equivalent of Maurice de Guerin, not Spinoza, St. Aquinas, or Kierkegaard.

Helena Blavatsky, half Danton, half Giordiano Bruno, batshit to the core, is basically how women understand all 'spirituality' - as something fundamentally superstitious and nonsensical. Blavatsky had perhaps a quarter of the intellect of Rudolf Steiner, who was basically a gesturing clown.

I've actually been going through a bit of a female-phase lately. Here are some of my favorites:

Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Emily Dickinson
George Eliot
Louise Glück
Katherine Mansfield
Flannery O'Connor
Dorothy Parker
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
Sylvia Plath
Anne Sexton
Elif Shafak
Jane Smiley
Christina Stead
Natasha Trethewey
Edith Wharton
Virginia Woolf

>>2960080
Thanks for being decent.

Since we're talking about female writers I'd like to ask you something, no trolling seriously.

Is Ayn Rand any good? I always read here too much hate about her work that is almost making me curious to read it.

>>2960094
No. It genuinely is shit.

>>2959957
They are capsguy.

>>2960094
As someone who genuinely liked Atlas Shrugged, if you can get through that 40 page speech towards the end, you can read through anything. It's definitely preachy, but she knew how to write characters.

I just finished Wolf Hall and enjoyed that.

Also like Donna Tartt and Mary Gaitskill.

>>2960198
Why do you like Mary Gaitskill, and what have you read by her?

>>2960151
>>2960099

Thanks for your answer guys. I guess then that she's one of those writers that you either hate or love.

>>2960204
I read a short story collection called Bad Behavior and a novel called Veronica which was a National Book Award finalist.

What do I like about her? She's a good storyteller. She doesn't pull punches. Her material can be dark and disturbing and sad. What can I say? She gave me the feels and made me think.

>>2960231

Ayn Rand's like Marmite - half the people of the world hate her, and the other half thinks she belongs on the end of a knife.

Guys. Guys, have you checked out this wallpaper? It's pretty sweet! Check it! It's all, like, yellow and shit! Seriously! Shits movin' round in it 'n stuff! Guy! Are you looking! Check it ou- OH SHIT!
Welp... Stuck in the wallpaper. Boy...This is awkward...

flannery o'connor

eudora welty

>>2960717
If you ever meet a girl who cites this as one of her favorite stories, run.

She's guaranteed to be nuts, and not in the good way.

I'm really adoring what I've read of Leena Krohn, Marlen Haushofer and Cristina Peri Rossi so far.

I read one of Silvina Ocampo's works recently and loved that as well - going to try and pick up a story collection of hers next.

>>2960779
Reaffirming this. She'll cheat on you and feel zero sympathy as well.

>>2961972
just like all those guys who love A Clockwork Orange and American Psycho are murders and rapists!

>>2960717

>mfw my >girlfriend loves this book

>>2960779
That's silly.

But if a chick ever tells me Kate Chopin is her favorite writer, she's getting a Falcon-punch to the cunt.

>>2962487
Its just a short story, whats so bad about it?

i have never read a book written by a woman.

>>2964579
I don't belive i have either. I have nothing against female writers I've just never come across one that's really peaked my interest.

Lorrie Moore
Ann Beattie
Joan Didion
Tama Janowitz

>>2964584
>belive
>peaked my interest

What are your literary interests? Maybe we can recommend you something.

>>2964596
Damn typos. Anyway as far as authors go I'd say Vonnegut, Camus, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche. Stuff like that i guess.

Sylvia Plath
Aimee Bender
Ali Smith

Many, many female authors suck, though.

>>2964618
Oh, and Virginia Wolf

>>2964618
>Many, many female authors suck, though.
...As do many, many male authors.

Marina Tsvetaeva

>>2964603
So Vonnegut and a bunch of existentialists (and Camus). Well Vonnegut fucking loved Flannery O'Connor - and rightly so. Also, if you like Vonnegut's tendencies toward wit and biting satire, try Dorothy Parker.

>>2964629
Oh, of course. But we already knew it.

>>2960080
Thems.

Plus Sharon Olds. And Beth Ann Fenneley.

Sarah Kane is very good, but /lit/ ignores contemporary theatre for some reason.

>>2964767
I just read 4:48 Psychosis yesterday (coincidently laying in bed after and hour where I couldn't sleep). I think I'm in love with Sarah Kane.

But every criticism of it is right, and it's somewhat intellectually vapid. I don't think I'd ever actually go to a theatre and see it performed.

>>2964767
I just read 4:48 Psychosis yesterday (coincidently laying in bed after a few hours where I couldn't sleep). I think I'm in love with Sarah Kane.

But every criticism of it is right, and it's somewhat intellectually vapid. I don't think I'd ever actually go to a theatre and see it performed.

Margaret Atwood's a pretty cool guy.

>>2964889
God, I had such a weird crush on Crake like you wouldn't believe.

Is the Handmaid's Tale much more than a standard outline of an improbable dystopia, or does it really fit with Huxley, Orwell, and the like?

Clarice Lispector, IMO.

Stop objectifying women by giving them a special little thread.