/lit/ - Literature

Yes.

What the fuck are you talking about?

How could the snaggle-toothed, jug-eared individual in the photo possibly be a person of the right aristocratic stuff to make a great writer?

Kafka got away with the ears, admittedly, but he was renowned all around Prague Castle and Environs for his perfect dentition even more than for his dainty and decorative penis.

The only possible contendors for the Mr Best Living Writer in the Universe title are, in my opinion, such perfect 1O he-babes as Sam Beckett, Sam Sheperd, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, two out of three of whom have the slight disadvantage of being dead.

Gass edges him out by the width of a pinecone.

No, I'm the greatest living writer and my dad works at Nintendo.

Currently reading GR. It's fucking awesome

>muh Kenosha Kid

I've read currently living authors that I've preferred, but I would say P. is the most technically skilled writer I've read. Also enjoyed Crying of Lot 49.

nope

>>3792657
by this argument, a 22-year-old male model from London who can't read or write would make a better novelist than, say, someone WHO COULD READ AND WRITE.

moron.

>>3792714
So Selena Gomez is a better singer than Nina Simone? Because she's prettier to look at.
Faggot.

I'm not sure, I don't understand most of Gravity's Rainbow. A great writer should be accessible

>>3792684
>technically skilled writer
What does that even mean? His grammar and syntax? We have editors for that shit.

>>3792737
>A great writer should be accessible
Of course, mediocrity power!!!

I don't get Dali's paintings, he should paint something easy to understand!!

>>3792737
>A great writer should be accessible

What you're actually saying is "a great writer should be accessible to ME."

>>3792745
>>3792744
Nah you misread me bros. What I'm saying is what good is a great piece of writing if it's a puzzle that only a select few scholars can solve?

>>3792714
Why the fuck did you need to specify "from London" here?

What the hell is it about London specifically just at the moment that makes it specifically associated in everyone's minds with a life of easy, superficial grace and sweet sensual gratification?

I pose the question for very urgent existential reasons.

I am from London myself but had been living on the European continent for several years when I feel in hopeless unrequited virtual love with a girl from California thirty years my junior.

This was the source of many complex and multi-layered "feels" even during the four years that she stayed there, and I stayed n Berlin and Paris.

Then last year she went to live with a friend in a ghastly household full of attractive, unprincipled hipsters in Shoreditch.

Since then, the torture that is my hopeless obsession with her has acquired a further diabolic "wrinkle": she has robbed me now even of my own past, even of the unhappy youth in which I walked the very streets she is walking now, dreaming of a girl just like her in a time when no such girl had yet been born into the world.

And now my residence outside England has become, instead of a mere prolonged accident, something necessary and purposeful, a kind of Joycean "weapon", although I am no cultivator of either silence or cunning.

I cannot confront or defeat her on the streets of my youth, which were places of defeat for me but of glorious shining victory for her.

So I try to build my personal empire over her "on another element", the romantic mystique of the old European capitals that she has not yet been able to appropriate as part of the glory of her young life.

But when I see the spell that HER town - London - seems uniquely to exert now, I ask myself: is THIS weapon powerless against her too?

Also: Pynchon is a very bad writer.

>>3792744
>implying Dali is not petty bourgeoise's first surrealism

Cormac McCarthy is

My vote goes for Mario Vargas Llosa. The problem with most of "greatest current author" nominees is the small amount of great works - their career is boiled down to one or two books. For Pynchon, it's Gravity's Rainbow and V. Gabo we remember only of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love during Cholera in West and One hundred and Autumn of Patriarch in Latin America. But Vargas Llosa? He we remember of not one, two or even three novels - The Green House, Dialogue in the Cathedral, The War of the end of the world and The Feast of the Goat are unmatched classics without a clear magnum opus - more for generations to come.

>some ugly lower class sailor dude
>good writer

lel

high culture comes from high society and not the common folk

Gravity's Rainbow lost my interest after 100 pages.

>>3792800

He can't even spell or use punctuation; be fucking serious.

Look at this shit.

>>3793009
he went to collage tho

>>3793012

>we dont need one

It even aches to type it...

>>3793012
Which of those words is misspelled? Besides, spelling errors are for editors to catch, not writers themselves.

>>3793009
> Post-modern Literature
> High Art

>>3792752
No, Pynchon has an excellent style.

>>3793023

>dont

Are you blind? Seriously, I can't even write a word wrong unless I try hard. Cormac clearly stated he doesn't believe in "putting weird little marks all over the page", as if letters were anything more than that. The guy is clearly moronic.

>>3793031

He does, but he writes nonsense far too much.

"They're in love. Fuck the war."

Yeah, that's clearly God-tier literature right there.

>>3793036
>I can't even write a word wrong

Wrong is an adjective, not an adverb. YOu should have used "incorrectly."

>weird little marks all over the page", as if letters were anything more than that.

Letters are bigger marks, and less weird.

>>3793051

Wrong is an adverb too, fucknut. "Incorrectly" comes from the French, and believe you me, English folk had the word "wrong" long before they had that one.

>fast
>well

These aren't adverbs either, hey, moron?

>>3793051
>Letters are bigger marks, and less weird.

They're only weird to illiterate fucks.

>finds apostrophes weird

>>3793074
>Wrong is an adverb too, fucknut.

And how, exactly, do you think it became one? That's right: through the incorrect use of language.

>>3793051
Wrong is an adverb now, deal with it.

>>3793081
>prescriptive about language
>year CCXXI

>>3793092
I'm not, and that's precisely the argument I'm making against the fellow unhappy with McCarthy's use (or lack thereof) of punctuation. His style is really cutting edge, you see.