/lit/ - Literature

I'm a fucking idiot that found Lolita kind of hard and I understood what was going on by the third page

>>3815233

if you only think lolita was "kind of hard", you missed a lot of it. i promise.

>>3815240
like what?

>>3815240
Lolita made me kind of hard, but it wasn't hard

lol

Faulkner is a snore fest

>>3815253
>Faulkner is a snore fest

You take that back, you bastard! Okay, wait, I guess we're all entitled to our own wrong opinions, but I want to emphasize how wrong yours is.

My high school lit class read it and the teacher helped us a good deal through the Benjy section. Don't worry, it's hard to grasp the first time through, especially reading it with no preparation. If you think it was worth reading, I highly recommend Absalom, Absalom! and Light in August (which are, in my humble opinion, Faulkner's best).

If you have any questions, let me know. I have studied Faulkner rather extensively now.

>>3815265
Not him, but I have a copy of As I Lay Dying on my bookshelf and I'm thinking about reading it soon. Would you say it's a good starting point for Faulkner?

>>3815592

Yes. I found it much more accessible than The Sound and the Fury, which I really need to re-read now that I may or may not be smarter.

>>3815253
Goddamn you anon goddamn you

>>3815112
OP here, Light In August was great, I liked As I Lay Dying too.. this is significantly harder than anything else by him.

>>3815112
I'm reading this book currently and thank god I decided to read the introduction my edition has. What I don't like, though, is when books do not stand by themselves and are dependant on explanations or clarifications made by the author or somebody else.

Besides, is there really any necessity for the charachter of Benjy to be retarded other than mere narrative experimentation on the part of Faulkner?

>>3815715
you're just used to having things handed to you

people would understand the book without introductions

>>3815715

>>3815253
>Faulkner is a snore fest

yeah, you'd be better of dead for sure. I want you dead.

You need to have read S&F at least 1.5 times to 'get' it.

Its not time until it was.

The Compsons are rereading their lives, you need to have read the book at least once to 'get' the significance of Benjy moaning because some girls remind him of the time that Caddy "smelled like trees" (protip: she actually smells like sex cause she's a dirty slut having sex out in the woods)

I'd fuck Caddy but I never did have a sister.

Am I the only one who found Quentin's chapter more challenging than Benjy's?

only two of his books are of any value that is all he is allowed

>>3817500
Horseshit. You can get it if you're not an idiot.

I attempted this one and made it 1/3 through As I Lay Dying.

They're like the fucking Dark Souls of literature or something. I felt like I was thrown in with extremely limited amount of info on the story and whatnot.

He just jumps characters and in one of the books I remember he kept using different names for different characters.

I can perfectly comprehend some Joyce, but Faulkner just perturbs my soul.

>ps i loved A Rose for Emily