/lit/ - Literature

>>6385070
You got it first time - his very skilled use of very simple language to make it say (and affect us) more than you'd think simple language could.

Don't put yourself down, OP, you're an instinctive literary critic.

>>6385143
I feel honored.

>>6385070
You write like a pretty smart guy. Too many /lit/ posters flaunt a massive vocabulary and extensive knowledge of Hellenistic philosophy and deconstruction theory, which is fine, except they'll turn around and dismiss writers like Hemingway as "pleb shit." I believe that a writer who can make a reader feel with as few words as possible is just as valuable as one who can make a reader think with twice as many.

Check out Raymond Carver, OP, if you haven't. He takes the minimalist thing way further than even Hemingway, but there is so much working beneath the surface of his stories. You could spend forever on one of them.

>>6385247
I've been seeing Raymond Carver recommendations here a lot lately, it warms my soul.

>>6385070
>the simplicity in which he says things makes me constantly smile.

I had like moments when I read Hemingway.

>I'm not a smart man
Don't say such things.
Don't measure yourself against others, friend. It'll only leave you upset and hopeless .

>>6385143
>>6385247
>>6385415
is "being nice to people" the dankest /lit/ meme of 2015?

>they still don't know it's Hemmingway

>>6385421
It's danker than dank, bro : ^)

>>6385421
That's just like /lit/ is, besides those times we tell newfriends to read Hegel to see them struggle. If someone barges in saying that Evola is the deepest thinker of the last 300 years or that Joyce was a hack who didn't even know what he was writing then we'll get mad, but it's all provoked in those cases.

>>6385442
>Evola is the deepest thinker of the last 300 years
>implying he wasn't

>>6385450
If you can't name every other philosopher from that period then you really can't tell, can you?

>>6385070
iceberg

>>6385070
I just finished for whom the bells toll a month ago and thought it was great and looking back on it I can appreciate it even more. It doesn't fell wordy at all

>>6385464
just wondering, how much time do you spend on /lit/? you seem to be here literally all the time.

I'm sort of fed up with the stuff he wrote about his adult life. Or the life he wanted to say he lived, all that booze, war, rich people and manly men. Later on he got really dull and repetative which must've been partly due to his alcoholism.

Sun Also Rises and Farewell to Arms were great but things went downhill after that. He lost his observant touch and focused on describing the contents of people's bottles.

Lots of gems in his short stories. One that describes his partly wasted potential is The Battler. It's almost Steinbeck-esque.

decent, but his obsession with being "the man" was silly. Men know they're men

>>6385593
I have more than a dozen open tabs and I check whenever I have a break. While /lit/ has consumed most of my hobbies it's not so hard to still study, read and write while keeping this addiction.