/lit/ - Literature

who is this Infinite Jest?
What is the "David Foster Wallace" book about?

>>7242365
Infinite Jest is a famous Peruvian veterinarian who specialized in operating vegetative medium sized piglets.
He died in an accident in 1983 in what was know as The great piglet stampede of the Buenos Aires. There were witnesses who allegedly saw him embracing the stampede which may indicate it was a sucide although that information is not confirmed confirmed.

>>7242498
kek

Infinite jest was my answer. Id add ulysses and gravitys rainbow.

>>7242078
any kafka

seriously

>>7242498
underated post

Ian Banks' Culture Novels.

>>7242528
Anyone else notice DFW writes the way people report Kafka's sentences come across in German; with this big build up of ideas that finally connects together at the last sentence of the paragraph?

>>7242078
On the opposite end, I'd love to see Evangelion turned into a novel. There is just so much that the anime simply couldn't present in 26 episodes plus the movie.

The diary of Anne Frank can be a good slice of life.

>>7242528
there is actually one anime based on Kafka's short story and its pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDjmW-gIsKs

Dubliners and Pynchon (though a western cartoon would probably be more be more fitting for the latter)

>>7242533
premature

>>7242078
>The Manuscript found in Saragossa
>Mervyn Peake's gormenghast trilogy
>Any pychon tbh
>Phillip K Dick
>Charles Dickens. Is it me, or do 19th century novels and anime share a lot of tropes and character types?

Gravity's Rainbow

One hundred years of solitude already has an anime, it's called Jojo

The Barsoom series

>>7242895
I'd prefer 70's Ralph Bakshi to do Gravity's Rainbow.

I'd like to see Jude the Obscure. If it was done well I'm sure I'd cry.

Suttree

>>7242895
Gravity's Rainbow by Anno would be boss. Slothrop's sorta the anti-Shinji and Katja's the anti-Rei.

>>7243026
>DFW no fritz the cat style HBO miniseries of Gravity's Rainbow

Just end my life fam

Mason & Dixon could be a television show.

>>7242584
Nice

>>7242574
Like what?

>>7243256
Like more info on the world in general and angels, as well as even more character development maybe through their childhood lives and a more satisfying ending. Not that the one now is bad but I feel it leaves out a lot.
And more background on SEELE and the lads who brought us the civilization, there is a juicy story behind that I bet.

>>7242574
I'm on the job, fam.

No lie I'd watch a Blood Meridian anime

>>7242574
I've hit the 75k word mark on what can be called an evangelion rip-off and I regret nothing.

>>7243546
actually, I just ripped-off the formula, not the series

The Catcher In the Rye reworked as an incest ecchi series.

The Dispossesed

>>7243546
upload pls

Most murakami books are already rife with anime tropes and the general tone is close enough anyway.

Choose one of his more fantastical books like Hard Boiled wonderland and it'll be a hit among all the weeaboos who think Evangelion is the pinnacle of depth.

>MUWAJJIBBU-SAMA, BANZAI!!
>ONORE-HARUKONNEN!!
>KONO PRESSHAH!!

>>7243546
I don't see what there would be to be ashamed of.

bump

>>7242574
But the best part of Eva is its directing and visual storytelling. Why would you turn it into a novel?

>>7244410
It's an erotic novel based on the masturbation scene.

>>7244418
Noice

upload pls?

why does David say that in a tennis tournament between two academies where a total of 108 matches will be played, the chance of a complete tie is 1 in 2^27? How did he come up with this?

They way I see it, we must find the amount of ways that one of the academies could win exactly 54 matches:

108! / (108 - 54!)


And then we need to divide that result by the total amount of combinations of wins/losses which is simply:

108!

So we find our result with:

(108! / (108 - 54!)) / 108!


Someone who is good at math please help me out here.

Maybe Iliad.

>>7242498
what does it mean

>>7244145
Kafka on the Shore would make a great anime honestly.

>>7245168
I think the Illiad would make a better RPG, the book is already rife with RPG tropes, like there's a god damn fetch quest to get into hell and a tournament where people win rare loot.

>>7242078

>>7243546
Upload some of it please.

>>7244145
the wind up bird chronicle as an anime would be great

>>7244484
this all looks intuitively wrong to me.
i'll get around to figuring it out later.

>>7242078
I've always thought IJ would make a great anime, too. The Entertainment is some Death-Note level catastrophe, and the quirks of the characters, plus the hyperbole in some of the scenes (like Peemster's hat hopping up and down on his head) is shit that would only work in an anime.

I feel the same way about Brothers Karamazov and Dosto in general. It might be the translations I read, but his characters' melodramatic dialogue, and the sorts of things men shed tears over, remind me of anime troops like little sighs that look like mushrooms and waterfall tears.

>>7243202
You just know they would cast Benedict Cumberbatch as Mason.

The best Pynchon book to be an anime would probably be either Against the Day-- for all its landscape and absurd action/sex sequences-- or Bleeding Edge, for the fact that it's the only Pynchon Book where anime is itself addressed as an aspect of society (Something about seeing characters in an anime cosplay as characters in an anime tickles my fancy)

Dream team.

Does this book blows minds?

>>7245917
>(Something about seeing characters in an anime cosplay as characters in an anime tickles my fancy)
Isn't this sorta common? People in my anime always seem to talk about doujinshi and manga and anime and shit.
The slice of life shit though. Uh.. Yuru Yuri has that, and Oreimo as well, iirc, and so on.

bump

the old man and the sea

>>7242078
Toilers of the Sea, Iracema, Aeneid and Lusíadas. Just imagine the amount of fanservice in the end of Lusíadas, just imagine! The Aeneid would be an Harem anime also.

>>7246139
I forgot to comment: Gilliat vs the Octopus fits perfectly in the anime sterotypes.

Don Quixote for sure. Maybe change the setting to medieval Japan and call it Senpai Kihote.

>>7246163
But... but the windmills.

>>7244484
>>7244484
I'm terrible at math but,

108! isn't going to give you a total amount of combination of wins and losses because you only have two possible outcomes (either a win or a loss, ties being derived from combinations).

I think another important factor might be the chance of tying a match in the first place, derived from the 3-set matches.

If I had to approach this problem, I'd first find the chance of tying each match from the rules of tennis and number of sets. Then I'd apply that to the chance of 54 games tying.

>>7245879
Notes From Underground would print cash and become /a/'s AOTY for sure.