/lit/ - Literature

Yes.

>>8599142
What the fuck are you talking about you chose the books you fucking memed yourself, shitbrains

>>8599142
That edition of Infinite Jest? You didn't get memed enough, is what it is.

Teacher appreciation day sale. 20% off. Got some scifi also but don't wanna be thought a pleb.

Managed to save some money to buy these. Shakespeare's The Tempest and Woolf's To the Lighthouse are on the mail, and BookDepository ia taking its sweet time as always.

>>8599142
>>8599172
reddit-core

>>8599172
>Wordsworth edition
bruh...

>>8599196
>catedra
mi hermano de la raza cosmica

all things i've been finishing lately.

>>8599246

The drop in quality by the way between modern authors from the 1950s and after and before is so drastic with post modernism it's kind of staggering. Still enjoy them though.

>>8599248
>>8599246

theres the end of my jerk.

>>8599246
How have you been enjoying Schmidt?

>>8599246
How was The Turtle Diary?

>>8599246
>>8599248
>>8599259
You have weird taste.

Just ordered J.R. Very excited!

>>8599142
You'll like The Pale King and IJ, OP.

>>8599204
Why? This is recommended by /lit/

>>8599236
It was a dollar?

>>8599283

I think he's exceptional, we have a lot of joyce fans on the board, and schmidt is one of those guys who has a style all his own and he makes it work, it can be easy to read a page and want to set it down so it's a bit of a patient work where the more you get into it the more the prose unravels and you settle into it.

Aside from the bottoms meme dream book that came out I recommend anyone to start with his smaller collections before jumping into a monster that size.

>>8599289

I thought while reading it often that it was something that i could easily overlook after finishing but i was unfair to it, I'd give it a go if i was you, deals pretty heavily with loneliness and a life that's lost practically all meaning while finding some salvation in things at the end of it all, through turtles.

>>8599322
we are /reddit/

>>8599325
Currently reading his short stories and wondering why he doesn't have a bigger presence in North America. I had only heard of him through Zettel's Traum a few years ago but never knew Dalkey put out all these translations.

>>8599259
>>8599248
>>8599246
i appreciate your taste but im afraid your selection is too artificial (and you probably know it)

>>8599142
I'd love that version of Breakfast of Champions, it looks way better than the copy I own

>>8599310
>Just ordered J.R.
same

>>8599339
>Currently reading his short stories and wondering why he doesn't have a bigger presence in North America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp7QsxSOa7c

http://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/kultur/radiothema/arno-schmidt-interview-100.html


See from 2:50 on, he answers it himself.
Cant be bothered to translate it, but there is a lot on him to be found on German sites. He wrote solely for academics. He is very articulate in interviews, its a pleasure to listen to him.

"Jeder Mann hat sich gefälligst zur Kunst hinzubemühen."

good stuff

>>8599142
Breakfast of Champions is incredible, but I think you'd have to be familiar with Vonnegut's other work and the context of its writing (his 50th birthday) to really get a lot out of it

Posting here since the "stack" thread is dead, just cleaned up at a library sale

>>8602733
It's one of the more Kilgore Trout-focused ones, right?

>>8602737
Right. I think if you've read God Bless You, Mr Rosewater and Slaughterhouse-Five you're good to go.