[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature


View post   

File: 82 KB, 800x800, 1490232900214.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9283008 No.9283008 [Reply] [Original]

The 19th century was the greatest ever for literature. Prove me wrong.

>> No.9283025
File: 177 KB, 900x920, joyce.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9283025

>>9283008
>Prove me wrong.

>> No.9283042

>>9283008
because victorian prose is a fucking chore to read

good poetry though

>> No.9283062

Everyone knows that.

>> No.9283145
File: 100 KB, 800x800, 14903054069261.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9283145

It's true, doe.

>> No.9283153
File: 157 KB, 1024x1001, Franz-Kafka.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9283153

Late 19th+very early 20th is best

>> No.9283157
File: 141 KB, 877x704, 32439_a6_dfw_subo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9283157

>>9283153
Not so fast

>> No.9283168

>>9283157
>DFW was born just 38 years after Kafka died

>> No.9283178

>>9283153
>he's never heard of the long 19th century

>> No.9283185

>>9283178
I have, but I specifically pointed out that period instead of everything from the french revolution onwards like some people do

>> No.9284398
File: 814 KB, 604x717, distorted kek.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9284398

>>9283008
>paid by the fucking word

>> No.9284444

>>9284398
Decades of pulp in the 20th century continued that and made it worse.

>> No.9286309

this thread belongs back up there too