/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11112068]

>maybe the real Infinite Jest is the friends we made along the way

What the fuck DFW

[Anonymous No.11112075]

>>11112068
Look at that neanderthal-lookin' motherfucker right chair

[Anonymous No.11112091]

>>11112068
“Ah, my dear Darcy. It is I who embody both Pride and Prejudice.”

Who tf let women write

[Anonymous No.11112123]

>Prince, you really are a The Idiot!
wtf dosto

[Anonymous No.11112130]

>>11112068
"Alas", sighed Rasklonikov. "I no longer know whether 'tis a crime or a punishment".
"It is both a Crime and Punishment, my dear Raskolnikov!" cried the executioner.

[Anonymous No.11112174]

>Joseph K finally realized it was that The Trial was forever
Kafka was a hack.

[Anonymous No.11112299]

>Hamlet!
Immediately dropped this piece of shit play

[Anonymous No.11112390]

>And as i felt the rope pull taut i finally undersood, that i trully was The Stranger
The hell camus

[Anonymous No.11112404]

>"This is madness, Aristotle!"
>"No, this is Metaphysics."
Can't believe our world is founded on this schlock

[Anonymous No.11112431]

>Et ça, c'est l'extension du domaine de la Lutte

The hell, Michel?

[Anonymous No.11112509]

>"Is libertarianism a good idea, Atlas?"
>Atlas Shrugged

people read this shit?

[Anonymous No.11112519]

“Ah, my dear Gatsby, my good Gatsby, nay, my great Gatsby* — truly, ‘tis a world of great extremes we live in; ‘‘tis a world of war and peace, a world of crime and punishment, a word of the red and the black — nay, we could even call the story of the world a tale of two cities, these cities being opposites. And in this world, in this Wasteland, we poor travelers are ever embarking in search of lost time. Even if we were to live to be a hundred years, ‘twould merely be a hundred years of solitude. ‘Tis a world of people filled with overweening pride and prejudice; verily, to live in this world is a trial. We live as if imprisoned in a castle, and this castle slowly roasts the souls out of us, for the man in the high castle is ever turning up the thermostat, all the way up to Fahrenheit 451. We are trapped in Slaughterhouse Five.

“We are going on a journey to the end of the night, and tender is the night. In this night is a heart of darkness, and in this heart of darkness we shall perhaps undergo a metamorphosis. We shall have to say the long good-bye to the world, have to go into the big sleep...

“Gatsby, I must confess something to you: I, Claudius, hear the call of the wild beckoning to me to enter this night. I want to plunge into this brave new world, filled with sound and fury. Yes, Gatsby — as I lay dying, I shall not grieve, for I look forward to entering that sea-like abyss, where it shall just be an old man (myself) and the sea. I look forward to entering that other world as if through a looking-glass, for, no doubt, in that other world, the sun also rises. I’ll gladly go there even if it means a farewell to my arms; as it is now, Gatsby, my whole psyche is preoccupied by a war of the worlds, by a conflict between the attractions of this world and the allurements of the next one. Yes, Gatsby, I’m going to that other world, going to the lighthouse, the cosmic lighthouse which shines its light (which is the color purple) to show me the way! I hear the crying of lot 49!”

What the fuck Fitzgeraldtolstoydostoyevskystendhaldickenseliotproustmarquezaustenkafkakafkadickbradburyvonnegutcelinefitzgeraldconradconradkafkachandlerchandlergraveslondonhuxleyfaulknerfaulknerhemingwaycarrollhemingwayhemingwaywellwoolfwalkerpynchon you hack

*T.S. Eliot: “immature artists borrow; mature artists steal”

[Anonymous No.11112540]

>And that, my friends, concludes the Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments postscript

No wonder you didn't get any pussy you hunchback loser

[Anonymous No.11112555]

>>11111111

[Anonymous No.11112592]

"Yeah, so, that was the Origin of Species."

what in the absolute dick, Darwin?

[Anonymous No.11112597]

>Hello and welcome to the bible
wtf jesus

[Anonymous No.11112599]

Lifts-Her-Tail
You embarrass me, sir!
Crantius Colto
Fear not. You are safe here with me. You truly are a Lusty Argonian Maid

What in Oblivion, Crassius Curio??

[Anonymous No.11112609]

>>11112519
Kek'd

[Anonymous No.11112714]

"I walke thru the wuds, wonderin wer I culd feind The Wake."
What the fuck Kingsnorth, couldn't even change the title for your fake language!?!

[Anonymous No.11112887]

>>11112068
>what if I was a The Stranger the entire time?

This line made me stop being an existentialist. I now have a wife with like 3 kids

[Anonymous No.11112899]

>it truly was, my struggle.
Fuck off Adolf

[Anonymous No.11112921]

>"Maybe I really am just a big Moby Dick," the Whale mused to itself.

All those hundreds of pages of useless whaling knowledge for this? Goddammit, Melville

[Anonymous No.11112936]

He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.

[Anonymous No.11112941]

>>11112299
You got a great laugh out of me

[Anonymous No.11112957]

>>11112068
>Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of Infinite Jest.

Yeah DFW was a hack.

[Anonymous No.11112966]

>>11112404
Hahahaha

[Anonymous No.11113061]

>>11112068
>Ah, Raskolnikov, you have done the crime and so now you must face the punishment.

Dosto was such a fucking hack I have no idea how people can hold russian ""lit"" in such high regard desu

[Anonymous No.11113110]

>>11112130
>You have commited a Crime & Punishment you shall receive!
A little on the nose, no?

[Anonymous No.11113165]

>and that was when i regretted my cruel intentions ii.

[Anonymous No.11113186]

>>11112068
if a book is philosophical then it is shit by default. fucking garbage writers. despicable autists. fuck all of you

[Anonymous No.11113330]

>let's go To the Lighthouse but only if it isn't raining tomorrow and Mr. Ramsay doesn't have a bitch-fit about guests having too much soup

Drowning was too good for her.

[Anonymous No.11113558]

>youll never cross this line son, said the judge. This is the blood meridian

Absolute trash

[Anonymous No.11113573]

>At that moment, the clock struck midnight, marking the final moment of the year 1984.
fuck's sake

[Anonymous No.11113594]

>>11112123
best in the thread

[Anonymous No.11113600]

>>11112068
>"I finally caught Moby Dick; or The Whale!"
fucking shittest book

[Anonymous No.11113611]

>>11112509
This legitimately made me smile

Thank you anon

[Anonymous No.11113630]

>—damn, we must band together, I said, for we are all Dubliners
Don’t like that

[Anonymous No.11113703]

>Gene looked around at his doppelgangers one last time, but in his heart he knew the truth:
>In the end, he was the Selfish Gene.
Fuck you Dawkins.

[Anonymous No.11113708]

>chigur looked the old man in the eye and before shooting him said, "this is no country for old men, old man" and then shot him


mccarthy ar eu fukn dikn around m8?

[Anonymous No.11113739]

'E foi então, doutor, que eu finalmente entendi que não é curto esse caminho, não, mas que a vida na verdade é longa, que ela demora, anda devagarinho, que ela é cheia de problemas e dificuldades e que afinal é feita da mesma matéria que um grande sertão: veredas.'

Guimarães Rosa, are you kidding me?

[Anonymous No.11113758]

'These fragments I have gathered and I have spread them
Throughout a large,
Throughout an empy
Throughout a...
Throughout a Waste Land!'

Are you serious, Eliot? Are you fucking serious this time???

[Anonymous No.11113768]

>>11113703
>and so, my friends, here ends the story of the merciless battle between an old man and the sea

[Anonymous No.11114030]

>>11112123
>translations

[Anonymous No.11114132]

How long until someone does this ironically?

[Anonymous No.11115301]

>>11114132
TLoTiaT did it ironically a few times, the neckbeard virgin protagonist was actually writing the book on /lit/ in the middle of it. I think there were also multiple conflicting vignettes to explain the origin of the title and cornily drop it on purpose, but I didn't read 100% of it and don't remember.

[Anonymous No.11115348]

>>11112068
>Again and again I whirled about, attempting to grasp the revenant, only to hear Jonas's tinny chortle ring out. "You've gone as pale as the shirt they made the chicken wear, my friend!" he shouted. "That's no more than the shadow of the torturer!"
Goddamit Wolfe, I never should have listened to all you turbomemers

[The best scientific mind No.11115364]

>it's seems that the An Intergreated Approach to Successional Dynamics was behind us all along

[Anonymous No.11115489]

So it was me, me all along, who was the real Philosophische Untersuchungen

[Anonymous No.11115500]

>>11112599
Esoteric

[Anonymous No.11115507]

>>11112555
rip cirno

[Anonymous No.11115807]

>>11112519
Magnificent

[Anonymous No.11115825]

>and my soul from out that shadow that lies floating 'mongst my woe, quoth the raven "The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe!"
I honestly don't understand why this hack is praised so much

[Anonymous No.11115854]

>it was gazing upon Kurtz torment that Marlowe really saw the heart of darkness.
Wow so this is your canon /lit/?

[Anonymous No.11115956]

>So then I really was In search of Lost time (part 1)Swann's way

I...I guess it just doesn't translate well?

[Anonymous No.11116081]

>"Well, Aeneas," Anchises put his arm around his son and laughed. "It's been quite an adventure. Carthage really got AENEI'D, huh? Haha!"
Total and complete schlock, Virgil deserves his eternity in hell

[Anonymous No.11116155]

>>11112597
Most polite thing he ever said

[Anonymous No.11116466]

>>11112068
>One flew East, one flew West, one flew over the cuckoo's nest
Kesey, who the fuck do you think you are?

[Anonymous No.11116489]

>Mason & Dixon sat back to await the crying of lot 49
wtf pynchon

[Anonymous No.11116632]

>>11112899
>it truly was, my struggle
Knausgård you plagiarist.

[Anonymous No.11116829]

>William, my boy, it's time you admitted to yourself what you really are, a stoner
wtf John