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>no plot
>no likable characters
>mc is just an idiot who makes things worse for himself
>prose is ok, not great
>nothing happens
Why do people like this book again?

>> No.11325125

Did you read a translation?

>> No.11325137

>>11325115
>No plot
>The plot is the mc's struggle with his own worth
Here's your (you)

>> No.11325142

>>11325137
So?

>> No.11325147

>>11325142
maybe no one cares if you liked it or not. If you don't like it fine. Others do.

>> No.11325148

It has flashes of lyrical and naturalistic brilliance, and some of the moments of the MC being an absolute madman were legit funny. But the ranting gets absolutely tedious.

>> No.11325165

were you hungry when you read it?

>> No.11325391

Is there a Hamsun chart?

>> No.11325437

>knut hamson
Why would you read a book from a porn star?

>> No.11325550

>>11325115
>mc is just an I like able idiot who makes things worse for himself
Exactly, I don’t see how anyone on this board couldn’t like this book

>> No.11325557

every second of this book is mental music...

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11325577

>no plot
>no likable characters
>protagonist is just an idiot who makes things worse for himself
>prose is ok, not great
>nothing happens
Why do people like this book again?

>> No.11325580

>It's the protagonist from Notes from Underground, hungry edition

I enjoyed this one. While I was reading it, my girlfriend's mom was, and still is, suffering from anorexia. The book cast a new light on hunger.

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11325581

>no plot
>no likable characters
>Meursault is just an idiot who makes things worse for himself
>prose is ok, not great
>nothing happens
Why do people like this book again?

>> No.11325585

>>11325581
>>11325577
>>11325115

>books where the protagonist is autistic and spergs out at normies

There has to be a /lit/ chart for these types of books

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11325641

>authors name is knut

>> No.11325737

>>11325115
congratulations, op.

instead of plot-driven, it appears you've read your first character-driven novel. how excited we all are for you.

the mc lives in his head. it's very quixotic and maybe even solipsistic although we have an outsider view of this character and how the real world moves regardless of how intense the mc's inner world makes everything out to be.

I connected with it a lot in my late teens and early twenties.

>> No.11325798

>>11325391
Start with Pan

>> No.11325828

>>11325115
Tell me what your favorite book is.

>> No.11325846

>>11325125
Do translations get rid of plot?

>> No.11326563

>>11325585
We should make a "Was it autism?" chart. Hunger, Stranger, Notes, Bartleby, Pan, No Longer Human, The Trial, A Hero of Our Times, Meditations, Confessions of a Mask, Svejk.... the list could go on.

>> No.11327914

>>11326563
Also Mysteries. Did Hamsun write any books where the mc isn't autistic?

>> No.11328210

>>11325585
>>11326563
I want to see this. Need some new fresh charts around here honestly.

>> No.11328235

>>11325115
because he was a fascist.

>> No.11328335

>>11325846
In some ways, yes.

>> No.11328453

>>11328335
what ways?

>> No.11328465

>>11325115
because the protagonist is an absolute fucking madman

>> No.11328475

>>11325115
>prose is ok, not great
How would you know? You read a translation.

>> No.11328487

I mean we kind of needed a token Norwegian book to put on those charts. What else are we going to put up there?

>> No.11328488

>>11328475
He would still be able to have an opinion on the prose. He read a work of prose fiction. He didn't go out of his way to criticize Hamsun's prose. Pussy.

>> No.11328492

>>11328475
give us an passage in Norwegian and explain why it's good

>> No.11328517

>>11328487
Ibsen

>> No.11328595

>>11328453
It's meaningless to draw a separation between prose and plot, there is no universal distincion. And as some elements of detail are always lost in translation, natruallty some must be part of the "Plot". But discussing this is stupid anyways, as "plot" and "prose" only exist reflexively.

>> No.11328711

>>11326563
i second this

>> No.11328743

>>11326563
how is hero of our times autism? hes a charming womanizer

>> No.11328929

>>11326563

yess this

>> No.11329116

>>11325115
this book is about morality and ideals nothing happens outside of hamsun character but in his inside their is fighting going on think th protagonist as a raskolnikov in norway

>> No.11329728

>>11328487
Knausgård

>> No.11329911

>>11325115
Just finished reading this
Absolute genius

>> No.11329920

How the fuck do you even say Ylajali

>> No.11329942

>>11329920
ü-lah-yah-lee

>> No.11329943

>>11329942
Thank you

>> No.11329958

>>11329942
I still cant say it

>> No.11329987

>>11329958
>*nglos