/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12318246]

>women don't make good bo-

[Anonymous No.12318251]

sses, they should be removed from positions of power they didn't deserve in the first place

[Anonymous No.12318264]

Literal fan fiction

[Anonymous No.12318270]

>>12318246
>tour de force

[Anonymous No.12319330]

thanks OP, I'll check it out.

[Anonymous No.12319338]

This is unironically one of the great books of the 20th century and Jean Rhys is my waifu

[Anonymous No.12319341]

>>12318246
Good Morning, Midnight is superior because cot death and sleazy women in paris

[Anonymous No.12319343]

oks.

[Anonymous No.12319413]

>>12318246
God, I love Women so much.

[Anonymous No.12319513]

>title: a novel
>*italics* a tour de force. - NYT

It's like publishers do this on purpose to belittle women

[Anonymous No.12319523]

>>12319413
I can't stop loving women, bros

[saucy No.12319526]

>>12319523
Women are okay, but have you tried hermaphrodites?

[Anonymous No.12319540]

In all seriousness, what happened to women writing objectively good literature, e.g the Brontes, Austen, et al? Why are they all now just spewing out YA trash trilogies with the exception of a select few?

[Anonymous No.12319550]

>>12319540
the same can be said for men. We remember the best from each generation, and all the overwhelming amount of commercial schlock gets swept under the rug.

[Anonymous No.12319577]

>>12318246
what is this book about tho

[Anonymous No.12319623]

>>12319550
No, the same can't be said. All women authors nowadays write trash. There are less good books being written today than yesterday, but what is being written is being written by men.

[Anonymous No.12319663]

>>12319623
Name one (1) good book in the past five years that has been written by anyone.
And then look on amazon at the endless rows of YA shit, science fiction and fantasy schlock, banal action drivel, and so on that has been written by both men and women.

[Anonymous No.12319772]

>>12319540
>good literature
>Brontes
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.12319800]

>>12319540

>Bronte
>Austen
>good
Lmao.

>Why can't I find a man?
There, you just read every Austen and Bronte novel.

[Anonymous No.12319953]

>>12319772
>>12319800
absolute brainlets

[Anonymous No.12319972]

>>12319663
This. Cormac is probably the only good author who we can expect another book from.

[Anonymous No.12319990]

>>12319972
>Cormac
He's 85. Do you really think we'll get another book?

[Anonymous No.12320001]

>>12319800
What's it like being a retarded person?

[Anonymous No.12320041]

just so we're clear, nobody here thinks women can't write good fiction. the following women are unironically very good authors:

>Annie Dillard
>Sharon Olds
>Virginia Woolf
>Barbara Kingsolver
>Edith Wharton (middling)

>>12319990
Definitely not. The Passenger will not be released in March 2019. It will likely be published as a set of incomplete fragments following his death, unfortunately.

Probably for the best. Writing is mostly for young people. You'd only have to compare Goethe's work at the beginning of his life versus the end to write of all old people as great novelists. I'm sure there are exceptions.

[Anonymous No.12320440]

>>12319577
Whites being discriminated against by niggers in the caribbean during the 19th century.

[Anonymous No.12320449]

>>12320041
Faust II is Goethe's greatest work you absolute pleb.

[Anonymous No.12320457]

>>12319523
What a hilarious image you've posted. But yes, me neither anon. I love them so much and just want to hold one and be held by one. There is nothing greater in this world, I imagine, than being cared for and loved by a motherly woman.

[Anonymous No.12320544]

>>12319972
I seriously thought he died. I now feel suddenly horrible about all those jokes about his prose. He's a great writer; almost as good as Alastair Macleod, just without the precision. His subjects and tones are far superior though.
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>>12318246
pic rel

[Anonymous No.12320556]

>>12319663
Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrigue

[« ƸЖƷ » No.12320598]

>>12319513
Marketing, capitalism. I complain about it too. I just strike the target

>>12319526
They prefer the term intersex now.

[Anonymous No.12320634]

>>12320598

I hope you slit your wrists for 2019, but since you have a moist hole between your legs and you browse this place, you probably have some fresh wounds on your forearms.

[« ƸЖƷ » No.12320641]

>>12320634
I will outlive most of you

[Anonymous No.12320645]

There are just things that make women women and men men. God is real and creates us certain ways. The same kinds of things that make races different make the two genders different.

Doesn’t mean they are stupider or anything though

[« ƸЖƷ » No.12320654]

>>12320645
Believing in gods sure makes you stupider though

[Anonymous No.12320655]

>>12319526
>>12320598
There aren't human hermaphroditea

[Anonymous No.12320665]

>>12320641

Doubt it.

[Anonymous No.12320675]

>>12320654
Not at all. God fashions us how he will. It’s not believing in ‘gods’, it’s believing in ‘God’, The one, the monad. You have to understand there is a reason that ancient texts exist and some, even most, of what we know as academia could be incorrect.

You have to entertain the possibility that God is real and that what is written in The Holy Bible are real events, and not metaphorical

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>>12320655
There are sexually deformed people and they used to be referred to as hermaphrodites

[Anonymous No.12320781]

>>12318246
>women can't wri-

[Anonymous No.12320817]

>>12319540
Market feminism did a great job of teaching all the wrong millennial women that their voices are interesting & that they should never be ashamed

[Anonymous No.12320828]

>>12319800
Austen is literally based you goof, Bronte I can't speak of till I've read her but I'm sure she's based too.

[Anonymous No.12320831]

>>12320457
based mommyanon

[Anonymous No.12322009]

>>12320641
Statistically unlikely.

[Anonymous No.12322958]

>>12319540
YA is more profitable. Also, the kinds of women who get published tend to be the kinds of women who have never seen hardship and only get published due to nepotism and wealth. I have no doubt there are talented women out there who are capable of writing good lit, but they're not getting attention due to them not promoting the capitalist "Me,Me,Me" agenda.

>>12319800
Jane Eyre is a masterpiece, you pleb. Wuthering Heights is also a solid tragedy.

[Adam Smith No.12322961]

>>12318246
Ayan Rand is a pretty good read.

[Anonymous No.12322968]

>>12319540
objectively good literature is exceptionally rare to begin with, so i don't know why you're expecting more than a select few to be worth a shit. It's not like there's any fewer male authors contributing to the tide of dogshit out there

[Anonymous No.12323003]

What are some female authors with beautiful prose? I'm talking Virginia Woolf or Hermann Melville levels of prose.

[Anonymous No.12323019]

>>12323003
Look up Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian

[Anonymous No.12323022]

>>12320457
based mommy poster

[Anonymous No.12324069]

>>12319413
>>12319523
>>12320457
One thing I've noticed about female literature is how it tends to be very emotional, very sympathetic towards other human beings and it has a real focus on the sensual and character psychology. I love it, honestly--Better than the obsession with pessimistic detachment that has dominated masculine literature for at least a few decades.

I also find it interesting how women actually analyse books. They seem to care more about the texture of the language and the intensity of emotion in individual scenes and really try to pick the individual elements that comprise the book. Guys meanwhile, tend to talk about books in a more general thematic and moral sense based on my experience. I feel I tend to gravitate towards the more feminine form of analysis myself.