/lit/ - Literature

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Anonymous Fri Apr 26 22:16:35 2019 No.13012444 [Reply] [Original]

What am I in for?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 22:37:39 2019 No.13012496 >>13012444 a book with one quality: being shit

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 22:52:31 2019 No.13012554 >>13012444 the slog of a lifetime

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 22:57:10 2019 No.13012578 'The Man Without Qualities' by Robert Musil

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 01:22:16 2019 No.13013107 >>13012444 shit is boring af yo. more of a protracted monologue with halfassed mannequins taking turns with the same fucking voice.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 01:30:06 2019 No.13013140 >reading an unfinished book why

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 01:42:13 2019 No.13013176 >>13012444 get the kaiser and wilkins translation its better only thing good about the new one is the posthumous papers

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 06:55:14 2019 No.13013919 >>13013176 Where the fuck can I get hold of that one

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 07:14:08 2019 No.13013970 The greatest Novel of Ideas of all time. Literally too hard for this board though (this is no DFW, you can’t fake you way through it).

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 09:14:13 2019 No.13014282 Bump

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 10:13:14 2019 No.13014552 looks like you are in for over 1700 pages. wonder if its worth the read

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 10:52:13 2019 No.13014672 >>13014552 best book I’ve read and Ulrich is the most complex character in literature

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 10:54:48 2019 No.13014685 >>13013919 Have to buy it used. Also I highly recommend Young Törless as well. It is a little more of traditional novel, but still incredible.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 11:34:42 2019 No.13014829 >>13013176 Gass said this translation was bad

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 13:05:30 2019 No.13015310 >>13012444 I love this book. Ulrich is hilarious.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 13:08:10 2019 No.13015328 >>13012444 Had four bouts of reading it previously, then read 3 chapters today. Only at 6%. Any other novel I can finish in ~3 sittings. Why was this length necessary? jfc

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 13:10:34 2019 No.13015344 >>13015328 Thomas Bernhard books

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 13:12:00 2019 No.13015356 >>13015328 Read Törless first, then decide if you want to continue with him

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 14:06:55 2019 No.13015681 >>13013970 >>13014672 >complex = good /lit/ is dead

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 14:43:37 2019 No.13015853 >>13015681 >me only like Tolstoy and Hemingway

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 14:51:45 2019 No.13015893 >>13015681 What is good literature?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 14:53:42 2019 No.13015903 >>13015681 This

Anonymous Sat Apr 27 14:55:45 2019 No.13015913

>>13015853
>Tolstoy and Hemingway are the only good authors that aren't erudite
/lit/ is so dead that it's not even in the afterlife, it just stopped existing
>>13015893
good literature is literature that is good. for example, good complex literature is literature that is both complex and good, and good simple literature is literature that is both simple and good

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 14:57:13 2019 No.13015917 >>13015913 What are examples of bad complex literature?

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>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 15:02:55 2019 No.13015946 >>13015917 Atlas Shrugged, Finnegans Wake, Cloud Atlas, 1Q84, and other pseud-bait

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 15:04:48 2019 No.13015962 >>13015917 There's loads of tripe out there that tries to be complex but ends up being nonsensical shite.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 15:06:04 2019 No.13015970 >>13015681 Where did those posters claim that? They just said it was great, and also that it is complex.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 15:10:36 2019 No.13016007 >>13015970 they implied it was great because it's complex, you actual philistine

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 15:30:36 2019 No.13016122 >>13015681 >I know so much more

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 15:40:03 2019 No.13016176 >>13016122 >rejecting categorical preference for the complex = arrogance literally what?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 15:45:45 2019 No.13016207 >>13016007 Except neither of them did. Try reading them again, but with your superiority complex turned off.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 15:47:04 2019 No.13016215 >>13015946 Finnegans Wake is the only complex book here

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 15:51:45 2019 No.13016244 >>13016215 t. pseud who thinks that there aren't different shades of complexity and gatekeeps everything he doesn't like

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