/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13070461]

how did he do it bros?
>no agent
>debut novel
>independent publisher
>pulitzer finalist

[Anonymous No.13070466]

>>13070461
rapist;shitty books too pulitzer doesent mean shit

[Anonymous No.13070514]

>>13070461
>Diaz

[Anonymous No.13070519]

>>13070461
>Diaz

[Anonymous No.13070533]

>>13070519
>His book is about an immigrant Swede of unusual size journeying in America’s desert frontier between the Gold Rush and the Civil War.

>“It’s weird,” he said. Weird that the western novel was so underachieving, given how tightly the genre embraces America’s most potent myths about itself. Westerns, he said, glamorize “the worst aspects of the imperial drive of the United States” — brutality against nature, genocidal racism, “the whole macho thing, the place of women, the frivolous violence, it goes on.”

>Mr. Diaz, it should be clear, is a western writer who hates guns. He said it sickened him to think that telling Håkan’s story would require imagining and describing acts of murderous violence. “I came very close to not writing the book,” he said. “But I knew something really bad had to happen to him to make the plot plausible.”

>He was born in Buenos Aires in 1973. His mother was a psychoanalyst; his father a filmmaker who became involved in Trotskyist politics, which put the family in danger after Argentina’s military coup, when Hernán was 2. They fled to Stockholm. Moving there and then back to Argentina as a boy gave Mr. Diaz double doses of immigrant dislocation; the emotional aftereffect of isolation and bullying seem to echo in his story of lonely Håkan.

So to recap:

>Parents are Argentines so probably crypto-Jews
>red diaper baby of the Trotskyist strain
>immigrant novel
>MC is an Eternal Swede, his descendants will probably become advocates for Somalian immigration
>Author hates guns

He checks all the right boxes for the Current Year.

[Anonymous No.13070542]

FUCKING BAIT THREAD

[Anonymous No.13070544]

>>13070533
god this guy sounds like an insufferable faggot

[Anonymous No.13070550]

>>13070533
yup

[Anonymous No.13070558]

>>13070461
Hispanic name.

[Anonymous No.13071533]

>>13070533
There is nothing Eternal about the Swede, anon. What you believe about the swede has barely been a thing for thing for the entire 2010s.

[Anonymous No.13071547]

look at this faggot standing in a tennis court not facing the camera.

i don't want to read his stupid book. probably he is an industry plant. probably his parents were rich and now the children of a family friend who runs a press is putting his masturbatory National Literature into global circulation. who cares? who cares about any of this? with any luck i'll die in my sleep tonight.

[Anonymous No.13071553]

Read an excerpt, it wasn't very compelling

[Anonymous No.13071557]

>>13071533
Don't try to apply logic to /pol/ memes

[Anonymous No.13071560]

>>13071557
Yeah you're right, anon

[Anonymous No.13073001]

>>13070461
This book is one of the better Westerns I've read in the last few years. It is on par with BM. And this book is one of the best contemporary novels I have read. Stop being /pol/-baiting pseuds.

[Anonymous No.13073013]

Sounds like a good book desu, I'll have to check it out

[Anonymous No.13073014]

>>13073001
>It is on par with BM.
Definitely not, despite being equally overwritten.

[Anonymous No.13073026]

>>13070533
Honestly i have no problem with abook about a guy being sad and lonely in the desert

[Anonymous No.13073035]

>there
>are
>no
>more
>great
>american
>novels

[Anonymous No.13073040]

>>13070533
>swedes immigranz
>named Hakan

Holy fuck.. Is it already that time that people dont even remember now that western countries existet way before it was fllooded with shitskins and niggers?

[Anonymous No.13073100]

>>13073040
What are you trying to imply with your greentext? That Håkan isnt a Swedish name??

[Anonymous No.13073110]

>>13073014
It is. It's a great examination of cultural myths, how they form, and how they make an impression. Lit would also loves this book since Håkan spends a vast amount of time living in isolation in an underground cave system he built. It's a great rumination on solitude and loneliness.

[Anonymous No.13073111]

>>13073100
if you type the name "hakan" into google, the first link says its a common turkish name
whats going on there?

[Anonymous No.13073135]

>>13073111
Håkan you low IQ /pol/-baiter. It's a common Swedish name. Want me to link you to the Wikipedia page? It has roots in Nordic/Viking culture.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Håkan

[Anonymous No.13073139]

>>13073040
>>13073111
wow you're dumb

[Anonymous No.13073143]

>>13073135
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakan

how is it spelt in the book?

[Anonymous No.13073157]

the /pol/ niggers in this retarded thread need to get the fuck out

This books is based and should've won the prize over Less which is actual dogshit.

But /lit/ doesn't read! So who cares about either of those books! A whole thread about white supremacy instead!

[Anonymous No.13073169]

>>13070533
>Westerns, he said, glamorize “the worst aspects of the imperial drive of the United States” — brutality against nature, genocidal racism, “the whole macho thing, the place of women, the frivolous violence, it goes on.”
I think he meant to say best aspects

[Anonymous No.13073172]

>>13071557
obsession verging on mental illness

[Anonymous No.13073194]

>>13073157
why are you angry
theres no poltards in this thread

[Anonymous No.13073202]

Why would I want to read this cuck fag's books?

[Anonymous No.13073222]

>>13070533
Theres plenty of decent "Anti-westerns" out there. Wtf is this fag talking about.

[Anonymous No.13073224]

>wtf is that tetris building in the background

[Anonymous No.13073301]

>>13070461
Do you know how many Pulitzers they give away?

[Anonymous No.13073313]

>>13073143
cope of the highest order, just admit your /pol/tardation

[Anonymous No.13073315]

>>13073301
yeah actually, one each year per genre. frogposting is shitposting

[Anonymous No.13073336]

>>13070461
If your book wins a Pulitzer, you should be pissed because they are recognizing you as middlebrow

[Anonymous No.13073767]

>>13073111
>gee, guys, an algorithm said I'm right, what's the problem? we don't have to know anything anymore or even think critically about answers, just type something into a computer and you always get the correct answer, amirite?

[Anonymous No.13073796]

>>13070461
Coffee House isn’t exactly an unknown publisher and Diaz had a LOT of bookseller support...you guys need to get out more.

[Anonymous No.13074644]

>>13073143
>>13073111
>>13073040

bloody retard ahahahaha

[Anonymous No.13074651]

>>13073796
>Diaz had a LOT of bookseller support
how did he do that?

[Anonymous No.13074709]

>>13070533
>He said it sickened him to think that telling Håkan’s story would require imagining and describing acts of murderous violence.
wtf?! I hate literature now! #artistsshouldbepussies

[Anonymous No.13075232]

You people should use the guy as inspiration, not simply hate on him. He spend 6 years working on his novel and published when he was already well passed his 30s.

I haven’t read it yet, but by what I can see in the news it’s seems quite a good novel.

[Anonymous No.13076106]

>>13070461
Do you people think this is good writing?
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/03/20/hernan-diaz-fiction/

[Anonymous No.13076125]

>>13073040
moron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A5kon

[Anonymous No.13076169]

>>13073767
>>13073143

[Anonymous No.13076212]

>>13070533
not sure if obsessed or just brainwashed

[Anonymous No.13076252]

>>13070533
This post has certainly triggered the snowflakes.

[Anonymous No.13076255]

>>13071547

[Anonymous No.13076328]

>>13070533
>Trot
Oh so he's a neocon.

[Anonymous No.13076330]

>>13070461
>Man succeeds at something
How long until the "serious" accusations surface?

[Anonymous No.13076430]

>>13073110
Blood Meridian is only an analysis of cultural myths on a facile level.