/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15951026]

>long, well over a thousand pages
>dense lyrical prose
>need knowledge of Holy Grail mythology and other folklore to fully understand

so can this be memed into being /lit/core or what?

[Anonymous No.15951241]

interesting....thanks, anon!

[Anonymous No.15951301]

>that first paragraph

lol fuck yeah

[Anonymous No.15951518]

We need a new meme trilogy, perhaps this, whatever the most difficult and obtuse guenon book is and another meme

[Anonymous No.15951667]

if people cn unironically think the ducks, newburyport is good then this is easily possible

[Anonymous No.15951797]

>>15951667
The Ducks, Newburyport meme died pretty hard after it lost the Booker Awards (though it probably would have died if it won anyway). A Glastonbury Romance is an established but obscure classic that had praise from Henry Miller, George Steiner, and Annie Dillard.

>>15951301
for convenience:
>At the striking of noon on a certain fifth of March, there occurred within a causal radius of Brandon railway station and yet beyond the deepest pools of emptiness between the uttermost stellar systems one of those infinitesimal ripples in the creative silence of the First Cause which always occur when an exceptional stir of heightened consciousness agitates any living organism in this astronomical universe. Something passed at that moment, a wave, a motion, a vibration, too tenuous to be called magnetic, too subliminal to be called spiritual, between the soul of a particular human being who was emerging from a third-class carriage of the twelve-nineteen train from London and the divine-diabolic soul of the First Cause of all life.

[Anonymous No.15951825]

>>15951518

I nominate Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage, which is 13 volumes long and was apparently a pioneer in stream-of-consciousness prose. But I have a feeling it can't be memed because the author is a woman.

[Anonymous No.15952218]

>>15951825
A Glastonbury Romance
Pilgrimage
Alexandria Quartet

[Anonymous No.15952285]

>>15951825
>Pilgrimage
It's boring and narcissistic, but you already knew that.

[Anonymous No.15952353]

Are we doing a "books we love that no one else has read" thread? They're my favorite.

[Anonymous No.15952477]

>>15951797
>that opening paragraph
Eh

[Anonymous No.15952797]

>>15951026
Powys would ideally have been what English authors could have become if London never existed and they never started the industrial revolution

[Anonymous No.15954352]

>>15951026
No idea. I read Wolf Solent once, enjoyed it all the way through, and basically remember nothing except that there were some passages about walking down country roads while disturbed. Dude could prose, but it was all pretty noodly. The meme trilogy were all funny.

[Anonymous No.15954355]

First mention of Powys I've ever seen on /lit/. His Autobiography should be canon.

[Anonymous No.15954361]

>>15951026
>admired by Elias Canetti
well damn nigger im sold

[Anonymous No.15954404]

>>15951797
that's a lot of high-flown words to say some nigga got off a train

[Anonymous No.15954437]

>>15951667
I have ducks on my phone and read it on the bus. Since my bus rides are rarely longer than 30 minutes, I estimate it will take about ten years. But it is fun because it is the sort of fragmentary, disjointed stuff I would be thinking anyway. I just let her think it instead.

[Anonymous No.15954451]

>>15954437
sounds gay

[Anonymous No.15954458]

>>15952353
ooh ooh here's mine...

[Anonymous No.15954613]

>>15954458
What's it like? I read one of his stories (Countess of Scuderi) and it was pretty shit.

[Anonymous No.15954886]

>>15954613
I read it back when I was 15, and I liked it because I could relate to the protagonist who is a good person but his heart is strayed from God because of the Devil nudging him towards lust and hedonism. He tries to live an upright life again and again (he even becomes a capuchin monk) but fails, because he is weak and the Devil is strong. I especially liked its language. Dunno if I would like it as an adult, though I probably would. If you want to read about the inner battle that is raging inside every man between good and evil, then you might love it.

I haven't read any of the writer's other books though. I read this book because I liked the subject matter, not because i liked the writer or anything.

[Anonymous No.15955030]

>>15954886
That sounds more fun. In the one I read the bad guy had a ridiculous backstory where he was early because of the Lamarkian influence of a crime on his pregnant mother and therefore pure evil for its own sake. And the hero was entirely good. It really lacked the psychology you're describing.