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Was assigned this piece of shit for brit lit class. What the fuck am I reading?

>> No.16858891

Bro, they're actually dead and in hell. that's why Godot never appears.
Godot=God

>> No.16858893

>>16858882
1) Beckett was Irish, not British.
2) He wrote that play in French, not in English.

tl;dr Your teacher is retarded.

>> No.16858894

>>16858882
>What the fuck am I reading?
Shit.
That's right, the book is absolute shit.
All books are shit, but this one is especially shit.
Don't read books, especially not this one.

>> No.16858899

>>16858891
Beckett rejected this rather facile theory.

>> No.16858902

It's a Gnostic parable.

>> No.16858903
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>>16858893
>2) He wrote that play in French, not in English.
Jesus Christ

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>>16858903

>> No.16858935
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>>16858911
hmmmmmm

>> No.16858936
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16858936

No seriously what the fuck is this bullshit? How come historical literature isn't this gay?

>> No.16858946

>>16858936
This is a work that aims not to entertain you, pretend to respect it and then read it.

>> No.16858954

>>16858893
>2) He wrote that play in French, not in English.
Yea but he wrote the 'translation' so it can be said to be written in English too

>> No.16858963

>>16858893
Based fact-checker. His prof is legit a fucking retard lmfao

>> No.16858965

>>16858936
Shut the fuck up, underage fag. "Historical literature", if by that you mean the historical novel, is a completely different genre. Next you'll complain because a Mr Bean film doesn't have enough action sequences. You dumb an*me-posting abortion.

>> No.16858970

>>16858935
I meant originally in French, jesus christ.

>> No.16858974

>>16858946
>pretend to respect it
I couldn't take it anymore when I got to lucky's shitpost. Even /x/ schizos have better shitposts desu

>> No.16858980
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>>16858882

It's a play, not a book.

"You seem to be waiting for something."
"what"
"I don't know, your next life maybe."

>> No.16858986

>>16858980
>plays can't be put into books

>> No.16858987

>>16858965
>the historical novel, is a completely different genre.
I guess this new genre is a mistake. I've always had a personal theory that any piece of literature since the early 20th century is gay, but I can't really assert this position to its fullest extent because rabid pseuds would tear at me

>> No.16858988

>>16858974
Shut up.

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>>16858974
>read book
>le it's just like le 4chan greentexts xDDD

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>>16858980
>you seem to be waiting for something
I'm waiting for this shitty course to end so I can go back to muh gayreeks. The printing press was a mistake.

>> No.16858997

>>16858970
yeah any concept of "the original" in this context is utterly retarded and reveals your own lack of knowledge. the english versions of all beckett's work are substantively different and heavily revised from the french. they're studied separately/comparatively, not as "original" and "translation"

>> No.16859002

>>16858988
>>16858989
>NOOOO YOU CANT JUST HECKIN DISRESPECT MUH LE INTELLIGENT LITERATURINOOOOOOOO
Strong word from a board that literally worships a tranny tripfag.

>> No.16859006

>>16858893
spbp

>> No.16859009

>>16858997
>the english versions of all beckett's work are substantively different and heavily revised from the french.
Correct. To the point where some people, including the guys at the BBC who did this recordings, thought the translations sucked cock. Of course that was before knowing they were done by Beckett himself.

>> No.16859010

>>16859002
>writes about "shitposts" in literature
>is an undergrad
we get it, you're a functionally illiterate dilettante

>> No.16859012

>>16858970
For a pedantic asshole you sure were a bit imprecise there.
When the author himself is a native English speaker, and translates his own book into English, then we can very safely treat that translation as original and "authentic" (i.e. expressing the will of the author) as the French version of the play.

>> No.16859013

>>16858986

So can movies and live event, but they are not the same, and Beckett wrote a play.

Go see the play and I don't mean on youtube. Go see it live with other people (after the pandemic of course). Makes a whole lot more sense when you see it.

Drama as lit is important but should always be followed up with drama as drama.

>> No.16859016

>>16859002
This is boring, make better use of your time. The clock is ticking, your death moving ever closer.

>> No.16859017

>>16858987
This new genre? You mean the historical novel?

>> No.16859020

>>16859010
Just tell me what I need to write on my reading assessment I don't give a shit about your garbage dogbrain opinions you pseud
>>16859012
suck my dick

>> No.16859025

post modernist garbo. neat premise but executed terribly wrong

>> No.16859028

>>16859002
Your brain has been rotten by memes. I feel nothing but pity for you.

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>>16859013
>after the pandemic of course

>> No.16859039

>>16859020
>Just tell me what I need to write on my reading assessment
"I like gargling cum and sniffing my own diarrhoea" - repeat this until you fill the word quota

>> No.16859044

>>16859020
>tell me how to do my piss easy undergrad humanities work
>you pseud
ya you're not even pretending to be anything other than a smooth-brained retard, at least

>> No.16859045

>>16859028
Your great grandfather would slap you around your cuckshed studio apartment if he found out about the nonsense drivel you consider to be literature. Dilate.

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>>16859025
>post modernist

>> No.16859049

>>16859044
>piss easy undergrad humanities work
5 minutes of 20% effort to examine this piece of shit is still too much effort i could've used for more valuable pursuits, like drinking tea while squatting for a shit

>> No.16859052

>>16859045
My great-grandfather was Beckett himself, you cuck. He'd smash your skull in if he came across you IRL

>> No.16859057

>>16859012
Even if he had written it originally in English, it's still not British lit.

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>>16859052
>schizophrenic irish monkey
>smashing my skull

>> No.16859063

>>16859049
do you get aroused from debasing yourself in front of strangers on the internet?

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>>16859031

Lots of plays being produced right now....

I can post hats too.

>> No.16859073

>>16859063
Just disappointed by the quality of this board m8. Things were better here not even 2 years ago. Now you lot literally worship trannies.

>> No.16859083

>>16859063
>>16859073
Beckett is also a garbage half-wit writer who should've been executed for spreading corruption and decadence in the land.

>> No.16859094

>>16859083
>in the land
which land?

>> No.16859096

>>16859094
mine

>> No.16859101

>>16859073
>getting filtered by fucking beckett
yeah i'm sure you've contributed piercing insights to this board in the past

>> No.16859133

>>16858882
Read it and saw it live a couple of years ago, liked it very much. Seemed to be about lack of meaning mostly and was pretty funny

>> No.16859143

>>16859101
Believe it or not I've had anons on here ask me for links to more of my writings. I'm just in le shitposting mood and just don't feel like gracing this board with my epiphanies today.

>> No.16859150

>>16859101
>>16859143
And yes beckett is a conman midwit irish monkey clown. this should not be controversial or debated

>> No.16859161

>>16859143
I'll just warn you that a positive reaction by /lit/ to your writing means very little.
Could you link some of that writing? Just curious what somebody who makes such horrible threads prides himself on.

>> No.16859175

>>16859161
>Could you link some of that writing?
you talk like a faggot and its easy to bait you so the answer is no.

>> No.16859180

>>16859175
Oh pleeeease, post some, I beg you!!

>> No.16859183

>>16859002
embarrassing

>> No.16859219

>>16859180
sorry anon i just value my privacy more these days and have more reservations about posting my writings on here. what i wrote involved something about how vicarious living in man is not a bad thing so long as it fosters greater awareness, even if through a role. modern vicarious living does not meet this criteria. standard shitposting but the anon i was replying to was desperate and in a bad spot in his life poor lad.

>> No.16859234

>>16859219
>>16859180
it was sort of part of a larger response against postmodernism as a whole, which is in no way difficult to argue against no matter how you like to frame your arguments.

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I'm having to read this dull filth right now how bad is it?

>> No.16859251

>>16859219
I thought you were talking about actual artistic writing and not random musings. Whatever then, sounds gay.

>>16859234
>postmodernism as a whole
*yawn*
Yeah, you're not the most original fellow out there.

>> No.16859285

>>16859251
glad you don't like it anon. i would've been guilted into sharing more with you if you asked me to elaborate. im relieved i don't have to now.

>> No.16859292

>>16858893
based

>> No.16859334

>>16858893
hilarious how such a innocuous post sent the OP into a 50 post tirade

>> No.16859343

>>16859334
no none of his (you)s are mine. i don't give a shit if he's french or spanish or chinese, he's still shit.

>> No.16859379

I want to offer you all my sincere congratulations. In reading this, you are a part of a sum totality of understanding, you have seen a distinct truth. This thread is the grime on your boots that you track onto the paved streets from your dirty home. It's the sludge of the city and all of its needles, the homeless housed by night, and everybody who sees it despite attempts to keep it hidden. This thread is Dublin, London, and New York, in all of their mechanical motions and tortions of the human soul. You are now a member of the knowing, embraced by an unwanted understanding: OP is a faggot.

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>>16858882
Reminder this meme originated from this play

>> No.16860679

>>16858882
it's good, fuck you OP

>> No.16861088

>>16858997
But not as the definitive version/revision either.

>> No.16861115

>>16859012
It makes it an original Beckett work, but it does not make it the definitive version surpassing the original (i.e. first) version. Also, after all those years in France Beckett practically spoke only French day-to-day, and his letters in English display various Gallicisms.