/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17223640]

Why is Normal People the best book of the last 5 years, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.17223643]

>>17223640
>book features young people in love having passionate sex
I think I'll pass on this one

[Anonymous No.17223654]

>>17223640
>book features a self-insert of the author having sex with the socially awkward "chad"
So this is literature in the modern day.

[Anonymous No.17223737]

>>17223640
Because you haven't read Rachel Cusk or Piranesi or Soumission or The Sellout or Lincoln in the Bardo?

[Anonymous No.17223799]

>>17223654
the self-insert became painfully obvious when the guy defends the girl from her abusive brother. It's like a twelve year old's fanfiction. It was also the moment when all the feminist undertones went to shit, which was funny.

[Anonymous No.17223813]

>>17223799
What about when her brother shows up once or twice to spit on her and never again lmao.

[VERY smart No.17223821]

because all the other ones are even worse

[Anonymous No.17223830]

>>17223821
these >>17223737 aren't

[Steve No.17223837]

>>17223830
i'd trust someone called "VERY smart" over someone called "Anonymous"

[Anonymous No.17223857]

>>17223654
This makes Franzen seem like an author worthy of my time.

[Anonymous No.17223868]

>>17223640
Only if you're a 21yo American female.

Are you aware that Krasznahorkai published his masterpiece in 2016?
Pretty much all the great living authors published one or two books, with the exception of Pynchon.

[Anonymous No.17223896]

Cringeworthy bourgeois literature written specifically for bourgeois affluent women.

As usual "feminism" today means simply to supplant the man as the ultimate bourgeois subject who owns or operates the means of production. This is "freedom" to anxiety-ridden childless 35 year old women with university educations.

[Anonymous No.17223918]

>>17223896
>the ultimate bourgeois subject who owns or operates the means of production

The fuck? If you operate production you're proletarian.

>>17223868
Based Kraszfag

[Anonymous No.17223942]

>>17223918
>If you operate production you're proletarian.

Well that's not what I mean. I mean operate in the sense of managing it, e.g. CEOs and managers in general.

[Anonymous No.17224065]

Maybe the woman in question believe she operates it while the man owns it?
Were talking about dick here correct

[Anonymous No.17224075]

Went to the college this book is set in. Still haven't read it hahaha

[Anonymous No.17224086]

>>17224075
Which college

[Anonymous No.17224098]

>>17224086
Trinity College in Ireland

[Anonymous No.17224189]

>>17223640
because it's the only book you have read in your life

[Anonymous No.17224196]

>>17223640
it's not. it might be an interesting read, but there are better books even in the same category.

[Anonymous No.17224198]

>>17223737
thanks anon, i needed some good recommendations of newer fiction. anyone else?

[Anonymous No.17224213]

>>17224098
Fancy

[Anonymous No.17224219]

The title alone annoys me

[Anonymous No.17224229]

>>17224098
what did you study

[Anonymous No.17224252]

>>17224198
What will You Give for This Beauty? by Ali Akbar Natiq
He is the best young contemporary author(a far greater poet but his work is still untranslated) from my country. It's a collection of shorties. I haven't read it in English but his work is top-tier in Urdu.
He worked as a mason his whole life lurking from village to village. The source of reading material was from him to steal from his school, government libraries and his dad who use to bring books for him from Middle East while he was working there as a mason. Despite being from piss poor village background and lack of university education he mogs the shit out of every privileged author in the country.

[Anonymous No.17224330]

>>17224252
awesome, other novels from outside anglosphere? not trying to be woke, just like reading about life in different cultures

[Anonymous No.17224455]

>>17223640
that would definitely be Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming