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Remember when /lit/ talked about books that weren't part of the mainstream or part of the zeitgeist? Remember when /lit/ was about finding those books which had been overlooked or forgotten? Remember when /lit/ was a place of discovery? Remember when /lit/ was fun?

ITT: Post books that /lit/ never talks about anymore.

>> No.21866757

>>21866755
Yes, Pasolini is extremely obscure.

>> No.21866766
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Yes! those were the days

>> No.21866777

Why shouldn't /lit/ talk about books that are in the mainstream or the zeitgeist. Just because a book isn't normie doesn't make it good.

There's nothing stopping you making such a thread, but instead you chose to make this one about being a sad cunt and how normies are bad. Have sex.

>> No.21866778

This isn't /tv/

>> No.21866779

>>21866757
He is though. I've made several threads about him and gotten zero response, so at the very least he is obscure to this board. Besides, he is also not popular within the anglosphere. He enjoyed some popularity in anglo-academia from the 70s-90s, but not anymore. Pasolini as a writer is forgotten.

>> No.21866784

>>21866777
I did make a thread, dummy. You're in it.

>> No.21866791

>>21866784
You made a thread about yourself because you are incapable of discussing anything else. What you don't realize is that you are not really interesting enough to warrant any discussion.

>> No.21866796

>>21866791
If you want to talk about how much you don't want to talk about my uninteresting self instead of talking about books, you can leave any time.

>> No.21866797

>>21866791
Did you read this? >>21866779

Sounds like he makes threads about obscure authors but he never gets any engagement. You don't even read the threads you're posting in, let alone any obscure authors.

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21866799

I'm trying to think of writers I could introduce to /lit/. It's almost always the other way around: I find writers via /lit/ that I was not aware of before. I wouldn't have discovered Wolfe, Borges, Gaddis, or Pessoa without /lit/, for example.

I'm not sure how I can give back. Everyone I can think of isn't THAT obscure. Everyone knows Spenser, for example.

>> No.21866816

>>21866797
No, he's provoking. In what world is Pasolini obscure in any way? Is his personal life overshadowing every other aspect of his life enough to call him obscure - as a writer? No
The irony is he making up the distinction between mainstream, established writers and obscure barely /lit/ related figures.
It's a preteen calling a toy he uses underrated or overrated. Meaningless labels. Isn't that what he thinks he is above? What a joke.

>> No.21866820

>>21866816
Jeez duee. Take a breathe. If you can't contribute then leave instead of impotently raging over a potentially good thread.

>> No.21866823

>>21866755
If not for /lit/, I would have never read
>Celine
>Camus
>Hamsun
>Chekhov
>Houellebecq

>> No.21866826

>>21866820
I would. But well intended OP's don't have a dildo up their bums

>> No.21866828

>>21866823

These are all normiecore writers. You call that obscure? Pathetic.

>> No.21866832

>>21866828
Anon, you have to understand: many of us are Americans and many of us went to public school. These "normie" writers are often completely foreign to us because the USA is not a nation that reads.

>> No.21866839

>>21866832

Nevermind me, I was just making a joke and also being a bit grumpy.

>> No.21866847

>tfw reading obscure German literature from the 18th and 19th century but no one on /lit/ will ever be able to talk with you about them

>> No.21866905

>>21866799
Pessoa and Wolfe I discovered on /lit/. But Borges and Gaddis I discovered in college. At any rate, those four authors who dominated old /lit/ are rarely discussed anymore. How often do you threads on their books compared to several years ago?

It's true that everyone here has likely heard Spenser's name before, but how many have actually read him? I haven't aside from the Epithalamion. I would say Spenser needs more promotion on this board.

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>>21866905
Read The Shepheardes Calender. It's the biggest work of Spenser's I have read in full. It's in the pastoral tradition, and there's a lot of high-level versification and rhyming scheme that goes into the various monthly poems.

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>> No.21866977

I've only ever heard Evan Dara mentioned outside of this board once irl. Incredibly postmodern and hard to grok, but the easy chain is great

>> No.21866978

>>21866828
I never said they were obscure, I said I would have never read them if I didn't lurk /lit/.

>> No.21866988

>>21866977
Specifically, this quote, 10 years ago, got me onto Dara:
"Evan Dara has written to of the best works of American fiction in who knows how fucking long and no one seems to know who he is? What the fuck is up with this? It's downright shameful that frauds like David Foster Wallace (a mentally retarded version of Don Delillo) become damn near icons yet even people who are into serious literature don't seem to know Evan Dara."

>> No.21867415

don't expect /lit/tards to get Petrolio

>> No.21867504

>>21866957
>Normies on TikTok finally caught up with the NYRB obsession /lit/ had back in 2014-2018.
Only took 'em a decade

>> No.21867508

>>21866977
Dara's The Lost Scrapbook won't sit well with /lit/'s majority Chud population because it criticizes the way American corporations are killing the environment.

>> No.21867516

Maybe he is not that obscure but i recently discovered Romanian author Mihail Sebastian. What do you guys think of him?

>> No.21867655

>>21866755
Do you have any other Italian authors to recommend? I was planning on reading some Italian lit this year (in English). The closest thing to an obscure book I can recommend is E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Devil's Elixir. That book got me back into reading.

>> No.21867705

>>21866988
I wonder how much of Dara's obscurity is his own doing. He writes under a pseudonym, gives no interviews, and self-publishes. I wonder if he prefers to remain obscure.

>> No.21867933

>>21867705
Definitely intentional, but I'm surprised that given the American propensity for postmodern that even the internet savants haven't really heard of him at all

>> No.21868602

>>21867933
I don't think that American post-modernists like Gaddis, Pynchon, Wallace, Delillo, etc. are actually that popular outside of this board. I mean, those are the four who get the most discussion here, but then you have others like Gilbert Sorrentino, John Barth, and Robert Coover who are rarely discussed here, despite being equally popular contemporaries among the public. Barth actually has the largest body of criticism out of any of them. So it makes sense to me why you don't hear anyone talk about Dara.