/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4026273]

What does /lit/ think of the beatnicks?

[Anonymous No.4026478]

bump

[Anonymous No.4026494]

Hipstercore... Literally.

[None !!lZetafI6z8s No.4026495]

you posted the only good 1

[Anonymous No.4026501]

>>4026494

If you can't recognize James Joyce you have no business reading.

[Anonymous No.4026509]

>>4026501
>Taking a troll image this seriously
>not reading the troll image
>Replying to a troll
>James Joyce

Plebeians, plebeians everywhere.

[Anonymous No.4026511]

>>4026495
>doesn't like dharma
toppest of plebs

[Anonymous No.4026516]

>>4026501
To actual well-read people, James Joyce is the NMH of literature. A hipster fart that will dwindle within a generation or two, as its core fanbase moves on to calling diarrhea on paper the next big thing .

[Anonymous No.4026535]

>>4026516
Except he's more like another Milton, someone who wrote an epic so perfectly crafted it will be studied and loved for centuries.

[Anonymous No.4026551]

>>4026535
Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk! Seaking hubba bubba big league chew gum gumballs bugs bunny penis asshole reference to King Lear and a place in Ireland called Kingsbury for no other reason than that it's a reference to King Lear and Kingsbury! Fie foe fuh this book in no way represents or elucidates the stream of consciousness or the relations of words in the human mind, aaaaahblaghaglagh!

[Anonymous No.4026567]

>>4026511

>implying Big Sur isn't much better

Anyway, don't bother asking that question in here. /lit/ hates the beats, its all MUH HEMINGWAY MUH JOYCE

[Anonymous No.4026571]

>>4026495
That's how I feel as well, I enjoy some of Kerouac's stuff too but Burroughs is the only one I consider great.