/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4309790]

good lesbian writers?

no modern shit though

[Anonymous No.4309813]

All leftists

[Anonymous No.4309818]

sappho only sappho

[Anonymous No.4309844]

>>4309818
wow. thanks

[Anonymous No.4309861]

sappho isn't that good. i'd rather read duffy, bishop or rich.

[Anonymous No.4309869]

>>4309790
who else is part of the "emily dickinson was probably gay" conspiracy crew

[Anonymous No.4309872]

I'm not sure what you consider "modern shit," but if you are interested in the classical world you must read Mary Renault. I am sure snooty intellectuals consider her at least a tier below Gertrude Stein and other belle-letrists but she was a fine novelist whose audience was educated non-specialists (non-classicists). And she was a major lgb writer.

[Anonymous No.4309881]

>>4309869
oooh convince me i wanna believe that

[Anonymous No.4309920]

>>4309881

>Susie, forgive me Darling, for every word I say — my heart is full of you, none other than you is in my thoughts, yet when I seek to say to you something not for the world, words fail me. If you were here — and Oh that you were, my Susie, we need not talk at all, our eyes would whisper for us, and your hand fast in mine, we would not ask for language — I try to bring you nearer, I chase the weeks away till they are quite departed, and fancy you have come, and I am on my way through the green lane to meet you, and my heart goes scampering so, that I have much ado to bring it back again, and learn it to be patient, till that dear Susie comes.
-Emily Dickinson, in a letter to Susan Gilbert

she wrote intensely and feverishly of love, but not her lovers. what reason would there be for that? simple shyness, or modesty? did she want to keep her relationships a secret? the only man she ever was "in a relationship" with was a Judge who was a friend of her father and who became enamored of her. all of her family knew about the Judge, why not her earlier lovers? well, probably (I believe) because they were women.

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.4309932]

>>4309790
Tove Jansson and Susan Sontag are all I can think of right now.

[Anonymous No.4310054]

>>4309920
actually pretty solid, thank you

[Anonymous No.4310071]

>>4309932
There's thing thing where some woman can look slightly retarded in a sexy way.

[Anonymous No.4310278]

>No modern shit
Not even Jeanette Winterson?

Virginia Woolf was pretty gay. And her lover, Vita Sackville-West, was a writer as well. Then there was Rene Vivian and Natalie Barney.

[Anonymous No.4310297]

>>4309790
I would never teach anything by a women, ever.

-UoT prof who was taught by Frye

[Anonymous No.4310332]

>>4310278
>Jeanette Winterson

I just read "The Passion" by her and it was very good, had a sort of magical-realism quality (especially in scenes in Venice). It's set during the Napoleonic wars AND it had Napoleon Bonaparte actually in it, what's not to love?

[Anonymous No.4310337]

Alejandra Pizarnik, argentine poet

it's modern shit though

[Anonymous No.4311715]

>implying gay is something that you are or a character trait

[Anonymous No.4311725]

>>4309790
ANDREA DWORKIN

[Anonymous No.4311727]

Shit man, why has no one posted Dorothy Parker so far?

[Anonymous No.4311745]

>>4311715

>implying you can be essentially a homosexual

[Anonymous No.4311750]

>>4309818
>Implying Sappho was lesbian
>Implying there were gay and straight people in Classical Greece
>Implying the Greeks were familiar with the concept of sexual orientation

[Anonymous No.4311756]

>>4311725
>no modern shit though
no modern shit though
no modern shit though

>also op asked for good lesbian writers
also op asked for good lesbian writers
also op asked for good lesbian writers

[Ricky Péculo No.4311799]

>>4310337
Pure shit. Me alegro que se haya matado la frígida.

[Anonymous No.4311917]

>>4311799
be nice

[Anonymous No.4312006]

>>4309790
She was Greek anon, I'm sure she's had her fair share of Guido penis.

[Anonymous No.4312008]

>>4309790
Mary Renault. The lesbianist. Famous for being so lesbian, she hated women.

[Anonymous No.4312467]

>>4311750
Qft

[Anonymous No.4312498]

>>4311750
Omg I just saw that cup in the British Museum the other day.

[Anonymous No.4312544]

Selma Lagerl?f

[Anonymous No.4312585]

>>4309872

I read her "Nature of Alexander" book. Seems like she was stretching it at times but it felt good reading a book that took it for granted that Alexander was the second coming of Christ

[Anonymous No.4312591]

>>4312585
>320's bc
>second coming

[Anonymous No.4312598]

>>4310278
Virginia Woolf had sex once with a girl and then just remained close but wasn't down for more sex.

Lesbian feminiss get really mad when they realize this and then they write books about her evil husband made her commit suicide.

Not even joking.

[Anonymous No.4312599]

>>4312591

Alexander came prematurely

[Anonymous No.4312602]

>>4311750
> muh Foucault shoddy history

That's funny because there's a ton of greek plays where homosexuals (gay adult men) are ridiculed.

[Anonymous No.4312605]

I dislike most female authors, but Cather, O'Conner and leGuin are the exceptions.

[Anonymous No.4312611]

>>4309790
There's only one complete poem remaining by Sappho.

kek

[Anonymous No.4312621]

>>4312611

This one?

>'what would u think if i told u the white u licked from my cunt was sunshine, and u got a
chance to touch it w/ ur tongue, are u thirsty for more than fountain water?, what was it
u said to me that day, that ur own body terrified u, we were smoking, our fingers w/
little holes poked in em, pseudo-mindlessly raising, sucking, lowering, raise suck low, sucking
love and raising ur mouth to mine so i can taste it w/ u'

>'i am in i am in in controo o o ooo oo ool i am in control of everything i am so'

[Anonymous No.4312630]

>>4312621
das it mane

[Anonymous No.4312819]

>>4309790
>Sodomites

[Anonymous No.4313037]

You should read Violette Leduc, a french writer quite unknown but so powerful, begin with "Thérèse et Isabelle"; "La Bâtarde" and "L'affamée"