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5837881 No.5837881 [Reply] [Original]

>people who don't start with the earliest of an author's works and progress chronologically from there

>> No.5837886

>people who don't have autism

>> No.5837902

>>5837881
I really don't want to read all the alimentary shit Balzac wrote under a pseudonym when he was still busy acquiring his actual skills. Nor do I want to read Maupassant's smut, or Zola's.

>> No.5837908

Time is short, start with the best, fill in the details later.

>> No.5837949

>>5837881
Some of their stuff is not relevant

>> No.5837962

>starting with Dostoevsky's first novels

The horror.

>> No.5837967

>>5837886
>>5837902
>>5837908
>>5837949
>what is archeology
>what is narratology
>what is auteur
>what is œuvre

>> No.5837985
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5837985

>people who don't just devote their whole lives absorbing a single great author or work of literature (Shakespeare, the Bible, the list can go on)
>people who don't realize that you can find literally everything to appreciate and analyze in a single one these works
>people who don't realize that you need a lifetime devoted to that single author or work to fully do that

>> No.5837989

>>5837967
>what is enjoying literature

>> No.5837991

>>5837962

more like the Poor Folk

>> No.5837995

>>5837985
So who did you pick?

>> No.5838000

>>5837995

Stephen King

>> No.5838003

>>5837989
>implying you can't enjoy literature by exploring the discursive genealogy of an auteur's œuvre
you don't deserve to enjoy literature
bet you also fly directly to a city and stay confined in a 5-star hotel and not leave the premises, then return and tell everybody how awesome your trip was

>> No.5838006

>>5837967
things i dont care about lol

>> No.5838016

>>5837985
>people who read anything other than D.H. Lawrence

>> No.5838024

>>5837985
>people who don't write 60 page dissertations and present it at a conference after reading a book

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5838032

>>5837881
>people who don't start with the civilization's earliest works and progress chronologically from there

>> No.5838033

>>5838003
bet you start by eating the cardboard packaging of your food rather than just eating the best part.

>> No.5838074

>>5837881
>people who start with the earliest of an author's works and progress chronologically from there

>> No.5838079

>>5837985
This is the final form of autism here.

>> No.5838083

I still haven't finished jacking off to dirty Greek vases, can't wait until I get to YouPorn some time in the year 3400

>> No.5838092

>people who don't judge an author's books individually

OP, do you even Nabokov?

>> No.5838093

>>5838033
b-b-but that's not edible anon

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5838096

>>5838092
>mfw

>> No.5838098

>>5838016
>D.H. Lawrence

Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. Mediocre. Fakes realism with easy platitudes. Execrable.

>> No.5838116

>>5838098
Fuck off Americlap

>> No.5838150

>>5838098
>clearly never been in love

>> No.5838822

>>5838000
Toppest of keks