/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6935240]

Schopenhauer said it was one of the best four novels ever written.

Dumas and Twain referenced it in their books.

Quixotic is a fucking word.

And /lit/ users still shit on it. Why are you guys so hateful?

[Anonymous No.6935241]

What are the other 3

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.6935274]

>>6935240
>And /lit/ users still shit on it.
Not that I've read.
I'm sure there must have been some high schooler who might have posted some hate, but that's not "/lit/" that was an off-boarder from /v/ or something, I'm pretty sure. Don't listen to them.

[Anonymous No.6935305]

>>6935241
Tristram Shandy, La Nouvelle Héloïse, and Wilhelm Meister.

[Anonymous No.6935314]

>>6935240
Hilarious /pol/tier racism.
Thats pretty much it.

[Anonymous No.6935333]

>>6935240
It lose most of its charm if you read a translation

[Anonymous No.6935348]

>>6935240

>read it expecting hilarious adventures
>mfw it's just a bunch of stories of shepherds getting cucked or something

[Anonymous No.6935366]

>>6935333
I read the standard Edith Grossman and loved it, don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

[Anonymous No.6935369]

>>6935240
Should I read it in spanish or english?

[Anonymous No.6935377]

>>6935333

this is literally the worst meme on /lit/

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.6935382]

>>6935369
If you know Spanish read it that way
If not, Grossman.

[Anonymous No.6936758]

>>6935348
yeah, I hated the Canterbury Tales, too

[Anonymous No.6937437]

>>6935240

>Why are you guys so hateful?

Gleeful contrarianism, dear lad. 4chan is a hive of contrarianism and willful ignorance.

[Anonymous No.6937568]

>>6935274
This.
Don Quixote is revered here. Everything else is mostly ironic contrarianism.

[Anonymous No.6937586]

>>6935240
>And /lit/ users still shit on it. Why are you guys so hateful?

I can only speak for myself, but shitting on Don Quixote is precision shitposting. With other shitposts, you may get 5+ (You)s, but they're all very superficial replies. If you shit on Don Quixote, you get only 1 or 2, but those are massively buttblasted walls of text.

That's why I shit on DQ

Also Tristram Shandy is objectively better anyway.

[Anonymous No.6937658]

>>6935240

There were, what, 4 major works of fiction when Schopenhauer was around?

[Anonymous No.6937692]

>>6937658
5, I think.

[Anonymous No.6937707]

>>6937692
And there's about 15 today, what's your point?

[Anonymous No.6937724]

>>6937568

I blame board culture. Also, reading books has become fairly popular in the last 6 years. It's understandable that this board has turned into shit, I hardly ever visit anymore.

[Anonymous No.6937729]

Don Quixote. A cruel and crude old book.

[Anonymous No.6937735]

>>6935240
I don't shit on it. I'm reading it right now, It's very good.

[Anonymous No.6937737]

>>6937568
>>6937437
stop treating /lit/ as if it is some big Other. we are all individuals with many different opinions

[Anonymous No.6937745]

>>6937658
Hamlet
Homer
Faust
Divina Comedia

[Anonymous No.6937755]

>>6937737
Thinking Don Quixote sucks is embarrassingly contrarian. Quite obviously /lit/ isn't a single entity, I didn't think I needed to spell that out. Would you feel less angry if I said "the majority of /lit/?" Or is that also out of my knowledge and therefore inaccurate to claim? Perhaps "in my opinion, the majorty of /lit/?"

[Anonymous No.6937758]

>>6937737
Sure, but the contrarians are individuals from other boards pushing their memes.

[Anonymous No.6937767]

>>6937729
>>6937729
>cruel
not necessarily an insult
>old
not at all a criticism

god, why is nabokov the absolute worst outside of his actual writing?

[Anonymous No.6937768]

I fucking love it. I even have El Quijote tattooed in my leg.

[Anonymous No.6938271]

>>6937767
I think he purposely gave strong opinions to inspire debate so he could be proved wrong

[Anonymous No.6938412]

>>6937729
There's a whole book of Nabokov lectures on Don Quixote available for purchase on Amazon.