/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.8210328]

Why are novels which are deemed as "classics" always written in a pretentious poetry-like prose? Trying to read Lolita but can barely understand the first page

[Anonymous No.8210329]

Because you are a retarded frogfaggot

[Anonymous No.8210338]

Lolita suks, don't read that bullcrap

[Anonymous No.8210342]

go away baiting frogman

[Anonymous No.8210353]

>pretentious

In this case, you picking up a book head and shoulders above your ability is pretentious. The book itself is not pretentious by any means.

But you probably don't even know what a fucking pretense is, and use the word pretentious to mean "trying to sound smart" or "big words".

[Anonymous No.8210426]

>>8210328
Awesome, poor little frogposter. Does your inadequate vocabulary have you feeling lugubrious?

You're clearly over your head. Lolita is written from the perspective of a maudlin, navel-gazing pedophile. He tries to turn his highly inappropriate relationship with Lo into the most beautiful love story ever told. It takes some pretty powerful language to make that happen, and I think Nabokov succeeds.

It's a novel worth appreciating. Read with a dictionary at your elbow. Underline and define words you don't know. Read other novels with the same complexity of prose.

If you want something "classic" that even a retard can read, try Hemingway or Bukowski.

[Anonymous No.8210430]

Because it's pretty. Well, in Nabokov's case, anyway, he always placed aesthetic above everything else. How is poetry-like prose a bad thing?

[Anonymous No.8210431]

>>8210328
what exactly do you expect from literature

[Anonymous No.8210432]

haha you sine qua non be selfsame moronic you palaver deficient cad

[Anonymous No.8210552]

>>8210328
I for one applaud your well contrived bait, anon, god speed.

[Anonymous No.8210582]

>>8210353
Pretension is just unconscious irony, my man

[Anonymous No.8210609]

>>8210328
This. I wanted to read the oddessey but it's written in the cuckolds favourite style; poetry

[Anonymous No.8210650]

The fuck are you doing here if you're unfamiliar with literature?

[Anonymous No.8210651]

>>8210328
Nabakov's purple prose is a meme in and of itself

[Anonymous No.8210660]

Why are memes which are deemed as "cool" always posted in a dull, boring manner? Trying to read the catalog but can barely stop myself from vomiting.

[Anonymous No.8210676]

>>8210328
>>8210609
Are you guys actually this bad at bait?
Is that the bait in and of itself?

[Anonymous No.8210858]

>>8210676
Poetry is for dyels like you fuccboi

[Anonymous No.8210881]

>>8210426
>preferring empty exercises in prose over substantial, developed themes and ideas found in Hemingway's bibliography

I think you're the """pretentious""" one here, sonny jim

[Anonymous No.8210911]

>>8210881
>i can't identify themes and ideas unless they're written at a child's comprehension level

wew lad

[Anonymous No.8210953]

>>8210911
>I can only appreciate overwrought prose and a contrived attempt to rebuke Freudian sexual psychology that ultimately collapses in on itself in the last 20 pages

I'll repeat myself since it appears you're unable to retain information after one read; you're the pretentious pseud here, little man.

[Anonymous No.8210961]

>>8210430
>How is poetry-like prose a bad thing?

Because it's ugly?

Prose that stands the test of time (centuries) is rarely poetry-like.

Attic > Asiatic.

[Anonymous No.8210974]

>>8210961
Shakespeare?

[Anonymous No.8210977]

>>8210974
...wrote mainly in verse, not in prose?

[Anonymous No.8210978]

>>8210974
aye

[Anonymous No.8210981]

>>8210978
kek

[Anonymous No.8210998]

>>8210328
>can barely understand the first page
kek

[Anonymous No.8211010]

It may be the translation though. I swear to god, when I read translations from german to english they seem to use the most complex words as possible in english, whereas the german version is using simple ones. And I'm a native of neither.

[Anonymous No.8211020]

>>8210858

[Anonymous No.8211047]

>>8211010
i've read it both in english and russian (nabokov made translation himself) and it is written in this compex and rich language of his, which is rather poetic

[Anonymous No.8211049]

>>8210881
this redarded pleb)))))

[Anonymous No.8211076]

>>8210978

[Anonymous No.8212204]

>>8210881
>""""""""""""""""""""""""substantial, developed themes and ideas found in Hemingway's bibliography""""""""""""""""""""""""""
>a literal meme
>>preferring empty exercises in prose over substantial, developed themes and ideas found in Hemingway's bibliography
>>preferring <a literal meme> over <a literal meme>
>"my meme is better than yours alleged meme" meme

F O U N D
T H E
P S E U D

[Anonymous No.8212390]

>>8212204
meme

[Anonymous No.8212403]

>>8210328
So continue reading your retarded Hemingway/genre fiction/whatever you able to read

[Anonymous No.8212408]

>>8210328
to separate the plebs from the patricians

[Anonymous No.8212430]

>>8212408
and it works as we all can see

[Anonymous No.8213366]

>>8211076
Nice.

[Anonymous No.8213377]

>>8212204
>>8212204
>>8212390
nice meme

[Anonymous No.8213379]

>>8210328
>I've never read a "classic"
>It looks old and pretensions, I don't want to read it because I'm stupid
>I'll just read the hunger games instead because that's obviously better, it's just not as fancy as the "classics"

[Anonymous No.8213385]

>>8210961
>>8210974
>>8210977
Give an example of some poetic-like prose that isn't verse.

[Anonymous No.8214561]

>>8212403

>Hating on Hemingway

plz stop

[Anonymous No.8214829]

>>8210426
you d man

[Anonymous No.8215656]

Nabokov was corncobby as fuck, his chronicles mean absolutely nothing to me.