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What are /lit/ thoughts on Alice Munro?

She read and wrote for many years before first publishing a work, silently yet obstinately struggling to master the form and subtleties of the short-story. She never gave up, no matter how much daily work or personal problems she had to face.

After the first publication (winner of a prize, but bad with sellings and hardly talked about) she continued to write with the same ardor, without external pomp or fanfare, publishing on average a book of short stories every four years.

It is said that her works are full of humanity and acute details of real life. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize (the first one given to a writer who has worked exclusevly with the short-story).

I've never read anything of her, but I wonder if any of you /lit/zers have read, and what you think about her.

>> No.8948655

What I read of hers wasn't worth reading, so I stopped.

I'm open to recommendations but I don't have much hope.

>> No.8948669

>she struggled for years

She was a roastie who decided kids and a husband were more important than writing.

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>>8948669
spbp

>> No.8948680

>>8948648
A friend of mine recommended and loaned me "Carried Away." I haven't finished it, but of the few stories I have read it's pretty good. Exactly as you described, picturesque portraits of small-town humanity and struggle.

>> No.8948683

If I ever met Alice Munro I'd kick her in her shriveled-up womb. Fuck this whore.

>> No.8948686 [DELETED] 

>>8948669
And how many kids have you raised?
That shit takes a lot out of you.
Fucking frogs

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national treasure

>> No.8948709

>>8948669
College student detected. Once you're living the sink-or-swim artist existence you won't be so cocky about forgoing bourgeois comforts to pursue an art that at best will never make you money and at worst will never be relevant in any other way either.

t.dropout

>> No.8948729

>>8948709
(cont.) Let us not forget the example of Flaubert, who at the end of his life, taking a walk with a young niece of his, saw a young family and declared

>Ils sont dans le vraie

>> No.8948735

>>8948686
Breeders are immoral and lack empathy.

>> No.8948745

>>8948729
Translate pls.

>> No.8948750

I've read one of her stories for a book club. It was pretty nice.

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>>8948709
>>8948729
/ourguy/ desu

starving artist schtick gets old really quick.

>> No.8948759

>>8948745
"They are in the truth!"

>> No.8948763

>>8948735
/lit/ is a Catholic board, senpai, get with the program.

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>>8948763
Get deeper within the program.

>> No.8948771

>>8948754
>be a cuck and LARP in your free time

Such wisdom. Wow.

>> No.8948807

>>8948771
Flaubert was an epileptic NEET. He's not one of my favorite writers, but a cuck he was not. Also writing, if you stop to think about it for even one second, is the exact opposite of LARPing.

When colleges send /lit/ their people they're not sending their best people.