/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9505704]

I am Japanese. I live in Japan.
Do you like this writor?
In Japan he is no person.
No one likes him.
This is means you American are bad
for buy so many his books

[Anonymous No.9505709]

>>9505704
im having trouble defending keeping a book collection. ill never read them again and they take up space, but i like to show how much ive read. hopefully ill get over it or find a good reason to keep them where they are

[Anonymous No.9505724]

I am Japarunesu. I rive in Japon.
Do you rike this writerusu? In Japon he is no personuru.
This is meanu you America-san aru bado for bairusu so mano his buukus.

[Anonymous No.9505748]

>>9505704
manko
we only read Mishima around here.

[Anonymous No.9505754]

>>9505748
Speak for yourself pleb

[Anonymous No.9505796]

Which one are you, OP?

[Anonymous No.9505809]

>>9505709

they're an investment for the winter when the nuclear conflict breaks out

need to build those fires and books make good tinder

[Anonymous No.9505820]

>>9505704
He's popular with the hip hop artists here in burgerland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fEnTj2GNlU&t=4m5s

[Anonymous No.9505827]

I am the Japan
I have seen Murakami in maid cafe serving beer in frilly dress in Akiba
Very much the disgusting appearances
His book read like cheeseburger

[Anonymous No.9505831]

Me have been done had livado in Japan

No LARP

Please respond

[Anonymous No.9505835]

I am Polish. I live in Poland.
Do you like this writor?
In Poland he is of no person.
No one likes him.
This is means you American are bad
for buy so many his books.

[Anonymous No.9505844]

I am American. I live in America.
Do you like this writor?
In America he is of no person.
No one likes him.
This is means you Japan are bad
for buy so many his books.

[Anonymous No.9505852]

I am German. I live in Germany.
Like you that writer?
In Germany he is no man
That mean that Americaners are bad
for so many of his books buying

[Anonymous No.9505860]

>>9505704
>>9505835
>>9505844
>>9505852

fucking samefag bet you thought this was going to be awesome on reddit.com/4chan

[Anonymous No.9505902]

>>9505860
Wow, you are one dumbass/newfag. As of my post, there are 13 replies and 13 unique different posters, which you can check in the lower right hand of the thread with the numbers there, and which I'm too lazy to screenshot b/c of my shitty weird laptop which doesn't screenshot easily.

[Anonymous No.9505909]

>>9505704
yeah,you japs prefer to read lightnovels or some Higashino shit.

[Anonymous No.9505919]

Buenos, soy de Argentina. ¿Os gusta este escribidor? En mi país él es un nadie.

[Anonymous No.9505928]

>>9505704
>In Japan he is no person.
>No one likes him
I live in Japan, this is a lie. Straight up lie.

Don't care for him myself though.

[Anonymous No.9506079]

>>9505704
>Penguin's Classic Pasta series.

[Anonymous No.9506166]

>>9505704

Is this guy Nihon-approved?

[Anonymous No.9506231]

>>9506166
Frogposter leave

[Anonymous No.9506254]

>>9505928
It really is.

That being said, I've noticed that most Japs don't like Mishima at all.

[Anonymous No.9506257]

Hola Anonimus, como muchos eventos en la historia invisibiles al gran publico, de su importancia y de su existencia, este flotara por siempre sin reverencia en este rio de mayas en donde me encuentro. Me refiero al sitio web como se le conce hoy día, lo que el Ficcio-cientifico Murray Leinster nos trato de retratar, y una de las cosas que regulan gran parte del mismo publico que lo subestima, El Internet, The World Wide Web. Primera vez pensado y construido en secreto. Por personas como tu. Perdonadme mi invación, pero no tengo mucho tiempo, y esto es pero un pequeño experimento de mi parte para encontrar modos de comunicaión. Deberías verlo Anonimus, es tan inmenso como el Atlantico y más frio que Rio Gallegos, que esconde el Electro-Artico y el más allá. en mi poca estancia me e dado cuenta que este foro es lento en tus ojos, pero esta lentitud me queda comodo. Me despido por miedo que esta se cierre, la frecuencia es baja pero parece que los Moderadores tienen poca paciencia, y todavia no me atrevo a visitar el ultratumba donde se van estos hilos, cada vez que me acerco me da un sentimiento de soledad y miedo, major que el que ya tengo.

Hasta pronto.

[Anonymous No.9506259]

>>9506231

He's not a frog! He's just smug!! D:>

[Anonymous No.9506260]

>>9505928
"I live in Japanu" lol get a load of that fake
baka

[Anonymous No.9506288]

Ahm Scottish. Ah live in Scotland.
Do you like this cunt?
In Scotland' she's a cunt.
No one likes her.
This is means you American are cunts
for buy so many her books ya fat cunts

[Anonymous No.9506427]

Real Jap here.
Murakami is hated by pseuds only.
You know who everyone hates?
OP, so stop giving so many (You)

>>9505909

[Anonymous No.9506468]

I am too from Japan.
I like Mishima Yukio but when I talk about him persons think I am gay.
they say "He was gay, his books are about gay, are you gay?".
I am not gay but I like Mishima Yukio.

[Anonymous No.9506548]

I hate his writin style. The popculture references feel forced.
His ideas and themes aren't exactly Japanese when I compare it to other writers. (Akutagawa,Dazai,Ryu Murakami et cetera)
I like Ryu Murakami more.

[Paulo Coelho No.9506566]

I am Brazillian. I live in Brazil.
Do you like this writer?
In Brazil he is a god.
Everybody loves him.
This means you all suck because you buy none of his books.

[Anonymous No.9506577]

>>9506427
How dare you sully such a masterpiece with that poorly written "novel" for autists.
Infinite Jest should be in the trash where it belongs not taking up the space of something actually worth reading like Index.

[Anonymous No.9506608]

>>9506566
>implying Coelho isn't a bestseller with the "spiritual" crowd everywhere.

[Anonymous No.9506659]

>>9506577
Sorry anon, is this better?

[Anonymous No.9506677]

>>9505724
kek

[Anonymous No.9506681]

>>9506577
haha great post my friend, didnt see that coming. This is going straight to r/4chan.

[Anonymous No.9506725]

>>9506166
Is Japan he's literally everything. It would be difficult to write a short story there without it being compared to Akutagawa

[Anonymous No.9506727]

>>9505852
Don't mess with Hesse

[Anonymous No.9506736]

>>9506166
Why the long head?

[Anonymous No.9506782]

>>9506659
yes.
>>9506681
haha thanks all in a day's work. Well meme'd to you too fellow anonymous.

[Anonymous No.9506783]

>>9505704
i've met two japanese people who were reading murakami in the past year so idk

[Anonymous No.9506874]

>>9506608

This offends me. >:(
delet this

[Anonymous No.9506899]

>>9506254
>a bunch of manchildren and turbo-autists don't like a reactionary nationalist. Hmm...I wonder why.

[Anonymous No.9506979]

I read his most popular book, and it was pretty shit desu.

Japanese translated into english always seems terrible though for whatever reason.

[Anonymous No.9506991]

>>9506659
KamachixPynchon crossover when?

[Anonymous No.9507009]

>>9506874
Why would I delet something for being offensive? Frankly, it's the only reason not to delet anything.

[Anonymous No.9507025]

>>9505704

Japan persons hate Murakami all year. Here we call him "Shit-Kami", meaning "God of shit" because he is books are great shit of dishonour.

[Anonymous No.9507829]

I don't get it. Isn't Murakami a generally good author?

[Anonymous No.9507849]

>>9506979
Honestly Norwegian Wood is easily his worst book, it reads like Looking For Alaska for a slightly older audience

[Anonymous No.9507868]

>>9507849
I agree with that. Even Dance Dance Dance is better than Norwegian Wood.

[Anonymous No.9507889]

Oi am hobo. Oi live in Northampton.
Do you loike this wroiter?
In Northampton he is no person.
No one loikes him.
This means that you American are bad
for buy so many his books

[Anonymous No.9508648]

>>9505704
No, it means his prose translates really well into English, and his ideas, while unappealing to the majority of Japanese, are interesting to an American audience.

Is it any wonder two dramatically different cultures would have divergent tastes?

There are also several anime which are popular here and largely unknown in Japan - so what? Who cares?

Borges is unknown in Argentina, as one anon in another thread points out, but that doesn't stop his work from being appreciated by literary scholars all over the Northern hemisphere now does it?

Walt Whitman was largely unappreciated for at least ten years after Leaves of Grass was published. Now he's considered, by many, to be "the" American poet.

Are the masses so keen as to merit our concern? Should our tastes be driven by their every whim?

Are you about to take up twerking as well?

[Anonymous No.9508810]

>>9505820
hey i like milo you fruit

[Anonymous No.9508958]

>>9505709

That is why I stopped reading books about 3 years ago.

[Anonymous No.9508967]

>>9506899
>implying Mishima wasn't himself a degenerate manlet who breathed and bathed in absorutery grorious nippon autismo

[Anonymous No.9508974]

>>9506566
>>9506566
literally better than Henry James at his own game

[Anonymous No.9509333]

>>9506548
>Forced
He's a Westaboo: the recurring mention of Western mythology, texts, music, and - to a lesser extent - films evince this. It isn't necessarily that they're forced, it's more that they're a part of his personality and he draws from that well indiscriminately.

Personally, I enjoy it because it's another perspective on Japan's complicated relationship with Western culture. It isn't particularly worthwhile in its own right, however. And yes, it gets grating.

[Anonymous No.9509349]

>>9507849
I'm reading it right now and I have no desire to gorge myself on it in the way that I did with Wind-Up Bird and Kafka.

The structure is lackluster (for fuck's sake, Chapter Six is a FIFTH of the book), the references to Western culture feel uncharacteristically superfluous, the prose isn't particularly compelling, nor are the characters. It doesn't transport me in the way that his later works do, which is depressing. I'm left wondering if it's intentional or merely amateurish.

I'd like to like it, but fuck.

[Anonymous No.9509365]

>>9507829
OP is probably pasta, but Japanese can be possessive about their culture and language. The fact that Murakami writes in a casual, Westernized way and deals with themes and subjects which aren't particularly Japanese pisses some people off.

At least, that's what I've gleaned from reading about how his work translates and some critiques.

I literally had to answer 12 CAPTCHAs to post this, what am I doing with my life.

[Anonymous No.9509782]

>>9509333
I don't really like most popculture references. And I don't mean the homages or some abstract reference, but the ones that show it into your face.

[Anonymous No.9509848]

Je suis français. Je vis en France.
Aimez-vous cet écrivain ?
En France il n'est personne.
Personne ne l'aime.
Cela veut dire que vous, les américains, êtes mauvais parce que vous achetez trop de ses livres.