/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9916092]

All novelists are failed poets.

". I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing." - Faulkner

Discuss poetry vs. novels

[Anonymous No.9916114]

>>9916092

>people with short attention spans think their 20 page short story or 1 page poem is capable of the psychological depth or emotional range a full length novel can provide

[Anonymous No.9917289]

>>9916114
>the psychological depth or emotional range a full length novel can provide
>can
Better a great 1 page poem or a short story than a mediocre novel.

[Anonymous No.9917316]

“He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol over A Tale of Two Cities or The Pickwick Papers. What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench.”

Bologna also said Antwerp is his only work that does not embarass him.

[Anonymous No.9917484]

monophones get out

[Anonymous No.9917530]

>>9916092
Reading poetry and reading novels are completely different experiences with completely different possibilities.

It's like saying that movie directors are failed photographers.