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>> No.1170146 [View]

I don't have a wishlist. =/

Buy me a copy of Mishima Yukio's Runaway Horses, if I double please! :D :D

>> No.1170116 [View]

>>1170114

>if the picture is a satire then weeaboo lit would be on there

>> No.1170111 [View]

>>1170109

>is an elitist faggot

>> No.1170107 [View]

>>1170104

>Kawabata won the Nobel Prize
>Mishima produced a fantastic Tetralogy

>> No.1170101 [View]

Mishima/Kawabata are nowhere to be found?

Fucking retarded.

>> No.1170078 [View]

>>1170064

For the theme of Death: either Thirst for Love or his novella "Patriotism". Thirst for Love is essentially a story of a recently widowed woman who moves in with her inlaws and gets involved with her father-in-law. Yadda yadda yadda falls in love with another guy, plans to kill fatherinlaw, murder intrigue, etc.

Patriotism is about the last night before and the actual event of the suicide of a shamed Japanese soldier.

>> No.1170048 [View]

>>1170042

He really wasn't. Maybe he as a person was but his work is incredible.

My description sounds more like an emo high school freshman bullshit thing but, goddamnit, that's the best of my ability. I don't claim to be a good writer. xD

>> No.1170040 [View]

>>1170027

Oh my, well, he was only one of the greatest novelists in Japanese history and his entire theme is death. He has novels on murder, melancholy reincarnation, decay, etc. and was absolutely obsessed with death...so much so that he exaggerated his political beliefs just to give himself an excuse to commit an elaborate, ritualistic suicide.

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Okay, /lit/, this is my first foray into Stephensen's work and I have to ask, is this a fluke? It's just so hard to get through in the beginning...should I have started with another one of his books or should I just stick it through on this one?

>> No.1170024 [View]

Ask me about Mishima Yukio. :D

>> No.1167463 [View]

Great book.

>> No.1167358 [View]

love ya, Ossie

>> No.1167354 [View]

>>1167347

F. Dos was amazing.
Fuck you.

>> No.1167234 [View]

>>1167224

This is a depressing post in real life.

>> No.1167225 [View]

Also, Zoe's Tale.

Which gets a 9.

>> No.1167222 [View]

Madame Bovary
7.5/10
Very good but Flaubert seems to be floundering for action every once in a while.

>> No.1167169 [View]

I believe in Willie Hughes.

>> No.1152694 [View]

I am the biggest wanna-be writer of all time.

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1140509

Hey /lit/
Can we bring some attention to John Fante?

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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvVbmbhmsa1Se5GOz7adPxPWxQt.;_ylv=3?qid=20100919092818A
AoB0dU

I fucking lol'd.

>> No.1140495 [View]

>A box without hinges, key or a lid

>> No.1140488 [View]

>>1140458

I second this.
I really, really loved this book.
Watts is witty, hilarious, intelligent and easy-to-understand.

>> No.1140482 [View]

>be 21
>start reading John Fante
>realise that Bukowski ripped off Fante

>> No.1139533 [View]

Ophelia Heine

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