/lit/ - Literature

Hello, c/lit/s. It's been a while since I have visited you. I see not much has changed. I have a question for you all.
Are there any books written about Bright Eyes? I will ask /mu/ the same.

Let the Oberst rage begin...

hey, /lit/, you all like crappy fantasy books, so give me an onomatopoeia for swords and/or metal banging together

thanks.

>Someone told me that /lit/ has a shortage of tripfriends.

Stopped reading there.

ahh, thank you all, these should be perfect

"Soon you will be the owner of this vast land, lighted by this beautiful moon; soon you will be the mistress of my palace, and all the servants and maids will obey your commands."

<<this guy...

Hey, /lit/, what word would you use to describe the sound of a spray bottle being used? It could be an onomatopoeia or regular adjective. Any suggestions?

WWI Short Stories:
A.W. Wells- Chanson Triste
Joseph Conrad- The Tale
Herman NcNeile- Private Meyrick: Company Idiot
Arthur Conan Doyle- His Last Bow
Robert Graves- Christmas Truce

WWI Novels:
AQOWF (obviously)
Hemingway- A Farewell to Arms
Rebecca West- Return of the Soldier
F. Scott Fitzgerald- Tender is the Night (Yes this counts, and it's a fucking great book)

WWII Lit:

Surprisingly, some contemporary stuff focusing on WWII is really good. For example:

David Benioff- City of Thieves
W.G. Sebald- Austerlitz
Harry Mulisch- The Assault

I haven't read the whole Saga, OP, but I read the first book, The Man of Property, and I agree with you in that it's pretty awesome.

Sadly, Galsworthy wasn't experimental enough to be noticed in the grand scheme of academia. He won the Nobel Prize, but, ultimately, he was a popular fiction writer back then. He didn't push narrative limits.

Have you read any Ford Maddox Ford? He was a contemporary with Galsworthy and Conrad. Really good.

Hey, /lit/ since we are all on the internet and not reading books, why don't we at least have a thread with intellectually stimulating, literature/philosophy related videos?

I'll begin with a pretty cool one of Lacan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3dI4Nl3ENY&feature=related

Conrad?
More like Gone-bad, amirite?


>but seriously, Conrad is the fucking king

>>2257724
>>2257724
>I'm skeptical about anybody who uses Derrida.
wow...

She's a deconstructionist, so Derrida basically wrote her bible. Of course she is going to refer to him.

>>2257646
>>2257646
"It's not a significant bullet"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXqc8TQ15w

he's okay; somewhere like halfway between how I want to hear someone speak in abstract terms on the social status of today, yet still halfway in that desolate realm of misguided Afro-centric reverberation that just doesn't really sit well with anyone

try watching some stuff by Avital Ronell; she's half-wrong most of the time (or just mis-applying stuff for her own benefits) and conceded beyond reason, but the subject matter of her lectures are actually interesting, at least in relation to West

So Charles Dickens walks into a bar, and he walks up to the bartender and orders a Martini.

The bartender looks back at him and says:
"Would you like olive-or twist?"

>New Autism
^^Whuthefu--I don't even know

>>2234575
>>2234575
or Denton. Ugh...

San Marcos sucks...

Good luck with all that.

How about this one:

>You can't judge it until you've tried it.

I'm not in total disagreement about this one, I just hate how people apply it to anything.

Hey /lit/, what are your favorite short-story/novel titles. I think that there is definitely something to be said about a good title, so what do you all think?

I'll Start:
>Under Western Eyes

>Aeroplane:Or, How He Talked to Himself as If Reciting Poetry

>A Small, Good Thing

>Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

>>2191305
Whoa, I used to know a girl whose handwriting looked just like yours.

meh

>Reading Ulysses
>Guy walks up
>"Hey what are you reading?"
>Show him
>"Oh Yea, I've heard of it, but Idk much about it. What's it about?"
>Ulysses
>What's it about
>areyoufuckingserious.jpg

>>2190629
>Their...negro
Now that's racist, slaveholder

>>2190626
>>2190626
Well, though I see those implications, I'm merely making a comical comment on the subject matter that seems to pervade most, if not all, of Franzen's work, but hey, if you want to go there, be my guest.

>>2190628
>>2190628
Very clever