/lit/ - Literature

What's a good short story collection that isn't talked about much?

I have a weird mole on my inner ass cheek that I should probably get removed but I don't want the doctor to spread my ass cheeks It sounds awkward.

>>12233723
Ernest Hemingway, Across the River and Into the Trees

“That something I cannot yet define completely but the feeling comes when you write well and truly of something and know impersonally you have written in that way and those who are paid to read it and report on it do not like the subject so they say it is all a fake, yet you know its value absolutely; or when you do something which people do not consider a serious occupation and yet you know truly, that it is as important and has always been as important as all the things that are in fashion, and when, on the sea, you are alone with it and know that this Gulf Stream you are living with, knowing, learning about, and loving, has moved, as it moves, since before man, and that it has gone by the shoreline of that long, beautiful, unhappy island since before Columbus sighted it and that the things you find out about it, and those that have always lived in it are permanent and of value because that stream will flow, as it has flowed, after the Indians, after the Spaniards, after the British, after the Americans and after all the Cubans and all the systems of governments, the richness, the poverty, the martyrdom, the sacrifice and the venality and the cruelty are all gone as the high-piled scow of garbage, bright-colored, white-flecked, ill-smelling, now tilted on its side, spills off its load into the blue water, turning it a pale green to a depth of four or five fathoms as the load spreads across the surface, the sinkable part going down and the flotsam of palm fronds, corks, bottles, and used electric light globes, seasoned with an occasional condom or a deep floating corset, the torn leaves of a student’s exercise book, a well-inflated dog, the occasional rat, the no-longer-distinguished cat; all this well shepherded by the boats of the garbage pickers who pluck their prizes with long poles, as interested, as intelligent, and as accurate as historians; they have the viewpoint; the stream, with no visible flow, takes five loads of this a day when things are going well in La Habana and in ten miles along the coast it is as clear and blue and unimpressed as it was ever before the tug hauled out the scow; and the palm fronds of our victories, the worn light bulbs of our discoveries and the empty condoms of our great loves float with no significance against one single, lasting thing—the stream.”

papa

What does “Carso” refer to in this section of A Farewell to Arms?

>The river ran behind us and the town had been captured very handsomely but the mountains beyond it could not be taken and I was very glad the Austrians seemed to want to come back to the town some time, if the war should end, because they did not bombard it to destroy it but only a little in a military way. People lived on in it and there were hospitals and cafes and artillery up side streets and two bawdy houses, one for troops and one for officers, and with the end of the summer, the cool nights, the fighting in the mountains beyond the town, the shell-marked iron of the railway bridge, the smashed tunnel by the river where the fighting had been, the trees around the square and the long avenue of trees that led to the square; these with there being girls in the town, the King passing in his motor car, sometimes now seeing his face and little long necked body and gray beard like a goat's chin tuft ; all these with the sudden interiors of houses that had lost a wall through shelling, with plaster and rubble in their gardens and sometimes in the street, and the whole thing going well on the Carso made the fall very different from the last fall when we had been in the country. The war was changed too.

>I had gone to no place where the roads were frozen and hard as iron, where it was clear cold and dry and the snow was dry and powdery and hare-tracks in the snow and the peasants took off their hats and called you Lord and there was good hunting. I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafés and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring. Suddenly to care very much and to sleep to wake with it sometimes morning and all that had been there gone and everything sharp and hard and clear and sometimes a dispute about the cost. Sometimes still pleasant and fond and warm and breakfast and lunch. Sometimes all niceness gone and glad to get out on the street but always another day starting and then another night. I tried to tell about the night and the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very clean and cold and I could not tell it; as I cannot tell it now


What do you think of A Farewell to Arms? Is Hemingway a good stylist? What can be learned about the craft of writing from reading him?

After reading the critique threads I think it’s obvious /lit/ needs to go back to reading this man more.

Back in the day The Sun Also Rises was a /lit/ favorite, now you have all these retards saying it’s boring and nothing happens. Learn how to write good, clean, and true prose first boys.

What should the Hemingway chart look like from beginning to end?

Hemingway

Is he the most handsome author?

is Hemingway the biggest waifufag in literature?

What does /lit/ think about Ernest Hemingway? I had been reading Farewell to Arms for two weeks now (I don't have much time to read) and his writing style easily catchesmy attention.

Hemingway. no homo maybe

>>8393559
Who could cuck a beautiful man like this?

Hey /lit/. I've recently begun reading more again, and just finished re-reading The Sun Also Rises. I had read it 5 years ago, but the story simply didn't click for me then. This time, it really set in hard. In addition, I've read the Great Gatsby (yes, high-school tier literature) several times since high school, and love it as well. I'm planning on buying A Farewell To Arms next. Does anybody have any other Lost Generation suggestions that would be good to dig into? Their writing has done a great job striking chords with me, so far.

>>7494247
Kerouac was model-tier.
>no Hemingway

>There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

What did he mean by this?

>>7455501
>I expected more shark killing and less baseball talk 2bh.
Your first Hemmingway I assume?

>>7455502
>protip: the greeks (other than Homer) actually kind of suck
>ppl
epic just liek teh greeks dude

Why do women hate Hemingway? Every Hemingway book on Goodreads has several 1 star reviews and they're always by women.

>>7353588
I think Hemingway takes the title.

20 moments the taken, the missing, and the gone.

Top 3

1. Crime and Punishment
2. KJV Bible
3. The Sickness Unto Death (Soren Kierkegaard)

Should one have a well-experienced life to become a skilled novelist?

And then...HE GETS CUCKED BY EVERYBODY IN THE NOVEL. AHAHAHA! People will eat this shit UP