/lit/ - Literature

>>12608101

Is this the work of a pseudo-intellectual writer character? I don't think all this work (and page space) is necessary. Just reference one or two of the most ridiculous sentences.

Then again, maybe people like to dig into bad writing for a laugh. Not for me.

>>11834824

Referencing either The Holy Bible or Shakespeare is instant death for a writer's appeal. What kind of cowardly limp-dick of an author wants to shamelessly glom onto someone else's achievements like that?

>>11215695

>meme image
>green text
>"fucktarded"
>concerned about politics

I don't think /lit/ is the board for you, son.

>>10256985

>"pseud pleb"
>IJ, Pynchon, Joyce

i c wut u did there. sage because not funny.

>>10130681

I got a better question for you

Why are we fixated on a single poem and maybe like 4 sentences of one man's writings?

There's like 80 replies in this thread, so I expect an answer.

>>9936287

If I had to pick one thing to criticize, it would be the fact that it has no even adequate works. It's always confused the shit out of me why new sincerity is considered a thing. Infinite Jest was as insincere as fiction comes. It's for the shit can.

I just realized that the source of my problems is that I am a terrible person, with a mean, bitter heart. Best books to cure me of this?

>>9914913
shiiiieeet

Does anyone else think that reading philosophy can lower the quality of your writing? I feel that after studying philosophy intensely throughout college, my understanding of the world is now so full of concepts, that it is more difficult to conceive of the world through certain aesthetics or phrases or feelings. I also feel that it is difficult to maintain a universality in my writing, because the problems that afflict my life are now very abstracted, and detached from the normal problems that people experience, or are normal problems experienced in a very different way, one that would not ring with other people and that seems to close myself off from connecting to any audience other than myself, due to my unconscious philosophical analysis of them. What do you guys think?

OP here. Sadly, this isn't a joke lmao. I don't want to spend my time rewriting the entire argument, but it was essentially about how she told me Shakespeare was a misogynist, and I was able to show that she understood basically nothing about Shakespeare whatsoever (compared to me), and how Shakespeare actually has an astounding understanding and compassion for women, especially for the time period.

>>9899914

>implying anyone knows or cares who this is

>>9824688

Could someone please link me to an analysis that redeems this book from the tedious doorstop that it appears to be?

Keep in mind that I understood most of the references.

Or use the thoughts from your head too, that's also acceptable.

Surely someone out there must have felt compelled to break down even part of this BRILLIANT, TIMELESS NOVEL so that the idiots can understand why it's worth reading all 1000 pages.

>>9811380

>books can 'achieve' things