/lit/ - Literature

>>22444114
Nabokov was an idiot. I'll stick with Faulkner.

>>17262453
>is it just because of the language
That's a bit of an odd question to ask about a book, but yes it has some of the best prose in English lit. It also helps that the story and characters are great and iconic

>>17255961
>prose poetry
The only one I've actually liked was by T.S Eliot, and it didn't even feel like he wrote it sincerely

>>17231134
You chose...poorly

>>17215371
>taking a section out of context where the narrator is singing and using it to bash Eliot

>>16467902
>The fox leapt over the dog, father used to say. He jumps not so that he can get to the other side, but so that he can forget his natural purpose every now and then for a moment and not spend his every breath trying to follow his base impulses. Because life is more than following our instinct, he said. Sometimes you have to do silly things to distract yourself, to not realize and remember the folly and despair of your existence. A nigger walked past me and sat at the opposite side of the bus. Are they the fox or the dog? Leaping or being leaped over? I waved and tossed a coin to him, winking with a hint of sadness and curiosity. Well thank ya mastah, hopes you ain't playin ah trick on me.There'll be more where that comes from. But no dog is every truly jumped over, father said.

>>16311085
>my female MC

>>16239238
>I've never finished any Faulkner

>>16207284
>>16207398
>"What do you mean, my great-grand-nephew is going to call himself 'xXx_IronicDabs_xXx'? Is this some kind of joke?"