/lit/ - Literature

>>14096997
>>lowest art form
Performance and architecture (as pragmatism takes from its artistic value)
>>highest art form
Poetry and music. The two most essential, the most opposite, and the ones who lean towards each other and yet never touch.
Music can insinuate anything without ever saying so, nor having to explain anything. Poetry can say and do everything, but never become material.
>>one underrated book
Residencia en la tierra
>>one overrated book
Anything by Octavio Paz, especially his poetry.

What are the most /lit/ professions today?

What books shaped you and changed the way you think?

>>13962983
>>13962819
What are the negetive repurcussions of skipping from The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea straight to The Sea Fertility tetralogy?

>>13960258
Yeah only pseuds force themselves to read dry non-fiction. Everyone longs for a nice story eventually.