/lit/ - Literature

>>16349887
This is the picture that lead to me spending two fucking hours searching through warosu and google with keywords and years to find

>>15216411

>>12998299
Yeah whatever retard in any case pynchon and this book have been widely enjoyed and discussed here forever and a crop of zoomers seeing the passage that DQd him from the pullitzer is unlikely to change it. Banaposting couldn't turn the board against the book, man goes down toilet posting couldn't do it, thomas pynchon is seth macfarlane (which is true and based) couldn't do it, goofs and gags couldn't do it, and even the release of the inherent vice movie couldn't do it even though a couple of spergs tried real fucking hard exactly as predicted. Honestly if the zoomers manage to make a dent in GR threads I would be genuinely shocked.

>>12917642
excellent. ill take a look at it

Gaddis and pynchon are my favorite authors

Found it, no thanks to ANY of you fucking newfags

>>6413978
He turned into a beautiful Evola Butterfly.

oh no

Dont' you feel like plebeians don't know that feel?

Who are the two between Joyce and Pynchon and the one to Pynchon's right

Someone said that was Delillo on the left, but it doesn't look like him

>>>/r9k/13034517

The above post is funnier than every joke in every DFW, Pynchon, Joyce plus (all patrician authors ever).

I'm not going to go full edgy and say that the r9k post is better, because it's not, obviously. But can we all man up and admit that literature's contribution to humour is completely negligible at best? Novels are shit for humour.

This is my favourite of my OC

>>4761512
Oedipa Maas more like Oedipus my ass!

iffy choice of authors

>>4572492
>pretentious ultra-obscure 1920s esoteric Marxo-Nietzscheansocialism wankfest


>w2c

Are the French more patrician than most people? I live in the UK and I get the impression they are.

>Hollande fucks other woman
>no fucks given

>houellebecq insults islam
>doesn't get convicted

Are they patrician??

Is it a waste of time trying to learn a new language for enjoying literature? Especially since I do a STEM degree and I try to cram computer programming/independent learning in to my free time, so I could happily

I've been learning Spanish for the past few months, but I don't even care about Spanish culture or Spanish books. I would never want to live anywhere other than the UK or USA. And if I could choose a language to magically instantly know right now, it'd be French, so I could read their books in their native language. I picked it because it's the easiest language to learn.

I didn't choose it solely because of literature (maybe it'll be useful in 10 years in my career, if I actually stick with it), but it feels pointless a lot of the time.

There's no excuse for enjoying postmodern "literature".

>start reading JR by Gaddis
>stop after less than 20 pages in