/lit/ - Literature

>>11992333
Between vapid, knuckle-dragging, child-fucking Christianity of modern days and this kind of detestable new-age bullshit I would prefer the former. Reenchantment of the universe, Holism, 'Synthesis of the broken whole', these are anti-intellectual and cowardly ways that will eventually do us, our worst aspects. Sterilize your mind from this kind of thinking.

When group of American authors along with Gass, Gaddis and Ginsberg visited Soviet Union in the 80s, they stopped to Dostoevsky memorial home. Gass writes in one of his collection of essays, that Gaddis stood next to Fyodor table, looking at it closely, and there were tears on his face. Gaddis fans are traditionally something he would be ashamed of.

What are the most important or influential books of literary criticism in 20th century? For example: Mirror and the Lamp, The Anxiety of Influence, The Sense of an Ending, Aspects of the Novel, Mimesis...

Ignored or look down upon nowadays, doesn't matter, just list them.