/lit/ - Literature

>>17908458
>the canon, anon, it's fading away...

>>15489583

>I'm sorry, Dave. I'm sorry for saying those hurtful things. I was insulted by your comment about me in Infinite Jest, but that's no excuse for the way I acted. You're a very talented writer, clearly the best in your generation...... I'm at peace now.... I must go.....

>tfw every day I feel more and more like the failson in Growth of Soil

Protect.. the.. canon..
I entreat ye... /lit/...
Good...bye...

anon... *cough*... r-remember the canon after i-i'm *cough*... gone...

>0 threads on literature

>>13365330
>He understands what makes people tick, how they think, how they manage their self image etc better than any other writer.

That's what Harold Bloom's point is. If you actually read his Shakespeare book beyond a summary, and look past the overabundance of Bardolatry, you'll see he thinks what makes Shakespeare unique is that he invented the first characters who were capable of real introspection, and who could change because of that introspection. There are authors who understood human nature well, like Plato and Dante, but their figures are rather static.

>>12970441

He's just sad and frustrated that the canon is being forgotten.

>>12728237

>read the canon.... the great writers must never be forgotten.... read shakespeare, homer, tolstoy, dee eff doubleyouuuuuu.............

>>12146220

>Remember the canon, Anon.... Read Shakespeare, and Dante, and Jane Austen.... Don't let the school of resentment win...

>>12128714
>Oy, the tedium, the drudgery of trying to read this book! I tried to get into this story. Really, I did. It's a classic, right? And everyone else likes it. I kept making myself continue, hoping I could get into the story and figure out what's supposed to be so good about it.
>I won't waste any more of my precious reading time on this. It's about a self-absorbed young wife who longs for anyone else's life except her own. When she's in the city, she dreams of the farm. When she's in the country, she dreams of the city. When she's at a social gathering she imagines that everyone else's life is so much more exciting than her own. Blah, blah, blah.
>Too many wordy descriptions of what people were wearing, what the buildings looked like, etc. If you're going to take a long time to tell a story, it had better be a good story. This one is NOT!

>>11823142
I guess it's dependent on your peers but it does become harder to find topics to talk about with people if you completely estrange yourself from pop culture.

>he didn't go into the humanities

y-y-you were meant to s-s-save literary study.....anon....

Still upset the mods didn't give him a sticky

Not if you save it anon....

anon....you must become an academic and save.....the canon.....i can't hold on.....

He doesn't look so good... :(

>>11183689
Faulkner has plenty to say, but it seems clear to me you have a disposition to dislike in the first place, so you refuse to learn how to read him. All authors are to be read differently. This leads me to believe you've read Faulkner years ago, and back then you just couldn't get into him, and, seeing his praise and fame, you must have felt cheated and became bitter towards his work and anyone who likes it. I felt the same about McCarthy and even Tolstoy (AND, can you believe it, Faulkner). But you know what I did? I came back to these authors years later, when I was a more learned, confident reader, and fell in love. It only takes both an open mind and close, intimate reading.

Funny how you should be right about all this too, when almost a hundred years worth of critics, academics, other authors, and the Nobel institute should disagree. Or are they pretentious, and you're the misunderstood genius? I know I sound like an asshole, but this is way you're coming off.

>>11183747
Alright, let's have an actual discussion, sans namecalling and accusation. Can we do it?

>c-could you fet- *cough* f-fetch me my copy of Hamlet, dear anon? i-i'm afraid i don't have the strength to ge- *cough* get up anymore. l-let me r-read it one last time...

>>11036640
>Purpose of life is to raise consciousness level
ur not succeding

>>11026650
>God is dead, we have killed him (is calling us/modernity Talmudic.)

>>Wagner a best

We will anon, we will.