/lit/ - Literature

Art is what you make of it desu famjam

>>10368930
Art is what it... makes you, bro ;)

>>10368748
>doesn't think non-fiction is also fictional, it's just "what happened/is happening" from one stoned ass dude's wacky perspective.

>>10368748
Ye man, poetics is key.

>>10368748
Fiction is superior. Non-fiction is simply not capable of translating the human experience on to the page. If you want to read about history and dry facts or ideas then non-fiction is better, if you want to truly experience the highs and lows of life, if you want to truly be affected by a book, then fiction is the way to go.

>>10368956
burh

>>10368748
Fiction is more real than non-fiction.

>"I'm an intellectual"
>reads prose
Wew

>I'm an intellectual
>hates Trump with a passion

>>10369013
>if you want to experience the highs and lows of life
If you want to experience the highs and lows of life, then live your fucking life. Books are for information and analysis, non-fiction is clearly superior.

>>10368748
This, fiction plebs are escapists with no life who hide from the real world. Non fiction chads embrace life and seek to learn everything about life so they can maximize their enjoyment of it.

>actually thinking of and calling oneself an intellectual

>>10369013
>>10369985
non-fiction with superb style is obviously the best
>literally everyone from antiquity
>Samuel Johnson
>Henry Miller
the list goes on...

>>10368958
>thinks that non-fiction means "Noam Chomsky"

>>10369990
Non-fiction is good but this is a stupid opinion and outs you as pleb who doesn't understand the true value of literature

>>10368748
>tfw this was me unironically until I went to uni

But your distinction is vague. Is the Book of Disquiet fiction or non-fiction?

>>10369990
>fiction is worthless boilerplate for pleb escapists, reading only non-fiction is the mark of a true brainiac

>"I'm an intellectual."
>reads anything that I dont

>>10370403
>>10368958
>absolutely rekt

>"I'm an intellectual."
>reads

If someone says about himself that he's an intellectual, he's not.

is philosophy fiction or not?

paradoxically, it is easier to convey a particular idea from the real world through a well crafted fictional story than through the veracious relation of a real happening.

>>10368748
Why are nonfiction readers on /lit/ so proud of their philistinism? They're probably all Americans.

>"I am an intellectual"
>Thinks that beautiful prose and entertaining stories are any less important than profundity.

>"I am an intellectual"
>Does not furiously masturbate to cuckold porn

>>10368748
>"I am an intellectual"

>>10369985
>Reading is not part of living your life

Woah... really deep philosophy there brah...

>''I'm an intellectual''
>posts on 4chan.org/lit/

>>10368748

>>10369013
get an audio book of "The Lost Warriors of God: The True History of the Knights Templar" by Thomas F. Madden its better than a lot of fiction I have seen

>"I am an intellectual"
>reads instead of using more optimal methods of consuming maximum amount of data