/lit/ - Literature

Just wanted to be a man.

>>11467587
He had mentally ill relatives. It turns out insanity is genetic.

He liked to fish.

>>11467587

>I took a poo. She took a pee. It stopped raining.

10/10

>>11467595
kek

Why does his early work feel so jittery and frantic? I went from reading a comfy Dickens novel to this and I’m finding it quite jarring.

>>11467587
He was the first great writer to emerge post-Ulysses.

>>11467601
which dickens novel?

>>11467587
gay af

>>11467616

A Tale of Two Cities

>>11467623
any good?

>>11467661
did you not go to high school

Killed himself

>>11467665
not in the US, no. why the question?

>>11467587
Great man but more importantly a great American

>>11467677
Being a great man is more important than being a great American wtf

>>11467674
i'm pretty sure it's read in most english speaking countries

>>11467708
Crazy talk

>>11467713
Oh, ok. Not in my country, that's why I was curious about it.

>>11467713
Only Dickens I had to read in school in burger land was Great Expectations

>>11467729
What is your country if you don't mind?

>>11467746
Mexico.

>>11467748
yeah, that would do it lel
what do you all read in school?

>>11467587
He's trash. Only uncultured Americans with nothing to hang on to praise this guy.

>>11467751
he's better than whatever country you come from has produced pleb

>>11467750
Well, mostly Mexican and other Latin American lit. Pedro Páramo, The Mangy Parrot,The Underdogs, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, as well as classics and stuff like The Little Prince. It depened on how good or bad your teacher was.

>>11467772
>as well as classics and stuff like The Little Prince
Holy shit I had to read niggas like Turgenev, Balzac, Rabelais, Dante and Boccaccio, Tolstoy, Petrarca, mother fucking Moliere and Shakespeare and this bean comes in and says that. Some people have it too easy.

>>11467925
>as well as classics
Reading comprehension.

>>11467925
country?

>>11467925
>niggas like
It was all useless, it seems.

Minarets stuck up in the rain out of Adrianople across the mud flats. The carts were jammed for
thirty miles along the Karagatch road. Water buffalo and cattle were hauling carts through the
mud. No end and no beginning. Just carts loaded with everything they owned. The old men and
women, soaked through, walked along keeping the cattle moving. The Maritza was running yellow
almost up to the bridge. Carts were jammed solid on the bridge with camels bobbing along
through them. Greek cavalry herded along the procession. Women and kids were in the carts
crouched with mattresses, mirrors, sewing machines, bundles. There was a woman having a kid
with a young girl holding a blanket over her and crying. Scared sick looking at it. It rained all
through the evacuation.

>>11467980
>useless
either everything is useless or nothing is useless. either way, you have lots of learning to do and you always will have.

>>11467994
I was referring to your vocabulary.

>>11467587
benis

>>11468001
im not the guy you responded to

>>11467994
You mean "either everything is meaningless or nothing is meaningless"? what's the use have to do with anything?

>>11467661
I would recommend it. Be warned, the first few chapters are really difficult, so don’t get discouraged.

>>11467925
No you didn't.
Stop larping that youre better than others because you "read more in school".
Its just makes you sound like a neckbeard.
>>11467665
>>11467713
>>11467750
Case in point.

prefer maximalisr prose desu, dont rate him at all, like if my dad tried to write a book