/lit/ - Literature

Themselves.

>>11637622

the writer of my diary

do you really need to ask?

>>11637622
Please stop doing this.

>>11637622
Nietzsche
Pynchon
Dostoevsky
DFW

>he's an anarcho-masochist creating a theme park for psychopaths...completely obsessed with malicious sorcery to cast spells on other members of the Social Sciences in an attempt to sicken or kill them in the hopes of magically stealing their possessions, especially their crops. Hopefully he’s wearing his magic underpants...

>>11637630
Everyone here seems to hate him now

>>11637638
they're just being ironic anon yeesh learn to read sarcasm

>>11637622
Probably Dostoyevsky. The meme author is DFW though.

>>11637622
Shakespeare or Dosto

pynchon
mccarthy

the bloom picks basically

dfw is too divisive. his work is just tangential to the culture here. doesn't quite hit the mark in terms of focus

>>11637622
Pessoa

>>11637895
Where do you start with this dude? The Book of Disquiet sounds utterly lachrymose

>>11637630
I knew we secretly loved John Green this whole time.

>>11637622
MNM-DR

Jordan Peterson.

>>11637630
Arrogant child of two wealthy professors with no real talent. He's actually among the most hated authors here.
DFW is exemplifies that connections and wealth open more doors than actual talent. The only morons who unironically like DFW are those who incapable of forming opinions for themselves. Often professors suggest Infinite Jest to such impressionable minds, hailing DFW as some sort of "creative writing genius" and these students go home, look it up and read the esteemed opinions of book critics which reinforces their in their mind "this is is some good literature!". This is their thinking: '[seemingly] big brains like it ergo I like it ergo I'm a big brain!'.
You criticize the Infinite Jest or Saint Wallace, they go berserk. They cannot handle it so resort to ad hominems or appeals to their authority of having an undergraduate education.

>>11637622
Joyce, probably. Safe bet.

>>11637902
alvaro de campos is all that matters

>>11637862
>>11638040
Yeah these probably, and Dante

>>11637862
This

Homer, Shakespeare and Joyce, you will not find anyone on /lit/ ever criticizing any of them.

>>11638542
how nu r u?

>>11637622
Cernovich

>>11638542
I have some issues with Joyce - mainly Finnegan.

>>11637622
Beloved for me = Orwell, Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Dumas. So many fond memories surrounding them and reading - devouring - their books in my more tender years, having my imagination jolted into distant realms, comforting me from the horrible tempests of my family life.

Tao Lin obviously

Vonnegut

>>11638916
>Being this much of a pleb
Sniffer of carrion, premature gravedigger, seeker of the nest of evil in the bosom of a good word, you, who sleep at our vigil and fast for our feast, you with your dislocated reason, have cutely foretold, a jophet in your own absence, by blind poring upon your many scalds and burns and blisters, impetiginous sore and pustules, by the auspices of that raven cloud, your shade, and by the auguries of rooks in parlament, death with every disaster, the dynamatisation of colleagues, the reducing of records to ashes, the levelling of all customs by blazes, the return of a lot of sweetempered gunpowdered didst unto dudst but it never stphruck your mudhead's obtundity (O hell, here comes our funeral! O pest, I'll miss the post!) that the more carrots you chop, the more turnips you slit, the more murphies you peel, the more onions you cry over, the more bullbeef you butch, the more mutton you crackerhack, the more potherbs you pound, the fiercer the fire and the longer your spoon and the harder you gruel with more grease to your elbow the merrier fumes your new Irish stew.

>>11638542
slight edit: *adequately* criticizing

>>11639385
Terrible technique, faggot is going to get carpal tunnel

Bible writer

>>11637634
>>11637699
>>11637862
Where are these Dostoyevsky shills coming from? This is a Tolstoy board.

>>11640448
Not really
https://www.strawpoll.me/11941559/r

>>11640448
/lit/ has always been full of dosto plebs. Every second Tolstoy thread is full to the brim of "but it's boring" or "but anna was just a dumb slut" posts

>>11637932
nice!

>>11639699
It's actually FW you fool