/lit/ - Literature

post*

no i meant *most

This is going to be a long thread

I don't think that can be done in a single thread anon

comfy pic of bernhard

the boys

>>11898654
Not with that attitude anon

>>11898736
absolute madman

>>11898736
DORF

>>11898736
I only recognize Vonnegut. Who else?

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>>11899184
Beckett's face was so remarkable. It's one of those faces you encounter sometimes in real life and the person just seems like a living TV character. You almost can't take them seriously when they're pissed off and yelling at you, their faces getting redder and redder, their fists clenching and shaking at you violently. You'd get off on it if you didn't have to report to a higher up who will undoubtedly be requested by the increasingly angry, reddening, clenching face that you can't even believe in. And when they finally do ask for the manager and you leave and return with them after waiting patiently for a few moments, your hands at your waist like some helpless child, so that you can tear the manager away from whatever other customer grievance they're attempting to alleviate, the unbelievable, ever reddening, ever clenching face just repeats louder and more violently the unnaturally cruel abuse it had just suffered, pointing at you with a stern hand. The manager, just trying to get through the day, does what they can in the form of coupons materialized from one of those coin purse fanny packs and promises of free meals upon their return.
"But," the manager is forced to conclude. "We are unfortunately out of double stuffed slammin' cheesy breadsticks."

>>11899167
Williams Gass and Gaddis, giants of pomo and overall some of the best writers ever

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I have an image of Kant without a wig.

>>11899285
Barthelme too

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>>11899391

Burroughs fucking sucks. Next.

>>11899399
You fucking suck.

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>>11899399
b[um]mer. burroughs-posting is cancelled, i guess

>>11899599
They look like demons.

>>11899603
Jews, pardon the redundancy.

>>11898736
holy shit

>>11899167
Barth and Barthelme as well

Great thread

>>11899777
>picture of two jews by a jew
Off the board now.

>>11898736
the fucking autism in this photo

>>11899864
stop posting this it makes me too sad

>>11898667
Kike
>>11899094
Homosexual
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>>11899305
Pseud, not /lit/ either
>>11899362
Homosexual scum but /lit/ photograph

>>11899883
join us..

>>11899883
how is dfw not /lit/

>>11898736
I only recognize Vonnegut and Barthelme :(

Can someone photoshop in the labels for everyone else? Especially wondering who is the guy cosplaying Joyce...

Barth in the beret, right. Looks taller than I'd have guessed.

>>11899907
He is a poser. Like that one thread said contrasting him with Cardinal Sarah, saying DFW goes for the scragily look to fit in with the kids. The end result is pathetic, not cool.

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>>11899924
So... have you read any of his books?

>>11899924
how is he not /lit/
because i can tell you le based black pope is not /lit/

>>11899924
>He is a poser
Literally the opposite of true.

>>11899858
>>11899934

Caption:
>now bend over, will you boy?

>>11898736
if you don't recognize at least 6 people from this photo then go away and don't return.

>>11899233
#suicidesquad

>>11898394
*lost

>>11898717
fuckin pynchonnnnn

>>11899285
Reminder that we never got a sticky for gass

Pretty sure this is the only picture I've seen him smiling in

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>>11899871

Mishima's meme faces are very underrated.

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>>11900161
>bunch of Ameritrash pomo gibberish "writers"
Yawn.

>>11899167
Leave

>>11899599
Imagine being their waiter

>>11900811
Both Sollers and Guyotat are overrated, desu. Still a good pic.

>>11901420
americans invented english what do you expect u cunt

>>11898736
>Barth looks like Barthelme's young, autistic brother
>even their names look alike
huh
Also, I have reasons to believe that that woman besides the Gassman is actually the Pyncher in a drag

>>11899758
That's a very rare Debord

>>11901420
stick with bible

>>11902126
How about you start making use of this invention, you rancid pleb?

>>11902180
dont respond to my posts ever again u british retard

>>11899167
Barthelme, Barth, Abish, Coover, Vonnegut, Gaddis, Gass

>>11898736
What interests us is what we don’t see:
the unapparent, the work that goes into a thing
before it is broken. Consider William Gaddis
crouched into the shape of a penguin,
likely drunk in the late gray afternoon,
a draft of Carpenter’s Gothic on his desk at home.
Did he speak of Muriel as he ate, who
in some other Village bar contemplated
the first years of a love she’d come to think of
as “a mere decade alcoholic haze?”
What letters did he carry in his jacket,
& from whom? & what of Pynchon’s absence,
the unseen man who’d been accused
of not existing? “Somewhere between coasts,”
he’d written, if indeed it’d been his hand
that signed the note. At dinner someone
must’ve glanced across their meal at Gaddis
& wondered, Could he’ve pulled it off?
In the photograph, Pilar & Shelly lean easily
against the wall as their husbands shift
weight from one heel to the other,
positioning themselves to appear comfortable
in the face of eternity. Consider them:
the Gasses, Hawks & Coovers, Barthelmes
& Abishes, Gaddis & Vonnegut, standing
naked & old in front of their closets,
selecting this white shirt, those gray slacks,
the long black skirt draped like a shadow
among its mates; how arbitrary is history.
Just months before, Steven Moore
suggested that Pynchon was “a pseudonym
for Gaddis!” He’d called it a rumor,
but still he’d said it. & then in April,
Wanda Tinasky’d claimed, though she herself
had been a prank, “the novels of William Gaddis
& Thomas Pynchon were written
by the same person.” Years later the typewriter
on which the Tinasky letters were written
would be discovered in the barn of a failed writer
who’d killed his wife & then himself,
but for now these letters added another layer
to the myth of Pynchon’s living ghost.
How many times had even Barthelme seen
his friend in the flesh, or was this famous dinner
organized to draw out the game, the man,
& catch him in a snapshot for the world?
Maybe Barthelme, too, had begun to pull the string
To what extent can any of us know our friends?
Beside Vonnegut, who stands behind the rest
as though on a horse, a point of light exerts itself
from between a tuft of leaves. It is 1983
& Postmodernism has been supplanted
by Minimalism. How appropriate then,
that this single point of light be representative
of the missing man, the shadow, the private eye.

>>11902239
oh and Hawkes

>>11899599
yootoobers, podcasters, self-help gurus and a guy with a bad haircut.
These will truly be remembered as patrons of our nascent, new world culture.

Based and redpilled

>>11902160
cioran
>>11902081
>guyotat is overrated
not outside academia

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>>11899871
He was such a qt. I have too many photos of Mishima. I might have a problem.

If you reply to this, he will sue you from beyond the grave.

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>>11899391
good to know burroughs immediately clenches the trigger of every gun he's handed. wonder how he "accidentally" shot his wife

>>11903974
never heard that one

>>11903967
Dr Ellison, sorry that I kept confusing you with Bret Easton Ellis for whatever reason.

>>11898736
>Poking fun at midgets.
>being this much of a bigot

Remind me to never read this dude.

>>11899239
Underrated. Detailed and winding. Funny.

>>11902250
Also underrated. Human. Almost touching.

>>11903976
What? You've never heard that it was an accident or you never even heard that he shot his wife in the face?

>>11904131
the joke

>>11901329
This is a pretty good Yaranaika face>>11899871.

>>11903909
do cloud upload for us?

>>11899367
hahahah fucking hell. this is a good one. source? any context?

>>11899871
Holy shit, Tao Lin

>>11905276
man, in some pics cortázar looks as feline as a human can
>>11905236
sorry, don't have any of those, just a pic i've seen a couple times

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>>11905236
the context for any pic of Burroughs with any weapon is "he was an absolute madman"

how do i get into gaddis and gass?

>>11906913
>gaddis
Just straight up read The Recognitions. The references really aren't too important and I feel it's best to read Gaddis in release order
>gass
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and On Being Blue are good places to get his style

I mean...

>>11906786
I didn’t realize there was a screencap from that interview I hadn’t seen yet

>>11906871
He’s just working on his aim

>>11907392
Heh

>>11899599
If you don't know at least eight people in this pic gtfo and don't come back

What would you do to her?

>>11901335
best thread

>>11907591
>ywn kiss her feet

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>>11907591
apologise on the behalf of men

>>11907591
tell her to stop wasting Ted Hughes' time and fuck off already

>>11907604
go kermit

>>11898736
This is a beautiful picture. Gass looks so happy to be hanging out with his buddy ;___;
This is a really good example of prep clothing as well. Everything good about AMERICA.

>>11905285
KINOQ

>>11898736
Oh how the world has changed

>>11908954
Surprised I've never seen this

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>>11910059
BBBBRRRAAAAAAAPPPPPPPP

>>11908954
For some reason this image fills me with a fundamental sadness. I think it's because I read Pound's letters from later in life.

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>>11907541

Last Celine image for now

>>11905295
THICC

Cees Nooteboom, Harry Mulisch, Hugo Claus

>>11907599
Who is the best author in the pic?

>>11899841
>Loomis

Was his whole high culture act just a way of compensating for the shame of belonging to a family of hated, horse-thieving degenerates?

>>11899871
A sad, closeted cuck who felt so inferior before Christianity that he tried to fashion Hirohito into Japanese Jesus.

>>11910514
You've never read any of his work.

>>11910776
lmao

>>11910514
>inferior before Christianity

>>11902160
Is that fatso really Cioran? More like ciolan*!

*the joke only works in Romanian

>>11903978
Tbqh I do that too anon. There's just something about Ellis that makes you want to make it into Ellison, it feels unfinished as a name.

>>11910059
Top kek is that really him?

>>11910858
>rare photo of Dante

rare pic of socrates alive..

>>11910872
hehe

>>11907599
>Gass looks, ironically, like a gastrointestinal infection
>Has the most attractive wife by far
huh

>>11908954
Name their stances