/lit/ - Literature

>MUH WESTERN KENNAN
I'm not gonna read your fucking Bible and it's many fanfics cause that shit's retarded and irrelevant to me. Aristotle is based and redpilled though.

There are people on this board who haven’t read
>The annalects
>The Daodejing
>The Zhuangzi
>The Mengzi
>The book of odes
>The book of rites
>The book of changes
>The four great classic novels
>The scholars
>Jin Ping Mei
>The art of war
>The other works of the Canon of Strategy
>Spring and Autumn annals
This shit takes at most year to read and you can't expect others to take your opinions seriously if you haven't read it. This is the bare minimum required to be /lit/erate.

Mods, can we implement a system whereby you have to earn the right to post on /lit/ by passing a test on the above works?

Some chartfag, make a chart of this shit. Fellow patricians, shame anyone who hasn't read these works.

They seem pretty fucking boring besides Shakes, Pynchon, and Dubliners.

>>12742028
>The crying of lot 49
That one is a joke right OP?

>>12742028
>The Holy Bible
Was with you until this. I don't want to read desert Jew indoctrination manifesto.

>>12742150
All books are indoctrination.

>>12742156
But not all are Jew indoctrination.

>>12742159
Why do you hate Jews?

>>12742150
The Bible literally says Jews are children of the Devil, larpagan

>>12742163
Because the evidence is overwhelming.

>>12742028
But I want to read for fun, fun books like Frankenstein or The Savage Detectives or Inherent Vice. Can't I just have fun?

>>12742175
Reading isn't about having fun. If you read for fun, you're probably an incel, so forget fun. Your life is suffering. You need to become intimately acquainted with the classics so that you can write a book about your misery and, in 100 years, other incels can meme about your magnus opus on the contemporary equivalent of /lit/.

>>12742193
*magnum opus

>>12742028
>Joyce,Pynchon and Lolita/Pale Fire anong Shakespeare works and aristotle/plato.

Shows me how little of this you have read and are just naming shit out if your ass. Listing Paradise Lost among only fucking novels is that the only epic poem you know? Pathetic after Shakespeares works you go full psued, missing centries of works lmao.

(only reason I didnt list DFW was because he is a required read to be on this board as he is constantly brought up and is the ayn rand of todays age but not as autistic)

>>12742225
He lists 5 other epic poems (6 if you include Pale Fire)

>V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow
>Infinite Jest

Only absolute plebs (i.e. Americans) care about these.

>>12742273
No, postmodernists care about them, brainlet.

>>12742277
listing them among the rest of the shit he listed is a fucking meme and absolute psued shit lol

>>12742150
For its literary value, of course.
>>12742175
>implying The Bible isn't fun

>>12742028
Pale Fire isn't worth the read

>>12742409
kys my friend. :^)

>>12742409
>implying books have intrinsic value

>>12742413
well, Pale Fire sure doesn't

>>12742028
>>Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses
>>Lolita, Pale Fire
>>V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow
>>Infinite Jest

All negligible.

What an embarrassing thread.

>>12742491
Ulysses and Lolita/Pale Fire have literary value. The others are just burger wankery.

>>12742503
>Britbongs seething because US literature is actually decent unlike their purple prose

>>12742503
>>12742514
brit literature < us literature <<<<<< anything else

>>12742514
Wrong on all accounts. I'm not bong and I'm not seething. But if Infinite Jest counts as literary then so does Ulysses.

>>12742028
>>The Canterbury Tales
>>Shakespeare's works
>>Paradise Lost
>>Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses
>>Lolita, Pale Fire
>>V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow
>>Infinite Jest
A nice display of your cultural limitations. Every single one of these half-relevant faggots is an *nglo. Of them, only Shakespeare and Joyce, and maybe Milton, are truly relevant to the art of literature. If you wanted good to this board, you'd propose more important but less memetic works, and seek to expand people's horizons rather than focus them even more on the circlejerk that this board is.
>This shit takes at most year to read
If you read well and carefully, no.

>>12742608
/thread

>>12742608
>Implying the non-Anglos on /lit/ have any choice but to submit to the Anglo canon
>Implying your shitty cultures are relevant

>>12742608
This.