/lit/ - Literature

only five (5) days until this wins the 2019 booker prize

>>13962029
>every single line starts with “the fact that”, it’s a 1000 page long sentence
>DUDE I LOVE EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE

>This is, in short, an inadequately self-referential narrative, or, to put it the other way around, a narrative inadequately sealed off from references to the conditions of its production.

http://www.librarything.com/work/22840316/reviews

>>13962029
Shit is still shit even if it's shit ironically.

>>13962059
Jim Elkins goes hard.

>And Enard, too: I think of his books as catnip for a certain kind of reader overawed by historical allusions. I think I compared "Zone" to George Steiner. In December I'm off to Amsterdam partly for a conference on Sebald: an author who is interesting for many reasons but enormously overvalued by academics who recognize an ideal version of their erudition and a safe sort of melancholy.

>>13962085
>I think of his books as catnip for a certain kind of reader overawed by historical allusions.
/lit/ should eat this shit right up then

>>13962029
cool ad bro but u forgot that women can't write for shit so unless you want 1000 pages of female drivel projectile vomited into your eyes you'd be wise to chuck this waste of paper into a very large fire.

>>13962029
I read an interview with her. she’s a whiny legbeard.
1000 pages of ‘men suck, they should be trying harder to make my life easier’ doesn’t sound even remotely appealing to me

>>13962045

There was too much backlash when Milkman won because plebs found it too hard, so Ducks definitely won't win.

>>13962957
Milkman didn't get a lot of backlash though. It was immediately praised for being topical and sold better than a book of that type would normally.

>>13962085
Enard works are on a spectrum. On the far end of what that reviewer talks about, Compass, which is barely a novel; to the opposite extreme, Street of Thieves is practically a classic Victorian-style yarn.

>>13962029
Cringe

Stop shilling your book here Lucy

Does anyone know if there is an ebook available somewhere? The usual sources don't turn up anything.

>>13963655
https://www60.zippyshare.com/v/8wSDwdta/file.html

>>13962029
No way, she's the daughter of the guy who wrote that famous Joyce biography?? Okay, now you have my attention.

>>13963699
Thanks. Can't wait to be disappointed.

>Let's all do a LARP that we live a hundred years ago and trite stale ideas are new and exciting
I hate the world and I hate you vapid cunts

>>13963936
It's a literary technique.

>>13962810
nigga shut the fuck up