/lit/ - Literature

How much literature have you read?

>>2971767
i do not count the books i have read, but if you are interested i could make you a pic of my bookshelf... just the most recent ones there, the big part is on the attic.
mostly german literature

>>2971770

Do you usually read genre fiction?

Are you a native English speaker?

See if it improves by page 200. If not, it probably doesn't resonate with you (yet?). Make sure you are familiar with enough recent literary movements, it might just be flying over your head if you aren't.
What was your reaction to Pynchon?

>>2971774
no, this is probably the first one in that direction..
i just don't get the jumps between the chapters.
first he is in the tennis academy, then there is the part about buying dope.
is it the same person?
also what happened while hal was talking?

>>2971776
well i grew up talking german and english. however im reading a german translation, that seems to be quite well done.

>>2971777
ok, will do
> it might just be flying over your head if you aren't
that's what im concerned with

>>2971785
If at all possible read works in their native language. Especially DFW who is idiosyncratic even within literature of the US.

>>2971791
well maybe il get it in english too.

il post again when im on page 200

>>2971765

>last time i tried to talk about kafka and ppl were talking about cocks

I don't know why but this is the hardest I've laughed in a few days.

Thank you. Truly.

>>2971814
no problem anon :)
here a little part of the discussion

Blumenbach's German translation of IJ is quite accomplished, it has won him several prices. I don't think it is wrong to go with it.
As for the actual story: The beginning is confusing, because it introduces a lot of characters just by telling some event in their respective lives. So there's quite a lot of jumping in time (further obfuscated by the branded years) and not very much linking together. Later on, when most of the text is set in the "real time" of october/november, the relations beetween the characters are really easy to make out and it doesn't even matter that much whether you remember how they first appeared on p.122 (maybe telling a story of them ten years ago) or whatever.

>>2971826
thats the one i got.
thanks for your explenation!

reading that early annotation of all of hal's dads film work was fantastic. set me up for the rest of the book which I overall enjoyed

>>2971826
ps