/lit/ - Literature

>>8832549
What's it about. Honestly curious

>>8832570
It's just a shlocky romance novel.

>>8832540
Is he being raped, what the hell?

>>8832630
Given that it's Kierkegaard book, I would say that's the most likely chain of events, yes.

>As I Lay Dying
>Things Fall Apart
>All Quiet On The Western Front

The Grapes of Wrath
Journey to the End of the Night
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Nausea

>>8832540

The Sound and The Fury

>>8832570
definitely this.

it's a short story title but I always liked "A Warning to the Curious".

A lot of Nietzche's works have great titles.

the way of all flesh

>>8832686
if I ever release an album as a mysterious, spooky folk artist Im gonna name it "Twilight of the Idols"

Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman

>>8832630
that's abraham's son desu read your bible

>>8832540
>>8832646
>>8832668
desu I kind of hate titles that are just quoting something famous. I guess it's easy and effective to use words that already carry resonance, but it seems like such a masturbatory thing to do, like the author is trying to show off how well read they are or implying their book is the equal of whatever great work they're quoting.

>nobody mentions the greatest sounding title ever given to any unworthy book
Absalom, Absalom!

Siddhartha

>Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
>Bottom's Dream
>Infinite Jest
>The Divine Comedy
>In Search of Lost Time

>>8832686
This, Nietzsche, you gotta have the full titles

Untimely Meditations

Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

The Dawn: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

Twilight of the Idols, or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer

Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is

The Sun Also Rises

>>8834079
>>8832646
>>8832668
Fucking Faulknerfags. Those titles are shit,

>>8834346
The Sound and the Fury is an amazing title, easily top 5 Shakespeare lines

>>8834346
Hemingwayfag detected.

>>8834288
Tell me this, is it it The Sun ALSO Rises or The Sun Also RISES?

>>8834346
Gee I wonder who could be behind this post

>>8834435
I too want to know this

Not fiction, but Hell in a Very Small Place is a great title.

>>8832630
how can somebody not know what that's depicting

>>8834435
>>8834451
I scan it as, the SUN also RIses

>>8834037
(But this transparent thingum does require
Some moondrop title. Help me Will! Pale Fire.)

>>8834037
Hrs quoting the Bible, it's not that masturbatory, most people at least have a passing familiarity with the bible

>>8832630
>being this ignorant of your cultural tradition

burn the west desu

(it's the binding of isaac, you modernist)

>The Things They Carried

>The Wasp Factory

>Legends of the Fall

How Green Was My Valley
Women and Men
Blood Meridian
In the Beauty of the Lilies (a quote)
Lost in the Funhouse
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

I know some are memes, but those are great titles.

>>8834472
What I mean is, is it like 1) my dick rises, so does the sun, or 2) the sun sets, it also rises?

>>8834435
Emphasis on also. It isn't rare to remark on the sun rising, it is rare for that to be a secondary element

>Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?
>Dreams in the Witch House
>In Praise of Shadows
>An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
>Pricksongs and Descants
>Suicide

>>8834514
Wasp Factory is such a good fucking title

>>8834550
This. The epigraph clears it up.

"One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh;
but the earth abideth forever . . . the sun also ariseth, and the
sun goeth down, and hasteth to the place where he arose . . .
The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the
north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again
according to his circuits. . . . All the rivers run into the sea; yet
the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come,
tither they return again.

>>8834629
No, that proves it's The Sun Also RISES. The Sun ALSO Rises implies there's something else that rises.

>>8832930
>>8834460
>>8834498
>MY cultural tradition is SO great, EVERYONE needs to be familiar with not only its primary texts, but also EVERY derivative depiction of them from the last 2000 years

>>8832630
Are you young or just confused?

>>8834702
I instantly knew when I saw the cover.

My Twisted World

>>8832686
Birth of Tragedy is nice one too

>>8834729
Yeah, but you're the kind of unbearable cunt the brings up the fact that they studied late Renaissance art to strangers on the internet so...

>>8834729
good for you

>>8834656
The sun rises and falls like generations come and go; by saying also, there's an implied comparison between the two.

>>8834753
I've only studied early Renaissance art and I still knew what it was.

>>8832630
Cmon man that's fuckin isaac

>Blood Meridian
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>The Savage Detectives
>If on a winter's night a traveler
>Fictions
>Songs of a Dead Dreamer
>The Stranger
>No Country for Old Men

>>8834752
But that title is incorrect. It should have be named "Birth of Melodrama".

>Gold Hatted Gatsby

>>8834628
Good book too

>>8832540

The Sound and the Fury

The Premature Burial
Poe

>The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories

>>8832540

Notes from the Underground

>>8834753
>>8834754
>being proud of ignorance

>>8835569
tingle is GOAT for romance titles

>The Catcher in the Rye
>Naked Lunch
>Waiting for Godot
>Ada, or Ardor
>The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

>>8832540
>The Chapters of Coming Forth by Day
>He Who Saw the Deep
>Iliad
>Seven Against Thebes

>>8834435
It's Fiesta you fuckin pseuds

>>8834629
I just started reading Earth Abides, coincidentally.

The Man Who Was Thursday

Stoner.

>>8832540
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>>8835925
DUDE

Every Time We Meet at the Dairy Queen, Your Whole Fucking Face Explodes

>>8834498
Where's mom's knife?

>>8834702
it's one of the most famous stories from one of the most famous books in the world. This is a literature board. kys

>>8834438
kek

>>8837867
I know the story fuck sake, I don't know the painting.

>>8832540
Your diary, edsu.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude"

>>8837640
WEED

Kafka just has the best titles
Take for example 'Die Verwandlung', it immediately raises questions in the readers head. Like, who is this Verwandlung guy? And why on EARTH does somebody want him DEAD?

>>8835569
>google search
>amazon page
>256 customer reviews, 4.3/5 stars
>about a billionaire who can turn into a bear falling in love with a self insert fat woman

>>8834514
Despite it being key to the great title, the literal wasp factory in the story is so fucking stupid it almost spoils the whole book

>>8832630
....
/lit/ in a nutshell

>>8834702
>One of the most important elements of the most important book in the West
>The most well-known visual depiction of the scene
Funny thing is?
I bet you can name 15-20 anime characters on sight, right?

>>8837932
Nice repost, faggot
>>/lit/?task=search2&ghost=&search_text=verwandlung+guy&search_subject=&search_username=&search_tripcode=&search_email=&search_filename=&search_datefrom=&search_dateto=&search_op=all&search_del=dontcare&search_int=dontcare&search_ord=new&search_capcode=all&search_res=post

>>8838101
Can't even tell if you're new or just dumb

>>8834052
>Dostoyevsky reads Hegel and burst into treats

>>8834435
Tell me this, is it it The Fire ALSO Rises or The Fire Also RISES?

>>8834753
No, you're the kind of cunt that thinks somebody can recognize an extremely famous painting only if they've specifically studied it in school.

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

>>8834972
>>Fictions
Love the book, but this is a shit lazy ass title.

>We, The Drowned
>The Plague
>The Book of the New Sun
>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

>>8837916
LMAO

>>8832540
I cried when I read this.

>>8839633
Yeah I thought it was pretty funny too

>>8832738
thats already a black metal album senpai

This is the best title I can think of

>>8834702
This mongoloid is so insecure she gets angry when she sees something she doesn't recognize.

>>8840043
Goddamnit then Im gonna name it dithyrambs

>>8840051
This is a pretty okay book, couldn't grasp any deeper meaning tho

>>8840069
It doesn't have deeper meanings I think...

songs of ice and fire

>>8840085
Was reading my coursebook for poetry 101 the other day and found out that it's actually named after a robert frost poem.

>>8834753
I have never taken a course in art and have never seen the full painting and I knew that it depicted the binding of Isaac. your just a fucking retard.

>>8834805

Invisible Man

>>8840807
The native son

>>8840090
Well, which it's it then?
Fire or ice?

>>8832540
Neuromancer.

>>8834435
THE Sun Also Rises.

>>8832540
Men among the Ruins
Mediations upon the Peaks

>>8840054
>she

>>8834284
>the divine comedy
>not understanding that this is a very literal description of the genre of the book

>>8834702
t. mad non-western shitskin

Your culture is inferior.

>Where did you come from?
>Where did you go?
>Where did you come from, Cotton-Eyed Joe?

>>8834287
>Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is
My favourite.

>>8841127
<3 Evola

>The Fifth Head of Cerberus
>The Map and the Territory
>England's Hidden Reverse
>A Confederacy of Dunces
>Demons

>>8840051
but... there are a lot of prime numbers.
Why are they alone?

>>8832540
I've always had a thing for those American pomo titles that the mind struggles to parse for a moment:

Lookout Cartridge
A Smuggler's Bible
Omensetter's Luck
The Recognitions
Mao II
Hind's Kidnap
Pricksongs and Descants
The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh Proprietor

All right, the last few are not very good examples of that failure to grasp the meaning, just that they have this uncanny feeling that wows the mind.

>>8838093
You're saying that like its a big thing. Seriously, watch like three anime and if your memory is not complete dog shit you should be able to name that many on site.

The Book of Disquiet - Pessoa

The Power Of One - Courtenay

In my fathers den - Gee

Tea and Sympathy - Anderson

The Remains of The Day - Ishiguro

The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Campbell

>>8841469
Please, it's never too late to stop
For your own good
There are good things in life also, don't let the bad things win over
Call your friends or most likely your family members and meet up with them
If you don't feel like doing that, call 18002738255
Happiness is not unreachable, it is just a state of mind
t. other

naked lunch is a good title

The Sublime Object of Ideology.

>>8841226
"Comedy" didn't necessarily connote humor until 19th or 20th century. A comedy is really anything that isn't a tragedy.

>>8835231
What? Why?

>>8838204
Yeah I don't know what happened to the image.

>>8838101
>repost
Fuuuuuck you

>>8842595
That's his point, you silly person

Bump

Some short story titles for y'all.

Alistair MacLeod
>The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
>The Vastness of the Dark

Richard Ford
>Under The Radar

Alice Munro
>Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
>Friend of My Youth
>Tell Me Yes Or No
>Dance of the Happy Shades

Flannery O'Connor
>Everything That Rises Must Converge
>The Lame Shall Enter First

Hemingway
>Hills Like White Elephants
>On The Quay At Smyrna
>The Three-Day Blow

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

>God-tier titles
>all this non-Biblical stuff
>nothing new under the sun.asc

>>8840807
>bought this in 5th grade because I thought it was about an invisible superhero

>>8842924
What point, you retard. Also his post wasn't even relevant to the post he was replying to in the first place. And I get a feeling him is actually (You).

>>8844099
Should've bought the H. G. Wells one

>>8840892
looks alot like the kafka the trial cover on the one they had at my hs

>>8832630
To all the folks surprised he doesn't know
If you've never read the bible and weren't raised by religious parents, how are you supposed to know any of that shit(me)?

>>8844309
You're supposed to know that shit by reading the bible, dumshit

>>8842155
gb2 tumblr you insufferable prick

I don't even watch that much anime and that you were moved to such a foul cloying sort of pity post just fires me up! I hate kids like you, I really do

No longer human

>>8832674
Yeah that's a god-tier title.

>>8844099

But it is, anon. 2deep4u

Not the same guy, but I didn't know what the painting in OPs pic was in reference to. I know the story, but never saw the painting and am not interested in paintings in general so there's no reason for me to see it. I don't get why it's weird to not know a painting on the literature board.

A cup of rage

Bump

>>8844760
Gee, thanks

>>8846514
Yeah i was just curious why everyone was freaking out. Not everyone is interested in the bible...

>>8834514
Too bad that The Things They Carried is mostly BS.

undisputed champ

>>8832630
Here you go for the cringe thread.

>>8834377
Do we still hate him, or has he redeemed himself?

>>8837879
there is no famous painting you idiot. that's the book cover.

>>8835668
>The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
that's not even the real title tho

>>8834435
in the Ecclesiastic poem the emphasis is on also, but I'd like to imagine it said in a soft monotone voice, as like a piece of punctuation, to remind a drunken Bill early in the morning that life isn't really so bad.

>>8832540
You want God tier titles, go look up Carlton Mellick III

With such books as:

The Baby Jesus Butt Plug: A Fairytale
Sex and Death in Television Town
The haunted vagina
War slut
The faggiest vampire
The Kobold Wizard's Dildo of Enlightenment +2

>>8834702
You seriously need to kys,you cosmopolitan wastlander,even our culture is familiar with it despite of a non western non christian one.

>>8837932
>misusing the term 'Kafkaesque'
every time

>>8849410
>Taking a meme sincerely
every time

>>8849410

>>8847941
>>8846514
Because of christian education.

>>8846514
Because the book is also just a 200 page essay on Abraham and Isaac

>>8849429
that's why the DFW .gif is there yes, you are very astute

A Little Lumpen Novelita
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Hitler Homer Bible Christ
The Metaphysics of War
Jackboot Girls
Desolation Angels
White Stains
No

Fear and Trembling
The Sickness unto Death
From the Papers of One Still Living
The Changelessness of God

"My diary, desu"