/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12355059]

>who's your favorite female author /lit/?

[Anonymous No.12355069]

Wisława Szymborska

[Anonymous No.12355090]

>>12355059
Lispector.

[Anonymous No.12355119]

It's predictable but I gotta go Woolf

[Anonymous No.12355124]

>>12355090
thats not even a picture of clarice lispector

[Anonymous No.12355145]

>>12355059
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden aka Robin Hobb.

[Anonymous No.12355156]

Mary Beard

[Anonymous No.12355163]

[Anonymous No.12355165]

I have never read a book by a female so I'd probably lie and say the first thing that comes to mind, like Woolf or Plath or Austen or something

[Anonymous No.12355178]

Dickinson.

[Anonymous No.12355182]

>>12355059

[Anonymous No.12355189]

<3

[Anonymous No.12355191]

>>12355059
Rosa Luxemburg

[Anonymous No.12355225]

>>12355059
Alexandra Kollontai

[Anonymous No.12355231]

>>12355191
Based and redpilled.

[Anonymous No.12355277]

Savitri Devi

[Anonymous No.12355280]

Emily Brontë

[Anonymous No.12355281]

Woolf

[Anonymous No.12355285]

>>12355059

[Anonymous No.12355587]

>>12355069
Shes fucking shit in writing pseudopost modern insufferable poetic shit. Although i had a pleasure meeting her 14 or 15 years ago in Cracow near muzeum narodowe - charming personality she had.

[Anonymous No.12355593]

>>12355059
I don’t have one, I never read anything by a woman.

[Anonymous No.12355609]

>>12355059
Emily Dickinson btfos most American poets. Pic related.

[Anonymous No.12355610]

>>12355059
The one who wrote Wuthering Heights

[Anonymous No.12355613]

>>12355059
The best.

[Anonymous No.12355618]

blixen

[Anonymous No.12355640]

[Anonymous No.12355680]

>>12355609
That’s beautiful, but I have no idea what it’s supposed to mean

[Anonymous No.12355887]

I would likely stutter, desperately try to remember the last female author I read, then blurt out pic related because I read the mouse books as a kid.

[Anonymous No.12356030]

Edith Hamilton, although I am a thorough misogynist when it comes to the arts, politics and sciences. Places in which women fail miserably and drag everyone down. The places they thrive are nursing, child education, and homemaking.

[Anonymous No.12356066]

>>12355124
So? Sue me.

[Anonymous No.12356081]

>>12355163

[Anonymous No.12356084]

Immanuela Kant. She was a real qt

[Anonymous No.12356095]

Evelyn Waugh

[Anonymous No.12356102]

>>12356066
that's a big owl

[Anonymous No.12356110]

>>12355609
I'm convinced that she's the one of the greatest poets to have ever lived. Anyone who doesn't at least place her in the top 3 is wrong.

[Anonymous No.12356114]

ines arredondo

[Anonymous No.12356117]

>>12355680
I believe that's Emily expressing that beauty is the virtue of women and truth that of men and that they are only different in name for they are virtues all the same. But that's just my interpretation.

[Anonymous No.12356133]

>>12356102
For you.

[Anonymous No.12356146]

>>12356117
More or less. Although there's nothing there that suggests it's a gendered issue. I think the core argument is that rationalism and romanticism are two sides of the same coin.

[Anonymous No.12356169]

>>12355059
I read many of her books when I was in high school.

[Anonymous No.12356181]

>>12356146
That makes more sense; I was approaching it from the idea that this was Emily reaffirming herself as a poetess whose works could compare to any man's, considering the time period and all. Even then, that was probably just a result of me applying a contemporary filter; your interpretation seems far more logical.

[Anonymous No.12356205]

Emily Dickinson

[Anonymous No.12356243]

>>12356181
I'm always hesitant to apply a modern/feminist interpretation to a female author unless they explicitly associate themselves with feminist values. I'm a feminist myself and even I know applying that framework to everything is short-sighted.

Dickinson is one of those writers whose womanhood is largely a non-factor in her writing. Honestly, I'd be surprised if she even associated herself with femininity in the conventional sense due to how much of a social outcast she was.

[Anonymous No.12356293]

>>12355059
Dead - Woolf
Alive - Annie Proulx

[« ƸЖƷ » No.12356341]

Can’t pick a single favorite. I’ll just mention a few that are missing thus far

Ursula k. Le Guin, Tove Jansson and Marguerite Yourcenar

[Anonymous No.12356352]

Hes using tanning lotion and he bought an italian 3piece suit with patreon money, what a guy.

[Anonymous No.12356366]

>>12356030
Lol for a second I thought you wrote Edith Templeton and
>a thorough misogynist when it comes to the arts, politics and sciences
made sense. Turns out you read children's books though so n/m

[Anonymous No.12356390]

>>12356243
Fuckin THIS. What’s the deal with women claiming literally EVERY historically noteworthy woman as a feminist? They absolutely weren’t, even Susan B Anthony was pro-life and the early feminists pushed for alcohol prohibition. It’s like they have to grasp so hard to make their movement seem important when it isn’t.

[Anonymous No.12356401]

I post /ourgirl/ Pizarnik because that's the only one that comes to my head when I read the OP. I don't even like poetry that much, even though hers lingers on me like cigarette smoke on your clothes whenever I read her.
It's sad that my book collection is such a sausage fest. But who can blame me for not seeking female writers when Isabel Allende is around.

[« ƸЖƷ » No.12356411]

>>12356243
A Room of Ones Own

>>12356390
They claim it as a victory that women’s voices are head at all. Get over your allergy to the dumb third waver liberal feminists already

[Anonymous No.12356466]

>>12356411
I’m pretty sure most of the women you’re talking about call themselves fourthwave feminists because they just shitpost all day. I can’t help but to think that bringing attention to these historical women undermines the idea that women never had a voice in society; maybe that’s why they have to co-opt them into the femme hive mind. I guess I can’t complain about these dumb women, I got this girl to deepthroat me last night pretending to be a feminist advocate lmao. It’s actually amazing because after men invented money and literally everything else this is what works to get their attention in the 21st century. It’s easy as pie.

[Anonymous No.12356482]

Florbela Espanca
Francisca Júlia César da Silva Münster
Katherine Mansfield
Emily Dickinson

[Anonymous No.12356485]

>>12355059
Either Marguerite Yourcenar or Amélie Nothomb

[Anonymous No.12356532]

>>12356411
I’m fully aware of the arguments made in A Room of One’s Own, and I agree that it’s great that these women SHOULD be heard, but the subject of their writing does not need to pertain to emancipation even if the act of writing itself is empowering. Let women write about what they want. As much of a critic as she was of marriage, I wouldn’t call Austen’s books feminist for example.

[Anonymous No.12356564]

>>12356485
so behind the left door there's caviar and behind the right door there's tons of shit, and you can't actually pick a door

[Anonymous No.12356642]

[Anonymous No.12356707]

>>12355059
Mary Shelley

[Anonymous No.12356791]

>>12356243
You're right; I feel like kind of a dumbass now for applying that lens to Dickinson's writing. Let me make clear that I never consider her a feminist nor did I ever find any indication of such ideology in her works; that poem in particular is the only one in which the thought came to mind. Anyway, I very much agree with you; in no way is everything that women do related to feminism, and applying such connection only devalues the artistic qualities of the individual by turning them into a cog of a grand machine rather than the creation of art for art itself.

[Anonymous No.12356810]

>>12356485
Yourcenar is a one hit wonder.

[Anonymous No.12357378]

>>12356791
That’s okay, anon. And I agree that attempting to link the actions of all women to one specific movement is demeaning and insulting to women as a whole. It’s one thing I’ve never been able to see eye-to-eye with the radfems on.

By linking all female writings to feminism, you ironically end up stifling the true voice of women.

[Anonymous No.12357844]

I had to read a bunch of non male writers in school. The only one I ever liked was Evelyn Waugh. All the rest were pure cancer.

[Anonymous No.12357934]

>>12356642
imagine a stern handjob from her

[Anonymous No.12357938]

>>12355059
her

[Anonymous No.12357968]

>>12356066
who this bitch is

[Anonymous No.12357984]

>freemason, anarchist, feminist, singer
>first european woman to enter Lhassa and visit Tibet
>became buddhist, did esoteric stuff with masters and monks, documented it
>wrote over 30 books
>didn't create some wicked cult after
>died at 101

[Anonymous No.12357988]

>>12357968

[Anonymous No.12358527]

fleur jaeggy

[Anonymous No.12358553]

>>12357988
This woman is as good at being cute as Plato was at doing philosophy

Being a woman is so weird, imagine you can be THAT GOOD and it's entirely something external to your personality and intellection. It's just your outward appearance decided by genetic lottery. But it's everything, and men will literally toil their whole lives just to worship you for it.

[Anonymous No.12358577]

>butterfaggot going through wiki's "female authors" category to dig up just about anything
reaching the bottom of the barrel, aren't we

[Anonymous No.12358588]

I'm reading a Sally Rooney book right now and I kinda wanna send her a dick pic

[Anonymous No.12358637]

>>12355277
checked and redpilled

[Anonymous No.12358669]

Duras

[Anonymous No.12358670]

>>12355059

Purely for face sitting fantasies. I don't even read.

[Anonymous No.12358679]

>>12357934

RELIEVING THEMSELVES WHEREVER THEY STOOD

[Anonymous No.12358714]

Marguerite Duras.

[Anonymous No.12358724]

Alejandra Pizarnik.

[Anonymous No.12358728]

>>12355059
Gertrude Stein

[Anonymous No.12358751]

>>12358553
Well said

[Anonymous No.12358792]

There's no sensible reason to read female literature ever. Reasons against it are as follows:
>Females are scientifically proven to be dumber than men. Their brain is lower in size and density, even when accounted for smaller body mass.
>Women have historically achieved nothing. No effort by females was ever successful unless aided by men. There's no reason to read something created by the gender of losers.
>Women therefore have nothing to say but endlessly prattle about their woman issues and victimhood
>Modern women are repulsive, repugnant destroyers of civilizations.

[Anonymous No.12358816]

Marguerite Yourcenar

[Anonymous No.12358855]

>>12356341
Just terrible taste
Feel free to stop posting anytime

[Anonymous No.12358871]

>>12356146
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

[« ƸЖƷ » No.12358894]

>>12356532
A room of ones own and a little money IS emancipation.

And for the other response: there is no fourth wave. There is genuine “second” or socialist feminism and there is liberal dogshit feminizm

>>12357984
Neat

[Anonymous No.12358907]

Is this good or shit my fellow lit intellectuals?

[Anonymous No.12358923]

>>12358816

[Anonymous No.12359048]

>>12358907
It was ok. Got the impression that the author was a total pseud though.

[Anonymous No.12359133]

Don't think I've ever read a book by a woman.

[Anonymous No.12359172]

Does Constance Garnett count?

[Anonymous No.12359495]

>>12355277
Absolutely based.

[Anonymous No.12359515]

>>12355059
Alice Munro

[Anonymous No.12359553]

Pearl S Buck

[Anonymous No.12359590]

>>12358553
>implying she'll be posted/mentioned in a decade, let alone millennia
Being cute has a pretty low barrier of entry. Some new girl will replace her, and she'll fade from the public conscious

[Anonymous No.12359600]

>>12355059
紫式部やエミリーディケンソン

[Anonymous No.12359631]

>>12358871
Further proof that the Romanticism was easily the best artistic movement.
>>12358894
I'm not denying it's emancipation, but not all female authors consciously write about feminist issues, even if the mere act of them writing can be seen as pro-feminist. Therefore, the works of a female author shouldn't be examined through a feminist lens unless the author acknowledges their link with feminism.

This is because the idea of women writing being empowering should be taken as a given, meaning that it's not worth mentioning unless the author makes a conscious effort to draw attention to feminist aspects of her work.

To assume that all female fiction can have a feminist interpretation is to assume that all female fiction is inherently political which, unless you're a radical feminist, is a difficult thing to argue (not to mention how it undermines the notion of art for art's sake).

[Anonymous No.12359693]

>>12358553
ive learned that its not actually that easy, you need to put in a lot of time on hair / makeup / fashion / mannerisms in order to pull it off perfectly. not saying girls like her arent naturally very cute anyway, there's a difference between being naturally cute and being $1 million instagram profile cute

[Anonymous No.12359700]

>>12359693
but there's a difference*

[Anonymous No.12359710]

this qt

[Anonymous No.12359727]

>>12359693
Honestly though, sex appeal is a potent tool in a women's arsenal which they can use to level the playing field and has been throughout history.
Men's inability to control lust has always been one way in which they've been weaker than women.

I'm not saying it's all advantages for attractive women (being desired by men simply for existing is a double-eyed sword), but it definitely has it's advantages.

[Anonymous No.12359732]

>>12355059
>doesn't list Murasaki Shikibu
>doesn't list Jane Austen
>doesn't list Sappho
>doesn't list any of the Bronte sisters
>doesn't list Virginia Woolf
>doesn't list Emily Dickinson
>doesn't list Christina Rossetti
>doesn't list Elizabeth Barrett Browning
>names some literally who Canadian just because she "BTFO Atwood"
this makes me question his answer of Dostoevsky, he probably said that because he literally didn't know anyone else

[Anonymous No.12359740]

>>12355059
Obviously Laura Chappell. A woman with over 35 years experience in network forensics and security protocol analysis.

She taught me how to hack.

[Anonymous No.12359751]

>>12359727
well yeah. ill admit i myself go a little crazy when i see girls like her being overly cute, and this is after years of yoga and self-discipline training. the female body has a level of aesthetic beauty that the male body doesn't quite grasp.

[Anonymous No.12359763]

>>12359751
Agreed. Women and femininity are peak aesthetics. That's why I think they're so great.

[Anonymous No.12359771]

Katen Blixen or Flannery O’connor.

[Anonymous No.12359777]

>>12359771
*Karen

[Anonymous No.12359924]

[Anonymous No.12359938]

>>12359751
She isn't even cute, just done up and acting retarded. It's like an autist's idea of cute.

[Anonymous No.12359968]

>>12359938
well yeah, but a lot of guys turn into autists when their brains are flooded with hormones

[Anonymous No.12359974]

>>12359938
This, that kind of cuteness is too artificial for me to be attracted to it

[Anonymous No.12359993]

Maybe Austen, or Barbara Pym or Comyns

[Anonymous No.12359994]

>>12359693
are you that hibari avatarfag or we have multiple trannies in this board?

[Anonymous No.12360018]

>>12359994
you dont have to be a woman (or a tranny) to realise that the shit you see on instagram of girls being "naturally cute" is actually a very laborious effort that takes a level of time and effort your average 4channel NEET wouldn't put in

[Anonymous No.12360064]

>>12359515
t. Norm

[Anonymous No.12360087]

>>12360064
I would never assert that she is the greatest living writer...though, if you actually think about it, she certainly competes. Lives of Girls and Women was great.

[« ƸЖƷ » No.12360109]

>>12359727
Words don’t have eyes
It’s double edged sword... was that an autocorrect accident?

[Anonymous No.12360142]

>>12360109
It was. My mistake. The point still stands that attractive women have the advantage of being worshipped simply for existing, but are also at a disadvantage of that sex appeal being valued over their other virtues and also with them being more likely to be a target of sexual assault.

[Anonymous No.12360147]

>>12360109
Faggot

[« ƸЖƷ » No.12360151]

>>12360109
Holy fuck!
I clearly wrote swords. Fucking autocorrect
How to disable it?

[Anonymous No.12360154]

>>12355059

[Anonymous No.12360222]

>>12360087
Who Do You Think You Are? is the only Munro I've read. It didn't leave me wanting to read more.
Partly because the subject matter was just too depressing and melancholic for me.

[Anonymous No.12360525]

>>12360018
>a level of time and effort your average 4channel NEET wouldn't put in
Tranner here. I put plenty of effort in and the amount of time required to appear "naturally cute" is less than half an hour. It's just makeup + lighting + facial expression. That's all appearing cute is.

Take it from a guy who tricks straight men into believing I'm a girl on tinder. See >>>12357013

It's really easy to appear cute even as an ugly female. Make up, lighting, angles and facial expression play a large role. It's simple really.

[Anonymous No.12360575]

>>12360525
Right, but that's still nearly half an hour more than your average guy, especially 4chan guy, puts in to their appearance. Most them assume a girl / transgirl wakes up looking like a perfect instagram model.

[Anonymous No.12360713]

camille paglia hahahhahahhaahhahah

[Anonymous No.12360779]

>>12355277
If I have to pick a woman

[Anonymous No.12360802]

Astrid Lindgren
She wrote children's books, which I believe is an adequate genre of literature for a lady to participate in, next to cooking and nursing, of course.

[Anonymous No.12360864]

>>12360575
Idk about that. There are some very attractive guys over on /fit/ and almost all of them use skincare routines like proactive and such and also work out constantly with an almost fanatic diet..

If I have a pimple on my face I can cover it very easily, if a male has a pimple on his face he can't cover it. Which is why I would argue it's easier to look good as a female.

Really, you just need an A-Line dress or skirt (makes your hips look wide) with a thigh gap. It doesn't matter how attractive or cute you are because makeup can fix that. If a girl wants to increase her attractiveness by 2-3 points all she has to do is get a boob job which are extremely cheap now.

It's far harder for a man to increase his attractiveness. Not only does he require daily skin care (because he can't use makeup, concealer etc) but he has to work out and eat well. Do you know how women get thigh gaps? They do it by starvation, which is extremely easy to do because both sugar and tobacco are appetite suppressants.

Simple things like eyeliner and mascara increase the attractiveness of a woman massively. Now add in 6 inch heels, long slender legs, long nails, long hair, mascara and concealer with a bright red lipstick and you have what should be considered man bait. Oh and if she's on her menstrual cycle then you now have pheromones being released which subconsciously make you more attracted to her.

My point is women have it far easier than men when it comes to appearance. Because men can't just use makeup to look better, nor can they use simple things that most men don't recognize as being subconsciously activated in them. (eyeliner, heels, "perfect skin" (makeup) etc etc.

It is a hell of a lot harder for a man to maintain beauty which is comparable to a female. Look at this picture. How long do you think it would take the average male to reach this without cosmetic surgery or steroids. Just had work? 50% of men will NEVER achieve this look because of their genetics.

My final point would be that it's easy to demonize men but for a man to achieve "peak performance" when compared to a woman is insanely difficult.

[Anonymous No.12360907]

Emily Dickinson
Virginia Woolf
George Eliot (easily holds her own with Dickens)

[Anonymous No.12360915]

>>12360575
>>12360864
Here is a great example of the effects of makeup. This is the same person.

No man can do this. This is 20 minutes of makeup. Look at the difference it makes. Do you notice how the darkening of the eyes dramatically change the whole presentation of the face?

I had to learn how to do make up so yeah. Once you learn this you begin to realize most women are as average if not more average than most men. We can just hide it under makeup...

Really, find me a single man who can change his appearance like this with 20 minutes of makeup.

[Anonymous No.12361983]

>>12355587
>Although i had a pleasure meeting her 14 or 15 years ago in Cracow near muzeum narodowe - charming personality she had.

Can you say more about this?

[Anonymous No.12362005]

>>12355059
Anne Frank. But only if uts the version they edit out where she touched herself.

[Anonymous No.12362009]

Emily Dickens not an author. But she would've been a big titty /lit/ super neet so her.

[Anonymous No.12362021]

[Anonymous No.12362044]

>>12359938
This, you autists are too easily impressed,

[Anonymous No.12362077]

>>12360915
>deceiving people is fine
Kant wants to have a talk with you

[Anonymous No.12362078]

>>12355059
Roasties are retarded and cant write

[Anonymous No.12362082]

No women is worth reading. Even the women who arguably wrote the most popular anti-feminist/female book, Esther Vilar, wrote a book that is overly womanish and comical.

[Anonymous No.12362145]

>>12355059
Yourcenar, also the only one I've read

[Anonymous No.12362146]

>>12360222
Melancholic and depressing is hardly a reason not to read something. Can't say I've ever had the response to depressing writing: Schopenhauer and Camus were both depressing but I immediately wanted to read more of them.

[Anonymous No.12362255]

>>12355285
Woah never seen this pic of her before - nice to see she made old age work for her

[Anonymous No.12362267]

>>12359693
>ive learned
anon...

[Anonymous No.12362293]

For future reference /lit/ Evelyn Waugh is a man

[Anonymous No.12362378]

>>12355059
That part of the interview was actually pretty funny. I bet she thought: "Any more than a 3 second thinking time is proof of his misogyny."

[Anonymous No.12362425]

>>12362378
Peterson's taste in female authors is pretty pleb, though. Even him mentioning that Dostoevsky was his favourite overall author sounds very pseud-like.

[Anonymous No.12362429]

>>12355059
Joyce

[Anonymous No.12362500]

>>12362425
Why is it pseud-like to have as a favorite author one of the greatest authors that ever lived?

[Anonymous No.12362515]

>not saying woolf or stein

[Anonymous No.12362540]

>>12362500
Precisely because of his high acclaim. Hillary Clinton said that Karamozov was her favourite book, C&P made it to number 2 on /lit/'s top 100. When an author is that widely praised, they become an easy name drop without having to really understand and grapple with the core themes.

[Anonymous No.12362559]

>>12362540
I agree with what you're saying, but for some reason you're giving the impression that if shit people name drop a great author this somehow makes the author less great.

Sounds like you've internalized 4chan contrarianism to a stupid degree my dude.

[Anonymous No.12362589]

>reading women
Everyone here knows women can’t write

[Anonymous No.12362602]

I'm going with that George Elliot guy.