/lit/ - Literature

>>6638579
Relax, comrade.

>>6640722
Just go for it :)

The Pale King

>>6637129
You might have some fun googling 'Deleuzian Thatcherism'. (Also, the 80s are a white elephant; see you again when you finally turn up nothing.)

>>6634617
Because it's interesting? Whitman lived in a time in which 'scientific racism' was pretty fundamental, and the notion that the ideologies of it wouldn't be pervading, influencing, and informing his writing is ridiculous. Using any of that, however, to censure Whitman - or, should I say, bothering to devote research-time and research-money to morally censuring dead authors at all - would be fairly pathetic, as well. We don't really know what lecture it is, whether it's the former or latter type, because all we have, from Bloom's account, is one mental artifact from one day when Bloom was in a bad mood. Ignoring racism in early authors, in my opinion, would be more in line with the type of 'liberal fallacy' he's complaining than would actually acknowledging and discussing its literary influence. End.

Hemingway is only alright.

>>6613893
>>6614903
>>6615020
chill fam

>>6607814
Did he raped her?

The book is not quite brilliant, but your >>6607765 reason for disliking it is the most pleb thing I have ever heard.

How would that affect class tensions? Would you have capitalists breaking into long screeds about how they understand, they could be doing something different, but they believe in their right to be doing what they're doing, and they know that it's illegal or would be illegal if they were poorer, but they still believe it's their right, it's so removed from them, is it their fault what circumstances and moral quandaries they were born into? And they seriously don't believe in Marxism so what's to be done? And now you're laughing and I've realised that what's to be done is the name of something to do with socialism, isn't it? But I don't even know what it's the name of, I was just saying it, and somehow I feel as though that makes me insightful, but I can't quite get at how. And I can see that as I do this thing, it's hurting people, but I went to university, too, and I read Dostoevsky and I had another of the, what the kids are calling, 'existential crises', and a whole inflammation around 'is there a right thing to do? Is there not?' In the end, I'm just here and I watch television and I know removing those investments basically indirectly but also directly caused about 10% of the deaths there, but I don't know, I don't know, it's hard, you know? I'm thinking and I'm sincere and I really want to do the right thing, but what is that? I believe in God... I think. Et c.

And then would we all just hug our exploiters? I don't know.

>>6602522
Expensive clothing.

>>6601619
*breaks jaw yawning*

>>6602503
*one another

>>6602470
>either they pretend that insincerity is an emotional hell no amount of money can make up for
I like the quote, but even if not to quite the extent of it being a 'hell', this is pretty much the case. For that matter, also, forcing the Ethiopian comparison/'first world problems' complaint is just banal, schoolgirl rhetoric.

>>6597552
Say, 'I see there's a general historical tendency toward it, but I'm still out on arguments about participation and activism.'

>>6593491
Amnesia by Peter Carey

It's not his best work, but I'm saying that in kind of the same way Bleeding Edge isn't Pynchon's best. It's still great.

>>6586700
>marx was only racist because he was so not-racist

>ctrl+f: dhalgren
>>6582415
>has been posted
Good work, /lit/.

>>6588483
And Greek and Hungarian and then you're set.

>>6588436
Why not Japanese or Arabic? Portuguese, too, really.

It depends. You'd be limited in what you could write. As in, I've read works by black people in which the narrator seriously considered the possibility of their racial inferiority, but it would be difficult to equal that effect if you were a white writer. You'd have to ethically charge everything, like the person might later be morally outraged that they were driven to such thoughts or whatever; you couldn't just leave a loose end in which the character thought, Well, maybe I am inferior, and went on with their day. Unless you're in the demographic, that sort of writing will earn you more than a little suspicion.

Candide

>>6587836
A few days ago. I went into the university library to study.
I sat in a chair and read books on my Kindle.
No.
Neither.

>>6587810
>ignoring Judith Butler
m8