/lit/ - Literature

>>1078576
ugh, definitely not Nausea.

I can read his drama and his essays, but god damn was Sartre a shitty novelist

>>1078578
>Achebe - Things Fall Apart

never read it, but that fucking book came up all the time in quiz bowl packets

>>1078514
itty bitty baby?

I've had a good run.

>>1078521
and "Hills Like White Elephants"

and I still like that one too.

>>1078528
yes, his short stories are excellent

>>1078478
I had this experience with "Prufrock" from junior year of high school until mid way through college. seriously. every. single. semester.

I still like it though. maybe because it's only a poem and not an entire novel.

>>1078515
well, his first big novel was The Sun Also Rises. a lot of people start and stop there.

probably his best regarded novel is For Whom the Bell Tolls.

my personal favorite is A Farewell to Arms. think of it as a romance filtered through modernism.

I wouldn't recommend The Old Man and the Sea, but it is brief. think I read the entire thing in a waiting room once.

>>1078464
yeah I was going to suggest Lolita until I got to that last sentence

>>1078436
>Shakespeare is the most complete course on English vocabulary available.

yeah, if you want to pick up plenty of archaic usage

Camus modeled his writing style for The Stranger on authors like Hemmingway, with to-the-point, terse sentences.

as I recall, he described it as a whole as an "American style"

>>1078346
>Who assigns a thirteen year old this shit?

I hate it when teachers assign works that require greater cognitive development to appreciate than the class has achieved. because then these kids grow up hating these brilliant authors when they just didn't understand them.

middle school kids are better off reading Steinbeck. I doubt even teenagers could miss his allusions and metaphors.

>>1078432
and I just remembered Mary Wollstonecraft

>>1078485
people seem to confuse /v/ and /tv/ all the time

but never /trv/. no one goes to /trv/

>>1078473
tripfag from /tv/

I browse /lit/ more than I post here.

my only complaints are the number of sci-fi threads and the snail pace of the board

other than that, it's 500 times better than /tv/

>>1078444

>>1078417
the psychfag in me appreciates this

>>1076236
I had an English professor who loved this book, and assigned us selections from it.

it's weird out of context. really should pick it up and read all of it.

>>1078419
that is to say, that's at least one I know of.

>>1078413
though I know relatively little about philosophy, the only woman I can think of is Simone deBeauvoir

one thing I've always struggled with is telling what contemporary authors are ones to watch out for, without the lens of history to guide me.

shit, even professors I asked said, "uhhh I read pulp"

yes.

I read it in high school. it was quite a mindfuck back then.

lol gothic romance

>>948526
the problem is, this is what is accepted as "fine art" now.

it's not that this particular artist is crap, it's that his sort of bullshit is acclaimed