/lit/ - Literature

>teleology

>>19810656
Me.

>>19111959
Imagine spending money on books when there are PDF copies of it online.

Inspiration for my fantasy novel? I just steal from larpers at /x/

>>18128647
BASED CAPS LOCK GIGACHAD

Tips on getting into feminist literature?

>>17885511
I read books so I can tell other people what to think and how to think

>>17772786
>Why yes I do collect my books based solely on the whether or not I can troll on lit metrics

>>17686341
Sorry, little guy. I only read one-sentence aphorisms.

I fly up to Olympus on light wings on account of love, because a boy wishes not to enjoy his youth with me.

>>17600881
>Who do you consider great thinkers among people that mostly wrote novels?
No one, really.

For me, it's David Foster Wallace.

For Kleoboulous I long,
On Kleoboulous I dote,
At Kleoboulous I gaze.

>>17566244
I concur. Thank you for boldly expressing that which we have all been thinking, but did not have the courage to put into words. This post has given us renewed strength to return to literature without our tawdry presuppositions. May this be a lesson to all of us to never accept less than greatness; and to blaze a path of glory in all of life's noble endeavours.

Especially in comparison to English literature - hell, even in comparison to just American literature - Russian literature sucks.

It's extremely limited not only in scope (only at most a dozen interesting literary figures out of 200+ million people, in a period spanning just ~40 years out of 1000+ years of the history of Slavic people) but in thematic diversity as well - it's almost all "muh hardships in life and how i'm using spirituality/metaphysics/transcendence to overcome them." That's it.

There's no decent Russian realist book (with a different theme to the one mentioned above, at least). No decent sci-fi book (besides Roadside Picnic, maybe). No decent gothic book. No decent horror book. No decent modernist book. No decent post-modernist book. No decent.. well, almost anything really.

Russian literature is as barren and uninteresting as Russia's geographic, social and political landscape. It's sad to think that some people confine themselves completely within this culture's literature. Their brain must undergo extreme shrinkage as a result.

Hell, America alone has:
1. Herman Melville
2. Walt Whitman
3. William Faulkner
4. Edgar Allan Poe
5. Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. Philip K. Dick
7. Thomas Pynchon
8. William Gaddis
9. Cormac McCarthy
10. DFW
11. Kurt Vonnegut
12. Nathaniel Hawthorne
13. Henry David Thoreau
14. John Steinbeck
15. Ursula Le Guin
16. Ezra Pound
17. Frank Herbert
18. Ernest Hemingway
19. F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. Truman Capote
21. Mark Twain
22. Don DeLillo
23. Philip Roth
24. Allen Ginsberg
25. William Burroughs
26. Jack Kerouac
27. Alexander Theroux
28. Charles Bukowski
29. Hunter Thompson
30. William Gibson
And that's just America. Look how much diversity one nation of 200-300+ million people achieved in barely 200 years. Meanwhile Russia has been around for 1000 years, with a similar population, and there's none of that. Zero creativity. An entirely creatively bankrupt nation.

And I didn't even mention any British writers yet. Britain is a hefty opponent for America in terms of literary output, especially when it comes to classical literature. And that's an island nation of just ~50 million people - over 4 times fewer. I forgot to mention that of course both British and American literature use the same language, so in any meaningful comparisons langVSlang BOTH nations' outputs should be added to one tally - but that's just an unfair wreckage of any other literature in the world.

>>17228595
>the sex scene is interrupted with philosophical musings

>>17053973
>"ah, I see that my reputation precedes me"
>"prepare for a intellectual spanking, I'm going to debunk anatta so hard that you'll be shaking and crying uncontrollably"

>>17027953
>Prove your existence
I post on 4chan, therefore I am

>Why yes, I exclusively cum to my own thoughts. How could you tell?

>>16695017
>well you see my friend you are completely disregarding the faith factor

>Yeah I read the Sparknotes of the book instead of actually reading it, how could you tell?

>>16576023
Not bad, as long as you skip that lunatic Paul

The Bible

>>16509152
>only books from the /lit/ Greek infographic, because I start from the beginning, then read from the top to understand their developments, and then I continue the loop forever.