/lit/ - Literature

>>19292094
it's called "your mom" and it's written by me

Books to read while I wait for Forest-Anon to upload his summer video?

>>16555424
Round glasses are objectively the timeless patrician choice.

>>8954478
>Enjoy:
- Biographies on writers and composers
- Hemingway
- Bukowski
- McCarthy
- Nabokov

>Impress:
- Dellilo
- Pynchon
- Derrida
- Biographies

I like reading difficult or esoteric stuff because its different and experimental anyways, but the books i enjoy the most aren't usually overly complicated. Just sincere or transgressive.

Biographies are fucking great though seriously. Its awesome to inform your readings, to learn about an author or composers creative habits, and it gives you so much to talk about. You can learn everything that made Nabokov who he is, what his books mean authoritatively, and all that stuff.

+ composer biographies teach theory to a degree.

>>7865740
>Communism is a perfect system
>But what about all these flawed countries?
>Well, they're flawed, therefore they're not communist!

Classic. Mfw I live my life in a communist utopia.

>>7439420
I'm not going to post it here, because it was 2500+ words and prose-wise not very strong.

But conceptually i'm really happy with a short-story I wrote. It was a semi-scifi world where music has been condemned. The protagonist is an aging musician who's only job is to record all existing music of his speciality at an archive and then to destroy the existing sheetmusic etc.

But i wrote the story using a variety of different fonts, italics, underlining, capitalization, and syntax in order to mimic the idea of timbre in the rhythm of writing. Each small section had a musical heading/notation that represented the intended effect it was to have, and i had tons of musical references interspersed such as chance music and 3:44.

The intention being to illustrate the flexibility of music and that there's even a level of art within silence.

I got an A+ on it but it was probably because I had to print out literally 2-3 pages of purely explanation for all the references that i had to music, notation and mythology.

>>7410782
Good taste in music OP :)

I'd go through C&P but I'm going to have under a week after I'm finished exams. Maybe i'll start it though.

>>7259602
>>7259615

True enough. But opera is (ideally) the perfect synthesis of almost all art.

Staging, acting, singing, symphony, and poetry from the libretto. Granted, there are concessions that are made on some for the benefit of others, but I think that Wagner's, Bizets, and Puccini's operas are practically the greatest artistic achievements of humanity.

Honestly.

For others:
>Orchestral composition:
Extremely difficult to make truly great classical music, but I think that that if you're holding them to classical standards (mozart/beethoven/etc) then its only fair to say that poetry and novels are extremely hard as well.

The only one that I really disagree with on "highclass" are theology and carving. I don't understand the distinction between theology and philosphy, or why the former would be harder than the latter.

And as much as i love Escher's woodcuts I don't think it has the same level of nuance of complexity as other paintings. Tesselations are fucking kickass though.

>lowclass
>single instrument

Depends on how pleb you are. Being a masterful pianist or violinist at a young age is a savant level achievement. People like midori or a lot of other child prodigies are by no means "low class"

The rest I can kind of agree with except for novel.

>>7250437
I was serious ;__;

>pls no bully

>Last book you read is now part of the Harry Potter series and it is called Harry Potter and...