/lit/ - Literature

>>12377339
Dubliners is his only tolerable work. Everything else is incoherent, self-indulgent or both.

>>12377348
>Everything else is incoherent, self-indulgent or both.

Is this supposed to be a bad thing?

>>12377353
If you have to ask...

>>12377353
Yes.

>>12377339
No, but he was a good sorcerer.

>>12377339
The best, actually.

>>12377339
Yes and you're a contrarian and/or an idiot if you think otherwise

>>12378291
>>12378302
t. guys in their early twenties chasing a vague idea of aesthetics who will burn out in their thirties.

>>12378317
>projecting this hard

>>12377339
Yes but Finnegans Wake is objectively crap.

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>>12378689
Reddit

>>12379451
faggot

>>12377339
He's good for sure, but people who place him alongside the Shakespeares of the world are simply delusional.

>>12379573
Whom are the other Shakespeares?

>>12379583
I meant people of his stature.

A good writer? No.
He's a great writer.

>>12377339
He does have some absolutely terrific lines, though.

"I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry, and time one livid final flame."

Anyone else like that one? If you had to pick a single best quote of his, what would you choose?

you tell me

"Ugly and futile: lean neck and thick hair and a stain of ink, a snail's bed. Yet someone had loved him, borne him in her arms and in her heart. But for her the race of the world would have trampled him underfoot, a squashed boneless snail. She had loved his weak watery blood drained from her own. Was that then real? The only true thing in life? His mother's prostrate body the fiery columbanus in holy zeal bestrode. She was no more: the trembling skeleton of a twig burnt in the fire, an odour of rosewood and wetted ashes. She had saved him from being trampled underfoot and had gone, scarcely having been. A poor soul gone to heaven: and on a heath beneath winking stars a fox, red reek of rapine in his fur, with merciless bright eyes scraped in the earth, listened, scraped up the earth, listened, scraped and scraped."

>>12378317
literally everyone on /lit/ fits this description

>>12377339
he's dead

>>12377339
Was. pretty sure he's dead.

>>12379828
boring

>>12379583
Thomas Pynchon is the third Shakespeare

>>12377339
he's schizophrenic

>>12377339
never forget, and no mercy

>>12379583
Me

>>12379583
>Whom are
Kys immediately

>>12377368
What an indulgent delivery, you think I didn't catch this one you dumb fuck

>>12377348
>tfw you write one of the most rational piece of literature but brainlets call you insane