/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6619978]

What is the literary equivalent of visual-based films with little exposition or plot? I want to read something like an impressionistic dream, but not dreamlike in a sense of overt surrealism. Would Virginia Woolf fit?

[Anonymous No.6619989]

conrad :^)

[Anonymous No.6619990]

>>6619978
John Hawkes
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[Anonymous No.6619994]

Have you even seen Star Spangled To Death? If not you're not ready to join /lit/, as a transfer.
>>>/tv/

[Anonymous No.6619997]

poetry, duh

[Anonymous No.6620004]

>>6619978
poetry

[Anonymous No.6620010]

>>6619978

>Andrei Memeovsky

[Anonymous No.6620016]

>>6619978
MMMD

[Anonymous No.6620022]

McCarthy does this very well in his earlier books

[Anonymous No.6620025]

my favorite kind of thread are these /tv/ plebs who think they are patricians for watching grass grow trying desperately to find one way or another into literature asking for books like this or that movie as if the two mediums are anything alike

[Anonymous No.6620035]

>>6620022

>Blood Memeidian

>>>>>>>>>/leddit/

[Anonymous No.6620041]

>>6620025
what's wrong with wanting to experience similar things from different mediums?

[Anonymous No.6620053]

>>6620041
it doesn't work that way

you're just going to have to trust me on that, kid

[Anonymous No.6620057]

>>6620004
>>6619997

Makes sense. Any recommendations?

[Anonymous No.6620117]

>>6620035
>Blood Meridian
>not in 4th place of /lit/ canon behind the meme trilogy
Learn board culture

[Anonymous No.6620119]

>>6620117
blood meridian is as /lit/ as the stranger
its discussed to death because its the only thing edgy and easy enough for crossposters to read

[Anonymous No.6620133]

>>6620117
It's just a more accessible version of this really.

[Anonymous No.6620146]

>>6619978
Try Kawabatta.

[Anonymous No.6620165]

>>6620119

>blood meridian
>easy

sure bud, everyone out there who's never read any serious books just has a breeze with blood meridian.

[Anonymous No.6620173]

Proust

Tarkovsky loved him.

[Anonymous No.6620189]

>>6619997
>>6620004

This.

Read some Imagist poets (duh): H.D.; early Ezra Pound

Eliot's Four Quartets are pretty abstract and work with some loose associative principles.

Early John Ashbery is grounded in loosely connected, euphemistic and cryptic undertones.

Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, George Oppen, Lorine Niedecker are also poets I'd recommend in this regard.

[Anonymous No.6620200]

>>6619978
Virginia Woolf would not help; highly imagistic, but the flow is not seamless like a dream, you must reread passages sometimes many times over which disrupts the flow. I would say read Kafka

[Anonymous No.6620205]

>>6620035
You're an idiot

[Anonymous No.6620208]

>>6620200
I've read Kafka but he's not what I'm looking for.

>>6620189
Thanks I'll check out some of these

[Anonymous No.6620211]

>>6620165
It's not particularly hard once you get past the spanish geographic terminology

[Anonymous No.6620217]

>>6620189
I'd add in most avant-garde poetry of the twentieth century tbh. Try out these three volumes:
http://www.amazon.com/Poems-Millennium-University-California-Postmodern/dp/0520208641
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520072278/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687742&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0520208641&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=13G1NZ9YQ4DFPR7RD1T8
http://www.amazon.com/Poems-Millennium-Volume-Three-Postromantic/dp/0520255984/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_z

[Anonymous No.6620226]

Max Blecher tends to go that way.
If you can find some translation, or read portuguese, Murilo Rubião is quite nice.

[Anonymous No.6620229]

>>6620208
Paul auster then. Also maybe Kobo Abe

[Anonymous No.6620240]

>>6620117
what is the meme trilogy? i'm new here

[Anonymous No.6620251]

>>6620240
ules's, pinecone rainbow, and long joke

[Anonymous No.6620255]

>>6620189
I forgot one of my own favorites Adrienne Rich
This poem in particular displays attention to jumps that keep a thread of connection between each other but also contribute to thematic movements and impressions.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175906

[Anonymous No.6620258]

>>6620229
Those are totally not what op is asking for

[Anonymous No.6620267]

>>6620258
Tell me how Woman in the Dunes is not like an eerie tone poem

[Anonymous No.6620268]

>>6620173
This. Proust is beautiful, if you don't have the time download the audiobook, the narrator's voice is orgasmic and it's generally extremely well put together and dreamy.

[Anonymous No.6620279]

>>6620268
I've been long aware of ISOLT but figure it's a lot more obtuse and expositional than what I'm looking for and probably a real challenging read. How does it read like? I haven't read a lot of classic literature but I kind of imagine a very long Dostoyevsky. Am I wrong? Is it more impressionistic? Are there a whole lot of names to remember? (I imagine there must be)

[Anonymous No.6620281]

>>6620268
In Search of Lost Time, BBC radio 4 by Michael Butt for the audiobook

[Anonymous No.6620289]

>>6620281
I don't like audiobooks.

[Anonymous No.6620318]

>>6620279
Nothing like Dostoyevsky, it's more like a retelling of a meandering series of dreams and mostly an aesthetic experience. I don't find it challenging but the audiobook might work better, it's a dramatisation. There aren't many relevant names and they're repeated a lot, mixed with things like the countess, Swan's daughter for reference. I assure you, Proust does not lack perception or intellect although what you're looking for might, what a strange choice of words.

[Anonymous No.6620539]

>>6620173
>>6620268
In Search of Lost Time definitely fits.

Also, The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell.