/lit/ - Literature

>>5905030
Brought in as an illustration that anon's conception of the SJW free speech restriction isn't nearly as awful as thought of and this group displays that quite well

>>5904997
I'm not saying worse about it, I'm saying literally attempting to restrict it. Most "SJWs" view things like anti-abortion rallies and what have you as disgusting and simply move on, whereas conservatives literally want to restrict the right to free speech and protest

>>5904989
>their wanting to limit free speech

I live right near where John Crawford was gunned down on sight by cops in a Wal-Mart and let me tell ya, the sheer volume of conservatives saying shit like "shoot the protesters", "why are we letting them protest", etc., is all I'm seeing around here. I'm not quite seeing SJWs trying to literally restrict free speech

>>5860174
The main deal is that cultural appropriation does exist but it's not always bad. White people copped rock and roll from African Americans, but it wasn't sacred to them or anything so it was just an "ehhh whatever"

Something sacred to a culture (like Native American headdresses) being pointlessly and meaninglessly used by people because "it looks cool" is where people get mad. Maybe a bit more than I think is rational, but I'm not part of their cultures so I can't say I understand their exact feelings

>>5860155
Wu-Tang just loved comic books and Japanese movies. They did not start going "Oh Method-san! ODB-chan thinks you are a baka!' or wearing kimonos or any of that noise.

Definitely not cultural appropriation. Art is made to be shared with the world anyway, so all those goofy karate movies definitely can't be appropriated

>>5767611
>got an English degree instead of a degree in Education with a concentration in English
>alternatively, not just double majoring in both English and Education

you dun fucked up

Dante's entire Divine Comedy (Inferno is just the first part) is written as one large epic poem. There is a natural flow and rhythm to the original which translations to other languages may preserve or destroy

If you're an english speaker/reader, I suggest the Longfellow translation. Absolutely lovely

>>5621225
It's not quite fictional, but The Plague by Albert Camus is pretty much existentialist plague and some of the civilians trying to deal with it

>>5535103
>caring

Ayn Rand is the greatest philosopher and accurately portrays Objectivity as the superiorphilosophic thought

Neil Gaiman Sandman

shit hit harder than it should have

>>5057659
At first, but Part 5 and whatnot is when it starts to get kinda cat and mouse

>no one saying Crime and Punishment

what the fuck /lit/

>>4914213
As a white straight guy who hasn't suffered from anything too tragic beyond my own slight neurotic tendencies, I can't say I've ever been triggered or flashed back to a bad event in my life, but I'd have to assume it would blow. So I can understand that

BUT

At the same time, art shouldn't come with a warning label. We're in it to learn and grow and face the best and worst of humanity and morality.

So I dunno

>>4914372
get the fuck out of here you piece of subhuman trash

>mfw not one post mentioning Death Grips' stream of conciousness lyrics

I'm not sure I'd call them poetry, but they're borderline it. Especially on Artificial Death in the West or Hacker

>>4787911
How about Candide? There's quite a bit of trickery and foul play in that one

>>4787829
Machiavelli literally wrote the book on how to be a sneaky bastard that all GoT characters would wank over.

It's called the Prince. (not fiction tho)

>>4787826
Ulysses.

What a fuckin' trip

>>4754647
I was reading about the Trial and one person suggested that the book itself could never be finished, exactly like Josef K's trial. They believed that Kafka could have just continued adding and adding into infinity more and more complications and levels.

I thought it was a brilliant idea and actually has made me love the book even more.

>>4754612
>The Trial

awwwwww yeeeeee

I'm currently reading

Ulysses - Joyce
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf

I think I'm going to read the Crying of Lot 49 next

>>4737234

Not the whole tale's plot, but the most famous part

>>4737412
Did my post summon you?

She was a mental wreck man. And clinical depression is an actual illness. So being depressed out of nothing, yes.

And I don't think her aim was to go deeper into her emotions. The Bell Jar specifically was very autobiographical and I think she was just trying to describe that general emptiness and isolation she felt constantly. I honestly don't know of a book prior to it that nails depression so well beyond maybe Dostoevsky

>>4737477
>>4737479
Yep. Ending had to give it away