Who is your favourite Russian author? What are some authors you wished more people read? Favourite book?
>>24567282Bazarov does not neatly fit into the modern anglophone strereotypes of "virgin weak numale" vs "trad chad". On one hand he's very "I heckin love science" and 100% an atheist materialist. On the other hand he's not particularly concerned with being correct or respectful of anyone, and there's also this funny passage (my translation, so it may be slightly off):> - And if you do not fully get it, I will tell you this: in my opinion - I'd rather pound sand, than let a woman own even a tip of my finger. All this is… - Bazarov almost said his favorite word "romantism", but stopped himself and said instead: - horseshit. You will not believe me now, but I tell you: me and you were just now in female company, and we did enjoy it; but to leave such company is like a hot shower on a cold day. A man has no time for such trifles; a man must be ferocious, as the Spaniards wisely say. Hey you, - he added, addressing the coachman - you, smart man. You've a wife?> The man turned to the two friends his flat and mole-eyed face.> - A wife? I do. How can I not?> - You ever beat her?> - My wife? Uh, sometimes. Not for no reason.> - Excellent. She ever beat you?> The man pulled on the reins.> - Some things you're talking, sir. You're all jokes… - The coachman must have been offended.> - You hear that, Arkady Nikolaevitch? And we did get beat. That's what comes of being cultured men.If I was looking for a stereotype familiar to the western audience that Bazarov is trying to embody (and not managing that well, because he's a little naive), it would not be a modern "chad" but rather something like a model Stirnerite egoist.>>24567024Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
He isn't my number 1, but a new one that's very good: Yevgeny Vodolazkin
>>24567331>western audienceHиcaм зaпaдњaк дpyжe.
>>24562315>>24564619thanks for suggestions. I mostly enjoyed the student memoir part of Lomachinsky's work.I was being suggested a similar book called "the students" about the life of a law student in tsarist Russia. The book was concluded with student failing the exam shamefully due to bad Fortuna. The same author also had book "the engineers" as a continuity of previous story. I tried to look for author/ books, but could't find any.
>>24567331>If I was looking for a stereotype familiar to the western audience that Bazarov is trying to embody (and not managing that well, because he's a little naive), it would not be a modern "chad" but rather something like a model Stirnerite egoist."edgelord" - I think it suits him best. He impresses all sorts of simpletons who start a larp "nihilism", scares the rural landowners' alittle peas, fights a duel with a retired dandy of the Pushkin era and almost becomes the lover of the local Hot Widow. He himself begins to throw around beautiful phrases, that is, his nihilism becomes posing. Needless to say, in the early 60s Russia was filled with I-want-to-be-Bazarov. Pisarev was probably one of the most famous, he really lived by the method “what would Bazarov do?”
>Supports NATO>Supports Israel>Supports Jews>Supports mass immigration>Supports homosexuality>Supports trans ideology>Supports Biden>Supports COVID jabs and lockdownsWhat does he stand for? He is just a democrat
>>24565950>Only 1 sample sizeYou must be real good at math.
>>24563172I've never interacted with Slovenians, but if I did, it would be a hot 34 year old
>>24567476Meant to type 14 year old.
>>24565567His tics are more of a thing when he speaks in languages other than Slovenian. In his native tongue he's not as much of a meme:https://youtu.be/2Xom7xFDL6A>>24567454Maybe he is but he said to be an actual Stalinist would be crazy, vulgar and tasteless. But he played with Stalin in a trollish way to rehabilitate notions of discipline, sacrifice, responsibility, and collective order. That's a whole thing with him. Like, with refugees and immigrants, the left position has been to do nothing, the right position has been to expel them but also go into this neo-nationalist thing. But Zizek is opposed to their kind of fearful grievance-based nationalism, and thinks Europe needs more organization, more centralization which is the only way to really deal with the refugees. For Zizek it's all about finding some universal form that goes beyond narrow identites and builds courageous, collective subjects. He'll generally side with the liberals like say, on the question of COVID being real, but wants a well-organized state to handle it, he wants a stronger and more unified Europe with a European army and more economic planning to build factories for military production. He is absolutely pro-courage which also means having the courage to get your hands dirty in contrast to "beautiful soul" leftism:https://youtu.be/1VjFYm7ZNKkThis is my own view, but I think most Marxist-Leninists today are attracted to that muscular stuff to cope with their own powerlessness. It stems from ressentiment. A thing in Zizek is that what can appear radical is often displaced fear of true political engagement, which leads to a politics based around moralism, purity spirals, and cancel culture-style moral policing. They always find some way to reject anybody on the left who comes close to power because they're deeply afraid of power in reality. Zizek wrote the introduction to this Frederic Jameson book which proposed enlisting everyone in the U.S. into the army, a universal national guard in which everyone participates in collective labor and service. He's not saying he endorses this specific plan but he respects its ambition as a shared project and universal obligation.
>>24567591Interesting and thoughtful take.
Are his books actually good?
>>24566895I've only read atomised and it was very good, very interestimg but I was too lazy to read it to the end, possibly because I was to young for it so it didn't feel it as much as I would when I'm let's say 35
>>24566897ask me how I know you are videogame-brained mouthbreather
>>24567230ask me how I put my cock in your mouth
>>24566895Big Houellebecq fan.Start with Submission or Atomized. Annihilation is his worst.
>>24567621>Start with Submission or Atomized.That those are his best seems to be the consensus on /lit/.
I am not affiliated with the Unreal Press. I purchased their most recent anthology, and this is the official review. Beneath the Waves>6/10 - pulp slop, a fine story but the wrong choice for an opener Rime of the S.S. Madrigal >7/10 - entertaining, lighthearted, a shocking twist!A Sunken Memory - 7/10 >I imagined the protagonist was a cyborg will smith, good pulp sci-fi.Savannah >6/10 - a quirky perverted author but an interesting enough story to read, some editing issues ought to be revised.Bright! >6/10 - a focus on world building, good for a dnd game, but ‘cumbersome’. Some awkwardly written, though it does remind me of an episode of a sci-fi pulp comic. Some may like the story, but I was not too keen. Gateway >8/10 - enjoyable, ending felt rushed and confusing but I am a brainlet mayhaps. I would rewrite captain Shan’s finale and then this could be published in a real book!The SirensComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24567561That's good and all, but is it loli-slop or loli-kino?
>>24567568Ah, the cunny connoisseur
>>24567561Why is the cover a weird AI gen loli superimposed over an undersea scifi pic?
>>24567568The only female child in the book appears in the third story and is hardly described as anything beyond being a symbol of future humanity >>24567592A stylistic choice, I’d suppose
how did he get away with this shit?
Unironically, what is the /lit/ equivalent?
>>24566485How can you be this wrong? Also, I know it's not overrated because I found ITAOTS on my own without any outside influence or knowledge of its existence and showed me how touching music can actually be. You, my friend, were filtered.
>>24567520Zoomers don’t get it
I am sick of pretending this isn’t DFW’s real masterpiece. way more mangum coded than the insufferable IJ and, frankly, a conceptually superior fiction
>>24564149underrated post
>>24567554Lmao, keep listening to a nigga whining off key pedo "poetry" for the rest of your life. Real niggas listen to Dino Jr., Sonic Youth, etc., real macho shit.
I don't think I can keep reading this, it's making me feel sick. At first, I could feel myself becoming desensitized to it as I was reading, but I took a break from it for awhile and the thought of opening this filth up again makes me nauseous. But there is something compelling me to read on...I don't know what it is.
Not bothering to read this book. I watched some parts of the movie and it was disgusting so I can only assume the book is worse. It was pretty funny when the one leader started fucking the boss in the ass for some reason though. The gay shit the leaders did with each other was hilarious
>>24565298>Does the book offer at least some philosophical depth?No read philosophy in the bedroom for that, or justine if you want a narrative to go along with itThis is literally jerk off material that was not supposed to ever get out from a jail.
>>24567395Of course it's a fantasy I don't think it's that far fetched though and probably happened many times over in your own bloodline.But I did tell a friend exactly what I said in my post and the way she looked back at me changed me forever.
>>24567237Nigga Idk what the fuck you're talking about, but I just like to tap into primitive lust and the pain of my partners turns me on, simple as. That BDSM type shit with the latex and candles was never my swag, that shit doesn't turn me on at all; what turns me on is lust (and bloodlust).
>>24567402It is the funniest book I've ever read. I've never laughed so much while reading.
what are some good communities I can join that can get some eyes on free stories I've posted on royal road. I just want people to read my shit, and I'm more than willing to do a read for read. My friends don't care about my books, I know i'm good, hell I've been published, I just want to share the love of storytelling with some peoplePlease nothing that's Pozzed
https://archive.ph/tnpzh>A Los Angeles father, once an aspiring screenwriter and now a professional ticket-scalper, spends his spare hours calculating the extent to which younger straight white male novelists have been frozen out of the literary world. He pens a jeremiad against both publishers and critics who, he avers, no longer value great writing and a cadre of writers who are no longer interested in telling the truth about society.>It sounds like the premise for, well, a literary novel. Saul Bellow’s Moses Herzog, who wrote defiant letters to personages living and dead, meets the 21st century. Watch the advance money, sales and recognition roll in.>Or not. It is the contention of a polemic published in March in the online magazine Compact by the writer Jacob Savage — dad, ticket-scalper, former screenwriter — that today, such a novel would not receive acclaim commensurate with its quality, a claim he backed up by showing a dearth of such authors from lists of prominent literary honors. Moreover, Savage argued that what he saw as these novelists’ self-censorship, whether provoked by timidity or rational self-interest, meant that such a novel would not even be written.>“Unwilling to portray themselves as victims (cringe, politically wrong), or as aggressors (toxic masculinity), unable to assume the authentic voices of others (appropriation), younger white men are no longer capable of describing the world around them,” Savage, who is 41, wrote. What they do write, he added, avoids “grappling directly with the complicated nature of their own experience in contemporary America.”>Savage’s essay has attracted both derision and amens in newspapers and journals, on social media and Substacks, over drinks and in group chats.>“I think the nerve I hit is fairly obvious,” Savage said in an interview, adding, “being able to put numbers behind it was cathartic to some people and triggering to others.”>Humming underneath the disputation is a less tangible but more significant question. Let us say the perspective of the straight white man is being dampened in the world of literary fiction. Should we care?>For some observers, the complaint is roughly translatable as, “Won’t somebody please think of the straight white men?” “If a very small number of people who are not white, male, heterosexual gained a (likely temporary) foothold in a fringe cultural practice — which is what literary fiction is — there has to be a raging sense of privilege, neo-Trumpist or outright Trumpist, to claim that that constitutes a crisis,” the Bosnia-born novelist and screenwriter Aleksandar Hemon said in an email.>Francine Prose, a novelist and critic, was similarly skeptical: “You’ve run the world for thousands of years, and now you’re feeling disenfranchised?”
>>24566345>The USSR produced lots of great writers in spite of itself. Most of them struggled with the authorities constantly and lived miserable lives. Mayakovsky an heroed, Mandelstam died in a gulag, Bulgakov drank himself to death, etc because higher powers deemed their work dangerous to the progress of humanity.True, but it doesn't change the main point: "The USSR produced lots of great writers." You don't have to have ideal social conditions to produce enduring work. Hard times can help. Soft times, which is what we have now, boil the frog.
>>24566289>the need for Jewish writers/critics/publishers to prioritize Jews led to the slow and not-so-slow expulsion of straight white male Gentile writers. Since Jews couldn't fill up all the slots, places were set aside for other3This is the key point. Including more of some means excluding others, and when people of a certain category are in charge of publishing, or make up the bulk of agents, readers, reviewers, they select people like themselves. When 80% of literary agents are women, they publish women. It's not a conspiracy so much as natural predisposition. Unfortunately that means that Faulkner with his corncob or Hemingway with his toreador's cape don't get published, and we're the poorer for it.
>>24564534Lmao you have no idea how bad it has gotten. My ideal straight-white-guy game is thief gold btw, I don't care about Tits or ass. But other anon is right, everything except CoD (and desu even that has some signs of it) is packed with derivative inclusivity shit.I don't even mind female leads or brown people or gays if a really compelling story is the focus. But it never is, it's all muh queer rights battle against oppressor or some super thinly-veiled version thereof. "Lets make all the male characters obviously flawed babies and all the [identity] characters fucking cool and awesome." It's a reflection of the writers' disdain for straight white guys, from years of media insisting we're the villains of history and the present day.
lol
>>24558430They just haven’t read Corndog zen yet
>start rant about how elves are naturally untrustworthy and potentially manipulative towards humans but never develop upon it>make the most based character the duke and set him aside for an entire bookI've not been blue balled as much as with this series so far. This is why women shouldn't write.
>female author>commie propaganda>stronk womin on the coveryou only have yourself to blame
Hic lingua classica qualibet potest uti. Anglice licet si in spoileris ponat
>>24564364Precisely.
>>24565467What’s that like Japanese or summin?
>>24565286Niger, Hitlerum salvere iube!Niger, Hitlerum salvere iube!Atque ea quae in Twitter dico non intellegunt.Niger, Hitlerum salvere iube!Atque ea quae in Twitter dico non intellegunt.Omnes nigri mei Nazii sunt.Niger, Hitlerum salvere iube!Niger, Hitlerum salvere iube!Niger, Hitlerum salvere iube!Omnes nigri mei Nazii sunt.Niger, Hitlerum salvere iube!
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>The absolute quality of AI roleplay chatbots nowWhy didn't anybody tell me how good they are now? If I had access to this as a teenager I would've never had sex. I would've been 3x the shut-in I am today.
>>24566468Do you have to pay for this shit or is there something you can download and do it for free? Im not trying have some company collect data on my psychotic adventures.I recall playing around with something called like "Dungeon simulator" years back when ai was still garbage and kept repeating some piece of dialouge.
what book are we discussing in this thread?
>>24566977It is entertaining for a couple of hours.
>>24566978Maybe?
>>24566473Seconding this question
Do I need to read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight before this?
>>24564213stephen king agrees with him though
>>24563663>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight>English Mythology
>>24563682Donald Trump, although probably the best out of a bad bunch, is hardly King Arthur. He's still a fat degenerate at the end of the day.
>This fucking threadMy sides
>>24563187>Gawain, the most beautiful and pious Briton there was>portrayed by an IndianYeah, I think you need to go back.
You sit down to write..What tools do you use? What's the process look like? From a legal pad, a thesaurus and a bic pen to a custom emacs build connected to obsidian and your zettlekasten database.
I write with a fountain pen and when I have something I like, I copy it with a typewriter because my handwriting is terrible. It's pretentious but it feels fun
>>24565707His WordStar machine broke (true story)
>>24567498guess he doesn't know about virtual machines
>beforeAncient notebook with pirated Word. Everything in a single document>nowLatex in notepad++ using a Thinkpad I leave in my car. I also carry around some post-its with a pen to scribble ideas to develop upon when I get home.
>>24567247>me except I only use the typewriter for writing letters to the government because legible handwriting
Today is his birthday. Wish him /lit/
>>24567416he was born on this day and the land did not mark it nor did the stars shift nor did any man know what would come of it but he came anyway born unto dust and rock. And so today we reckon the passage of that birth though he himself would not reckon it for there is no clockwork in the void no candle by which to mark a year only the word and the fire it carries.Hopefully someone buys him a Grammarly subscription this year.
Why did he LARP as a southerner?>yankee born, irish catholic by blood>wealthy lawyers son, grew up in a large house and went to an upstanding high school>degree in liberal arts at a good college>urbanite who never experienced violence in his life>chose to larp as a poor southern hillbillyWhy?Faulkner, for comparison, was off 100% dixie colonial anglo stock, with family that had fought in the civil war and revolutionary wars and had been members of the klan.
>>24567545Read Suttree and perhaps you will find your answer.
