/lit/ - In 1884 you could write mini-reviews of some thing - Literature

Anonymous

09/03/25(Wed)15:22:48 No.24694556

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In 1884 you could write mini-reviews of some things you saw and ate, call it a novel, and have the critics call you a genius.

Anonymous
09/03/25(Wed)15:30:12 No.24694576

Anonymous 09/03/25(Wed)15:30:12 No.24694576

>reading Huysmans in translation
cute
(dumb thread btw)

Anonymous
09/03/25(Wed)15:31:23 No.24694581

Anonymous 09/03/25(Wed)15:31:23 No.24694581

>>24694576
>posts this
>didn't respond to my Jean Echenoz thread (implying you can't read French, or are so uncultured that you don't even know who Jean Echenoz is)
cute
(dumb post btw)

Anonymous
09/03/25(Wed)15:31:44 No.24694585

Anonymous 09/03/25(Wed)15:31:44 No.24694585

like you can't now? just be brown

Anonymous
09/03/25(Wed)17:05:16 No.24694826

Anonymous 09/03/25(Wed)17:05:16 No.24694826

>>24694556
Well yeah, that and mastering/innovating form, style, narrative...

Anonymous
09/03/25(Wed)18:02:44 No.24695027

Anonymous 09/03/25(Wed)18:02:44 No.24695027

>>24694576
Seething ESL

Anonymous
09/03/25(Wed)18:04:06 No.24695034

Anonymous 09/03/25(Wed)18:04:06 No.24695034

>>24694556
>The Sun Also Rises (1925)

Anonymous
09/03/25(Wed)18:12:54 No.24695065

Anonymous 09/03/25(Wed)18:12:54 No.24695065

>>24694556
Filtering plotfags for 141 years.

Anonymous
09/03/25(Wed)23:48:28 No.24695924

Anonymous 09/03/25(Wed)23:48:28 No.24695924

>Zola, Huysmans' former mentor, gave the book a lukewarm reception. Huysmans initially tried to placate him by claiming the book was still in the Naturalist style and that Des Esseintes's opinions and tastes were not his own. However, when they met in July, Zola told Huysmans that the book had been a "terrible blow to Naturalism" and accused him of "leading the school astray" and "burning [his] boats with such a novel", claiming that "no type of literature was possible in this genre, exhausted by a single volume".
Fucking destroyed