Why does /lit/ not talk about her more? I think if she were a man then she would be talked about more on /lit/.
I don‘t know
Less talking more gooning
>>24743522I gave up on The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter halfway through because it annoyed me. Too twee and precocious.
>>24743535I don't think you should be on this board to be honest. >>24743540You got filtered because you didn't finish. If you weren't a newfag and if you weren't a zoomer and if you finished reading the book then you'd find out that sentimentalism is the exact opposite of the novel. The irony is that you're agreeing with her. But you got filtered so you don't know that. I think you should leave the board too. Leave the thread as well because you don't have anything to contribute since you didn't finish the book.
>>24743522As so often happens on /lit/, we had a schizo that derailed every McCullers thread until we just stopped talking about McCullers as a way to get rid of the schizo.
>>24743556Wonder what happened to him
>>24743554Sorry I thought this was Flannery O'Connor. I actually read McCullers. No gooning.
>>24743567Thanks for the name drop. Can we get back on topic now please?
>>24743560OP is probably the schizo, at least that is the best way to proceed until evidence to the contrary is provided, McCullers schizo pops up every so often to take advantage of the newfags who don't know any better.
>>24743586Retard. You are unable to engage with literature on any meaningful level.
I love Carson McCullers, particularly for The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, but I don't see how she's a "protoDFW"
>>24743593Oh the proto DFW was a cheeky call back to one of the most egregious posts I've ever seen on this board where some guy made the claim that McCullers was proto DFW.
>>24743592>it's him>>24743593From what I remember it was something about how Heart is a Lonely Hunter and IJ dealt with the futility of communication in modern society. I never read IJ so can't say but it works for the McCullers. It seemed like it could have been an interesting discussion if not for schizo.
I think McCullers’ work hits harder if you’ve already read something like Huckleberry Finn or To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s like waking up from the lull of childhood and you realize what that innocence protected you from: not just the evil or vileness of life, but the utter loneliness of it. You begin to realize how remarkable it is to find people who truly understand you, and how easily that can change. If The Heart is a Lonely Hunter were a lesser book, it’d be about Singer uniting all these disparate and suffering people together to find common ground. But we see what happens instead, and we’re left with an emptiness, a realization of how our hearts have hardened with age, cynicism, regret. Also I pictured Antonapoulos like pic related
>>24743522She looks like the kind of girl I obsessed over in college for their soft mystique and their post-suicide-attempt eyes, which shone with a clarity that could see deep in my heart something true, and dateable, something that set me apart from all the normalfag men who were far too base to consider - when in reality she wouldn't notice me and would more than likely be a lesbian.
>>24743614Going by that almost every modern writer can be called proto-DFW. It's just a really pointless and pseudy thing to say and if you can't see that you need to read more. >>24743626No one cares about your blog faggot.
>>24743560Hopefully he found a better life free from 4chan.>>24743567I miss the Carson/Flannery waifu wars, simply because the participants actually read books.Team Carson by the way. Her characters feel like real, believable losers while Flannery relies too much on grotesquerie.
>>24743633It was far more interesting than the schizo accusing everyone of being (him) for the next year. I don't see how that applies to every modern writer, great many don't deal with communication of that sort at all. I still hurt for Singer after all these years.
>>24743655>great many don't deal with communicationA novelist not dealing with communication, crikey! It's just a very broad comment that is shallow and unhelpful. That idiot just said it so he could drop the name DFW. >>24743653I have it on good authority that he is still here.
>>24743522I think it's funny how she was married and dedicated her lifr to writing and still found time to bang 3/4 of the female authors of her time.
>>24743522no one gives a fuck about some shitty book about how racism is bad and white people are evil she is a dumb whore
>>24743702Filtered. Piss off.
>She clearly wrote against the grain of heterosexual convention, wore men's clothes, was outrageously aggressive in her consistently failed search for sex and love with another woman, and formed primary friendships with other gay peopleOk lads I'm going to buy her LoA collection and read her nowShe sounds incel core
>>24743614>It seemed like it could have been an interesting discussionI think I got this.Both Hal and Singer exist primarily to fulfill roles for the people around them and beyond that role, they don't really exist. This starts out as enough for them, they have something which makes the isolation bearable. but they lose those things and realize that it was never what they thought it was, it was a surrogate, a cope. The secondary characters are used to elaborate and explore it in more depth, they are complicit but also victims of the same thing. Hal even ends up unable to speak but he never really spoke in the first place, he just said what was expected, the few time he actually attempts to communicate, no one understands him even if they can understand the words he is speaking. I think there may actually be a great deal in common between them but it has been awhile since I have read either, the biggest difference being that Carson was more interested in the effect, DFW the cause. Think I might reread them in the near future.
