First day of my lit class

>not saying John Green

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Is it black cock if it's half European half Haitian?

I mean, seriously though, I don't know who I'd pick beside one of the people you named.

Borges maybe. Or Stanislaw Lem.

>everyone says their favorite author is Gabriel García Márquez

Say Celine next time.

>tfw favorite writer is Nabokov
>he made groundbreaking use of the authorial voice, and is constantly narratologically subversive in a way that's unique and widely unappreciated, in addition to his being an amazing stylist

>when I say "Nabokov" people will always assume I just like the pretty prose

Or that you are a pedophile

>not saying Sylvia Plath.

I know that feel, user.

Seems like a nice class, when I first got into literature I remember one kid refering stephen king, and a couple of girls saying jk rowling

What's wrong with that

>everyone says García Márquez,Pablo Neruda, Borges,etc
>nobody says Miguel de Cervantes

Some people would've said that. The professor added a caveat saying no Harry Potter, only LITERATURE.

>say Cervantes
>teacher says he was a white European and doesn't qualify

depends on whether you said "DOO-mass" or "doo-MAH".
If you pronounced it right then panties are wet.

W-which one is right...?

That's not what a round robin is

There is not a single thing wrong with choosing any of these authors as your favorite. What is your problem?

>Not Bob Dylan
???

...yes it is. You go around the room and every one has to answer the question. Please go back to pre-school.

>Favorite writer
>Lists poets

It's pronounced "dumbass"

>Faulkner never gets any love

>Joyce
>he doesnt say Shakehisbeard, in a funny way.

Not even close. It's like you saw the word round and made up your own meaning.

>tfw you pronounced it dOO-mAAs

That's an idiosyncratic usage at best. Look it up.

It's pronounced Dyma, cunt

Nobody loves Faulkner because his writing style consists of him jerking off onto the page, stoping to finish a sentence only upon orgasm.

You copy pasted that from Wikipedia with no knowledge of how to even pronounce that

Dymá

No, I actually speak French fuckface. A for effort though.

>having a favorite anything

The good news is yes,
the bad news is that what user said is not true in real life.

Sure you do.
Whatever helps you stroke your inflated ego :^)

it's prononced du-ma you fucking english cunt you don't say the ssss

>tfw always answer Tolkien
>manage to be both innocuous and sincere while avoiding the plebeian pitfall

>at least 2 say the author the class is about
Who is the class about

Yeah yeah, nobody knows a language that is foreign to you. You shouldn't be the one criticizing other's egos.

Just looked up Saul for the first time. Gotta get me some of that.

>no Gertrude Stein
>no Thomas Campion
>no Leonidas of Tarentum
>no-one even mentioned Finnegans Wake
Holy fuck OP enjoy your class of plebshits you fucking pleb

Me on the left :^)

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>not saying Alan Moore
>not showing an appreciation for the face of neo-lit

Missed opportunity to get pussy tb.h f.am

>favorite author
>Finnegans Wake
???
Someone in the class said Joyce.

>one guy says Joyce

I could only imagine the professor's reaction to this -- on the inside at least. It's the same as some teenager walking into NASA saying his favorite career is an astronaut and asking when he can join the next space mission.

The cringe...

I mean, sure you can read Joyce but can someone really say it's their favorite if they probably don't even understand it? (Not saying I do, but there's a high chance the professor doesn't even know either because it's that difficult.)

I remember when my Prof did the same thing at the start of my college class
>everyone is saying either YA or entry-level shit like orwell, tolkein, dostoevsky etc.
>my turn and I say james joyce
>girl near me scoffs out loud and mutters 'really'?
>reply 'what? ulysses is my favorite book'
>she rolls her eyes and says 'you don't have to show off'
>class laughs at me
>get flustered, stutter and can't think of a comeback
>prof goes round to her and (get this) she says her favorite author is I made this story up
Fuck that bitch

Happened at my college, I tend to just say the author I'm reading at the time. I don't really have favorites, so when I was called out I said John Steinbeck.

The Grapes of Wrath was a decent book.

Saying Joyce is your favourite author isn't saying you completely understand Finnegans Wake. Maybe he just really likes Dubliners and Portrait.

>alinsky
Cringe
Professor probably thought you were autistic

>Vous êtes un homosexuel.
oh yah, translate that

I don't have to, eat shit :^)

If he is teaching undergraduate literature class, his opinion is not worth my time or consideration. Scored an A+ in the class too.

I always say Henry Miller to get feminist pussy.

>Tolkien
>not plebeian
8/8

>Using vous instead of tu in this context
Nice google translate you've got there

Yes, because poetry is making words on a page form by magic and nice thoughts.

Fuck off, Sam.

Poets are writers in the same sense that a child fingerpainting is a painter.

How could you be more pleb and know how to type?

>enjoys poetry
>calls others plebs
I am sorry to be the first to notify you, but poetry is literally the lowest form of art.

kys

Go to where you learned to read literature and slap them for me, please.

>vous
Exposed

>using the indefinite article where it should be omitted
wew lad

>that one faggot who always keeps going on about narratology

nobody likes you

I don't understand (outside of the naturally negative attitude of the site) why ficionnes is around #8 on lit favorites but no one talks about Borges outside of the shitposting anti Argentina threads.

5/8 master b8

t. philistine who never studied a written work older than 100 years

Nigger know how I can tell you've never actually studied literature and are just a pseud? Because there's literally no way to study literature seriously without studying poetry. It's like trying to learn mathematics without learning Algebra.

Yeah, I definitely don't get it.

Borges is honestly amazing. Ficciones is filled with brilliant inventiveness.

It's almost like people just pick authors to make themselves sound intelligent and don't actually read anything by them and thus have nothing to say.

>only 1 person said Joyce

looks like your class has a lot to learn

This happened to me as well but who really cares? I'm in school to improve myself. Fuck everyone else in the room. I got my own goals.

So why does this site operate like this? I've been here for a while, starting to feel trapped a little bit, but I don't understand why there's such a goddamn circle jerk. Every board has like, 10 core things that they like, and with the exception of the daily threads over on mu, none of the boards seem interested in trying to branch out. It's really confusing, especially with literature...

>all these faggots taking the bait
Thank you for promoting shitposting. You retards are the reason Veeky Forums is so awful nowadays.

probably shakespeare since op didn't mention shakespeare. Also one of the few writers that most universities devote an entire course to (at the undergraduate level, at least)

...

kys

She's cute! And he looks like a nice old man!

tolkien is pretty pleb though

This thread is a special kind of awful

>Spanish
>White

>not knowing that vous is proper since he doesn't know the poster hence vous (the formal version of you as well as the plural)

>European Spaniards immigrated to South America
>became the ruling class
>you were elite in places like Brazil if you were white, ie a European Spaniard
>>Cervantes not white
???

I'm taking an online Spanish lit class for my fine arts credit. What am I in for?

tu is the more familiar pronoun therefore more suited to an insult

>Willy Wigglestick

cet homme a raison

>Brazil
>spanish