Nikolai Gogol

Hey,

We decided to post short stories by authors we like at today's meeting, for those of you who couldn't make it. This one is called The Nose by Nikolai Gogol.

http://h42day.100megsfree5.com/texts/russia/gogol/nose.html

-Nick G

Lit Club Meeting

Hey Guys,

The next meeting is on Friday September 30th at 4 pm at the Pannikin in Leucadia. See you there.

-Nick G

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There’s a lot of self-recognition (or -reference) in post-modernism writing. This self-recognition starts out with the author’s ability to actually write down things that most people have thought about on a subconscious level, or have thought about but were unable to synthesize into words. This is where experience becomes fuzzy: we are experiencing what this witty individual (character) is experiencing, but in a way that draws from our own experience… With 03 I find myself understanding much of the (often times incredibly jumpy and difficult!) content through similar experiences that I’ve had, like similar feelings and emotions evoked through songs written by The Smiths or Joy Division, or the over-analysis of love at a time when I was also in 12^th grade… I feel very mawkish about all this stuff and is something I can identify with especially because I think that the (I wanna say memoir) novella was written perhaps after a level of maturity was reached to actually attempt to describe what the hell is going on in Our heads (after the experience (or monologue) described (I.E. NOW).

This is what I’m trying to say: is anyone else identifying with this book? Is anyone else feeling juvenile and mawkish? Is anyone not digging the book because they haven’t experienced thoughts like these (maybe you girls (probably I am most interested in your opinion girls…)?

Bottom line: 55 pages in and it’s kicking my butt…

not this one

i found a blog

Hi

I'm a go ahead and be the first poster guy:
 I've been reading books that hash out la true complexities of living in society a la genre postmodernism. And this is what I think (also I am a whole 10 pages in 03 so we'll see..): postmodernism (or a lot of what I've been reading i.e. the first 10 pages of 03) is a re-hash of some Zeno's paradox stuff. Viz. postmodernism really analyzes Zeno's stuff again and says, "Wait, how do people cross the street?" or pose, "How do people move or make decisions?" Except a lot of the postmodernism stuff involves this monologue (the master), where people cannot cross a street or move or make any decisions because people are bombarded and ruined to static by every tangential thought (monologue i.e. every link in this blog) about anything and can as a result, suffer from (more like a product of contemporary society) decision fatigue. How do we survive in a world like this with all these decisions... are they  bad? or good? (I don't know).
We got all these leaps of faith, and we're pretty sure we know where we're landing (who said we were landing?).
Anyway: I like the first 10 pages.
also: these are just so fun
and his philosophy is so good
also expecting everyone with full force in this style..

First Meeting

So, we're reading 03 by Jean-Christophe Valtat by Friday September 30th. Feel free to post any thoughts/comments/musing on here.