Anybody can make themselves look performative reading whatever book depending on the situation or how they present themselves. I dont really think there are performative books on their own. Except Finnegan's Wake

>>25063948
Infinite Jest, Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow

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>>25063958
So anything by Joyce? Got it.

anything on reddits or 4chan top 100 lists

>>25063948
your favourite books of all time

>>25063948
Performative is slipping into that gaslighting territory where overuse makes it meaningless and if you disagree you’re performatively gaslighting me.

Isn't performative reading mostly women projecting? Since they are always posting videos of themselves reacting (and over acting) to books they're reading and showing off their size their bookshelves? Men into reading seem to stick with the same twenty books or so and talk about them because they're so mainstream with male readers

>>25063957
It’s Finnegans Wake, you fucking spastic. Remember that before you post next time, got it?

I don't know about tok kulcha but didn't it used to be a crumpled copy of On The Road stuffed into your coat pocket?

Joan Didion, Clarice Lispector, bell hooks

>>25063948
/lit/ top 100 list 2025

>>25063948
Anything that isn't Greek, French or Italian. I don't make the rules, sorry.

reddit buckbroke /lit/

>>25063948
IJ

>>25063948
Obviously Marx

Franz Kafka, doetoevsky and Albert campus are the essential performative core literature.next question!!

>>25063957
FPBP.
>>25064176
Lol, seething.

>>25063948
performing what exactly?

>>25064763
google conspicuous leisure, Pablo

Look up the youtube channel Jack Edwards and copy his reading list.

I thought performative reading was pretending to read a book in a public space hoping to impress women?

>>25064792
Yeah he's asking for a list of books that are impressive to pretend to read.

Literally anything by Calvino.

>>25064794
Just pick up any doorstopper and if anyone asks you about it make up a plot on the fly

>>25063958
I would never read any of these books in public. In fact, I felt quite ashamed even while reading them in private. I even tossed the copies after I finished them, imagine if someone spied any of these novels on my shelf, they must think I had put them on display! I do have a queer respect for people who have read them in public. I think it takes bravery to risk being seen as performative or engaged in conspicuous leisure (and if they are simply naive, oh to see through a child's eyes!). A previous girlfriend of mine showed some interest and wanted to purchase Infinite Jest from a bookstore (in a lapse of judgment, I had praised the book and waxed about it at length, in the perceived private space of our bedroom). Imagine my shame! I urged her to order it online instead, but how could I possibly explain the issue to her? Once she started toward the register, I fled to the car, narrowly escaping the eye of the bookstore cashier, my ultimate nemesis. The clever cashier would immediately spot the truth, of course, for we entered the store together. It only bought me once last glance, one last taste, the rapport built from years of purchasing obscure novels in the store about to be destroyed. I knew I could never return again. The relationship was slowly destroyed by that novel, displayed in our living room on the coffee table, her bookmark never moving past 100 pages, a permanent insult, a scar, utter humiliation, and the questions from visitors (if I could not hide it in time), and all of this from a single lapse! One can never be too careful, especially around women.

>>25063948
It doesn't work though. I read mein kampf on campus while making faces to show how stupid I found it, but no gril asked me out.

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the fuck is "performative reading"

>>25063948
catposting trannies should be hanged

>>25063948
Mocking "performative reading" is an online campaign from big tech to keep people on the internet.

western "canon"

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>>25064763
i think it means literature that insist upon itself
the writer is the one putting up a vain performance

>>25063958
>>25065233
Basically people who pretend to enjoy and brag about any book that is hailed as a masterpiece that is one on a technical level, but that even those who know and discern the technical nuances behind it find is a chore to go through rather than something they find enjoyable.

>>25063948
this cat is fucking hot

>>25064176
Read it outloud. Itis song

>>25067095
You don't need to think anything you fucking retard, words have meaning

>>25065185
Thank you anon this was a good read