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Where do i start with Aztec literature?
Popol vuh maybe
>>7671781
> not knowing where to start with aztec canon
> not posting who this semen demon is
> inb4 in the filename
what has been written can not been erased!
What is /lit/'s thoughts on this guy?
What's with portraits thinking that "black and white" will make a human look more literary? You ask me? Pretty retarded.
>>7671818
90% of the time they pull some dumb gloomy expression, too
it's like, fuck off
>>7671832
How shit are these things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br1sGrA7XTU
>>7671761
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsgAsw4XGvU
>>7671761
Very, but they're alright for being 3-minutes philosophy videos. It'd be silly to expect any kind of accuracy.
I can't be the only one who thinks this is not that funny. I appreciated the humour but not once did I have to hold back psycho laughter or tears in public as some reviews would have me to believe.
Does it suffer from being the first of its kind, having since become apparently cliched to a contemporary reader?
Are you anything like Ignatius?
>>7671697
I, too, thought it was quite dull and dropped it after the first chapter. Did I miss anything, or does it continue in the same bland manner? I was barely able to force a smile, but what do I know, maybe it gets funny later...
Does anyone ever take someone else's poem and turn it into something completely different?
Is doing this a good exercise for practicing poetry? It definitely seems like a good exercise of the person's poem is notably trite/cheesy/etc, because it encourages you to rewrite the poem in less conventional ways.
I guess it's worth noting that I'm not talking about inverting the meaning or replacing certain words with antonyms/synonyms. I'm talking about reinterpreting another person's poem/mind/thoughts/ideas in the context of your poem/mind/thoughts/ideas.
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>>7671652
I ripped off one of pinecone's songs from V. and slightly changed the lyrics, if that counts.
Who was the greatest philosopher of the 20th century?
All philosophers post bronce age were losers
Why does he wear the bandana
>>7671647
it's a do-rag and it's to maintain his cornrows
What books can I read to learn about cultural Marxism?
Gramsci is a good intro. Dialectic of Enlightenment is needlessly difficult to read but the first essay is good for understanding the basic idea of critiquing "capitalist culture," instrumentalization e.g. Some kind of intro to Gramsci would be your best bet though.
The interesting thing is that a lot of cultural Marxist critiques dovetail with the most incisive (and much less read) right wing critiques of modernity, industrial and mechanical man, mass man, capitalist culture, etc. Not uncommon to see people smushing Gehlen together with a bunch of leftist wieners.
What's the best version of this book?
read it in original greek or don't bother at all
I've liked Fagles a lot.
Fitzgerald
Hello /lit/. What are some recommended stoic pieces?
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/
>>7671593
seneca's letters from a stoic is pretty great
>>7671593
on my to read list is "Meditations" by Marc Aurel which is apparently to develops and introduces some ideas of stoicism
Can someone suggest some contemporary French writers like Houellebecq? I read most of Soumission in French before it came out here and found the prose pretty readable. Please do not recommend the Stranger, Bonjour Tristesse, etc. I prefer novels published since at least the 90's.
Nonexistent. Don't try it or you'll be very disappointed if you're familiar with the XXth century French authors.
Stick to pre-2000 writers.
>>7671731
I'm under that impression too. Most of it seems to be terrible "autofiction." I'm curious mostly because Soumission was fairly easy to read and was curious to find out if there were any other writers in French worth reading now.
2084 by Sansal is literally just a better version of Submission.
Echenoz, Michon and Quignard are the best living French writers.
What's the difference between genre fiction and literary fiction?
>>7671551
pedantry
arbitrary
lit fic makes you think about lit, gen fic makes you think about that gen.
>have roughly a fiver left on my watersones gift card
>thinking of getting this
is it a good edition lads or should I wait and save up for another?
>a fiver
kill yourself
>>7671542
Get Oxford World's Classics, has a nice layout, introduction, and annotations.
You can also get the Norton Critical Edition, but I wouldn't recommend it because the editors changed the punctuation, making it "easier" to understand, but taking away some of the ambiguity that created poetic force in some passages (e.g. they put in parenthesis some parts of Satan's first monologue).
I imagine most of you guys have had this experience before: You start with a nice novel or poetry collection and about 10% in realize you'd be enjoying yourself far more if you waited until the proper season. For me it's mostly really bleak or oppressive books, which I like to read in summer, and Victorian novels, which are strictly winter fare.
Examples:
>Pale King and Remainder are strong spring books
>Jude The Obscure should be read in winter
>Sabbath's Theater...
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>>7671522
It's more of a retroactive realization for me, but yes, it's not just in your head.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man benefits greatly from being read in late Winter or early Spring.
Has anyone read Suzanne Berne?
What do you all think of her work? I haven't read it yet and would like some opinions before I pick something up.
>>7671503
Redpilled /r9k/ browser here.
Here's a piece of advice: Don't pick up women writers. They're not as good as men
>>7671520
THE FIRST BLOW OF THE "IRONICALLY MAD ABOUT MISOGYNISTS BUT IF I CLOAK IT IN SATIRE IT MEANS I'M NOT MAD AND JUST SUPERIOR TO THE PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH ME (FUCK I HATE THEM SO MUCH!!)" CRUSADE HAS BEEN STRUCK
WE JUST NEED TO KEEP IRONYPOSTING AS IRONIC /R9K/ SATIRES UNTIL THE BOARD IS NOTHING BUT ASSPAIN
THEN /R9K/ WILL LEAVE
THE SOLUTION IS SO CLEAR
DEA VULT
>>7671520
Care to pill my on women?
What's the best translation of the Phenomenology of Spirit?
The one Zizek uses.
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