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I'm trying to find a play that I can direct for my "senior project" in the spring.
I want something farcical and weird. Any suggestions?
>>7593386
Research your own shit dumbfuck
>>7593386
The Actor's Nightmare by Durang. Absurdist one act
def, Sweeney Agonistes
A Thousand Splendid Sons by Khaled Hosseini
An Essay On The Principle Of Population by Robert Malthus
Beneath the Wheel by Herman Hesse
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Dubliners by James Joyce
Egil’s Saga
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness by William Godwin
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Les Mouches by Jean-Paul Sartre
No Logo by Naomi Klein
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
Rendevous...
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>>7593257
I'd want to be reading Malthus too if I had subjected myself to Hosseini, if you catch my drift family :^)
How was The Good Soldier Svjek? Been meaning to look that up.
>>7593265
pretty marvellous. shame he never finished it.
sorry for typos btw
>>7593265
Like Confederacy of Dunces meet Catch-22 in Czechoslovakia during WW1
I want learn Hegel's secrets
What are the best reading sources on him?
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel/#SecLit
>>7593264
Thanks. I knew about the first link but I didn't realize they listed more sources.
Honest fair warning. Once you read Hegel there is no going back. The onion only has so many layers.
why did I listen to the memers
seriously what is this shit
>ineluctable
Hey I remember that word from Ulysses LOL
It's the literary equivalent of an indie video game.
Why is this considered a classic? It seemed mediocre to me. Are the other books any better?
it's shit. it's boring and badly written
>>7592290
If it was written by a non-white, a non-male, or a non-heterosexual, then it wouldn't be remembered
>>7592313
what is this tumblr?
what was the book you've read the most pages of in a single day, and how many was it
pic related, 450
>>7592274
I read about 120 pages of Anna Karenina the other day. A productive day for me. 450 though? I can't even imagine. That's pretty incredible. How long did it take you? I'd say 120 pages took me well over 3 hours but probably under 4.
>>7592340
well, monte cristo is bit easier than anna karenina, but still, it took me full day, never felt like a chore though
>>7592436
Same, OP. Knocked that masterpiece out in like 3 days. I did take some adderall, but I didn't need it, Monte Cristo is one of the most fun reads ever.
Hello /lit/, since you (or /sci/) are considered the genius tier of 4chins, I bring my question to you.
What is the most up to date philosophical equivalent of Newton's (or Whitehead/Russel's) Principia? I'm looking to read THE book on philosophy no matter how long it takes me, but I'm not familiar with any modern philosophers. Bonus if it involves mathematics/science, but I'm looking for something along the lines of the ultimate book of knowledge avaialble to modern man.
>i'll ask /sci/ too to avoid bias
>>7591835
READ THE STICKY
START WITH THE GREEKS
DEVELOP YOUR OPINION
>>7591835
SWTG
S W T G
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Let's have a thread about worthwhile contemporary poetry, maybe without the useless slam-poetry bashing that happens every fucking time. Rec stuff you enjoyed and found beautiful.
I personally adored Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red and Meyer's Beowulf - both of which you can find online without any difficulty. Does anyone else love retelling of ancient tales/myths/narrations? Do you have any suggestion?
>personally adored
Ugh. You make me sick. Sage. Hidden.
>>7589286
I wanted to rant at you but it'd be quite useless. Sorry for not being a native English speaker and not adding three or four layers of irony to my enjoyment of a poem, I guess.
i greatly enjoyed Autobiography of Red. I wasn't expecting to enjoy it so much. it was assigned reading for a class I took on Ovid's Metamorphoses. very heartbreaking book
yo /lit/ are there any good living writers?
everything I have ever read has been written by a dead man and it makes me sad
Dead authors aren't actually good. We only say they are out of fear of being haunted.
me
>>7588406
link your stuff
What are some of Wodehouse's best? Maybe some english anons can help me out. He doesnt seem to get much attention in America
Idk I've only read a Jeeves andthology and short story anthology. Following this thread as I absolutely love his tone and humor
Hey /lit/, I need the title of a book. It is about a colony on Venus where it only stops raining once every 3 years. In the colonies school, there is 1 girl who claims to have seen the sun, but none of the other students believe her description of it. Then the rain stops one day, but they lock her in closet while it happens. I read it one day when I was in the library, but I can't remember the title. I think it was written by Ray Bradbury. If you could give me ANY information about it, I would be most thankful. Thanks!
>>7592591
You sure it wasn't mars?
Ray Bradbury somthing shit.
>>7592609
ALL summer in a day?
What does /lit/ think of The Establishment?
You gotta be a wee bit sheltered if you thought chavs didn't exist desu
>>7592425
fucking gay desu
>>7592425
>two threads at once
Come on reddit, keep it in your pants.
where to start with georges bataille?
>>7591382
I haven't yet but I'll be starting with Eroticism: Death and Sensuality, which seems to be his main work. Jurgen Habermas writes a good essay on him.
>>7591569
Habermas essay?
That's a good starting place though. Or his essays in evil and Literature. Reading the story of the Eye is worth it and its like super short.
Lord Auch
So where's the /lit/ archive?
Testing to see if Im still banned from lit
Archive breaks sometimes. Might be back eventually.
>>7592872
The ban screen should tell you if you're not banned any more.
Hey guys, out of pure curiosity, let's say you're single-minded enough to read all of a certain author's oeuvre, plus his biography: will you start with the biography, then go on with his actual works, or do it backwards?
I, for one, try to read the biography up to the point where he wrote a book, then I'll read that book, before going back to the biography, up to the next book, rinse and repeat until I'm done.
Pic more or less related, I'm just hitting the Hamsun for now (hitherto he's been my favorite litterator)
Depends really, I'd probably read a few of their works, then read a biography once I'm more interested.
I read a novel or whatever it is that they are writing and then check their biographies if the said work I read interests me.
