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Hey /lit/. I just became acquainted with François Bordes, French professor of prehistory. I know he was supposed to be a popular scifi writer in the Soviet Union, but apparently none of his books were translated into English. Have any former-Soviet anons dabbled in translating his work or know of any unofficial translations I could find online?
>The novel was dedicated to Carsac's American friends and science fiction writer colleagues Poul Anderson and L. Sprague de Camp, from whose works the author acknowledged borrowing some elements.
>L. Sprague de Camp called the book "a whale of a story," and with the permission of Carsac's widow undertook to translate it into English for the American market. His agent circulated a three-chapter sample with a synopsis of the remainder of the story to U.S. publishers, but it was rejected on the grounds...
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i can't be the only one who just adores cozy fiction about women-folk problems?
Why are we stalking them from the bushes?
What are we about to do to R E B E C C A?
That's not just a book about womenfolk problems. Unless you think falling in love with a murderer and being an accomplice to deadly crimes is a typical "woman problem".
>>7576453
I'm just here to make a woman hate thread in /lit/ desu
What passages, or entire books have been therapeutic for you? Basically, in this thread, I would like you anons to share a passage or two that has been therapeutic for you. Not looking for motivational quotes or anything like that, just some honest, personal reflection.
Today I was reading Anna Karenina and read the part where Levin confesses his sins, so to speak, to Kitty by giving her his notebooks. The confession was that Levin had been with other women, and was a nonbeliever. Kitty was upset most by Levin's impurity, but forgives him while still denouncing...
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Meditations chilled me out a lot. I'm an uncommitted fuckwad so I'll probably never live the stoic life, but it was fun to pretend :)
>>7574761
Leaves of Grass.
It inspires me to simply do something, live life, see everything as something grand and wonderfully eternal. God that man is spectacular.
>>7574761
I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery
What are some essential pulp stories? Any nice, contemporary collections?
Read Raymond Chandler's novels starting with The Big Sleep. He's one of the greatest prose and dialogue writers of all time.
>liked the beats, a few classics, and some of the postmodernists in highschool
>go to college for literature
>it's all boring junk
do you guys love literature more or less indiscriminately? is it okay to be bored by most things?
>>7574641
>liked the beats
Degenerate.
Whom here knows what to become a grammar Nazi?
The tips, tricks, faqs? I'm virtually quick study.
>>7574580
Yeah, pay attention in class and come back when you meet the age requirement.
Find some arbitrary rules like split infinitives or the serial comma and demand that they be adhered to strictly. Copyedit any text you can find with your fussy personal sentence structures, especially casual texts from friends and family.
>>7574660
Arbitrary rules were found, some, such the like as infinitives (splitted), commas regular and serial, also known (AKA) as oxford, generally capitalized: Oxford, and, as to be suggested, demand all adhered to forever strictess.
What does /lit/ think of Goethe?
I want to read him but I cannot read German. How difficult is he to read for current-German readers?
its no hard to read goethe if you're a native german speaker. sometimes you have to turn your brain on to understand some of the meanings of his sentences but it should be no problem for someone interested in literature.
i don't know how it is for a non-native german reader. the texts are 200 years old so there are some words in there that even germans have to look up to get the meaning of but if you can manage to read Goethes Faust you won't regret it. its one of those rare books that is just pure literature and if you read it you will know what i mean.
maybe...
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I have to Goethe the bathroom
boring shit
Blood Meridian's narrator is not an authorial voice that exists outside the narrative. The narrator is Judge Holden himself.
The narrator is Samuel Chamberlain's spirit form, possessing Cormac's mind. The Kid is Chamberlain. The kid didn't murder or rape any children, and the Judge was never in the outhouse; the only thing left in the outhouse was the spirit of the kid and about 80lbs of cowboy shit. The man lived happily everafter.
ok guys, my goal is to make a basic 50-100 pages short story.
my plan is to use that as the basics upon a magazine will be made about the story, with fake ads about locations and characters inside the story, stuff like fake interviews with the characters and the story being told with diferent articles about diferent aspect of the story.
I wanna do this because I've fallen in love with graphic design and plain text doesn't feel like it would give me all those aesthetical pleasures a magazine layout could give me (layout, designing basic geometric shapes,...
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>when u tryna craft a master piece but ur granma wont stop botherin u
>>7574518
english isn't my native language, so pls forgive my taco english.
>>7574521
Your English is fine. I was just 'avin a giggle at the painting.
What /lit/ thinks about these different ways to concieve the philosophy?
>>7574385
Don't feel with all the shitposting going on you will be able to slip past.
>>>/his/phil
Enjoy your week ban.
What do hardcore analytics even fucking do?
Serious question. I am continental as shit and I literally never run into anything analytic except maybe Pooper.
>>7574385
That image is horribly inaccurate.
I'm trying to read a bunch of books that deal with themes like: islands, corruption of man, jungles, savages, stuff like that.
Do you have any suggestions beyond what I've already read? (Robinson Crusoe, Heart of Darkness, Island of Doctor Moreau, and pic related.)
Feel free to suggest classics or anything, really.
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne.
Would anyone know if "The Possibility of an Island" is anything like what OP is looking for?
I haven't read it, just saw the name on here before.
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
All Soul's Rising by Madison Smartt Bell
The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier
What are the best books on psychology?
>>7574270
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
>>7574270
You'd be better off asking, which author will make you a better psychologist?
Discipline and punish
Is this too long to justify reading through it?
Can we ever have one thread that isn't fucking stupid? Does everything have to be "Is this worth reading?" "Thoughts?" "What does /lit/ think of this?" "I started this but I don't want to finish it."
Can we ever talk about a book one time? I shitpost all day here and I still want to talk about a real fucking book one fucking time. Can you just go read this book and then come back and we'll fucking talk about it you piece of shit?
>>7574256
1k pages. lol uhhh yeah for you it is
>>7574265
You haven't read it, have you?
David Bowie's favorite books:
http://mashable.com/2016/01/11/david-bowie-top-favorite-100-books/
What do you think?
>>7574248
I'm choosing to believe that Eliot, Bellow, and Nabokov were included because they were real favorites of his, while Junot Diaz and Michael Chabon were included because they were friends of Iman or something.
He was a true patrician
You see this people? This is how you be a true patrician, by having your own interests that you deep dive into while still familiarizing yourself with the classics. You get such a sense of David Bowie as a person from this list.
Who else going to lose all hope for life to get better tomorrow?
Reported. Not literature, not /lit/
Go to college confidential
>>7574276
Go to hell
>going to college
