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What is some essential literature for someone who is fucking ripped?
Yukio Mishima
>tom platz
>not reading Plat's Republic
I'm ripped too. Wish literature was built for us but then the industrial revolution had to happen............ .. ................................ bvfri
How to become a millionaire author without becoming a meme, /lit/?
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/list-of-highest-paid-authors-in-the-world/1/499416.html
>inb4 write erotica and sell on amazon
>
You're missing the point, anon. None-meme authors don't become multimillionaires.
Writing is supposed to be a public service, not a lucrative rock star career.
>>8287094
I'm being very serious here, if you want to become a prolific and famous writer that makes money off of the profession, your books will not be good. It's as simple and as tragic as that.
>>8287094
>JK Rowling worth $19 million
Is this our generation's Catcher In The Rye
>>8287076
No. Salinger could actually write.
>>8287084
>I M P L Y I N G
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>>8287076
if you mean an overrated meme with terrible prose, then yes
What are some good authors from the past 25 years besides David Foster Wallace?
there's this fruit vendor who keeps leaving napkins with his poetry around cafes he visits, it annoys the baristas, but the poetry is beautiful
he signs the napkins with
- Shelfson
>>8287051
fuck off, frog scum
>>8287051
gr8 b8 m8
What's the definitive translation of the odyssey? It seems the fagles translation is the highest rated on goodreads, but the penguin classics has a beautiful and inexpensive hardcover edition, and there doesn't seem to be a nice hardcover of the fagles edition. If it really comes down to it, I would be happy to sacrifice getting a beautiful hardcover copy for a better translation, but if it doesn't make a difference then I'll go for the hard cover.
Merrill's
You can find the whole thing here
http://www.press.umich.edu/17212/odyssey/?s=look_inside
It's in dactylic hexameter and is the most faithful translation along with Lattimore's
>>8287036
That is beautiful
A lot of people like Pope but I can't find a physical copy anywhere. Not a fan of digital versions of ancient stuff due to lack of notes etc
Could I find a sense of self in literature? If so how?
I'm actively puzzled by what you're asking. Specify?
>>8287011
>women, blacks, homosexuals, liberals, leftists THE LIST
what numale pleb put that shit together???
>>8287011
It works for Marxists and Christians.
Ulysses
Brothers Karamazov
Don Quixote
Shakespeare's works
Iliad and Oddissey
>>8286950
Validation, apparently
Food, shelter.
>>8286963
You are funny
Tell me about some great Victorian literature.
Anything from poetry to gothic fiction to philosophy
>>8286844
Middlemarch
>>8286866
Middlemarch
Unless you don't want to see a host of characters fully realized and bouncing off of one another like the pinball machine of the human condition
>>8286844
Tennyson
Swinburne
Browning
What are the greatest Philosophical Fiction books?
Camus
Great question. A few picks:
>Reza Negarestani - Cyclonopedia
https://ciudadtecnicolor.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/cyclonopedia.pdf
>Giorgio Manganelli - Hilarotragoedia
https://www.uploady.com/#!/download/OABBZBrG2am/vU7ck2ZRH1kc4N2V
Relying on other anons to give you older titles.
>>8286806
I can find these both in english right?
Which books have the best songs? I really like the ones in LOTR
Gilthoniel! O Elbereth!
Clear are thy eyes and bright thy breath!
Snow-white! Snow-white! We sing to thee
In a far land beyond the sea.
>>8286663
nothing triggers me faster than when a book breaks into song.
>>8286667
Its god tier if done right, cheesy if the author clearly has no poetic talent
>>8286671
So what about LOTR in your opinion?
What are the criteria for good prose?
The prose has to be good.
when you read it and you're like "Woah!"
>>8286609
Nice pic.
Let's have a general dedicated to only talking about the Classics.
What's the best translation of the Oresteia trilogy? I was deciding between either Fagles or the Oxford University Press one. Any suggestions?
>inb4 learn Ancient Greek (yeah I'll get to that eventually)
This thread may be dead, but I would still like to ask this in case anybody sees it.
What is the best version of The Quest of The Golden Fleece? I've been checking out the Penguin Classics and the Oxford World's Classics ones.
If there is a Loeb translation I go for it. If there is not I go for any 19th century translation. Maybe it is just me but I prefer a more literal translation, and majority of the loeb translation is understandable.
People shit on loeb too much imho.
I don't like to read teubner etc with major critical aparatus as I don't read for research etc purposes. Nor I appreciate little footnotes explaining basic concepts when there are far better books which delve into the said authors work. The english as I said is not that different even for the earliest loeb,...
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tinychat / 4chanlit
>>8286572
>no clover
>no reason to be there
>>8286590
nOOOO!
>2:41 am
is it worth it? never been to one of these shitty tinychat things before but i'm pretty drunk so i might give it a shot.
or are there only retards?
Can a novel written in 2016 in the style of an 1800s British novel ever be considered as good as the novels it is paying homage to?
wait ten more years before you can us that meme nostalgically
Isn't that what Pynchon tried to do in Mason Dixon
I don't see why it would. Otherwise 19th century British Novels would be best sellers right now.
Why would you want to write that? Who would read it?
opinions on this guy? i'm thinking of reading the amazing adventures of cavalier & clay
I really like him but I'm worried that if I read his stuff again it'll seem too literary fictiony / bathetic
>>8286569
is the book in the op a good starting point for him?
Don't waste your time. The book is like the Oscar Bait of literature.
