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ITT: Characters who did nothing wrong
>>8103862
Pearl was best girl.
>>8103862
Obligatory
Why don't we have a sticky for recommended translations of major works? Seriously family, it'd be pretty useful.
>>8103762
I don't know, last time I was wondering this is when I asked about which translation of the Odyssey to read. So I decided Fitzgerald.
>>8103762
Everyone Else > Constance Garnett
>>8103769
Good arguments to be made here, almost none of them for Fitzgerald.
He's anachronistic with language to the point of obscurantism. More importantly, not only is is Lattimore the superior scholar, but also the superior poet -- he produced in his own right and was once seriously considered for the pulitzer.
Go with lattimore in the future
How to make a Deal with a publisher?
>>8103757
Submit a letter to an agent first.
>>8103757
If my ideas were very interesting, but my prose somewhat lacking, would an agent be interested in that?
as soon as they let you in their office hit your knees and reach for their cock
is this /lit/s version of kino?
>>8103700
We don't speak retard around here, kiddo.
>>8103700
If "kino" means "overlong and repetitive," then yes.
>>8103739
>overlong and repetitive
something that happened over the course of 100 years should be decently long.
K. learned what he was accused of, right?
>>8103689
He's dead.
Also I have that exact edition and it's probably my favorite cover art.
>>8103699
But he acts like he knows
Or at least that he knows he's not actually being persecuted for anything
Just finished reading pic related and wanted to discuss it. Never read a book so quickly, having picked it up today and finished not 15 minutes ago. What do you guys think of it? Are there themes that are often overlooked you think I should know?
>>8103674
He killed the arab in "the heat of the moment"
It's often looked down on on /lit/ because it's accessible, so you probably won't see much worthwhile discussion. I kinda liked it, it did exactly what Camus set out to do, which is just give a glimpse into how a man aware of absurdity lives with it. The only other Camus I've read is The Plague, and I enjoyed that one a lot more. It has an underlying hope that was absent in The Stranger and seems to make the book a lot more emotional. I suggest that next.
>>8103674
I first read the book when I was 17 and I can admit that I didn't get some parts of it myself. I'm hearing Bohemian Rhapsody and I can imagine the song applying to this book.
A friend recommended me this book. Is it any good /lit/?
Sounds like "think outside the box!"-style management buzzwords that will do absolutely nothing.
Anything, book or investment or infomercial fitness gadget, that claims it can turn you into a success with no effort is lying to you.
TED/Gladwell -esque bullshit, plus a few fun facts thrown in for good measure. 2/10
Just finished the first two chapter last night. The book said the three hardest words in the English language is ''I dont't know''. Do you agree?
There's a limited amount of time in each day. Why should I spend my time reading any fiction?
Is there any practical reason to choose fiction over non-fiction, or do people just choose it because it's more "fun"?
>>8103568
There isn't even a practical reason to choose life over death, you fedora tipping ape
>>8103568
>Why should I spend my time reading any fiction?
why should you read? is the question you should first answer
You're right.
You shouldn't read any fiction.
No fun for you.
Go away now.
Guys, I can't fucking do it. Reading one long letter without any any sections or divisions is driving me fucking insane.
>>8103560
>needing chapters
>>8103560
It wouldn't be so bad if he didn't keep repeating himself.
>>8103570
It's so fucking boring. I just feel like I've got the point of the whole letter in the first 30 pages.
How lit is /lit/?
0% lit thanks to unbearable shitposters like you
good thread
if by lit you mean drunk, literally all the fucking time buddy
Why havent you read this /lit?
Its abut you
and how fake you all are
>>8103508
If we're so fake why do you think we would actually read a work that size instead of attaining an insufficient knowledge of its content from tertiary sources?
I want to read JR first tho
>>8103508
Just as fake as you are
Are aristocracies actually Nietzschean in character, or was Nietzsche just a passionate snob?
The privileges of nobility are not in their origin concessions or favours; on the contrary, they are conquests. And their maintenance supposes, in principle, that the privileged individual is capable of reconquering them, at any moment, if it were necessary, and anyone were to dispute them.… It is annoying to see the degeneration suffered in ordinary speech by a word so inspiring as "nobility." For, by coming to mean for many people hereditary "noble blood," it is changed into something similar to common rights, into a static, passive quality which is received...
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Nietzsche was a passionate snob who saw some worthwhile things in aristocracy but by no means thinks aristocrats are overmen or even "advocates" aristocracy. You might be confused by what he means by "noble."
>>8103485
>actually Nietzschean in character
I'm unironically going to ask: what do you mean by this? What are you referring to - the concept of ubermensch, of necessary culture, religion, etc.?
Anons, post your summer reading lists.
Bonus: Help me prioritize mine
Broom of the System
Liar's Club
Savage Detectives
Athol Fugard Play
Stoner
CoL49
Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sleep?
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Alice Munro/Margret Atwood
Soumission
Ulysses
Zero K
Faulkner
Homer: Odyssey & Iliad (Chapman trans.)
Shakespeare: R3, 1H4, JC, TGV
Hardy: Mayor of Casterbridge
James: Portrait of a Lady
Augustine: Consolations of Philosophy
Eliot: Mill on the Floss
Why people like OP who obviously just started reading and strictly following 4chan recommendations are always making this shit threads?
>>8103471
>Soumission
why?
1. For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1940)
2. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
3. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (1961)
4. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (1962)
6. Marcus Aurelius's Meditations
7. Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)
8. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
9. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (1959)
10. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (1985)
11. Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)
12. Jitterbug...
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>>8103248
>What is missing?
Good taste.
Only Lolita is a must read in that list
>all dead white men
What should be on the list of essential contemporary(-ish) non-Anglo European writing?
So far:
Ferrante
Bernhard
Houellebecq
Knausgaard
Sebald
Alexievich
Kraznahorkai
>>8103216
Latness
Krasznahorkai
