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This is one of the greatest books I've ever read. I'm currently taking a course in Italian just so I can read it the way it was originally written.
>>8011269
Is it better than If on a winter's night a traveler? I expected to enjoy that one a lot more than I did.
>>8011277
wow I feel bad for you. that shit was choice man.
>>8011277
One can't compare them. If The Baron In The Trees is Calvino's most traditional novel, and Winter's Night is his most experimental novel, then Invisible Cities is his most... esoteric? I wouldn't even call it a novel. I sat down and read it as an actual account of Marco Polo's tales to Kublai, even though it's clearly not. Very philosophical. It's very much like Nietzsche's The Gay Science in how one reads it.
Do female philosophers exist?
>>8011209
>>8011209
>being this pleb
Stop any time.
>>8011217
>christian mystic
>french
literally who?
are there any authors that just release stream of consciousness pieces with absolutely no editing?
>>8011158
anon
Kerouac, sometimes
>>8011158
My diary desu
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hey /lit/
i got my first payment for writing. i don't have anyone to tell so i thought i'd post it here
thanks for reading
>>8010918
What do you do exactly? Do you see yourself supported solely on writing?
>>8010952
>What do you do exactly?
selling erotica on amazon.
>Do you see yourself supported solely on writing?
maybe. if i put enough time and effort into it. i didn't publish anything for a few months and the sales slowed down to a crawl. but i've started writing them again recently
>>8010974
Interesting, what's the market in erotica like? Did you self publish or go through an editor?
Why does he write about food so much?
Is it because he's a fatty?
It's easy to write about, and he's a lazy writer with little literary creativity.
>>8010892
Nope, his weight issue is due to a glandular disorder, and his keen interest in food is a completely unrelated matter.
>>8010919
kek
I read this book a few months back and really loved it. Romantic, poetic, and nationalistic/cultural. Any similar recs? Besides continuing w/ the tetralogy.
>>8010844
Did you read it in the original Japanese? I'm currently reading it in English, and am not loving it too much. I think the way that Mishima is translated to English makes his prose kind of awkward. If you read it in English, which translator did you use?
As for additional recommendations, I would go for the other Japanese greats. Kokoro by Soseki is my personal favorite.
>>8010858
English version- translated by Michael Gallagher. I loved the writing style personally- every is described in such a beautiful and spiritual fashion.
>>8010858
I've never had this problem before. Japanese is a pretty simple language so it translates well. It's only when it comes to their poetry that their translations are awful.
Do you think he'd like being a /lit/ meme?
>>8010839
Looks like a pirate in a fashion mag ad
Can someone point me to something he wrote about the internet? He seemed to have no understanding of it.
>>8010839
Those two rocks look like 40%-opacity copy-pasted cutouts of someone in a dark sleeveshirt facepalming, in the thumbnail
>first paragraph of the book warns you there won't be a happy ending
>>8010645
>introduction warns you that there won't be an ending
>>8010645
What's this thread about? Cliches, or... ?
>>8010882
>idiot anon doesn't know what shitposting is
Does /lit/ like Max Weber? Better than Marx? Worse?
Why compare him to Marx at all?
I've only read the Protestant Ethic. His ideas about capitalism becoming a cage are cool and all but the rise of social and liberal institutions after the second world war sort of make the context of capitalism different from the one in his time (and also Marx and Hegel).
Although one would argue, little has changed in developing countries, but Europe and North America have seen drastic changes in worker rights since the early 1900s
>>8010522
Strong critiques of capitalism.
Who are the other great latin writers aside from Petrarch, Boccacio, and Dante?
I just got done reading Decameron i'd appreciate more works like it or in the similar era.
You mean Italian?
>>8010471
Sure, italian, my bad.
They translated a bunch of latin works and wrote in latin occasionally so that was an oopsie.
Ariosto
Tasso
Tell us about your comfy reading space, /lit/
>>8010462
that room looks like it would be a pain to keep warm at night in winter
i like vita sackville west's library. i visited there a while ago
>>8010462
My reading space is usually a corner in my office, OP (pic related). Doesn't really photograph that well because the light comes in the window over the shoulder, which means photos are backlit pretty harshly.
That said, it's a pretty comfy spot.
>>8010938
what're you. like 45. why are you here.
>At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora’s fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers...
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>>8010409
This makes me want to never fuck a woman
Did he actually wrote this?
It meant that he was stiflingly entangled in love with a woman.
Did he read Jabberwocky?
>>8010362
Yes, and he said that the Jabberwock was the negroid race, the the jubjub bird were the Jews.
Bandersnatch was socialism.
>>8010362
I don't think so.
Can we turn this into a Lovecraft thread?
>>8010466
I'm game.
I would say my favourite aspect of Lovecraft is when he is writing about alien and prehuman cultures e.g. when he is describing the murals left by the Elder Things in Mountains of Madness, or uncovering the ruins left by a reptilian race in The Nameless City, or recalling the fall of Ib's conquerors in The Doom That Came To Sarnath.
The Dream Quest Of Unknown Kadath is unreadable however.
Anyone read this?
I was going to buy it from amazon but then forgot about it if that helps
I read the first 4 pages or so and then got bored.
>>8010304 (samefag)
I liked this better.
In the middle of the 20th century, literary theorists came up with "death of the author" while film theorists came up with "auteur theory."
Why did literature move away from the importance of the author at the same time film moved towards it?
>>8010253
Novelty
>>8010253
jew tricks
because they knew that film is an inferior medium that's limited by commercial and monetary issues so film critics pretended that the director was the "writer" so that film could have the prestige of literature.
