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What is the singular greatest piece of Japanese literature?
I vote for Tanizaki's essay, 'In Praise of Shadows', being a mere initiate into the world of JapLit (so far I only have Tanizaki and Murakami under my belt). Hopefully this thread can guide me.
> No matter what complaints we may have, Japan has chosen to follow the West, and there is nothing for her to do but move bravely ahead and leave us old ones behind. But we must be resigned to the fact that as long as our skin is the color it is the loss we have suffered cannot...
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Kokoro
Master of Go (or Snow Country)
Makioka Sisters
>>7890184
/lit/'s pretentiousness summarized, making categorical judgments based on self-admitted near total ignorance on the subject.
Which Murakami did you read?
>>7890184
Are you looking for "the greatest work evers" which will always just be something about the most essential struggles like war and love. Or a great entry? Also Murakami, in my country, he is nothing.
Which book did you think you'd hate, but ended up loving?
>>7890170
I don't read books I think I'm going to hate
Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn
>>7890170
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
What music do you guys listen to while reading?
>>7890000
check em son
None. Disrupts my subvocalization.
>>7890000
Brian Eno
/lit/, I know HP/Rowling is a meme here, but is reading Harry Potter in a foreign language a good way to strengthen my vocabulary? I've read works of great consequence in French, but it can be a real slog. Harry Potter is long but easy to read, and I've already read it in English, so I'm assuming I wouldn't be having to translate an archaic or unknown word every other line, and will learn more easily by reading in context instead.
tl;dr should I read Harry Potter in my second language?
Yes, reading / watching simple shit in different languages is a pretty good way to learn them.
>>7889958
Honestly, The Stranger is an easier jumping off point than Harry Potter for French. I did both and The Stranger was far easier
heres a little fun fact for you:
in the french harry potter and the chamber of secrets, when hes in the chamber and voldemort shows that "i am lord voldemort" is an anagram of tom marvolo riddle, the french translation had to make his middle name elvis in order to spell je suis voldemort. the dark lords middle name is elvis. ill be crawling back to redit now, thanks for your time
Hello I want to know better the christian's philosophy
I have already 4 book :
Le Christ Philosophe / F. Lenoir
L'évangile selon Pilate / E-E. Schmidt
Le Royaume / E. Carrère
Le désenchantement du monde / M. Gauchet
I'm looking for other book like this and something who deals with Flavius Josèphe like the Deco work ?
And sorry for my bad english
>>7889954
How familiar are you with the Greeks?
Read The Republic by Plato, Categories, Ethics and Metaphysics by Aristotle. Then Augustine and Aquinas.
>>7889968
Yes, but, is there some links with the christian ?
I'm looking for book who deals with the age 0-100 too
but thank !
>>7889972
Your sentences make no sense. Rephrase please.
I haven't read classics yet and I'm choosing between Crime and Punishment, The Trial and 100 years of solitude. What do you guys think and recommend?
>>7889943
the trial is probably the easiest
>>7889943
But Crime and Punishment was amazing and horrifying. Also, The Count of Monte Cristo is the best book I have ever read
Just pick one you faggot
What is the opinion of the poets and poetry-reading posters of /lit/ about pic related?
I myself like the fact that Rimbaud seems to use many words and images without any real goal or argument to motivate their use. They are there because they tinkle notes of beauty notes on the reader’s brain. Sometimes he just seems to use words only for the evocative aura that will emanate from them. Some of the poems (most of them, actually) look like bizarre nonsense dreams, and yet they sparkle with beauty, with metaphors (or even just words alone) that wake images and feelings...
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>>7889875
Rimbaud
more like
RIMJOB
>>7889882
Are you br?
>>7889882
lol! lol! lol! lol! lol! lol! lol! lol! lol! lol! lol! lol!
How do you feel and what do you do when pic related happens to you
>>7889843
>>7889843
Nice rhyme my friend
>>7889843
What's the Wordsworth Ulysses cover like?
What does /lit/ think of Solzhenitsyn? He doesn't appear on the recommended Russian lit on the wiki list in the sticky. Was thinking of picking up a copy of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, worth reading? Any other suggestions/insights/comments/opinions?
He's the best rebuttal in regards to Mandela-lovers.
Spent years in a Gulag; never once resorted to, or advocated, violent resistance.
He'd spend his free time writing in his cell, only for the guards to come in and invariably destroy his work at the end of day. Then he'd do the same all over again the next day.
>>7889825
Mandela accomplished something politically. What did this sack of fat shit do other than write tripe?
>>7889831
I don't know, just put his name into the archive search and you'll probably find something.
Is this book just a load of feminist claptrap?
Just crap in general. It's a "thriller". Airport tier.
>>7889818
that's not a book, that was a movie
>>7889818
it's not feminist, the author just felt bad cuz he saw a rape once and didn't do anything. I'd feel pretty bad too. very poorly written
feminist books are cool tho
Okay you probably aren’t going to believe this but I swear on my mother’s grave that this is a true story.
It all started last fall, around Halloween. I was with my friend and we were on a road trip to Portland Oregon because that is where we grew up. We were having a lot of fun lip-synching to Judas Priest and other great bands as we drove, and at the gas stations we would always pull pranks on people. It was just silly stuff, we were having a lot of fun. We were driving up from San Francisco because that is where we live. The drive from San Francisco to Portland is about twenty hours so we stopped at a hotel overnight. It was a really nice place, we only got it because my friend, who’s name is Foster, has an app on his phone called BookMe or something like that that lets you book hotels on really short notice. He said his Dad showed him the app the month before his Dad died. But yeah the hotel was great! The towels were all really clean and the floor was clean and everyone who worked there was really nice and wore white clothes. Little did we know what our journey had in store for us.
The next morning we had brunch at the all-you-can-eat buffet. It was really good! But as I was in line to get pancakes, an old gypsy woman grabbed me and looked deep into my eyes. “You! Who are you!” I told her my name. “Have you been having bad luck?” I said no “Believe me, you will! I can sense it!”. I don’t believe in that crazy gyspy stuff so I went back to our table to enjoy my pancakes with my friend Foster. We both ate our pancakes and talked about the crazy old gypsy women.
The next morning we hit the road again, eager to get to Portland, Oregon! The day before we drove for 12 hours so today we just had to drove 8 hours. It was fun, we bought some old Weird “Al” Yankovich CD’s. Our favorite! We listened to them in the car and laughed the whole way there. When we crossed the state line into Oregon, we knew our journey was almost over. When we got to Portland, we pulled into a gas station parking lot where we read a map and decided where we should go. I went into the FoodMart and bought Red Vines and a Judas Priest live album I hadn’t heard...
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That night we put our sleeping bags in the bedroom and layed down. We turned off our lantern. We were just falling asleep when I jolted upright. I heard footsteps upstairs, really soft footsteps. We walked up stairs with the lantern. We were both pretty fucking worried, I don’t we had really anticipated how creepy the house could be at night. The shadows were messing with my eyes, I kept swearing that I saw monsters. When we made it to the top of the stairs we stopped to listen for sounds. We heard something that almost sounded like…… muffled singing? We walked to a room....
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Either post this in /x/ like it's real or post it in a critique thread for feedback.
Ok so i rewrote a song called post acid it's by wavves. I'll have a link at the end. This songs for my ex who i screwed over, so constructive feedback is welcome and I'd like to know if you think it would work to get her back. Post acid is one of her favorite songs by her favorite band.
"Gillian, you're the one for me, how could i not see, that you're the one?
Gillian, I'm a fool for you, do you think I'm cool? I've been a tool!
I don't understand,
No, i don't understand
Why i screw up
Why...
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This is fucking awful but I'm pretty sure that's the joke, which is simply epic
>>7889727
Gunna assume this is sincere, and if it is, well if she's pleb enough to enjoy Wavves she'll probably at least enjoy your objectively shitty recomposition of an already shitty song. Can't speak on if this will win her back though. The thing about the straw that broke the proverbial camels back, is that there are a million other straws underneath it.
>>7889730
This isn't a joke. I thought it was a good idea and I've gotten some positive feedback on it already
Top three-
Writers
Poets
Philosophers
I'll start
>Joyce
>Tolstoy
>Mishima
>Pound
>Yeats
>Keats
>Kierkegaard
>Aristotle
>Nietzsche
>Writers
George RR Martin
Kurt Vonnegut
Douglas Adams
>Poets
Ernest Hemingway (his one about shoes was really sad)
idk the rest desu
>Philosophers
Richard Dawkins
Christopher Hitchens
Terry Pratchett
>>7889720
How could you miss Bukowkski off the poet's list?
Otherwise decent /fedora/ primer
>>7889717
>writers
Yasunari Kawabata, Richard Brautigan, Tove Jansson
>poets
Ryokan, Piet Hein, Oliverio Girondo
>philosophers
Dogen, Bachelard, Max Picard
What is the most fun book on Caliga? Bonus points for any that include the rest of the Brady Bunch
>>7889700
caligula by aloys winterling...offers a different look, and the possibility that caligula was not a bad dude
>>7889855
Caligula was a bad dude
>>7889855
I should of clarified when I said fun I meant I want to read about the sinister side. I'd prefer if it wasn't Marques De Sades tier.
Definitive Ishiguro Power Ranking:
>Canonical masterpiece tier
The Unconsoled - S
>Beloved classic tier
The Remains of the Day - A+
The Buried Giant - A+
>Delightful intro tier
Cellists - A
Crooner - B
>Flawed but touching tier
Never Let Me Go - B+
>Novel experimentation tier
A Pale View of Hills - B
>Traditionally proficient tier
Artist of...
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>>7889665
>The Unconsoled
>Reception[edit]
>The Unconsoled was described as a "sprawling, almost indecipherable 500-page work"[1] that "left readers and reviewers baffled".[2] It received strong negative reviews with a few positive ones. Literary critic James Wood said that the novel had "invented its own category of badness". However, a 2006 poll of various literary critics voted the novel as the third "best...
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>>7889786
yea i don't think people really "got" the unconsoled when it first released. critical attitude towards the book has been trending consistently upwards since then however.
>>7889786
James Wood fuckin sucks. I'm not sure if I agree with the assessment that The Unconsoled is his masterpiece (The Remains of the Day is unparalleled imo) but it is far more interesting than critics at the time made it out to be.
Check out Ishiguro answering a question about The Unconsoled https://youtu.be/Wg88dMl2d6s?t=52m43s from when he was doing interviews for The Buried Giant
