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Just finished this. Are all the other works by Camus edgelord tier or is this a one off?
>>7793368
I guarantee that's not even the good translation.
>>7793368
L'etrange is pretty fucking solid imo. I never read the outsider but that isn't a good book from him if you didn't like it. His good books you would want to read more from.
>>7793374
The outsider is L'étranger
>New Directions
yeah, what the fuck happend?
>>7793380
probably diversity hired some shit graphic designer.
How's 120 days of sodom? Anyone read this?
unfinished. read his other shit first, a lot of that is more bang for your buck
>>7793300
yo Marquis de Sade is fucked up
>>7793300
It's no Fifty Shades.
ITT: Post sentences or paragraphs from your favorite books that'll make me cry
Wardine be cry
>>7793299
"but these head movies make my eyes rain"
>>7793299
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Help me /lit/, I'm driving myself crazy trying to come up with a good honors thesis topic in english/philosophy. Are any of you graduates or college seniors? How'd you come up with a topic to write a thesis about?
>>7793257
write about ideological discourse.
>>7793257
Write about nigilism being a product of modernity
Emphasis on the link between philosophy and historical ages
>>7793268
isn't that just postmodernism?
Can somebody here please explain the appeal of Kafka's 'the trial' to me? I've read it twice in the last two days, once on Monday and again yesterday. I enjoy Kafka's prose, and I can accept the basic premise of it's satire, but anything past that I cannot comprehend.
Tl;dr why is 'the trial' not the modern art of literature
>>7793239
>it's satire
it's supposed to convey the absurdity of bureaucracy, and how it functions like a farce, and how people are enslaved by its ideals, making their actions nonsensical.
>>7793239
start with winnie the pooh
What are the most demanding bits of writing you have and took the extra mile to understand?
For me it was the poetry of Anna Ahmatova. She alludes to Klyuyev, Gumiliov, Nerval, Vergilius, her husband Osip Mandelshtam, Cosmas of Maiuma, the bible and anecdotes mentioned by Pliny the Elder and altogether it would only submit to you if you knew a lot about what was going in Russia of the Stalin era; if you were acquainted to the "Journey into the Whirlwind" or "Hope against Hope".
>>7793174
Reminder to END MISOGYNY ON /LIT/
Finnegans Wake
The Red Book
Various occult texts. Crowley, Spare, John Dee, Hermes Trismegistus, others
Essays by visual artists are often frustratingly obtuse, I've read a torturous few, but none jump to mind
>>7793225
roastie status: toasty
hue
http://theodysseyonline.com/upenn/why-young-adult-novels-beat-classic-literature-every-time/71386
let's not keep having this thread over and over okay
>>7790567
>the site is literally named after a piece of classic literature
>>7793116
>this just in, idiot on internet has stupid opinion
I don't fucking care OP. Please cease making shit threads like this, this isn't /v/.
Is IJ actually good or just a meme?
How difficult is it? (I have read Ulysses & Gravity's Rainbow)
Not a bait thread btw.
>>7793114
Sage
>>7793114
good
not too difficult
It's good but not great. Funny and touching. Nowhere near the difficulty of the other two meme trilogy books.
hey /lit/
HOW do you usually read books?
you can share your experience with kindle, laptops etc.
pic rel
>>7792997
>pick book
>open it
>read page
>read next page
>repeat until book is finished
>>7792997
I lay on my side or sit in a chair with my legs up on something. The latter if I'm drinking tea or coffee
>>7793002
Cortazar approves
How do you practice writing ?
>how do you practice playing an instrument
>>7792978
by reading
>>7792982
With that logic everyone who texts should be an amazing writer
Why have we stopped Žižekposting?
I'm afraid we'll stop jestposting one day.
What's your favorite dead /lit/ meme?
Žižek is like a good wine. It needs moderation or else it looses it's ideology
Post your Zizeks. I know you have them. And I want them all.
>>7792964
Does /lit/ read any literature journals? I've been wanting to start reading one or two ever since learning that authors often start out by publishing their short stories in journals. Ideally, I'm looking for a journal that's rather politically unbiased -- in that it represents both sides of current issues and the like.
Pic related, it's one of the first results when I google searched "literature magazine". What do you all think of it?
>>7792939
leftist cuckolding basically. So no, I stay clear of indoctrination
>>7792951
Are you talking about the london magazine or all lit journals?
>>7792954
all of them
just finished foundation and empire...so was the mule the kind of characters that the writers put in to the make their audience relate to? his speech at the end explaining his motivations sounded like something out of an anime
It's no surprise you got that feeling. Kefka was directly inspired by the Mule.
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Hey /lit/ I got a copy of The Odyssey translated by a dude called Robert Fitzgerald. Did I goof or is it a good translation?
>>7792867
why don't you give it a go, you fat cuckold
>>7792873
pretty much this, although i maybe would have left out the part about being a fat cuckold... quite harsh
>>7792867
it's a good translation.
