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Tell me if this sounds plausible.
Finnegans Wake (Like The Divine Comedy and Ulysses) is encyclopedic.
It is an encyclopedia of The Forbidden, forcing it's readers to stretch their imaginations using obscure and often occult bodies of knowledge and the lost, bardic tradition of Irish poetry.
The result becomes a fall down the rabbit hole, which you couldn't survive long.without a sense of play and humor.
There's more, but those are some fundamental thoughts at the moment.
What is Ulysses the encyclopedia of?
>>7789303
edgy riddles ;)
> when you realize Hegel already pre-empted Nietzsche's arguments
>>>/reddit/
Many of you seem to be lost and on the wrong board, contemplate these questions to see if you were accidentally on the /lit/ board when you should be posting on the /r9k/ board.
Did the thread image catch your attention due to a deep-seated feelings of anger towards women, that they are beholden to you, that you have been mistreated by them in some way because Grace and her friends in sixth grade wouldn't let you join in their game?
Do you lack social poise and confidence?
Do you frequently use the terms:
- normie
- roastie
- beta
- alpha
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okay thread, important announcement, I looked
COCAINE?
I do lack social poise and confidence, but what has that got to do with reading books, eh?
Would Raduan Nassar's books be too advanced for someone learning Portuguese? Also, why did he quit writing?
he got bored with it an became a landowner. but i think he donated the land to some university. read a cup of rage. it focuses on the power struggles between men and women. themes fall sort of in line with maybe strindberg or foucault, but nassar is much more brutal in his approach and style.
>>7789267
also, i've never read him in port., only eng. so i can't answer that question.
>>7789256
It's not that hard but some imagery, semantic constructions and alusions may fly over your head. You should leave him, Machado and Guimarães Rosa to when you are both fluent and confortable with speaking, reading and writing in Portuguese. They are masters in what they did and I'm not trying to put you off, but, after all, some literary experiences are reserved to natives and, to a marginal extent, those who dedicate themselves to study a language to it's most peculiar and deep senses.
If you want to somewhat spoil your future fun, I'll tell you ro start with Um Copo de Cólera and then move to Lavoura Arcaica.
Also, where are you from, lad?
Sempre seu,
t. brasileiro
How are you relaxing on this lazy tuesday afternoon, /lit/?
>>7789247
OMG! Get that cold can off that book!
I got memed so I'm starting with the Greeks.
Just finnished the third song of the Illiad and I'm liking it so far.
It's about as much work as reading the bible but it's way more rewarding and enjoyable to me (as an atheist).
Now I'm going to watch some Louis Theroux
cringeworthy cap to be honest
Did romans ever read the iliad in latin? Do we know if it was translated? When they read it in greek, did they read it in contemporary greek or homeric? Are there any mentions of people knowing it by memory?
You could literally just Google this question.
Educated Romans read it in the original Greek. Uneducated Romans couldn't read.
Eventually there were Latin translations.
>>7789636
I did google it, i guess my google skills arent that good, or i didnt look hard enough. Could you, or anyone else point me to some good essays about the role /influence of the iliad in the culture of the romans, etc? Their interactions with it, etc. Example, can we estimate when did they first read it? (Yes i know, after contsct with the greeks etc). The first mention of it in a roman text?
>>7789863
The Roman empire was built on the foundation of Greek culture. They probably had homer right from the start.
They had different values though and thought that aenas (Trojans) was the Roman ancestors (hence Virgil's aeneid).
>That feeling when you trick a normie into reading an actual classic.
Have you guys pulled this off?
>>7789198
>normie
Let me guess: you recently started reading "classics" recommended by the crowd of shitposting spergbots that is /lit/ and now your sense of superiority is running away with itself.
>>7789198
I know that feel. Frankenstein, Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde etc are good ones to give to horror fans.
>>7789198
Got my gf to read Manns Magic Mountain and she liked it. Pretty good feel.
Hi /lit/
I'm after a bit of help. Currently writing my dissertation which involves developing an application for a University so that the student can access social feeds, academic information and even a custom GPS for the campus, however I do not know what to write as the title.
We've been told it basically has to be an investigation into something but I'm not sure on how to word it.
Could anyone help?
>>7789191
An investigation into my homoerotic urges: A Dissertation
Are you just starting off with a title or do you have a working draft?
>>7789209
So far: A research investigation into the production of a Global Positioning System alongside a dedicated social University application for students.
In a recent interview he was asked, "And literature is written to be entertaining?" to which he replied emphatically, "Absolutely. My God, to read without joy is stupid."
honestly if literally anyone else said that you wouldn't have made this thread. What's the big deal anyway? Why give so much attention to him
>>7789208
literature is meant to be a means of self-expression
whether or not the reader is entertained is up to them.
>>>/v/330131272
The entire thread is talking about the game and the Lynch movie.
There's nothing here to be smug about.
>>7789156
>genre fiction
Hello /lit/
I'm studying law and politics this year in philosophy
What are authors you would recommend on the subject ?
I'm familiar with authors like Hegel, Plato, Aristotle so I'd like something more niche.
Did Stirner mention politics or something related to it ?
Less known texts by famous authors are also welcome
>>7789143
>Hello /lit/
>I'm studying law and politics this year in philosophy
I'm just law
>What are authors you would recommend on the subject ?
Belloc, Hayek, Kelsen, Kant, Hegel, Locke, Aquinas, Plato, Aristotle.
>I'm familiar with authors like Hegel, Plato, Aristotle so I'd like something more niche.
You are never familiar enough
>Did Stirner...
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>>7789216
>the more famous the more relevant
the aim is to distinguish myself from the other students who will all talk about Rousseau / Hobbes and all that by introducing either more specialized or less known authors in my essays. Also I need to uh go further than the texts I've studied in high school (where we did intensive plato for example) or offer a more precise or original analysis of a famous text
also im doing research on what you mentioned
>>7789143
Alasdair Macintyre.
Should right-wing vestiges like Plato be removed from the curriculum?
>>7789119
No. It's not like he was right about anything.
>>7789119
Sure, why not?
>gay
>right-wing
Pick one
Daily reminder
Someone seems to be butthurt for being in the double digits
>crying about trolls on 4chan
>being butthurt about a troll image
w e w l a d
pissing in a sea of puss
GTFO new fag retard
Pic related
>Long story short:
>Be me.
>Hates Shakespeare class because teacher uses an outdated, watered down pedagogy where he basically reads from a play for an hour, and lets dumbass theatretards give their shitty anecdotal opinions (usually filled with interjections of awe rather than actual critical reading) for the last thirty minutes.
>Have one page minimum reading journals to maintain.
>Cycled through freudian,...
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You should an hero because you're not nearly as smart as you think you are.
Just capitalize on the idiocy of everyone else. If everyone else in the class is as dumb as you make them sound than I wouldn't give two shits about what you turn in. If he really is a dumbass then why would he care anyways? Maybe try and see if you can focus on all the sex stuff, talk about how dirty the play is, something like that, and just ramble. It'll take like 15 minutes tops to list off all the dick jokes the Bard makes.
>>7789077
>Nigger cleopatra
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Who here /r9k/?
What're my robots reading today?
>>7789072
who /fa/ here
>>7789072
Who /mlp/ here?
