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Am I the only one that hates life a bit more with each book?
Do something else.
>>7781132
But I love reading
>>7781130
I can't tell if my hatred of life is correlated with reading more or simply living more.
Who's the best philosopher, /lit/: Kierkegaard, Marcus Aurelius, or Nietzsche?
Personally, I'd choose Kierkegaard.
>best philosopher
I've read Kierkegaard's stuff. Far too simple for my tastes, unless there's some profundity I missed.
>best philosopher
Reminder that you are living in a Pynchon world. Enjoy it while it lasts because literature dies with him.
Enjoy that fact od his writings? Please be specific
>>7781020
Only idiots think he's a single person and not a collective of already famous authors writing under the pseudonym of Thomas Pynchon.
What's the most evil thing you've read in a book?
The bible.
All of it
>>7781019
Very humorous.
" You could have knelt down, damn it, Kinch, when your dying mother asked you, Buck Mulligan said. I'm hyperborean as much as you. But to think of your mother begging you with her last breath to kneel down and pray for her. And you refused. There is something sinister in you."
What's the most humorous book you've ever read?
guess what …neither confederacy of dunces nor cache 22
>>7780856
To Kill a Mockingbird
can someone help me understand this
I have to read it for a class and it's driving me up the wall with how incoherent it is
View it as a metaphor for the value of your diploma.
>>7780629
Why would your school proscribe communist literature?
>>7780781
>"proscibe"
>being on /lit/
leave
What's the most criminally neglected literary genre?
Erotica
poetry
>>7780568
Essays. Patrish af.
What are your thoughts on this novel?
>>7780453
Keep meaning to read Svevo. One of Joyce's inspirations for Leopold Bloom.
And Joyce admired Svevo's novel Senility.
But I haven't read him, so that's all I know about him
>>7780453
Italian here. I can't stand him. Zeno and Senility are about inepts who faff about for hundreds of pages being a waste of humanity.
>that cover
I like the idea but jesus.
I live in two worlds. One is a world of books. I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina and strolled down Swann's Way.
>>7780275
What's the other world, senpai?
>>7780372
My second one is populated with characters slightly less eccentric, but supremely real, made of flesh and bone, full of love, who are my ultimate inspiration for everything.
>>7780376
>who are my ultimate inspiration for everything
ehhh what?
Reading difficult things:
I just realized I might literally not be smart enough to understand Hegel, Althusser, Lacan, Baudrillard, Jameson, and the more philosophical aspects of Marx, especially in relation to form, writing, ideology, literature, hermeneutics, marxist literary criticism and so forth.
I keep reading explanations of their work, and their work itself, and I have to keep re-reading pages over and over again and sometimes it still doesn't make any sense.
Or I'll understand a few paragraphs in a row and then they'l do something...
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>>7780248
Outside Hegel all of the authors you have are complete trash written intentionally to be obscure as they really didn't have anything of value to say.
Is there any proof that anyone ever acutally understood Hegel? I'm geniunely curious
>>7780257
Not just Hegel, but all Post-Modernists.
What books should I read if I want to develop and justify my pretentious attitude?
>>7780219
damn she thicc
>>7780219
oh lord almighty
>>7780219
Anything French..
I'm a pretty big Lovecraft fan (inb4 pleb) and I was looking for something that would look good on a bookshelf. I've already read all of his work, so comprehensiveness isn't the biggest issue. What's the best collection?
>>7780199
fuck what looks good on a shelf. embrace pulp
the Gollancz Necronomicon you can pick up on Amazon is both comprehensive and good looking.
>>7780199
>wanting a racist manifesto on your self
Anon its 2016
I'm looking for books that are so weird and existential that they actually transcend that feeling of futility and leave you questioning what the hell is really going on around you, almost like philosophical vertigo. I mean, I'm just a moron so my mind should be easily tossed into such a state. Perhaps I am already always in such a state, but I don't like it. Either way, help me go insane please.
idk lol
TRUE DETECTIVE BRO
>>7780166
The Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustoll, Pataphysician by Alfred Jarry
or
Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel
What would he think of the Situationist movement? In particular, his expression "Keep cool, but care."
>>7780099
'I want attention but while exerting little effort.'
>situationist
i think it had nothing to do with Pynchon
>In particular, his expression "Keep cool, but care."
that's not 'his expression', that's a quote from v. 'said' by a test dummy on how not to fall into inanimacy. i also fail to see what you think it has to do with situationism
bad thread all around. try reading more.
>>7780149
No, I think the quote applies to Pynchon's stance on post-WWII and post-1960s life in general, especially with regards to conspiracy.
Although it's a quote from a character, if you don't think it's a huge theme in all of Pynchon, you simply haven't read enough Pynchon.
I have come to ask your help wise men of /lit/: i need to give a presentation about deconstruction and show an example through a (norwegian) book. When doing a deconstructive analysis am i supposed to try and argue with every fucking established thing or only with major thoughts and themes? Not sure if i understand the whole thing properly. Also general deconstruction thread.
>>7779891
Plz halp
>>7779891
>focus exclusively on the text itself
>list major possible interpretations, both on a textual and a grammatic level(there's an infinte number of them so keep it to the big ones)
>go into detail on how those interpetations interact with eachother, how they contradict and interplay with each other
Stave churches are fucking beautiful.
I highly recommend seeing them before edgy black metal kids burn the rest down.
