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Thoughts on Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov?
>>7741148
Jesus, it's circlejerked here all the time, is that even a question? Delete this thread.
Top tier, funny, moving and a little bit too close to home.
Also that childhood dream chapter is literal utopia.
you ever wonder if you're just over thinking everything /lit/?
>>7741120
Sometimes it seems like it, but when I stop the thinking the problems still remain, so I guess the thinking is attempted therapy for the suffering that is there regardless of it.
>>7741120
>"over thinking"
Now THIS is a normie meme, apparently 'thinking' is the problem, "why don't you just chill out bro, just zone out dude!!!!"
>>7741156
>you need to get out of that head once in a while.
i stopped talking to that person that night.
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I am getting pretty triggered right now that I did not learn about dashes in high school.
>>7741116
I'm actually studying style sheets at the moment and I can't believe I never knew the different kinds of dashes. Also, genuinely, what's the difference between the Figure and the En dash?
>>7741116
pls esplain
Uses also change depending on languages, perhaps even just on countries for English...
How much does translation matter?
For example; I can get Don Quixote by Edith Grossman, which has a fair amount of positive reviews regarding translation.
Or I can get the Leatherbound Harvard Classics edition that looks amazing but the downside is that I have no idea if the content will be "lost in translation". Or is it a far better translation because Harvard?
How do you pick your foreign books?
>inb4 learn __x__ language.
>>7741095
get the tobias smollett one.
>>7741095
Translation matters above anything else. Kind of a stupid question. It's like asking: "which is more important: the script, casting and cinematography or the DVD casing?".
>>7741095
Translations matter a lot. All of the reasons why Werther is great simply vanished.
Patrician adventure literature?
>>7741061
don quixote
>>7741069
love it. more?
for instance, the kind of stuff i'm looking for:
Iliad/Odyssey
Don Quixote
Outlaws of the Marsh
Orlando Furioso
Simplicissimus
any ideas? i'm sure there are some floating out there!
What are some essential depression-core books?
Popular suggestions:
1. Book of Disquiet
2. Conspiracy Against the Human Race
3. Stoner
>>7740993
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
>>7740993
Why do you want to feel depressed? Isn't this life enough?
Hello lit
give me daring or subversive books
>>7740973
political and social in a specific context or even better that are still subversive today
Catechism of a Revolutionary
Kozinski - The Painted Bird
2016: We are less free and thought control is intrinsic. A time of self censored artists.
The system has done our minds over. Everyone is competing to write the big money book that doesn't offend anyone. No one cares how corporately crushed we are.
I want to write a short novel that is shocking in today's society
I've been looking but it seems hard both to shake literary and social rules as they are difficult to distinguish
Tell me if you have any ideas
>>7740991
Over Orthodox displays.
Committed ignorance.
>>7741012
actually a very good idea
im writing it in my notebook
I read most of my books in English but I find some poetry, and only poetry, to be just a little bit too much for me to handle yet. Please recommend me good accessible poets that could help me improve my vocabulary while still enjoying and learning about poetry.
>>7740946
start with the greeks
Does anyone have a PDF of this? oh please oh please oh please
It's too costly, and I am too broke.
I read the Parliament of Fowls just this morning. Chaucer is a funny bloke.
Anyone?
>>7740829
Is it for a class??
Sure it's a great volume, but why the jesus do prof's keep assigning this out-of-print tome? It must be some sort of deep-world "academics only" troll or clever shill...
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Equality of outcome or equality of opportunity, /lit/? Or do you disagree with any sort of notion of equality?
>>7740764
hey. how's it going? whatcha worried about? please don't worry buddy. everything's gonna be all right.
>>7740768
what
>>7740771
it's gonna be all right.
>pynchon's full name is Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr.
>Ruggles
Why is this not a meme yet? Why did we take to calling him pinecone?
>>7740718
Good find. Let's make it a meme. Boys?
>>7740718
ruggles sounds like a cute dog name
>Ruggles
>Fug
:DDDDD
Sup faggots, can you guys give me some advice for the book I'm writing in terms of theme and plotting.
Basically it's about an early 20 something nerdy guy who's a college drop out, lives with his parents and works a dead end convenience store job. He's pretty unlucky with women as well. However that all changes when he runs into a mysterious man who shows him how truly hollow and empty modern consumerist society is. Together these two transgressive misfits travel America gathering like minded people into their movement that eschews the modern day...
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9/10
Your use of the phrase "most effectively marry these themes with the broader narrative" gave you away, though. Otherwise, stellar work. Keep it up.
your gonna be famous
What's the difference? One's $12.50 and the other is $25.72
>>7740683
translation? paper quality?
>>7740687
Both are by P&V, and the paper quality on all the Vintage books I've got is pretty good I'd say (for paperbacks).
Would paper quality really have that much of a difference in price?
>>7740693
I have the Vintage edition. It's absolutely fine, but I'm still put off by that awful fucking cover.
So like how did lancelot perform that miracle on that knight. Was it gad?
on elaine, yes
>>7740652
No it was his knightly virtue shaping reality, like how Arthur is able to defeat the entire Roman Empire and Roland solo ten thousand moors.
