Were any of the books good enough to be worth reading today just for aesthetics?
>>8252436
I am a literature professor and no.
"Aesthetics" implies enjoyment, and we could hardly allow ourselves to enjoy anything conscientiously while people are starving to death in Africa.
At the very least we should choose to only read books written by those people.
>>8252444
You're not a professor, you're 19 yo.
>>8252457
Well, I guess your IQ is no less than 70 after all
>>8252469
of course you can, but you shouldn't
>>8252436
yes
mother and quiet flows the don, for example
>>8252488
>shouldn't
>>8252518
Are those really Socialist realism or just continuing the Russian realist tradition of the 19th century? Haven't read any of them, just asking.
>>8252436
Haven't read it, but I heard a lot of praise here for Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman.
>>8252436
damn that's a beautiful painting
