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let's talk about rimbaud
Looks like trap material
did somebody say rimjobs?
So I thought Id give some of the free books on amazon a try,
http://www.amazon.com/Unforeseen-Circumstances-Book-Ethan-Newman-ebook/dp/B01BAC84AE/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1455162721&sr=1-1&keywords=ethan+newman
I thought this book sounded promising but god awful, How can this even be considered a book? Please someone give me your opinion on this Im dying to see what you think, btw Im not trying to post spam, I honestly am disgusted lol. When I recieved the book it was free btw, it must of changed price.. RIP
OP here
Really enjoying the homoerotic undertones of most male characters being described as muscular and sharing "cool" secret handshakes with him. Ethan Newman you must be a very lonely man.
Ah, self-publishing.
Does anyone have those leftist reading recommendations things?
One is a really nice infographic, and another one I've seen was a "How to Read Freud" full of good stuff.
t. right winger bored in university library and want to see the other side
>>7686373
Freud isn't left wing.
dude, if you read that sh*t you're get cheated on
>>7686661
I meant Marx but I was in a rush
Fuck
Thoughts?
I think you should put more effort into making better threads
This thread had no topic. Now it is officially about Ursula le Penguin.
>>7686116
kek
"E. T. 2" is an immensely excellent short film; it comprises a mythologically consolidated narrative which is memetically compressed and encapsulated by my selected OP image.
The OP image's author hacks Deleuze with Bataille: schizo-death via narco-capital: Nick Land provides a virulent nihilism grafted upon mad black Deleuzianism (essentially a philosophical mapping and foundation for analyzing "E. T. 2").
"E. T. 2" begins with a lonely Eurasian man roaming an unidentified city and lamenting his torturous loneliness. An extraterrestrial...
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Part Two:
>"We are born to live. From the moment we are thrown into the universe, we breathe, eat, drink, procreate. It is what we do as living organisms."
E. T. realizes and simultaneously accepts reality's directionless chaos and nihilistic biological imperatives as organic origination.
>"But why would one procreate, let alone find a reason to stay alive, without something to stay alive for?"
E. T. becomes anti-nihilistic: if intrinsic meaning is not reality's...
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Good analysis, OP. However, I would like to get deeper into E.T.'s relationship with the Eurasian man.
To begin with, the matter of the human's race is important: he's a mongrel, not one race or another, and likewise his sexuality is as mixed ("filthy"), and so with his humanity. It's not coincidential that he becomes friends with an alien--it is actually the only possible conclusion for him to connect with some living on the outside.
But that friendship has concequences: firstly, he contracts space herpes after having sex with E.T....
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>>7684235
Fascinating (perhaps I shall respond with greater intellectual fibrousness later).
Why do literature professors obsess about guessing what the "author meant"?
Like with lord of the rings, tolkien had to go around telling people that "no, it wasn't meant to be a war allegory, please stop saying that".
What purpose does it serve? Without the author confirming it, there is no way to 100% tell whether one view is correct or not and even if you are right, you win no prizes. It has about as much effect as guessing which sports team is going to win the upcoming match.
It's just for the students to do something instead of it being a class where you read a book every week.
They need to justify shit.
They don't. Not since Roland Barthes' "Death of the Author" at least. Seriously, how can people read literature and not have previously heard of Barthes’ ideas before. God, /lit/ has gone to complete shit!
Help me out /lit/, please.
I am a STEM student from a country that has no connection to English literature, but I want to understand and enjoy the greatest works of the English canon to the fullest. The one I'm more hyped to read is Ulysses, because everyone says it is incredibly great and I loved the Iliad and the Odyssey. Even though I'm in STEM for a carreer path it is from literature that I take the most pleasure in my life and to literature that I owe the molding of my character. I would go through great effort to understand a book like Ulysses.
I...
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>>7684889
start with the greeks
>>7684889
Read Portrait first, shakespeare, the bible and the divine comedy.
And then read ulysses and get the companion book.
>>7684893
Already have, I'm also through the process of going through almost the entire western philosophy canon, but I can attend to classes about those and /lit/ already has loads of detailed guides with links to lectures.
What is the most American book?
>>7684158
>>7684158
Art Of The Deal
>>7684158
anything by Jack London
I'm looking to order The Master and Margarita by Bugakov next, but I don't know which translation to get, sounds like there are 4 main ones, and each people are very opinionated about.
Which has /lit/ read and recommends?
>>7684035
The Burgin and O'Connor translation is widely considered to be the best one. It captures the humorous tone of the novel quite well.
>>7684043
I recently read M&M for a Russian lit book club and this was exactly the suggested edition. Apparently at least one of the other translations not only isn't as good, but actually has some missing content as a result of being drawn from an incomplete manuscript.
Also OP a cursory understanding of the early Soviet Union would help a bit when reading, but if you read the notes after finishing the book, most of what you miss will be made clear pretty quickly.
The best translation is the one you get without much research
So, I was thinking about Freud tonight.
Do you think he's onto something?
I've been thinking a lot lately about different approaches to psychology, and it occurs to me that I think the value of psychoanalysis probably lies IN the fact that it's not truly scientific.
I know, that sounds weird.
But it seems like there is a persistent ethical problem with biological-reductionist conceptions of psychology in that they implicitly undermine the 'humanness' of the human being. Human life is by definition conditioned by things that...
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>>7683780
Freud is thought of a le kray-kray pseudoscientific sex fiend psychologist in pop culture, but that reputation is largely built off attempts at discrediting/disowning his weirder ideas by those in the field to legitimize psychiatry and psychology as serious medical disciplines so it wouldn't go the way of mesmerism. While some of the things he said are patently absurd, he was onto more than the average modern prescription-happy psychiatrist would care to admit.
OP get the Peter Gay Freud Reader and read 50 pages of it
>>7683780
>Do you think he's onto something?
Are you from the 1890s?
Is he right?
>>7682937
He's an idiot for thinking there is such thing as a "better" or a "worse" writer which would imply some kind of aesthetic realism he doesn't even agree with.
no. Pushkin and Chekhov are better, and he hasn't read Lermontov
>>7682941
Hey. I'm looking for some interesting books on psychology.
It's an almost endlessly broad field, and a very interesting one.
I used to read quite a lot related to this subject. Body language, some stuff featuring case studies, about the dynamics of organizations (from Scientology to businesses to communes and autocratic regimes). I've also read very little Jung and some evolutionary psychology, which I found fascinating, and perhaps I would like to explore it further.
Anyway, please recommend me all good books related to psychology (even if only...
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Anna Karenina
Yeah /lit/ loves Jung I think
No memes, just your favorite top 10, any genres. Here's mine:
Kafka, Franz: The Trial (1915)
Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margherita (1940)
Witkiewicz, Stanislaw: Insatiability
Mann, Thomas: Buddenbrooks (1901)
James, Henry: The Golden Bowl
Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Nabokov, Vladimir: Ada
Pynchon, Thomas: V
Gogol, Nikolaj: Dead Souls (1852)
Faulkner, William: Light in August
Good list, OP. Here are my favorites:
Stendhal: The Red and the Black (1830)
Dostoevskij, Fyodor: The Idiot (1869)
Joyce, James: Ulysses
Musil: The Man Without Qualities(1933)
Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
Gombrowicz: Pornography (1960)
Tolstoy, Lev: War and Peace
Zola, Emile: Germinal (1885)
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
>>7682023
you know?
I can't list 10 books.
I never understood the idea of favourite. I can choose a favourite song or even a type music, I could listen the same song 1000 times and say that it isn't my favourite.
How could I do it with a book?
>>7682040
Some people are just able to do it I think, books for me are very much in the moment and it subtly changes me I think. I can't even list the last 10 books I read I'm so disorganized.
Has anyone read this book? I'm trying to change my attitude on life and have read a few reviews in praise of it. Group therapy isn't helping much because girls are just talking about how slutty they are and their daddy issues.
Go back to whatever board you came from, friend. We don't talk about this stuff here.
>>7681418
Yeah, because all of your threads involve scholarly discussion, right? Like your YouTube book review waifus and DFW memes.
>>7681377
Yeah, I've read it. The content is very good for what it is. It's probably not going to help you if you're dead-set against self-help as a genre on a philosophical level.
Where does /lit/ get their books? I'm looking for several old-school sci-fi titles.
Bookdepository
Local libraries
Fuck amazon
>>7688208
got it, lad
thanks
ebay
