So, I'm new to the whole /lit/ world and as per your boards sticky I embarked on a journey of your recommened litterature.
I am currently reading Lolita which I have to say is getting somewhat boring to read (halfway through). I will finish it though. It's the endless descriptions of his surroundings that bores me.
Now, after watching Bridge of Spies tonight, I feel an urge to read some important shit on a macro-level kind of thing. Or at least, a subject that operates on a larger scale. I found 1984 to be highly interesting for these exact reasons.
My question for you /lit/ is if you have any recommendations for a noobreader like myself. Thank you.
I apologize for any misunderstandings in language, English is not my first language.
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>>7610507
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Hi /lit/
I want to start reading books to seem intelligent, where should I start?
What is the basic reading I should look up for?
>>7610495
Start with the Greeks.
>>7610497
I thought that was for philosophy
>>7610495
Finnegans Wake
I've read Plato's dialogues on Socrates and I would like to get into Nietzsche. Obviously, start with the Greeks. I read a while ago that one should read Plato before delving into Nietzsche. Am I ready for Nietzsche? And where to begin with Nietzsche?
Also, recommended translators and translations?
Yeah - go for it. To be 'completely' read for Nietzsche, you might have to have read:
Laotze
Rousseau
Schopenhauer
Kierkegaard
Hegel
Lessing
Kant
John Stewart Mill
Lucretius
Leibniz
Heraclitus
Proclus
Plotinus
Pythagoras
Epictetus
Borne
Heine
Parmenides
Empedocles
Democritus
Thales
Horace
Montaigne
Voltaire
Hermann Hesse
Pushkin
But I recommend getting Kaufmans 'Portable Nietzsche' & going from there.
Read the SEP articles of his influences, then read the SEP article on him.
Then read Geneaology.
Of course if you read his precursors more fully, you'd get more out of him -- but you can always read a guy more than once (plus it's more fun that way).
Once you've read a good bit of Nietzsche, read Deleuze's book on him.
How do I get a job at my local newspaper? I go to their website and find nothing helpful that would lead me to anything lucrative. The only thing they have is a place to submit news, but I feel as if that'll just have someone steal my writing and pass it off as their own.
I guess the better question would be is it even worth it? Apparently printed media in the form of something that is not 24 hours news is dying? What would be my alternatives here? I don't really want to be limited to 140 characters on Twitter and have to deal with "yea da news 2day was bad" with multiple emoticons.
dress up as a pizza guy and adopt an italian accent, claim you don't speak english to gain access to the building and drop off your resume in a pizza box
>>7610201
Bumping. How would I go about submitting things such as reviews to my local newspaperfor pay?
>>7610210
Should I also pull back my long coat and reveal that I am not an adult but instead two children standing one on top of the other?
I don't understand poetry, /lit/. I get rhyming and the whole syllable-focused lyricism of some poetry, but I don't understand "freeform" poetry. Why do you move on to the next line, why is it not just written as prose?
Pic unrelated.
FUCK THE SYSTEM MAN
>>7609554
It's to make one sound artsy, intelligent, and important. The best-written and recited free verse allows the reader (or listener) to practically smell the rancid machiatos coming from the poet's asshole.
>>7609554
>but I don't understand "freeform" poetry.
Let's get this clear
Most "free verse" poets who were good also didn't really write free verse
Whitman wrote long lines that weren't in iambic pentameter but they are incredibly music and the rhythm is memorable from only a single read out loud. He's a formal poet.
Ezra Pound wrote in "free verse" in that he played it by ear. Music in the same was as Whitman. Even messed around with quantitative meter. Very musical.
TS Eliot had "le ghost of meter" in his poems. It shows. His verse is musical.
It's only once you get into the group that worshiped WC Williams and his successors that you find shitty free verse.
Read Whitman out loud though. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd is incredibly lyrical.
> "freeform" poetry
as I've just shown through example it can be done extremely well. Though most people just use it as an excuse to write shitty poetry that would be shitty even if it were in meter.
Is genius or a troubled wild life essentially necessary for becoming a great artist?
>>7608541
depth in feeling and experience is
>Dostoevsky
>Great Artist
Basically you need to have had:
A) An unhappy childhood.
B) Alcoholism
C) Depression
to become a successful author.
How do I get into philosophy?
>>7606856
Start with the Greeks.
Philosophy peaked with Descartes' Meditations
No. It peaked when existentialism bloomed. Just start with Kierkegaard. I fell for the Greek meme and it was just a waste of my existence.
Hear ye Hear ye! Calling all /lit/ards!
post i' here ya 5 finger stories. post ye 5 word stories and I'll anounce the winner in but 45 winks of a moonfaces big 'and!
Laesh go go go!
The OP is a faggot.
Her shit hit his chest.
chains are off, language's master's
Essential nihilist books. Go.
What is this sequence?
Check the wiki, for fuck's sake,
Saged.
>>7606062
Someone had to post it
When was the last time you bought a physical book/played for a book?
I can't even remember since I got my kindle, I only torrent all books. Its easier and better than real books. more eco friendly and less bulkier.
I honestly don't get why people still buy physical books.
>>7605339
I bought a house with a library (flyover country) and have been filling it up slowly. Last book was Carpentiers Kingdom of this World which had an excellent condition mark, and which was filled with notes. I bought from alibris.
>I honestly don't get why people still buy physical books
Mostly because the machine I read ebooks with also has an endless internet porn. Moreover, there's a sense of space associated with progressing through a set of physical pages that isn't nearly as satisfying when done with an ebook.
Books are also beautiful objects. I also love how they smell. Moreover i read a lot of old books wich are difficult no find online.
Excuse my poor english
Why is Japanese literature so much more robust (for lack of a better word) than say, Korean, or even Chinese? Certainly if only considering ancient texts Chinese and Japanese works are on par with one another. But after entering the modern era Japanese writing (and art in general you could argue) seems to be just far more advanced stylistically in addition to having a wider breadth of topics that it covers.
Contemporary works in China are completely stifled for political reasons of course but even Korean works seem to only focus on a handful of subjects and follow a very western style while Japanese works still pull from more imaginative realms and still follow a more Japanese literary tradition in style.
Why such a large disparity /lit/? I ask you because I'm no expert on Asian literature myself and was curious. The picture is the only one on my phone.
Japanese literature was westernized
I think your Japanese view is heavily influenced by the handful of exceptionally good authors such as Mishima and Soseki. If you take those away there isn't much notable writers and works left.
>>7602490
Is Oe any good?
fuck all these threads desu
what are novels/short fiction with characters who are philosophy grad students or philosophy professors? have Foucault's Pendulum so far
>>7594535
>fuck all these threads
I love the thread-close button feature for this.
Maybe QTDDTOT could advertise the chatroom
Authors similar to Tom Clancy? Themes I enjoy: unadulterated patriotism, fear of "others", oper8or as fuck.
>inb4 get out pleb
Physical books that you love.
El Barto xD jajajaja
>>7593890
I love my copy of "Il trionfo della morte" by D'Annunzio from late fifties.
My decade old scarred up and annotated Gravity's Rainbow. Marginalia from so many different readings and places in my life. You can track an ever changing view of the book and in a way of my life. It's almost become like a diary.
Any good book of old Japanese poetry of any form like tanka, haiku and so on?
Post your favorite poems!
farewell poem to the plum blossom ois goat
>>7591982
haiku (adults only):
A weird protrusion,
exaggerated outie.
It's a human dick.
>>7591999
I showed this to my little brotherhe then raped me :(
http://w.tt/1Vc9XFc I've been writing this for almost a year.
>Andre Edward Lee Chapl
Why didn't you post this in a blog?
