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Hey guys, I found first editions of Celine Journey to the End of the Night and Hemingway Farewell to Arms. Opinions on the works?
Way cool anon
In before "existential nihilistic dredging" and "Hemingway is da bessst!!!"
Celine had some stark views about reality coming from the madness of war, but dammit if his writing wasn't spot on! Bukowski was right to choose this man as an intellectual muse.
drop your favorite bukowski books/quotes.
"Find what you love and let it kill you"
"There's a bluebird in my heart, but I pour whiskey on him, and inhale cigarette smoke."
disgusting
kowski was a shitty fat hack
>>8227185
If you're all about Buk quotes, then you've missed the point.
>>8227185
>Work sucks
As a NEET its kind of my Credo
What sort of "prerequisites" do I need to have erad before getting into the transcendentalists? I'm particularly interested in Whitman and Emerson.
Emerson is a very challenging writer, and primarily an essayist and poet. Whitman is also challenging but Whitman has a layer of accessibility covering all his mystical esoterism and mystery. Whitman is not typically classed among the transcendentalists, though he was influenced and knew many of them.
>>8227183
>What sort of "prerequisites" do I need to have erad before getting into the transcendentalists
bad taste
>>8227183
(cont.) both authors will give of themselves in proportion to the commitment you give them as a reader.
Lit, I just fucking hate myself, I feel embarrassed being around people, I don't like being around people because I feel like when they finally figure out what I'm all about and what I really feel about being uncomfortable around them and having all these non normie thoughts going through my head that they'll think I'm repulsive. People make me angry as fuck. I have not made a single friend or left my house to do anything with other people for the past year and a half, and that's just counting the time I've lived in this apartment. Is there a character or a story that embodies this sort of feeling?
>>8227169
My diary t.b.h
>>8227169
The Tunnel by William Gaddis
Notes from the underground, but Crime and punishment to some degree as well.
Go to a doctor and take SSRI for your social anxiety, Anon.
Why did you turn on me?
CORNYMAC YE TORTILLAS MCCOBBLER
Why did you turn me on?
>>8227133
lmao
>Until the very end of the short story, the work gives the reader no history of Bartleby. This lack of history suggests that Bartleby may have just sprung from the narrator's mind.
>Consider the narrator's behavior around Bartleby: screening him off in a corner where he can have his privacy "symbolizes the lawyer's compartmentalization of the unconscious forces which Bartleby represents".
>The psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas insists the story is more about the narrator than the narrated. "The narrator's willingness to tolerate [Bartleby's] work stoppage is what needs to be explained."
I am currently trapped in a Bartleby-esque situation in my job irl.
I tried to read analysis of the story in the hopes of finding some hint toward a solution. Instead I find critics who are unable, despite a clear description of him, to imagine the possibility of Bartleby as a conscious human being.
What is it in our zeitgeist that makes the idea of a Bartleby too repulsive to recognize?
How can one avoid sharing Bartleby's fate?
Isn't this some troll copypasta or something?
>>8227111
The pasta is fresh, my friend. Never copied.
I was completely serious in that post.
>>8227111
Why would you even assume it's a troll? What about this seems like trolling to you?
What's the best translation for Prometheus Bound? Is Shelley's fanfic any good?
Shelley's thing is interesting because Prometheus Bound was probably one part of a complete story that saw a reconciliation and synthesis of the completely unyielding pride of Prometheus with the necessity of duty and piety etc., but Shelley reads the fragmentary remaining "thesis" (i.e. lacking its antithesis and synthesis) as a very romantic FUCK YEAH PRIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! story
>>8227046
Hm, interesting, I didn't get the feeling he was leading there at all, it read more as a "bloodied but unbowed" sort of theme. (Don't some people even think it was a later author misattributed to Aeschylus because of the Zeus prophecy stuff?).
>>8227046
>durr i read the wiki article on hegel and now I'm a dialectician :^)
Sometimes reviews make it clear that one edition is better than the other but when its not so obvious what do you guys generally go with?
there was a similar thread recently.
basically i go with owc if i can because i find their quality is a lot better. the black penguin classics have had bad glue/stitching, easy ink smearing, and the black flakes off. they can both look great though, usually do imo.
Oxford over penguin, almost always.
This is true both for quality and translators.
Oxfords usually have notes in them. So Oxfords, though Penguins are better if I don't care so much for translation or notes and just want a cheap book
daily reminder If your favorite author won this you need to get the FUCK off this board
So said the anon who will never publish a book
>its a pseuds pretend to be patrician by shitting on the nobel prize episode
t. Butthurt pynchonfag
japanese literature - does it get any better than this?
>>8226893
I don't know, does it?
What is that book about?
>>8226893
pretty good novel, different from what I expected. Oe tries not to be a Japanese-style writer.
Mishima and him hated each other though, I guess just a classic ideological hatred.
>>8226970
"Kenzaburo Oe has reached a new pinnacle in postwar japanese fiction" - Mishima
but yeah I could see that, seeing as Oe sort of just shat all over japanese tradition.
Is Dostoevsky the greatest author of all time? Why is he so patrician?
>>8226799
Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.
I'm just thankful he didn't die prematurely from his sickness. I had a friend who got seizures once in a while . One time he was riding a subway and got one, fell down and hit his head and dead.
>>8226804
For u
What are some really popular books feminists and the modern woman/ nu males deem to be essential reads?. Do they consider those books to be high literature as we do our books of choice?
Young Adult books like Hunger Games, John Green and Harry Potter. The characters need to be relatable to be an interesting read :^)
Anything written by american blacks thats only about muh nigga dick struggles like between the world and me. Satisfies the anti western and bbc fetishes both these groups share
>>8226793
>Someone made this image because they were angry about the shallow personalities of these women but probably fantasize about the perfect woman every day.
Anyway, the modern fun readers and attention readers enjoy books that they can relate to. They don't have to be just like the main character, they just require a simple theme dialogue and story. They enjoy gimmick bullshit like adding gay or minority characters as well as just adding a genre to a soap opera like twilight did.
>>8226818
Lit does this all the time too. Reminder they refuse to read any woman writer even if she's legendary
What are some of your favorite titles for novels (or literary works in general)? What makes for a good title? I think pic related is an exceptional example. It's a concise and accurate summary of the plot, and it's also a joke. Portnoy has many many complaints, not just one. But then, maybe it's not a joke given that many of his complaints MIGHT come from just one complex--his relationship with his mother, or maybe his frustration with the Jewishness that his family tries to force on him.
Any examples of bad titles?
Somewhat related: without googling, post your thoughts about the title 'Gravity's Rainbow'.
what we talk about when we talk about love. title had me so hyped up. book was shit.
I've never read The Unbearable Lightness of Being, but I want to based on the title alone. I think the incongruity of 'lightness' with the rest of the phrase intrigues me.
some titles i've admired
>the autobiography of alice b. toklas, the memoir by gertrude stein
>in the heart of the heart of the country
>one hundred years of solitude
>on the road
>the age of innocence
>down and out in paris and london
>great expectations
>lit by mary karr, a book about both alcoholism and literature
Shelf thread
>>8226765
I uh.. I ran out of shelf
>>8226781
Wow my laptop takes terrible quality photos
Does anyone have recommendations of books that discuss Hegesias of Cyrene's Philosophy?
why not save yourself the time and just starve yourself to death now
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>>8226755
that is the wrong diogenes!
>>8226755
Not enough of it left to write books about, laddo.
