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With the utmost sincerity,
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>>7323889
Incoming ban in 5
U-Uh thanks /b/ we have fond thoughts about you too.
>>7323889
Is this post modern? Or is it structuralist?
Would Adolf Hitler have browsed /lit/ if he were alive today?
>"Adolf wrote a great deal during this period. I had discovered that it was mainly plays, dramas actually. He took the plots from Germanic mythology or German history, but hardly any of these plays were really finished. [...] Adolf showed me some of his drafts, and I was struck by the fact that he attributed much importance to magnificent staging. [...] [I told him] the most profitable thing would be to write some unpretentious comedy. Unpretentious? This was all that was needed to make him furious. So this attempt, too, ended in failure."
p.176 / 177
>"In Linz, Adolf had started to read the classics. Of Goethe's 'Faust' he once remarked that it contained more than the human mind could grasp. [...] It is natural that, of Schiller's works, 'Wilhelm Tell' affected him most deeply. [...] He was profoundly impressed by Dante's 'Divine Comedy' [...] I know that he was interested in Herder, and we saw together Lessing's 'Minna von Barhelm'. He liked Stifter partly I suppose because he encountered in his writing the familiar picture of his native landscape, while Rosegger struck him, as he once put it, as 'too popular'"
p.181
>"Every now and then he would choose books which were then in vogue, but in order to form a judgement of those who read them, rather than of the books themselves. Ganghofer meant nothing to him, whilst he greatly praised Otto Ernst. [...] Adolf read Ibsen's plays in Vienna without being very much impressed by them."
p.181
>"As for philosophical works, he always had his Schopenhauer by him, later Nietzsche too"
p.181
>>7323824
What source is this? Because Hitler bragged a lot about reading all this shit, but his flatmate and former friend in Vienna (I think, paraphrasing from memory a book I've read two years ago) attested to the fact that there really wasn't any philosophy to be found, and he never publicly showed his knowledge of these either. On top of that, he wasn't exactly rich at any time to buy all of these things.
adolf this adolf that
all entry-level basic classics
probably, yeah
I'm willing to buy (pic related) edition of Gravity's Rainbow, is it good? What's the difference between this and the 1973 edition beside year, cover and size?
that edition has know printing errors and is missing entire sets of square brackets which occur quite often.
this edition has typos
it's a cover by Frank Miller
reasons enough to go first edition
>>7323826
>google frank miller
>the dude's wearing a fedora in every single picture of him
i'm dying
Is dead souls any good?
why don't you read it and find out?
>>7323749
Yeh but Petersburg tales is better
>>7323749
It's among my favourites of all time. It is funny, insightful and a scalding satire. The depiction of the many manifestations of poshlost are still relevant today. It is a great shame that it was left unfinished, but it is highly enjoyable in the form it was left in.
Overall though, I have to agree with >>7323767. Short stories are where Gogol really shines, and Petersburg Tales are his best work. I'm not sure whether the Squabble/Ivan Ivanovich is part of the Petersburg Tales. If it isn't, that one is definitely worth checking out too.
My advice would be check out some of his short stories first, to see if you dig his style and humour. The Overcoat, The Nose, Diary of a Madman and The Squabble are all excellent.
>Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of a businessman, or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, I laugh from the bottom of my heart."
My nigga KG's sense of humour is the most underrated aspect of his writings
>Kierkegaard has become my favorite philosopher
>but I'm not Christian.
How do I handle this feeling?
He has made me properly laugh several times. Not smug, ironic smirking, but laugh.
>>7323739
You gradually start to become Christian.
It's happening to me, it's like he reversed all those boring didactic sermons and flipped on a slight and growing appreciation that is beauty looking back at me now.
I'm looking for a book/trilogy of books similar to Final Fantasy Tactics. Political intrigue, decent fantasy , and lots of world building.
From googling I could only find GoT recommendations (I want something with a more succinct story than that) and "Prince of Nothing", which i've never heard of
any recommendations?
>>7323671
start with the greeks
My diary to be honest
>>7323671
Since the central plot theme of the original game is that the world's (this game's world is mostly a fictionalized version of Renaissance-era Europe) central religion is a lie, you could just read some new atheist stuff.
Dune also comes to mind as a bildungsroman with battles, court intrigues, and suggestions of a false religion planted intentionally in order to placate the people (I've only read the original book though and they didn't develop this idea too far IIRC)
Thoughts?
>>7323636
talentless hack
Moveable*
Shit desu.
>>7323638
Why? I like this one the most.
>Dostoevsky, Fyodor. A prophet, a clap-trap journalist and a slap-dash comedian. No one takes his reactionary journalism seriously.
Do you agree with our boy Tao?
>Twitter. Good. I like to tweet. Tweeting makes me feel good, so I like it.
>>7323571
If he said that then he is the stupidest nigger to ever bear epicanthic folds
>>7323571
Nabokov said that.
http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations
>tfw reading more and more and not giving up
I can't wait until I become a patrician that is educated that knows philosophy and reads stuff
how about you read socrates and realize how pathetic that way of thinking is, pleb
>>7323534
ok....
Which book of his?
I have to start with the greeks tbqh
>>7323538
I think he's referring to what Socrates said to the Oracle of Delphi with the Socratic paradox
If you haven't gone through depression then you will never be a worthwhile writer
>>7323511
Depression probably hurts your writing and work ethic more than helps it
>>7323511
I have no intention of becoming a writer but I am chronically depressed and a completely useless piece of shit. I don't follow your reasoning.
>>7323536
Its one of those situations that involves a lot of greek symbols and colons
Hypothetical situation:
Humanity is dying out soon, but you can guarantee that three works of literature will survive for aliens to read. They will be able to read the two pieces of literature in the original language they were written in.
Which do you choose?
I think I would choose:
The Odyssey (Homer)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Ulysses (Joyce)
HAHA YEAH LETS TAKE SOME PLAYS XDD
WE DON'T NEED CONTEXT FOR ANY OF THOSE NOT LIKE WE SHOULD BRING THE BIBLE XDD WHO EVEN BELIEVES IN GO ANYWAYS I MEAN ITS 2015 STUPID CHRISTIANS
XD I WOULD TAKE OUT ULYSSES (TOO MEME FOR ME LMAO) AND PUT IN RICHARD DAWKIN'S ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES INSTEAD LOL!!
>>7323439
The Bible might be cool. My line of thinking was something like this:
All three of those works portray different facets of human nature and each of them are really beautiful.
I also think there is a variety of form--The Odyssey being poetic, Hamlet being a play, and Ulysses being a novel.
I also like the interplay of texts and cultures, as Ulysses is tangled with The Odyssey and Hamlet. This is reflective of how a lot of people write and live--interacting with cultures and writers long dead through text.
I also like how the stream-of-consciousness in Ulysses would get an alien uncomfortably close to a human in a way, haha!
Aren't you tired of creating shitty threads about surveys/games/bookshelves/“the X book you read”? Do you ever want to discuss literature or are you right just to namedrop your library and get validation by random people?
>work for tons of time on some fiction
>think it's pretty good
>read some Shakespeare and realize he wrote everything you thought but a trillion times better
who is this orgasm chasm
>>7323400
Scarlett Johansson
She's mega hot irl
>>7323394
There have been plenty of human crises Shakespeare could never have imagined in the last hundred years. You're just basic.
Memes aside, should I read Hesiod, Herodotus, and Thucydides if I only want to get into the philosophycal literature of the ancient Greeks (i.e. the Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, and the following philosophers)?
I do plan to read both Homeric epics and Hamilton's Mythology as a general background, but am not sure if Herodotus and Thucydides are that essential in order to understand Greek philosophy (perhaps Hesiod is, but I'm not really sure).
>>7323304
bumping for interest
Read The Aeneid and The Metamorphoses too
Not 100% needed, but worth reading.
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Is Nietzsche the only thinker who offers a secular morality with the same depth, symbolism, aesthetics and grandeur as Christian morality?
>>7323302
His morality doesn't even come near, and isn't secular.
>>7323310
How is Nietzsche's morality not secular?
ITT autistic protagonists
Levin is a huge autist
Also, shit book desu, meaningless fiction with no substance or higher purpose, Dostoevsky runs circles around this hack.
>>7323295
I liked and disliked Anna Karenina. I agree, Levin was autistic and a frustrating character to read. I literally couldn't give a single shit about how much he likes farming or hunting.
If the book focused more on the love affair of Kitty and Levin, and more on the drama of Anna and Vronsky, I would have enjoyed it a lot more. There was too much dull scenes. I get they're supposed to show how Levin grows throughout the novel, but Levin is boring as fuck to begin with.
Still a decent book, though, I think.
>>7323249
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