Books that evoke in their reader some grade of personal growth without being complete jack shit. (self pitty-ish/John Green-ish/ Coelho-ish bullshit)
Pic related of the only author who I've actually found interesting, helpful and gifted with a great talent and domain of the language.
Dostoyevsky, I agree.
The Greeks in general, and especially the Iliad and Odyssey, have been a great help for me, particularly helping me understand amor fati.
Dostoyevsky is a huge "Life is shit, buck up and quit bitching". Something this generetaion seems to need ASAP.
>>8274259
bump
>>8274259
>>8274426
>Implying his romanticist counterparts and their mainstream audience at the time was basically the exact same shit that some contrarian and self affirming fags are criticising nowadays for being To Weak And Pusy!
>>8274614
how?
>>8274259
>with a great talent and domain of the language.
You read him in the original Russian?
....aren't all serious works of literary fiction supposed to do this? It's the whole point of reading that stuff instead of comparably entertaining genre fiction crap.
>>8275592
I never read nay of his work cause i never found much interest in asian religous mambo jumbo. Is this a valid or am i mistaken?
>>8275599
you won't find a lot , if any "mumbo jumbo" in a lot of his works.
narcissus and goldmund as well as demian for instance are more based on nieztsche's ideas of the appolonian vs the dionysian nature of man
>>8274426
We need a good economy and some actual jobs as well mate.
Dragon Ball Z
>>8274426
You are complaining about people complaining.
>>8275790
You are very witty
>>8274259
enchiridion
>>8275799
Youa re not