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>>9408648
what?

>>9408647
The book of Wisdom, Psalms, Gospels.

>>9408578

Post more faceapp'd Schopenhauers.

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>>9408598

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>>9408598

>>9408522
>keeping in mind I do have some theoretical background in this field?
your theoretical background doesn't seem to have taught you the difference between the Modern period and the Post Modern, which isn't even a freshman mistake.

If you would like an anthology of criticism and theory stretching from the Modern period through to the millenium "Art In Theory: 1900-2000" is a massive anthology of all relevant players.

If you actually mean Modern aesthetics, it would be best to start with Delacroix and move forward from there.

>>9408557
By "modern" I mean present, that's why I added "actual". Actually, this is why you write modern with a capital "M" and I do not.
>"Art In Theory: 1900-2000"
Thanks, I've already read this one and it's good. It contains some names from art world and so on, but I'm looking for some continuous sourse of essays about art and literature, and - if this possible - that is not written by 70-90 grandees with their own constant aesthetics positions.

>>9408573
>Thanks, I've already read this one and it's good.
lol you're such a fucking shitty liar. Anyone who has that book knows you don't read it through. Unless you're some autist who reads phone books, such a liar

>"modern" I mean present, that's why I added "actual"
Which gets even better because you would be aware that Actual Art is an art movement, like Modern Art refers to an art movement. That's why I said you seem to be confusing the modern and post modern. Because anyone with any background in theory knows those things are not the words you would use, especially if you'd read an anthology which clearly defines them as such.

Stop trying to seem informed, it's easier to fill in your knowledge gaps if you're trying to pretend you know everything. Especially with art, because it has far better bullshit artists than you with many more years tenured experience.

>>9408485
Stop looking to /lit/ for validation of what you can and cannot say. You can say whatever you want to say; nobody's going to stop you.

When Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva was practicing the profound Prajñāpāramitā, he illuminated the Five Skandhas and saw that they were all empty, and crossed over all suffering and affliction.

“Śāriputra, form is not different from emptiness, and emptiness is not different from form. Form itself is emptiness, and emptiness itself is form. Sensation, conception, synthesis, and discrimination are also such as this. Śāriputra, all dharmas are empty: they are neither created nor destroyed, neither defiled nor pure, and they neither increase nor diminish. This is because in emptiness there is no form, sensation, conception, synthesis, or discrimination. There are no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or thoughts. There are no forms, sounds, scents, tastes, sensations, or dharmas. There is no field of vision and there is no realm of thoughts. There is no ignorance nor elimination of ignorance, even up to and including no old age and death, nor elimination of old age and death. There is no suffering, its accumulation, its elimination, or a path. There is no understanding and no attaining.

“Because there is no attainment, bodhisattvas rely on Prajñāpāramitā, and their minds have no obstructions. Since there are no obstructions, they have no fears. Because they are detached from backwards dream-thinking, their final result is Nirvāṇa. Because all buddhas of the past, present, and future rely on Prajñāpāramitā, they attain Anuttarā Samyaksaṃbodhi. Therefore, know that Prajñāpāramitā is a great spiritual mantra, a great brilliant mantra, an unsurpassed mantra, and an unequalled mantra. The Prajñāpāramitā Mantra is spoken because it can truly remove all afflictions. The mantra is spoken thusly:

gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā

>>9408485
No, look up the word in the dictionary. It means you have listened to the book.

People don't read anything nowadays. All of literature is sliding into obscurity. Welcome to the post-literate society.

>>9408469
Why should I?

>>9408469
It's just first of many annoying fantasy novels.
If you have to read something from Tolkien, just read SIlmarillion.

listen to the audiobook

>>9408473
Why that instead?

>>9408483
Because it's easier

Dante didn't write it

>>9408452
It's HOW you write it doofus

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>>9408461

Y'all niggers better start replying real fucking soon

When Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva was practicing the profound Prajñāpāramitā, he illuminated the Five Skandhas and saw that they were all empty, and crossed over all suffering and affliction.

“Śāriputra, form is not different from emptiness, and emptiness is not different from form. Form itself is emptiness, and emptiness itself is form. Sensation, conception, synthesis, and discrimination are also such as this. Śāriputra, all dharmas are empty: they are neither created nor destroyed, neither defiled nor pure, and they neither increase nor diminish. This is because in emptiness there is no form, sensation, conception, synthesis, or discrimination. There are no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or thoughts. There are no forms, sounds, scents, tastes, sensations, or dharmas. There is no field of vision and there is no realm of thoughts. There is no ignorance nor elimination of ignorance, even up to and including no old age and death, nor elimination of old age and death. There is no suffering, its accumulation, its elimination, or a path. There is no understanding and no attaining.

“Because there is no attainment, bodhisattvas rely on Prajñāpāramitā, and their minds have no obstructions. Since there are no obstructions, they have no fears. Because they are detached from backwards dream-thinking, their final result is Nirvāṇa. Because all buddhas of the past, present, and future rely on Prajñāpāramitā, they attain Anuttarā Samyaksaṃbodhi. Therefore, know that Prajñāpāramitā is a great spiritual mantra, a great brilliant mantra, an unsurpassed mantra, and an unequalled mantra. The Prajñāpāramitā Mantra is spoken because it can truly remove all afflictions. The mantra is spoken thusly:

gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā

I don't know of any other than my diary

Depends what you like about him. You might be interested in reading Lukacs' essays on European Realism.

>>9408326
Nikolai Leskov

Forgot the name of it, but I liked his story with all the evil forest spirits. And The Overcoat. And the one about the man who realizes his life's dream by planting fruit trees, forgot the name of it too, though...

The closest you'll come to Gogol is other Russian writers from his period, i.e. Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Goncharov, Lermontov. I would recommend none of them because books are pointless drivel and we are all going to die so let's just hurry it up and stop pretending that it is better to read than to speak and listen and shit and eat corn.

>ordering books for your wife's son

>>9408285
Well, there is always Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately most fantasy is written for a young audience. A Song of Fire and Ice would probably be a good recommendation. The Witcher books are also good, starting with Blood of Elves. By the way, i've been interested in working for Barnes and Noble and was wondering what your experience with them has been? How did you find yourself working for them?

>>9408285
Ishiguro's "Buried Giant" is a pretty solid deconstruction of fantasy, while still fitting into the fantasy genre.

>>9408234
The Talmud

>>9408234
the antichrist

>only flaw
He's an agressive criminal.

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>>9408407
>He thinks aggression and criminality are flaws.

Being gay is bad enough

my diary

Ulysses

>>9408162
Parmenides' poem gets a lot of flak. I think they're fine to be honest, and extremely influential, I mean, EXTREMELY influential.

Non leggere traduzioni

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>it's the third "funny literal interpretation of title" ebin meme thread this day

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>>9408053
If you don't learn the original language and read it yourself you are just submitting to the authority if someone else's mind. You will only be reading their bias and manipulation. The true individual does not need others of authority to interpret anything for him.

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>>9408061
>implying the true individual would bow to the arbitrary conventions of language invented by others
You fucking casuals disgust me.

>>9408053
>Is this book worth it?
Given that its free, yes it is worth it

>nd is there any translations to avoid. What is the best translation?

Thought that might change currently there is only one translation