So I just finished The Great God Pan from Arthur Machen, very good novel.
I'm a lot into paganism/nature horror (gloomy, eerie horror) like this (I also liked The Witch, the movie), what author would you tell me to check?
>>9973017
Not very horror but 'The Devil In A Forest' by Gene Wolfe might interest you. It's mostly a coming of age story but his attention to detail and appreciation of history make it interesting enough.
Very interesting thread, wait for it my whole life or even more
>>9973035
I'll definitely look into it, looks interesting.
finished this today. so much better than gravity's rainbow. finishing a pynchon epic is both depressing and satisfactory at the same time though.
gravity's rainbow is some hundred times better than GAYson and DICKson
>>9972990
OH BITCH you have no idea, this is a neato torpedo lead in to Against the Day
Hope you know about the Icelandic rocks and Zulu tribes and Mexican anarchists and Greek arms dealers and Colorado businessmen and the work of Philip K. Dick
>>9973014
Bit rude, friend
Is freedom of speech possible outside of democracy?
>>9972945
Sure, under anarcho-primitivism or mutualism
>>9972950
>Anarcho-primitivism
>Mutualism
>Unironically
>>9972965
Yep
I am Sunni, should I read this?
Go play in the sand.
No, because if a single book is able to shatter your beliefs then obviously you never believed did you?
>>9972926
I used to believe in you anon, your post made me stop doing that.
I guess, I truly never believed in you.
Does Rosa (Amalfitano) get BLACKED?
>>9972912
I hope so, otherwise I fapped fornothing. Also Fate was a prettycool guy.
i didn't read the book yet, mate
why are you bringing spoilers like that?
fuck you
How the FUCK can I find a career that gives me enough time and energy to write on the side, without being poor as fuck? I admit, I don't want to give myself away to my art, not so much because I mind a poor lifestyle, but because I won't be able to handle the fucking blowback from my family. Also, it seems like a lonely and terrible lifestyle to spend your whole day in your room writing. You anons got any advice?
>caring about money
>>9972871
>How the FUCK can I find a career that gives me enough time and energy to write on the side
not possible. unless you're a girl in which case you can literally make $5 every 2-3 minutes on tinder
>>9972876
I don't care that much, to be honest, I mostly care about being a fucking disappointment to my family
What the fuck was Flaubert thinking?
>>9972813
Good question. It is what it is, I suppose. (You) can add Temptations to your Flaubert, wtf? List. The Sentimental Education is however a great novel, and Bouvard and Pecuchet sheer genius.
I absolutely loved Sentimental Education, though Salambo is his masterpiece. In it's few pages is probably the best researched historical novel in existence. He is spot on on everything
>Dude biblical naturalism lol
His worst most autistic novel.
So I fucking fell for the meme, I actually started with the Greeks and I'm loving it.
After reading Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History and Mythology I moved on to tragedies.
I just read Prometheus Bound and it left such a great impression on me I can't even describe it.
It's an ancient play, one of the oldest we have, about a simple man who was horrifically punished by the powers that be for the terrible crime of trying to bring light to the common people. I especially loved the words of Aeschylus, "No good deed goes unpunished".
Anything else like this?
Post recs and how far have you progressed with your Greek reading.
The Myth of Sisyphus.
Anyone else?
I read the Iliad and Odyssey over the summer. they were both absolutely fantastic and provided me with a renewed interest in literature, history and the world as a whole. The rivalries between the gods in the Iliad and the ending of the Odyssey were truly spectacular. I feel like I might be missing out on some of the gold as I read the pleb TE Lawrence translation of the Odyssey. I'm not sure where to go from here, I might just follow that meme chart and read the histories or dive into some tragedies, guess I'll check the local bookstore and see what's there.
which is truly the Great American Novel?
>>9972546
Huckleberry Finn and Catcher in the Rye are better contenders
Grapes of Wrath
>>9972550
Surely you jest. The latter belongs in the cringe of its own bin.
>start reading the Gnostic Bible
>get distracted by shitposting on 4chan every time
I hate the demiurge so fucking much, man.
>>9972532
The fucking opressor! Relent this torment!!!
I've been skeptical about the demiurge/Carl Jung/occultism stuff but I just saw something that has essentially convinced me that it's real.
fug da demiurj XDDDDD
Heh.
Are you guys finally ready for literature to join comic books, quipis, freakshows, cave paintings, and phenakistiscopes as a dead medium?
TV and records hobbled the market for prose and poetry decades ago, even the pulp genres. The average novel these days sells, what, 1,000 copies?
Books just cant stand up to the internet and video games. This looks like the killing blow.
It's been a good run, but it's over.
>BING! WAHOOO! IT'S A-ME MARIO
With the extent of low IQ non-white immigration over that same time period, this is no surprise and will only get worse.
>>9972519
WTF is a quipi? And since you provide no evidence of literature being "dead," no, I'm not. Unit sales of print books rose for the third-straight year of print growth in 2016. Sure, U.S. bookstore sales are down about 34% from their peak in 2007, but books are still a massive industry, and they're not going away in your lifetime.
All memes aside, will reading Hegel faciliate my understanding of Stirner or is his philosophy self-sufficient as it is?
skip the stirner and just read hegel.
>>9972510
skip the hegel and just read stirner
Nah, you should be able to understand Stirner without Hegel, but it helps to skip the Marx before you read the Bauer and then read Stirner.
Recommended books on philosophy of (modern/pomo/contemporary) art?
be progressive (left)
be authentic (excrements, sex drive)
thats about it
>>9972464
Schiller
Bachelard
Paglia
Ayn Rand for anti-aesthetics
>>9972469
>Schiller
I didn't know that postmodernism was invented in 18th century.
> tried reading this
> remember im a brainlet
> read through it anyway
> dont understand anything
RREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I got baited into smart-people literature again WHY DOES IT KEEP HAPPENING
>>9972421
i'm going for it soon. is it really this difficult?
>>9972421
kill urself?
One day certain thoughts will hit you and you will understand everything that Dostoyevsky writes about. You're not stupid.
you know what to do
I can see why most people read it in high School and then never again.
>>9972419