Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 1559. page

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

Agota Kristof - The City of K

>>9243424
is that rebecca horn?

stranger by camus

But Demian is the easiest Hesse book to get, OP.

>>9243523
Can you help me out please? I read Siddhartha and was able to "get" it but I am struggling with Demian.

>>9243563

Have you ever heard those New Age sophists who claim that all you need to do to get what you want is to imagine the world you want to be in and believe with total conviction that you are in that world? The logic is that if you believe you are in the world of your desires, you will be metaphysically transported to that world.

This novel is an exploration of that idea. That belief and the mind can have physical results in the world. In other words, reality reflects the state of the mind rather than the contents of your mind being a product of reality.

>>9243369
Do you have a real question about the book?

>>9243376
yeah, is it worth reading?

>>9243380
Yes, all books are if you are a thinking person.

>>9243308
Antonioni, Visconti

Just watch Bicycle Thieves and then abort and find something better to do with your time.

>>9243850

But Anon, Umberto D. and Rome, Open City is much better than Bicycle Thieves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvwhEIhv3N0

>>9243233
>Lacan
yes
>Zizek
yes
>Deleuze
no
>Derrida
a bit
>Foucault
a bit

>>9243233
>Lacan
no
>Derrida
no
>Foucault
yes

OP is not a scientist, obviously.

That question is retarded.

>>9243204
>>9243208

Philosophy already blown out. Come on, gang. There must be someone? ;)

[laughs like Richard Dawkins]

>>9243150
Capitalists have everything.

>>9243150
What is Wealth of Nations!?

Capitalism isn't really a thing, let alone the capital C "Capitalism". You might be looking for a book on economics.

I've read it; it's very good. So is Kang's other translated work 'Human Acts'. Both good places to start with Korean literature.

DUDE I AM A PLANT LMAO

AND THEN... I BECAME THE PLANT.
I mean come on, seriously?

>>9242847
Sócrates is going on trial in a few days

Why is the idea of Perfect Justice presumptive?

Platonism is objectively the most corrosive and counter-productive idea ever intoduced to human race

Besides short stories, it's taken me about 2 months of intermittent reading to finish White Jacket. This book is a real pain in the ass. His voice is there, but whatever magic made Moby Dick my favorite book isn't.

i read pierre and war poetry

Just picked up Tydee. I've read Moby Dick twice and loved it, so I decided to try this.

It was written in his youth and so far I get a real Stevenson vibe. There's no Shakespearean prose or philosophical undertones , but it's a solid adventure novel and fun to read.

Absolutely. You can't say you really know Russian until you have translated Dostoyevsky into Old Church Slavonic.

No. Only orthography has changed, the language is the same.

File: 633.jpg (46KB, 720x496px) Image search: [Google]

46KB, 720x496px

Nah, I'm russian and half of these make no sense to me. Slavonic is still easily readable though. The difference isn't as big as between modern and old english

File: 41Fb2rRfnPL.jpg (29KB, 328x500px) Image search: [Google]

29KB, 328x500px

Unironically pic related, i read it when i was like 10.

>>9242753
The Artwork of the Future by Richard Wagner

>>9242753
Goethe drops some weak-ass forced rhymes in the first part though. Every American phony faux-intellectual reads a shitty, distorted translation and thinks it's this is the most transcendental woke shit of all time.

Absalom, Absalom for the most brilliant thing Faulkner ever did. It's basically schizophrenic rambling to someone unfamiliar with his style.

>>9242738
Bro, take a couple minutes and breath. Enjoy and reflect for a moment before diving into another. Y'know... let dinner sit before dessert. Maybe go for a walk for have a smoke or something.

>>9242749
Of course I'm not gonna start reading another thing right now in this moment after reading the adventures of a retard that is always reminiscing (not talking about Benji)

>>9242728
Lacan/Hegel.

>>9242803
I meant to be able to understand philosophy properly in the first. I'm pretty sure starting with them (or any other philosopher for that matter) would be extremely pointless

>>9242808
I was just memeing. I don't really understand what it is you're looking for. Philosophy is pretty self-referential and you'll have to start somewhere. Maybe take an intro to philosophy class. There are plenty on YouTube.

>>9242727
when is the democrat party going to learn that 1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual???

So... Donald Trump...

The only ones who unironically think it's an instruction manual are the nazbols.