Anyone read Laruelle and non-philosophy?
>>9223860
no but it seems interesting
>>9223860
I wish I had. I bought a few books, but haven'gotten around to it. What can you tell me about him?
Is all her work nothing more than being massively butthurt at what the Communists did to her family estate, and then transplanting her massive insecurity about being a stiff lesbo into a pseudo-Nietzchean wankfest about how "dude, human's default nature isn't greedy enough, they should be completely led by animal spirits when it comes to material accumulation"?
It's bedtime reading for borderline megalomaniacs who want the extra persuasive medicine to cross over the red line.
>It's bedtime reading for borderline megalomaniacs
lol
>the individual should not surrender the fruit of his work to the people trying to mooch off of the labor of others
>lol but only, like, if you´re, like a smart entrepreneur all the gross poor people should totally work for you
was she just a communist in denial?
I like the Christopher Hitchens take on it:
>Perhaps Ayn (rhymes with "mine") Rand's appeal has something to do with the infrastructure, the climate, the educated workforce, and -- let's admit it -- the suffocatingly liberal politics of the Bay Area. It may also have to do with an ineradicable part of the human personality. "I did it all by myself" is one of the first cries of a proud and delighted child. "I'm different -- you wouldn't understand" is one of the mutterings of the subsequent brooding adolescent. "Alone I did it" and "King of the world!" are the slogans of driven men who think that they actually launched the ICBM or raised the Titanic without assistance from anyone except the rabble who did the dull and heavy lifting. (Do these examples seem sufficiently masculine? It's a fact that fewer Randians are female, just as it is a fact that la Rand herself was an unabashed seeker and admirer of the alpha-type chap.)
Do all books having meaning and significance? The profoundness of some books and authors can not be questioned. The works of intellectuals like Kant and Nietzsche quite obviously are meant to inspire discourse and deep thought. Is the same true for all works? Can or do works like Harry Potter or 50 Shades of Grey inspire significant thought or discourse? Reading Marcus Aurelius's Meditations can change your life and way of thinking forever, is the same true of "junk food" literature. Is there any value in taking a critical view in works that are written simply as entertainment? Some argue that the significance of a work is what you take from it, and that meaning can be anything, but if that's so then it's not clear that there is any significance or meaning in any work at all and we fall into a state of deconstructionism.
Then where are we to find meaning? Only in the works of "the masters" prescribed to us by so called intellectuals that pretend to rain down knowledge and wisdom from their ivory towers? Should there be a serious attempt at critical analysis of books written as entertainment? Or should we learn to read simply for pleasure's sake and not attempt to extract meaning out of every phrase and passage? Is a work of literature without meaning worth reading? Can literature exist in a vacuum without meaning? Are all works of literature extension of some deep subconscious Freudian meaning the author wished to convey?
I'm starting to think that all meaning comes from within, that words are meaningless, books are a Rorschach Inkblot test, and that works of Kant, Nietzsche, and Marx are just as valuable as the average erotic novel you find in in the discount bins of Walmart, even as I know that not to be so.
>>9223795
> The profoundness of some books and authors can not be questioned.
Stopped reading here. You're a fucking retard. Stop falling fiend to the illusions of significance. Any sense of profundity you experience is simply an illusion you choose to set up within your head with the objective being mental masturbation.
>>9224080
You should have really kept reading.
Is this total shit? or...
Premise sounds interesting.
>>9223793
Movie was pretty hokey but I enjoyed it
>but the book is totally different!
It's a solid novel.
i'd give it 3.75/5
HE WAS A POOR BOY DINDU NUFFIN NEED MO MONEY FO DEM PROGRAMS the book
i anticipated every major death except tywin's
the more she drank the more she shat
You and everyone else
>>9223779
HE DIES OH NOOOOOOOOOOO NOT MUH MIDGIT MAN
OH NO
seriously, that whole "universe" is so cringy it's embarrassing
Let's play a game /lit/: Bible, Quran or Book of Mormon.
Everyone knows the KJV is a cornerstone of English lit, but can you spot the difference between it and two knock-offs?
>My Lord knoweth every word spoken in the heavens and on earth: He is the one that heareth and knoweth all things.
>Wherefore, the Lord did visit them in great judgment; nevertheless, he did spare the righteous that they should not perish, but did deliver them out of the hands of their enemies.
>And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining
>>9223701
Not looking it up
> Mormies
> KJV
> Quran
Might be wrong.
>>9223701
>>And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining
>>9223720
got all 3 wrong!
It's
Quran
Mormies
Bibble
I may just pick up a bilingual version if the translations are shit
Most everyone read Dryden for a while.
Try Dryden.
>>9223646
Gavin Douglas
>translated poetry
If you're not going to study latin, then spend time carefully scanning every line to recite it out loud, why even bother.
Emerson appreciation thread. Is he the father of American literature?
- No.
>>9223611
/thread
I just finished reading 2666.
H-hold me, /lit/. What do I even do next? Where do I go from here? It certainly doesn't get any better than this.
What didArchimboldi do in Mexico? What happened toKlaus? What happened withthe murders?
Holy shit I'll never know, WE'll never know, Bolaño is dead. My chest hurts from the pure anxiety coming from the acknowledgement of the fact that this is it.
What can I read to alleviate the pain? I have the Woes of the True Policemen. Is that gonna do it?
Anyways, Bolaño appreciation thread, 2666 thread, whatever.
So it's really that good huh? How much of it is les artistes walking around in mexico? I hate books that are about writers and that's what has put me off so far
>>9223470
Pretty much 0%. Maybe you're thinking about The Savages Detectives.
And yes, it's that good (have in mind I read it in its original language).
>>9223470
Very little, though some of my favorite parts do involve 'artists' in Paris.
God, I love this work. I always find myself thinking back to the geometry book outside...
http://poetrydailycritique.blogspot.com
Patrish blog coming through. Why haven't you started your own blog yet /lit/?
I'm not gay.
>>9223412
>such words are too frequently strong evidence that the text is not verse at all but prose with line breaks pretending to verse.
What is this called in English? Knäckprosa in Swedish.
i wouldn't wanna be one of those pathetic faggots with a blog who shills it on a chinese cartoon website
IRISH WRITERS THREAD
Post your favourite Irish writer and your favourite piece of work from them
The more obscure/underrated the better
>>9223327
The playwright Martin McDonagh.
I'd be torn between The Pillowman or The Lonesome West for my favourite of his works.
my favorite Irish writer was Patrick O'Wanker. He wrote using ink made out of his excrement and paper made of dried potato skins. He compiled a 10 part epic on the Potato famine.
Sam Coll, Abode of Fancy.
How do I deal with being more intelligent than everyone around me?
Start hanging out outside your inbred family
Move out of special needs care center.
you kill yourself because all great men are dead
Would you rather plan your novel ahead of time, or write and see where the plot takes you?
>I've only written one novel, and I chose the latter method. The novel turned out shit.
the second one
>>9223263
First. I don't plan out every little thing, and things can change... but it's the best way for some genres. Obviously if you're writing a mystery for example you'd have to be retarded to just wing it.
Skeletal plan with room for improvisation and potential changes if a good idea takes me somewhere unexpected. Then i can just shift the plan around it.
How do I escape the internet rabbit-hole? Is it possible to completely disconnect?
Nah, even he recognizes how difficult that is. It's simply impractical in today's workforce/academic culture. But It's a good book, take it to heart. In honor of it, I'm taking the rest of the day off.
Cya boys
>>9223292
kys
>>9223249
Embrace it! Immerse yourself in the internet any chance you get.
Is there an English translation of this book ?
wikipedia says yes
Électre was translated into English as Electra in 1955 by Winifred Smith,[1] and again in 1964 by Phyllis La Farge and Peter H. Judd
Giraudoux, Jean (1964), Three Plays, vol 2, Translated by Phyllis La Farge and Peter H. Judd, Hill and Wang, New York
Jump up ^ Cohen, Robert (1968), Jean Giraudoux; Three Faces of Destiny, p. 157, University of Chicago Press, Chicago
>>9223182
Think you can help me find the book online ?
I can't find a pdf =[
Didn't find anything either, sry