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Is there a book that elicits the same feelings as this picture?
Me in pic btw
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This isn't depressing at all. Its just a funny pic. Dad is pretty aesthetic desu.
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>>9043077
The Judgment by Kafka.
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Things Fall Apart
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I heard Nabanokov's translations are not very good and are hard to read. Any others you guys recommend?
Also, best Fathers and Sons translation?
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>>9043061
I read the Penguin classics version. Those are pretty much all I read unless you can get your hands on a Volokhonsky and Pevear translation.
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>>9043083
Are the Penguin translations any good?
Are there P&V translations for Hero and Sons?
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Oxfords are solid, only go with penguin as last resort.
Also if you really care
http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/lermontovs-hero-our-time
Is this a good book?
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yes x2
blows the fuck out of shitty fucking victorian-era literature
FUCK YOU, CHARLES DICKENS, AND YOUR PENNY-A-WORD FUCKING SHIT
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>>9043006
It's a redpill on women.
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Post a word
Rate another's word
>Mercurial
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>>9042919
>>Mercurial
5/10
Reprobate
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Good word
> budgerigar
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Salad door
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>Poe's stories, despite their permanent, world-wide popularity, are atrociously written (as are his poems) and benefit by translation, even into English.
How could one man be so wrong? You memed me, didn't you guys?
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he's also said that John Milton intended Satan to be the protagonist of Paradise Lost
Don't worry, I fell for the meme too
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>>9042841
>no counter argument
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>>9042859
This is true. He's the Byronic hero.
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Say you wrote a really good book, and an agency took great interest in you
But their contract stated you have to do book signings, promotion on social media, readings of the book, television & radio appearances,
Would you do it?
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>>9042826
Yep, but I'm still young and goodlookin'. If I were 40 or looked like Pynchon I'd reconsider.
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>>9042826
Yes. Next question.
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>>9042826
Yes, I'd be sure to wear something weird too so people know I'm an artist and therefore more cultured than them. This gives people more reason to read my books as they can use them in public to look sophisticated.
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>Looking for Alaska (2005)
>An Abundance of Katherines (2006)
>Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances – with Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle (2008)
>Paper Towns (2008)
>Will Grayson, Will Grayson – with David Levithan (2010)
>The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
Why hasn't he written anything since 2012?
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>>9042816
Everything was Formulaic
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Odd, the publication date correlates with the Mayan numerology cycle down to the hour.
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>>9042830
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Which books will be the most useful in the post-apocalyptic future?
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Finnegans Wake. To remind you that humanity had already jumped the shark anyway.
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>>9042807
I agree, modernism was an awful time period in literature. But I think that's over now.
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>>9042797
Lord of the Flies
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What was his end game?
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>>9042788
gettin money fo dem programs
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How old were you when you grew out of Dostoevsky and embraced Tolstoy as the greatest author of all time?
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>>9042812
I like them both. Thats like arguing if a Porsche 911 is better than a R8. Theyre both pretty top tier
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Is there validity in the message of this video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yujW5XYe-U8
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Is there a book in this video?
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>>9042784
It's philosophical
Sup /lit/, my to-read pile is getting a bit out of hand
What do?
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Cute tasmanian devil
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Throwing books into a fire usually works.
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>>9042740
I like your stuffed animals OP
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I'm learning Spanish what do /lit/
I've heard people say its a good idea to listen to music in the language you're learning and i want to do that with poetry. Is this a good idea as someone just beginning in the language? If ye rec me some good Spanish poetry that'll help me on my path to sucess
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¿¿¿¿Hola me es anon kun qual es la fecha de hoy????
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>>9042704
I can read Spanish, English and French so the poets I read all write in those languages. Rubén Darío is one of my favorites and his poems are filled with mythological references, one of my passions.
Sor Juana and Luis de León are top tier. Borges, though not consistent at all, has some really good poems.
Pic is Darío.
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>>9042714
el 31 de enero de 2099
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Is there any literary value to the game Cards Against Hunanity?
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>>9042679
Is there any literary value to this fart? *farts*
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>>9042679
No.
There are some story telling games with a tiny kernel of literary value but they are light on the "game" bit like the metagame or gloom
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>>9042679
Twilight and Fifty Shades of Gray
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this shit is awful...I listened to like 5 videos and the subjects tend to be pretty much the same
>muh oppression
none of its good at all
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what did you expect? it's a way for hipsters to jerk it to their superior intellect.
it's like lit minus the selfawareness
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it's just an outlet for liberal angst.
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>>9042579
i always want to see someone just do a right-wing poem just to see how people would react?
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What do you make of Nietzsche's vision in Zarathustra of:
the black serpent which crawled into the man's mouth, whose head was bitten off, followed by the non-human laughter of the man?
my questions:
>who was the man? what is the serpent? is it the serpent representing wisdom? is it the eternal recurrence (ouroboros)?
can someone help me interpret this?
i feel like there's something really important here.
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>>9042569
>i feel like there's something really important here.
nah, he's just insane
that's like those thread where anons made up "deep aphorisms".
it should probably be an analogy of a female (headless black snake/ dumb mean deceitful) twisting it's way into the male mind and making him go insane (inhuman laughter)
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>>9042573
I'm not sure I agree with you.
I think the snake could represent religion and religious values, and the biting is some sort of acknowledgement of the fact that we must live without these values, although it takes courage to "bite" off the head.
Only once the man has BITTEN OFF THE HEAD is he able to exist INHUMANELY: inhumane meaning he is able to become the overman, who we know is not entirely human.
I think I understand now.
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>>9042573
Well, well, well, if it isn't Reddit.