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>>9918303
who's that on the right of stirner?

>>9918352
Fritz perls

>>9918424
>"I got her down again and said, gasping: 'I've beaten up more than one bitch in my life.' Then she got up, threw her arms around me: 'Fritz, I love you.' Apparently she finally got what, all her life, she was asking for, and there are thousands of women like her in the States. Provoking and tantalizing, bitching, irritating their husbands and never getting their spanking. You don't have to be a Parisian prostitute to need that so as to respect your man."
Wew lad. He would have probably been a chan user.

Those books are within reason all you need to get a grasp of Faulkner at his best.

I read in the order of

AILD
TSATF
LIA
AA

Which went fine. Someone may recommend you read LIA first because its more conventional but I never like that type of thinking. It won't prepare you any better for the incoherence in the other books, but it may actually diminish the visceral impact of those books if you've already pregamed. Just jump in with As I Lay Dying and if you struggle with deciphering what's going on (nothing wrong with that) then check some online resources.

>>9918234
Start with As I Lay Dying, then go on to Light in August, then The Sound and the Fury. Leave Absalom Absalom till last.

>no one reads the Snopes trilogy or Mosquitoes, his best works
Flags in the Dust is also fucking top tier
>Young Bayard roaring down the streets in his car trying to relive his fighter pilot days

do another.
get lost now

nice. I'm proud of you anon.

>>9918158
that's good anon. did you like it?

It's Sunday morning, why aren't you in church?

>>9918123
It means a certain topic is discussed.
If a character in the work is in love that doesn't mean that love is a theme of the work.
If being in love is subjected to any kind of scrutiny then we can say that the work deals with the theme of being in love.
I recommend trying to use the squishy matter that is between your ears.

>>9918123
I agree. The way we talk about literature is so fucking retarded. But it's so thoroughly fucked there's pretty much no way out.

I like criticism that breaks apart individual sentences. Criticism that looks at the way each word functions. Microcriticism. Anyone who makes blanket statements about a book as a whole is a pseud who wants the worst for you.

>>9918025

You can try my latest novel. Its on amazon, called Crimea River. Its about the latest annexation of the Crimea region and a teenage girl named River who's in love with a Russian soldier.

>>9918042

Holy shit fucking kek

>>9918042
you've been waiting for an opportunity to post this haven't you?

most of them

Blade Runner sucks ass.

>>9918002
Because I wasn't alive in 2000 BC, 1900 BC, 1800 BC, 1700 BC, 1600 BC, 1500 BC, 1400 BC, 1300 BC, 1200 BC, 1100 BC, 1000 BC, 900 BC, 800 BC, 700 BC, 600 BC, 500 BC, 400 BC, 300 BC, 200 BC, 100 BC, CE, 100 AD, 200 AD, 300 AD, 400 AD, 500 AD, 600 AD, 700 AD, 800 AD, 900 AD, 1000 AD, 1100 AD, 1200 AD, 1300 AD, 1400 AD, 1500 AD, 1600 AD, 1700 AD, 1800 AD, or 1900-1988 AD.

>>9918002
Experience is limited to your lifespan. Vicarious experiences allow you to transport yourself to different times and places. It allows you to gain a holistic view of history. Oddly enough, by understanding others' experiences, you also begin to understand a bit more of your own. By studying the past, you see why things are the way they are at present, and, possibly, even where they are bound to go for the future.

am i seeing there what i think i'm seeing?
isn't that very large for a flaccid one? like very

Nice thread faggot

Nice thread faggot

Nice thread faggot

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>>9917972

It's a Penguin Classic. That means it's an undisputed part of western culture.

Seriously those reviews should tell you that the only people who like it want to suck Morrisey's suck already.

>>9917972
It's awful and I say this as a Smiths fan.

>>9918007
It's awful, yeah, but in a strangely compelling way. My friend's dad bought it for him. I'd never want to read it cover to cover, but it's really fun to read random pages here and there

At this point both sides have done so much wrong that it only matters who wins, not what's right.

>copies jacques ellul
>insert muh leftists and natural order nigga
>have to commit terrorist acts in order to people to read his shitty manifesto

Reminder that Kaczynski was tortured in a psychological experiment by a sadist lunatic who had no real purpose behind his "work". The only shame is that Ted didn't kill everyone involved in executing the experiment.

>>9917943
Benjamin's “The Task of the Translator” is worth a read.
this has also been translated so heh

http://users.clas.ufl.edu/burt/deconstructionandnewmediatheory/walterbenjamintasktranslator.pdf

>>9917943
It depends on the text you're reading, and the quality of the translation. A popular text will have numerous more accurate translations compared to obscure texts. And philosophical text are better suited for translations, as the ideas of the text can easily be convyed in a different language. Prose, however, is a lot more difficult to accurately translate while maintaining the same levels of literary nuance (e.g. complex concepts or words that aren't easily translated directly).

>>9917943
See Quines indeterminacy of translation

>>9917933
ew no why would you want to start with the chinnish, everybody knows that Prester John was the greatest king, not even an Asian

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>>9917933
yes

Well you can try to start off with the classics of Confucius but they're pretty dry.
James legge translated them in the sacred books of the east and it's old but does have a lot of notes.
I've read some of the book of documents but it's only worth reading in my mind if you have an academic/historical interest rather than for enjoyment like you would the greeks and I say this as a chinese ancestor worshipper.

If he's so smart, how come he's dead?

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>>9917922
When a young man came up to him in Zurich and said, ‘May I kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses?’ Joyce replied, somewhat like King Lear, ‘No, it did lots of other things too.’

He also wrote the words "arse full of farts" as well.

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>>9917922
*slabs your path*

pooping is really satisfying

>>9917839
>this trite is leaking into consciousness
Boy I'll say. (Thank you)

Pooping makes me feel like accomplished something in the day