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Name a more iconic duo. I'll wait.
Reading this book and listening to Gould's recording of the Goldberg Variations is almost sublime. The ending to The Loser is fantastic, one of my favorite endings to a Bernhard novel. Bernhard's characterization of Gould was done very well, too. My litter loser, he'd say to Wurtheimer. The ultimate insult to Austria; a Canadian pianist that can play Bach better than any Austrian.
Anyone else a Bernhard fan? I'm in the midst of reading his so-called arts trilogy. Read The Loser in June and finished Woodcutters a few days ago. Woodcutters was also very good; I rarely see it talked about on /lit/. I'm looking forward to Old Masters. A bit hesitant due to the Osers translation, but Yes was an Osers translation and I loved that. Bernhard's voice ends up reminding me a bit of Woody Allen in some way with the Osers, but I don't mind it. Still, a McLintock translation would've been preferable.
General Bernhard thread I suppose. What's your favorite book of his you've read? Impressed or unimpressed? I've found him to be pretty polarizing.
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yes, i too also started listening to classical music just yesterday.
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>>9869067
you're a fag
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>>9869057
Good post anon. Can't wait for the next installment of "Rambling Monologues of an Autistic Pseud" by t. sophomore
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How much reading a day do you do? 2017-08-09 04:56:53 Post No.9868979
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How much reading a day do you do?
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I do 30 mins minim
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*minimum
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>>9868979
3-4 hours.
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Hardly do any anymore and it pisses me off. I also seem to lack concentration now unlike my early years.
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Are there books or philosophies about being heartless, emotionless or just letting go of all emotions?
Biographies or literature about heartless individuals I can learn from would be good too.
I'm just so sick and tired of emotions holding me back.
Not trying to being edgy or sociopath/psychopath.
Have any of you found a way out of this prison of over sensitivity ? HOW!?
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the bible
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>>9868970
>the bible
By devoting yourself entirely to the one true God so nothing else matters?
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anything by ayn rand will get you covered. start with the fountain head.
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Is it good
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>>9868860
It's stunning, absolutely riveting!
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>not poetry
take a wild guess
hint: no
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YAAAS KWEEN SLAAAAY IMMA BE SCREAMING YALL
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I want to sort myself out more /lit/ 2017-08-09 04:09:05 Post No.9868842
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I want to sort myself out more /lit/
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Life's been getting better since I started to try and quit my bad habits, get /fit/ and truly work on myself.
Recommend a 19 year old some books that teach what a young man should know, growing up with a passive and nihilistic father figure.
So far I've really like Devils by Dostoevsky with his onslaught on nihilism and Extreme Ownership written by two veterans, teaching you to take complete responsibility of your actions.
Thinking about reading The Bible soon too.
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Beat it, kid.
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>>9868842
Wow, he's fallen for all the spooks. The greatest spook you must vanquish is your shame.
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>>9868842
Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, then Schelling again.
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Why do people have an issue with books that are just fun?
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They don't, they have a problem when people conflate those books with works of real cultural and literary value. I like reading King, but that's all. I like it, I don't consider it important.
I also hate when people say a steak from TGI Friday's is the same as a steak from a real steakhouse in the city. It's just baldly untrue.
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>>9868831
Stephen King is not fun. It's garbage. I'd rather spend my short time on earth reading the writings of the greatest minds who ever existed.
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>>9868843
>inb4 >food analogy
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What are some good books on torture?
I'm not interested in history, but rather philosophy, morality, ethics behind it.
I'm mostly okay with people dying and being killed by whatever means, but not sure how to get over torture which comes to me as the red line.
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>>9868743
t. actual sociopath
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Are you ok with yourself dying, or are you seriously a sollipsist lmao
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Are there any books on how the Abrahamic religions came to be? I'm looking for something that explains how they differ from other religions, and how their environment played a role in shaping them. I'm especially interested in Islam, because I was listening to a podcast some time ago, and someone put forth the idea that these faiths, especially Islam, had to be all fire and brimstone and steeped with the supernatural because the people they were trying to convince were superstitious desert nomads, peasants, and warlords who were often violent. I just want something that delves into why there's so much call for the sword, the supremacist nature of them; especially Islam since it seems to go the farthest.
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>>9868738
monotheism is easier to explain to retards.
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Armstrong's A History of God is very plebby but tells you a lot of what you're looking for, starting with the origins of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
For instance pre-Islamic society being already a bloodbath is described in good detail: there is no individual moral responsibility for a homicide. If somebody from my clan is killed, I don't punish the killer, I randomly kill somebody from the clan the killer is from. Literally there is only tribal vengeance (one of the meanings of muruwah).
This vengeance continues today in terrorism, as they kill random civilians instead of politicians, bankers or soldiers.
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So I spent the summer reading some Russian literature and am now looking for where to go next. My plan would be Alexander Pushkin but I find translated poetry to have little of interest so looking for novels.
Previously this summer.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Good but not amazing.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov. More or less amazing. ( Have also read C&P and The idiot, C&P is probably my favorite ).
Reading now. Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina, Amazing this far ( 350 pages ).
Tried reading Andrei Bely - Petersburg but either I'm to stupid or the translation is hard.
So where should I go next? Ideas?
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Gogol, Chekhov, lermontov, goncharov, bulgakov
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>>9868680
Gogol, Chekhox and Bulgakov was on the short list.
Could I bother you to ask which one would suffer the least from being translated?
And did you vote against Pushkin?
Just curious.
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>>9868690
Gogol suffers most, but guerney does a good job.
Bulgakov was censored so some editions are missing stuff.
I agree about translated poetry (from what I understand pushkin loses more than most) but you can read his prose.
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Daily reminder that no-one shall ever surpass this man in the written word. This man is and shall forever be the absolute pinnacle of literature. To own a complete volume of his works, is to own all the literature that one will ever need in this life
How does it feel knowing that no matter how hard you try, you will never even come close to the absolute genius that was Shakespeare?
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Lol he was just the Vince Gilligan of the Elizabethan/Jacobian age.
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i keep passively forgetting this and he has a way of unexpectedly popping out in my way to remind me of his fuckery that has no bounds
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>>9868453
He wasn't white though, look at those brown eyes.
Why was Anna such an insufferable cunt brehs ?
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>brehs
>>>/fit/
brainlet, keep you r/books tier "waah waah, character x was a cunt" whining there
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>>9868448
Chad cock and morphine.
Women are degenerate.
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She's unironicallybipolar, in case you're not very far in.
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Sentences or phrases you can get away with in Literature but not in speech 2017-08-09 01:15:21 Post No.9868326
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Sentences or phrases you can get away with in Literature but not in speech
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>...much to my chagrin..
>...I implore you to...
>...I reckon you.... (aussies do not apply)
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>>9868326
>(aussies do not apply)
be'en a bit of a racist mate
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>>9868326
I knew a guy who would use "nevertheless" all the time in speech and I realized that I've almost never heard anyone else use it in speech before.
Anyway I started using it myself.
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"I reckon" is pretty common though, at least where I live.
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>Life is pain
Really!?
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>>9868247
Yeah, its pretty bad
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I wanna read Cioran, but do I really need to read Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Kant, Nietszche, Heidegger, etccc first?
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>he hasn't started with the Greeks
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/lit/ thoughts on these two translations?
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Also I've been told the Pevear & Volokhonsky translation of The Brothers Karamazov is Reddit tier? I still love it, but why is [your favorite translation] better?
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Smollett is a whiny bitch
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Putnam translation is GOAT. /thread
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Books you would wipe off the face of the earth
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edgy
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>>9868091
I agree, translated Bibles are heresy
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>>9868091
any holocaust denial book