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>>9725352
What anime is this?

Also, it all depends on the book really. As far as quality, I prefer penguin classics as the plastic on the cover often peels on the Oxfords, but that does vary by book. Really whichever you get is fine - the notes and introduction are generally good enough in both. More extensive in the Oxfords I have but you really don't need it all. Your decision should just be based on price and translation - or maybe cover if you're a faggot like me.

>>9725352
Fun pic. I highly enjoyed it.10/10

Oxford, not even close. Only get Penguins if they have a particular translation that is better than what Oxford provides.

>>9725164

Don Quixote.

>>9725164
Epic of Gilgamesh
The Illiad
The Odyssey
The Aeneid
Metamorphoses
Divine Comedy
Don Quixote

In that order.

>>9725368
Iliad. Iliad

I L I A D

desu the whole 1800s is kind of a void in my cultural knowledge.
I am curious about this as well.

>>9725121

Industrial revolution. "Liberalism" is a tool of wealthy businessman to get cheap labor into the country and to divide people via economic politics. The Republicans post-civil war let in unchecked numbers of immigrants and democrats sperged out against blacks rather than protecting "American culture." That laid the groundwork for the "melting pot" (which didn't exist until it was a convenient talking point for those in power) that diversified and liberalized the country.

Basically the civil war destroyed everything traditional about the country, for better or for worse. Even the liberal Christians of the 1700s and early 1800s were against the type of liberalism we understand today, i.e. "an inclusive and diverse America"

why don't you ask in /his/ instead of /lit/ you stupid plonker

I think the trick is finding an easy job that pays you well. In other words, a sensical practice.
Laying in bed all day gets old, and depressing.

>>9724990
No, moderation is key. You can't be a neet forever, and you shouldn't wageslave yourself to death. Take the two extremes, and it's common sense that nothing healthy/viable comes out of them.

>>9724990
The problem with NEETdom is that most don't use the time for growth while getting dumber and dumber consuming shit. At least wagecuckery forces you to take care of the basics, and gives you experience to have something to contemplate about.

>>9725002
>You can't be a neet forever
How comes?

>Walt Whitman-Leaves of Grass
>Sigmund Freud-On The Interpretations of Dreams
>Herman Melville-Moby Dick

>Ezra Pound-Cantos
>Wittgenstein-Tractatus
>James Joyce-Ulysses


Can't comment on the postmoderns at this point

bad thread. modernism and postmodernism are way too big categories for a modern reader to wrangle down to 3 titles and all three categories have some predictable canon answers almost every lit user will agree with

>>9725050
It's not supposed to be what almost every lit user would agree with, it's supposed to be your personal opinion you ape

He took all that from Hegel's objective spirit you fucking dunderhead.

Actually a decent Marx thread for a change.

>>9724803
Except Hegel's wankery happens exclusively in the realm of ideals.

>Muh metaphysics

Derrida is the end point.

>>9724781
dunno, never heard of him

>>9724781
Literally who?

I think he was a typical Christian who was introduced to Nietzsche and had his whole worldview torn to shreds so as a defence mechanism his mind was open to believing in anything that would revive his faith in Christianity and that happened to be literally redefining the definition of truth through pragmatism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebfjuk2fHJo

cult of personality

Don't get me wrong, it's a good book and I enjoyed reading it but it's way overblown.

Oh and the fans, don't even get me started. I met someone who claimed they were a huge fan of the books but had only read the first 3.

If Henry Miller isn't a dinner guest your list needs revision.

this is a dumb wank-thread unless you also mention what conversation you'd have and how it might go.

>>9724574
Hunter S Thompson
Shakespeare
Goethe
Woolf
Rupi Kaur
Hunter would hook up with some mescaline/acid and we would go batshit cray cray, start an orgie and recitete Hamlet/Faust while banging our brains out

OP, I assume you've read it in english, right?
Are you a native? Do you think some above average english speaker could be able to read it in english?

>>9724592
Yeah I read it in english.
It's not particularly hard to read.
It is boring as all fuck though, so brace yourself.

The Dead is actually kind of overrated at this point. It's great, sure, but no more so than some of the other stories in Dubliners, and it's sort of just the one people remember because it's the last one.

I am a huge fan of A Little Cloud and After The Race.

>>9724460
Nabokov. Never read Beckett in French but he is probably my favorite writer in English.

>>9724460
agota kristof, definitely

Joseph Conrad

He learned English at 16, IRRC.

No that shit started in the 1800s

>reading Emil Zola
>Its a fucking botany manual

>>9724309
>>Its a fucking botany manual
holy shit this stop this fucking hell i'm not trying to become an expert on local flora and fauna i want a STORY

at least with stuff like Neuromancer and James Joyce the way things are told, the actual style of writing, is entertaining in and of itself

with shitty fantasy its not even that its just a bore

>>9724309
True, but Zola writes great dialogue too

>>9724290
>Jew
>nigger
>Irish
>white

>>9724290
Notes From The Underground is satirical tho. Anyone who dentifies with it is ironically just embarassing themselves.

>>9724290
>tfw invisible man was my first big boi book

feels wierd

>>9724258
Shakespeare obviously, by a wide margin. Ulysses is really a worthless book, a novelty at best.

Shakespeare because he precedes Joyce

sources: Pierre Menard Author of The Quixote

>>9724258

>Who wins

Francis Bacon.

>and why?

Because I'm never wrong.

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>read (present)
>read (past)

>>9724248
>raise the structure (build it up)
>raze the structure (demolish it)

Where (location)
Were (time)