Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 862. page

>Sup /lit/ haven't been here since like 2013, what did I miss?
you missed /pol/ starting to come here
>Are the /mu/tant barbarians still at the gates?
/mu/ has no influence on this board
>Also what's the deal with /his/, are they like our colony or something?
they are the property of [s4s], so kindly fuck off

Stop being autistic

>>9665786
ayy nigga welcome back

>Are the /mu/tant barbarians still at the gates?
unfortunately. 3x3 threads have actually become a thing here, but I think they might actually serve a function as containment threads for the dumbest of the dumb (aka people from /mu/).

>Also what's the deal with /his/, are they like our colony or something?
still too dominated by /pol/ type obsessions. someone added "& humanities," so technically all sophomore philosophy shit should go on there. but I've tried posting the same philosophy thread on both boards for a while and /lit/ is still the place to go if you want that kind of thing

read poetry out loud

>>9665766
fuck off le "just listen to the music of the words and feel the shiver in your spine, that's all u need :')" fag

Express yourself, not others. If you try to express others you will never learn to express yourself. Be critical of your work. Read everything more than once, make edits often. This is how I generally write mine.

ignatius p. riley

>>9665769
Ones you didn't make up?

Josef Svejk
Johan Nagel
Ignatius Reilly
Ferdinand Bardamu

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where do i find french ebooks

not pdfs

b-ok.org

First day on the internet huh bud? Try libgen.

If you would just lurk for one fucking day before posting, you'd realize we have this thread every day you brainlet POS
saged and hidden ffs

>>9665721
I have never seen a thread like this.

>>9665715
What makes you think we are intelligent or valuable?

Read Adorno and then read Ortega y Gasset and Ernst Junger's Waldganger and Eumeswil

Far left and far right both agree: Transcendent meaning and an unalienated Lebenswerk are the cornerstones of human existence, and capitalism has killed them so that we can have an endless orgy of nothing.

>>9665618
Yes, it's a very good book on the topic

>>9665658
How alive is the anti-capitalist sentiment in the far-right though? It seems fairly dead to me, while there has at least been a noticeable return of a broad worker-focused left-wing in various countries.
Thanks for the reccs though, I'll look it up.

The World as Will and Representation

>>9665187
Plato, Kant, and the Upanishads

>>9665187
Plato and Kant, although I read neither and understood it fine.

*richard ii

Are you implying the first one is Hamlet or Macbeth?

>>9665147
I assumed that no one here would argue that Hamlet isn't the best tragedy.

>>9665100
I've only read Sophocles, and I liked him more than I thought I would.

>>9665213
Yes, Sophocles remains quite entertaining.

Aeschylus

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And why are they always girls?

4chan culture precedes itself.

>>9664981
because we're lonely

it's not your translation
Montaigne was fucking retarded is the problem
fuck France

>>9664966
How'd you like to suck on my cock?

>>9664943
Screech is a lot better at getting Montaigne's point across in plain terms. Frame I believe attempts to convey Montaigne's syntax and elocution, but it is detrimental because English only obfuscates the author's beautiful language which runs clear and strong like a water spring.

Honestly, and I don't mean to sound rude or to belittle you, but you should read the essays in the original French. And I don't mean the modernized versions, or the ones which attempt to dissect the text and end up infesting it with an intolerable swarm of A's, B's and C's. I mean, learn the French language, and then spend the time to familiarize yourself with M's renaissance era language.

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I just gave another look, and possibly it's 800, I don't know, I've never counted them.

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>organize
That isn't the word I'd use for how I store books.
>mfw dozens of volumes spread across a 4-tier bookshelf, an entertainment center whose TV slot is full of books of various sizes including two Bibles with other books inserted wherever they fit, and a third 3-tier bookshelf that's completely full, with books scattered across my bedroom floor and stacked seven high on top of my guitar amp

>fiction
>>alphabetical by author

>non-fiction
>>grouped by subject

Any other way of sorting it is for try-hards.

>>9664687
my diary desu

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>>9664687
Anything by this chick. Get her collected stories.

>>9664687
Fuck Boland Bologna and fuck white bread

>>9664647
Either Catch-22, Slaughterhaus-5, or The Crying of Slot 47

>>9664647
Player piano because it deals with universal basic income

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>>9664647
Player Piano. For a 65 year old book it still resonates strongly today.

French is idiom on top of idiom

>>9664630
>chooses the longest possible way to say it in French just to make it seem complicated

Nice bro.

P.S.

>C'est quoi?
>Ça c'est quoi?
>Qu'est-ce que c'est?

>>9664640
>Qu'est-ce que c'est?
>Ça c'est quoi?
These are still fucked