Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 1011. page

>>9576980
>Whats wrong with e-readers?
Nothing.

Can we stop having this same thread every day?

>>9577000

im pretty new on /lit/ so i had no idea that this thread was being posted frequently, its just that a lot of people i know are piling heaps of bullshit on the value of actual paper books, and i cant find a single valid point.

>>9576937
actually no

My Diary, Desu is finally real.

Please post.

>>9576937

post it senpai

>>9576851
Nah

I could never get the hang of translating it. I know the alphabet and could read it and write it but I don't know if I could sit down with a whole book.

>>9576851
There is one Greek anon here who recommended some poetry.

"I've read a bit of modern Greek poetry, in translation. I liked Cavafy so much that I read his entire poetic oeuvre (it's not that much). Then I read--and mostly enjoyed--some Elytis, Ritsos and Eggonopoulos, all in a modernist or surrealist vein. I haven't read any prose though and I'm not aware of any novelists other than Kazantzakis. Anything of any worth out there?

There's actually a really good learning from 0 podcast for modern greek called language transfer - it's a bit like micheal thomas but without his grungevoice and is imo generally better

check it out, gl :http://www.languagetransfer.org/complete-greek

for poetry check out Yannis Ritsos (the fourth dimention) for an older but great poet and Katerina Gogou (three clicks left and my name is odyssey - not sure about their translations) for a kinda darker modern poet

then for novels i really enjoy Manos Karagatsis (ten, youngerman) and Andreas Empeirikos (the great erotic)


however i have no clue about english translations of these things so there may be a chance you won't find some of these in a proper edition"

>>9576863
the whole thing about him bringing Turkish and Greek together because of the conflict in cyprus is really cool

any other cypriots on here?

Good stuff

>>9576717
Probably the best commentary on Mitläufer psychology.

>Arendt
into the fucking trash

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amazon.com

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http://www.booktopia.com.au/

booksbythefoot.com

Narcissistic belief that your own condition is in any way better than whatever comes in the future I see

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>>9576593
I don't support you procreating, does that count?

If I think about what choosing to have kids means for any amount of time means, it seems unjustifiable. On the other hand, I'm not nearly as disgusted by it on a day to day basis as I would assume an antinatalist should be, the same way that anyone who is pro-life should be furious all of the time. Those are positions which, if you believe them, you should be more than slightly uncomfortable every once in a while as a result. I think that someone who supports procreation is just someone who's able to stop reasoning for a while. Even though they might end up crafting shitty pro-natalist or anti-anti-natalist arguments, I mean that as a compliment.

>>9576574
bout tree fiddy

>>9576617
months?

>>9576574

Not arsed. Too much effort for too little gain. Might try my hand at latin though.

>>9576531
>reading to impress your peers and professors

pseud

Man tysonposters are the worst

Facebook and your textbooks.

Practice. Talk to people more.

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Stop communicating.

The hardest part about talking to people is getting out of your own way. Don't think in words, go with feelings and the situation at hand instead of trying to reason your way into saying the right thing.

In other words, just be yourself! :^)

>>9576351
Well, yeah.

>>9576351
>this just in, writers who learn the hardest form are better at easier forms than failures

>the greatest writers all gave up poetry
anon...

Nope, serms good, have at it.

Learn English from PG Wodehouse. He speaks English English, so people don't think you're Irish instead. It would be very awkward if you were Irish and not related to any of them. People might assume you were Welsh and trying to pass.

sounds like fun, enjoy anon

you got some books that you haven't and won't read. so on par with the average person here

>>9575959
5 bucks a pop. Fuck it.

I really dislike the texture of these covers. All waxy. 5 bucks for a new book really isnt bad though, I have a few of them. Also you should really clean your fingernails

>>9575702
>quoted Adorno and Horkheimer with ease
Definitely /ourguy/

Benedict is fucking awesome, and he will be lauded long after Francis' pop-papacy has been consigned to dusty record books.

Everyone should read his "Jesus of Nazareth" books. They should be recommended to everyone who comes on /lit/ and posts threads wanting to learn more about Christianity.

>>9575706
when and where did he quote?
I want to check it
Thank you

>>9575617
not really. It's DeLillo's demented humor with Gaddis' prose and vision of America (and still DeLillo's too) with Dostoevsky's characters and belief in the power of the novel. Kafka and Freud are the dead fathers of the novel (obvious shakespeare allusions notwithstanding) while Derrida is the novel's theoretical antagonist. A lot of shit is going on here. Some will say "where's pynchon?" but as someone who has been reading a lot of DeLillo as of late this book is the hallmark of early-mid DeLillo which is also fairly pynchonian for that matter though

>>9575749
I should also add Barth with Derrida as the antagonists

what is infinite jest trying to recreate brick by brick? boston? a tennis academy? the inner psyche of a well-to-do white kid in the 20th/21st century?

>>9575471

shintoism
zen buddhism
most European pagan religions

>>9575475
buddhism is only ok with suicide if you become so passive that you forget eating/breathing, which rules out almost every suicide.

stoicism is ok with it

not so much with hinduism

rastafarianism is only okay with it if you get so high you accidentally forget how to live