So we all know Spengler, Sorel and the likes who were going on and on about decadence and decline at the beginning of the 20th century.
What are some philosophers who saw this decadence as something to embrace rather than something that has to be fought? Only De Sade comes to my mind.
Love him, I'm trying to emulate his lifestyle.
I guess you don't get replies if you don't post /r9k/ bait or personality faggottry.
>>9279436
Proves that we are a bunch of pseuds.
When is this gonna get an anime adaptation?
Oh my god yes I am so glad someone is talking about this
How much did you love it? I loved it so much. I even emailed the author a question about Cato's book being a reference to Macbeth. I just bought the sequel the other day but I havent started it because I'm still alight with having recently finished the first. It's cray good for a first novel, right!?
>>9279977
Never mind
How hard would he shitpost?
Not as hard as this guy
>>9279355
not very, he is dead
Joyce would just endlessly reply to himself for 400+ posts
>2017
>Él no sabe español
>>9279322
> he learns spanish by learning spanish instead of learning french or portuguese and killing two birds with one stone
convince me to read past episode 1 in 2666
>>9279456
is the worst episode
5 is god tier
is spanish worth learning to read montaigne?
Has anybody read pic related, or anything by Sebald? I've read the description of Rings of Saturn, and it says that he employs a lot of intertextuality and references to other literary figures throughout, like Holderlin, Michael Hamburger, Thomas Browne, etc. Holderlin I'm familiar with, Thomas Browne I am not. How essential is it to know these writers before reading his work?
>>9279315
Thomas Browne should be read regardless. He's one of the best English prose writers ever.
>>9279315
You can just read him cold. He's pretty straightforward. I particularly enjoyed the section about Edward FitzGerald and the section about silk worms.
>>9279354
so he explains anything contextually relevant? Is it like Borges by any chance?
Is Dickens genuinely good, or are his stories plebian tales for the masses?
>>9279277
How about you go and read a few of his books. Look up what works of his are considered the best and read them. Then decide what they are worth to you.
You are not going to find a suitable answer to your question until you put in the effort yourself to figure it out.
Don't be lazy. There are enough lazy people in the world.
He's great.
Not edgy, philosophical, or experimental enough to be a /lit/ favorite, but great.
Will there ever be a post on /lit/ about a book that the poster has read, instead of
>Should I read this?
>Is this good?
over and over again?
What is the greatest book store?
barnes & noble
>>9279246
Goodwill
The library
That homeless dude who has like, a hundred rotting paperbacks in a cart he shoves around all day
>>9279409
This.
Why would I buy a book at full price? Also, part of the fun is reading something new/unknown.
I gotta ask since I heard this made many people cry but to me there was never a part that really got to me because it was such a slow and steady way down.
Did you shed a tear? If so, at what part?
>>9279144
I thought Jude was legitimately sympathetic at the beginning, and I thought it was well crafted.
Around the time he got together with thepsychotic ablist abuserthe book crossed over into surrealist suffering porn ala Brett Easton Ellis, and I lost my connection with the character
>>9279144
THIS book is some corny shit.
Literary fiction for Goodreads girls.
>>9279154
I agree, it was just waay too much suffering to me. When I read that part I thought it was supposed to be a nightmare sequence.
I did get fairly moved when Judewatches Willem accept an award on tv and thanks Jude lastbut that was because it was nice, not sad.
>reading Infinite Jest
>someone asks me what I'm reading
>tell them "a postmodern novel"
>it's actually metamodern
its not a postmodern novel
postmodernism = irony, brain, no heart
wallace = sincere, brain + heart
wallace rejected postmodernism and started a new thing
nobody knows what to call it yet
>>9279111
"Wallace-core"
>>9279111
you have just won the first prize for the most meme human bean of the day
congrats
What is the best English translation or edition of Henrik Ibsen's plays?
Right now I'm torn in between James McFarlane (Oxford World's Classics) and Brian Johnston (Norton Critical Edition).
Shameless self-bump
>>9279088
why are either of these editions preferable to the penguin classics?
>>9279591
Why is the Penguin preferable to either of those?
The Norton has 5 plays, essays and someof Ibsen's letters. The Oxford has a classic introduction, and it's rather unexpensive.
I'll start.
orange you glad i am not dead
i say as i look down at death
sinister smile and all
Looks that make you crawl
Eyes red as tainted blood
Grip of a thousand storms
If only that were my truest self after all
It all fades away, but there still remains truth
There it is, moose
standing above my reflexion
once more
watching myself grow old
tribal, rituals
to cope, to be secretive
to not be understood, no code
mystic communication
feeling
no contracts, no bills, no curriculums
just awareness
immediate and rounded
>>9279085
I neEdEdD s0MetHiNg t0 WRITe WItH
U say shit?
I Ain't saint shit
I'm My own freE bitch
Shh.
Hear that?
Hear what?
RADIOHEAD
Elysian tier:
Homosexual misogyny (older women excluded)
Ascended tier:
Anti-Asian prejudice, terrifying fear of the Asiatic hordes, goes back a millennium and is being justified anew every day. Asian tourists with cameras everywhere constantly taking pictures of you, informants to the Chinese Intelligence Agency, how can you tell what they're Really up to!?
Patrician tier:
Romantic libertine humanist antisemitism; or 'The Ten Commandments are too hard for me and I simply have an inexorable need to steal other men's wives'; aka. Richard Wagner
Resentiment/jealousy tier:
Negro-hate, (remember, the Ethiopians were the 'most beautiful people on Earth' and 'Children of Zeus', even the Greeks admitted it, black guys are the most beautiful people on earth.
Antisemitism
>t-these people who are responsible for the greatest intellectual and artistic achievements of the 20th century ... must be up to something!!! why can't I be so good?
Where does wishing death upon every homosexual fall
>>9279034
not even on the chart; prejudice against gaysex bars you from the literary pantheon entirely. read your plato, child
How is /lit/'s semester going? Studying hard?
Hardly, I stopped trying. My student life consists of bullshitting the reading and starting my assignments the morning they are do.
i'm drunk. i just finished a project, and now i only have 20 pages to write in the next two weeks, so im taking a night for myself
Im planning to drop out.
non
charlatanism
EXPLAIN DELEUZE TO ME OR I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU! DON'T DUMB IT DOWN INTO SOME VAGUE SHIT! EXPLAIN DELEUZE TO ME RIGHT NOW OR I'LL LITERALLY FUCKING KILL YOu! WHAT THE FUCK IS A BODY WITHOUT ORGANS? WHAT THE FUCK ARE RHIZOMES? DON'T DUMB IT DOWN OR I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU
Discuss
how many faps do you think he had writing this
>>9278823
i dunno, but i know i had a few
is the movie any good /lit/? if a book i read has a movie i pretty much always watch it afterwords. just curious if its good.