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Beckett wrote quite a bit in french and Dinesen in english, so becoming famous on a second language is possible. Specifically spanish I wouldn't know, but french is harder either way.

>>9254137
There have been some bilingual authors that are actually good in both languages, see Nabokov or Kundera for example. However, that's very rare, and I don't understand why you would want to write in spanish, culturally speaking, english language got the hegemony in today's world, on top of that, sure you could become an ok spanish writer (maybe some YA trasher), but you would pale compared to the great ones.

>>9254149
I just briefly skimmed his wiki page. Do you know if he learned French as an adult?

>>9254059
Good. There is too much shit on this board. Glad the mods are pruning stupid shit like this thread.

kys

>>9254059
Siddhartha

>>9254059
just finished night by elie wiesel

>could
who fucking cares. It didn't happen.

>>9254047

Fake news, SJWs love anything LOTR related.

>>9254063
You do realize this is a meme image right? Didn't happen?

The Peregrine
420 Guy
Hard Rain Falljng
Morte d' Urban
Skylark
Life and Fate

Warlock
Speedboat
>420guy
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

/thread

Not published by NYRB? Not for me!

>Why people say that tragedy is a lost art?
Snobbery.

>Did it really died with the greeks?
Eugene O'Neil and William Saroyan off the top of my head.

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>>9253964
a better question - why cant all books star cute anime girls insteaf of ugly old white men

>>9255055
is that supposed to be Poe

>is it possible that a linguist, philologist, writer and professor of English at Oxford read one of the most prominent works of English literature
good question fampai
really made me think

>>9254013
I meant that he read it in a way that served him as an influence for his works. Would it be possible or is it just a speculation?

>>9254353
>is it possible that a certain book had major influence on someone's work
you keep blowing my mind familia
moar questions

Just read everything by Robert Heinlein, he idolizes/satirizes different political/cultural points of view in a lot of his different books.

Specifically:
Starship Troopers
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

I loved MHM all the way through, the others to a lesser extent. It's fun to read them all back to back and see how you feel about each one without knowing beforehand what political message he's going for for each book.

>>9254429
Building a political party around Heinlein books is the most 'I'm an American neckbeard who can't think in grey tones' thing you can do

>>9254451
Oh whoops I guess my reading comprehension is retarded, I thought he was asking for politically motivated sci fi books.

why the fuck would anybody build their political ideology around a fiction book, don't do that you idiot the whole point of all the books I recommended was that they overdo it and exaggerate it like crazy, plus all three are totally different ideologies.

if you build your ideology around any books i'm sure the people who spend all their time reading different philosophers can tell you what to read, but don't read Dune and then decide the solution to all of our problems is to have a near-immortal demi god see the future and rule everything for thousands of years.

>Tenta ler os Lusíadas
>Camões sacrificou a sintaxe pela rima a tal ponto que male mal é lgeível
Deus meu.

>>9253783
Sintaxe latina, anão. Muito comum na literatura da época.

Also, há uma porrada de figuras de linguagem que acabam, a princípio, dificultando o entendimento. Só continue firme que você vai pegar o ritmo.

>>9253797
Ler eu consigo, só doi.

English.

Milton.

Yes.

English
Keats
England, so we're #1 most relevant in literature

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>>9253675
Just as a heads-up, if your answer to the first question isn't English, then your answer to the last is no.

Complete shit

It's alright

just watch the movie

Nah Amazon only.

>>9253654

No. Everything costs more than if I just went to a Goodwill, they tend to be messy and smell weird, and the guy at the register will outright make fun of your taste and he's allowed to get away with it.

No, mostly hipster tier faggotry.

>>9253648
blood meridian of course

suttree

>>9253648
He's exalted genre fiction, don't fall for tortilla meme

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I don't trust audio book narrators.

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Agreed, I realized this years ago.

The problem is: Where get free audiobooks?

Piratebay is lacking in many philosophical texts, and the free ones on youtube are generally terrible.

Need Neechee audiobook plz

listening is a passive activity. reading is active.

you retain more from reading, it also exposes the intricacies of prose which you simply cannot observe by purely listening.

more importantly: audiobooks are for people who are too lazy or dumb to get through a book so they have to have it read to them like a child.

Smartphone with Rybka

fischer himself wrote a good chess book

but unless you're 1800 elo or above you don't need to learn strategy just play

>>9253551
>1800 elo or above you don't need to learn strategy just play

pretty much this, just play a lot, develop an arsenal of openings.

>>9253394
Several important things that need to be clarified before anyone can give you an accurate answer:
1) Are you in a relationship? Are you supporting a child/family, or could you be in the near future? If you're single you'll be pretty nimble career-wise starting out, otherwise you definitely need to play it safe.
2) What are your university finances like? Are you racking up loans or do you have scholarships? If scholarships, how heavily can you abuse them?
3) Have you drawn up explicit course plans for each path of study you're considering? How many classes do you need for polysci and how many for RN?
4) Do you have strong academic connections in polysci and linguistics? Do you have good relations with professors or researchers, or are you basically on your own?

I feel your pain and worry about the future, anon. Even though political science is a meme degree, I will be nice.

>>9253394
>should I swallow my pride and spend a couple more years in school or should I be miserable for the next 50 years of my working life
Hard to tell.

>>9253394

do yer job