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The Tempest isn't really romance though is it? There's as much comedy as there is romance and as much tragedy as there is comedy

>>9207230
I don't know since I haven't read it, I was just following Bloom's table of content where he classified it as romance.

I would be glad to join

Shakespeare

Richard Bruce Nugent

>>9207121
Pushkin

tcol49

entire western and eastern canon

>>9206938

Somebody who has read all of the classics and has their own opinions about them as well as being able to reference parts without flipping back talking about them in detail.

But, beyond this, they need to have moved beyond the classics. The classics need to be so behind them that they've moved on to a whole new world of literary yearning.

They are ever on the search for new classics, for more obscure works, and finding books that are good that haven't yet stood the test of time to be recommended by everyone can be a hard task. By this point you are making recommendations of obscure works to others, and they are liking them.

You are now well read.

>>9206942
and understanding it

Go to your local pharmacy and ask for 4chan

>>9206909
A pill that makes you see everything as a postmodernist or one that wakes you up from it? For the latter case, the breadpill.

>>9206909
A pill? Yeah, post modernism is easy.

1. Take a thing you like
2. Think "How could i completely fuck this up?"
3. That is post modernism

>>9206424
drive.google.com

>>9206424
whats wrong with GR then

>>9206682
He just gets booty blasted when some american sophomore misinterprets and shits on his favourite books.

james joyce was a hack

all books are picture books

Ayn Rand isn't that bad.

>researching the meaning and the themes

Christ

>>9204377
bait

O V E E D
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>>9203062
Plato

Archilochus and Vergil

op is a dumb nigger

>>9201361
Reality no longer exists.

>>9201478
The Tales of a Stupid Nigger: OP's /lit/ Journey

>>9210587
I don't have all day

When It come to Dostoyevsky translations people tend to recommend Pevear and Volokhonsky or David McDuff.

>>9210587
Haven't read P&V's translation, but I have read this one & really liked it

I wouldn't care much, I'd read it of course. The board would be in shambles for a year at least.

>>9209646
Why did he kill himself a day after 9/11, what was he trying to say?

>>9209646
he really took metafiction to the next level

>>9209453
whats the brand of that shirt

Not until there is a great ethnic and ideological cleansing in Europe, which Houellebecq will unfortunately likely be dead by.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlqG0-9SBPA

>>9209453
>In the vast majority of cases, people stick with whatever metaphysical system they grow up in.

This is empirically bullshit though, even with Muslims

stage 1: blocked

>>9209357
Doubt, embarrassment, revision, fatigue

>>9209357
Generally what is referred to as writers block is essentially a form of narcissistic performance anxiety so it follows the same behaviour pattern

Attempt at writing
Dissatisfaction with attempt not living up to imagined standards
Anxiety from dissatisfaction
Anxiety causes procrastination
Oscilation between denial and self loathing during procrastination
Eventual acceptance of limitations
Despair
Suicide

>>9208760

is there anywhere i can read one of these stories online before i decide to buy it?

>>9208787
why would you buy something you've already read

>>9208787
well you can always search google for """title""" pdf