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I'd recommend the work of Charles Bernstein. Basically any of his essays. They're highly lauded, really thorough, but also very contemporary and pretty easy.

I've also heard good things about Ben Lerner's The Hatred of Poetry.

>>9954688
I'm a white male, and we're simply oppressed in literature today (and suffer from white genocide in the real world), so no.

>>9954704
How are we oppressed?

>>9954726
White males can't get published today

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>>9954630

>>9954630
>thinking your controllable skill of discipline is some psychoanalyzed permanent trait

just open the book and read

>>9954665
this.

just do it. it gets easier quickly

>>9954625
just WRITE bro

I don't blame you, I can't write stories either.

If you're cursed, then I'm Sisyphus

Is there any advice on how to write action going on, especially if dialog is happening during it?

you already posted this

>>9954603
Don't worry, it will get increasingly prolix with each iteration

I can't rec anything (sorry) but might suggest that the lack of lit from a French perspective for naval encounters may stem from the fact that France's navy was so outclassed by the British, was so decisively beaten, was only tangentially involved in the traditional "Napoleonic epic" that makes the era so exciting from a French perspective, and finally was never understood/utilized, let alone mastered, by Napoleon (as was the French land army).

For the British the navy of the time is the lifeblood of their resistance to Napoleon until the final moments of his rule; for the French of the time it was a military necessity but never a success, and, compared to the Napoleonic genius on land, a liability and arguably an embarrassment.

>‘What a navy! What an admiral! What useless sacrifices!’

Personally I'm disappointed by the lack of French lit on the Napoleonic wars in general; I hoped that Stendhal's "Charterhouse" would do the trick, but was sorely disappointed at least in that regard.

Best of luck though!

try to find another pair of glasses

>>9954572
>>9954572
I would die in a short time due to medical issues, so probably gather what I can and last out near any means of communication that possibly survived.

>>9954572
A bullet.

Pragmatically though, audiobooks.

>>9954478
Brain fever is just Russian slang for 'drank too much vodka'

>>9954509
i can feel the synapses in my brain firing

>>9954478
what. shouldn't you be in the hospital?

>>9954389
>St. Petersbug
Written by whomst?

>>9954424
кeм нaпиcaнa ?

>>9954389
>St. Petersbug
You mean Petersburg or am i missing something

>>9954360

I hope you find many insightful and cordial lit threads OP
and that you take me with you to wherever they may be

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>>9954360
Nope. Rationality is dead.

It is very good.

>>9954452
okay

>>9954349
No, but I've read Imperium by Francis Parker Yockey which is good B)

the hermetic and alchemical writings of paracelsus

>>9954328
Hesse, Demian

>>9954339
the hermetic and alchemical writings of many more classical authors of European hermeticism, not only paracelsus

Spock

Giovanni Drogo

>>9954286
Every one of Houellebecq's protagonists

>>9954285
- Huckleberry Finn

Great book.

What happened anon did candlejack get yo

shut up and appreciate it while it lasts you stupid nigger

Children of Hurin.

A Farewell to Arms