What is some good literature regarding poetry, reading and understanding?
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.
Do you think you have what it takes to become a successful author, /lit/?
>>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
I feel so tortured over my lack of life philosophy that guides me minute by minute. It's a stupid thing to hope for but I still want it. I think deep down I don't have the courage to do what I want.
I came home from work and browsed the internet mindlessly for over 6 hours. Spooked if I care, spooked if I don't.
>>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
I want to write but I am uncreative and can't think of a story or characters or setting or anything to write about. Am I cursed to being a faggot who can't do anything creative?
>>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?
*presents dire impedement to all manner of passage along any such defined or otherwise routes, whether they be roads, paths or ways, to be found, to be sure*
you already posted this
>>9954603
Don't worry, it will get increasingly prolix with each iteration
Hi /lit/
I've been trying to find authors/books for a specific genre..hopefully someone has some recommendations.
I'm looking for Napoleonic Wars naval fiction novels from spanish or french authors that have been translated (or written) in english.
I've read a ton of books from english authors - that always tell of exploits from the english/american side. (Pope, Forrester, O'Brien, etc). But have little luck finding french/spanish authors/books on the subject that write about the exploits from the french/spanish side. Been to many bookfairs, stores,shops,etc,looking with no luck.
Any help appreciated.
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!
>all the books and free time in the world
>suddenly can't see anything
How would you handle this situation, /lit/?
(None of them have braille)
try to find another pair of glasses
>>9954572
A bullet.
Pragmatically though, audiobooks.
>get brain fever
>become incapable of focusing on reading for more than a few minutes
>>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?
>friend says he's deeply devoted to russian literature
>i ask if he likes Anna Karenina
>he didnt finish it
>has he read St. Petersbug
>“by whom?”
>what does he think of Bunin's short stories
>he doesn't read short stories
>then what the fuck does he mean by “deeply devoted to russian literature”
>he says he read Grand Inquisitor and it made him go to mass
>mfw
>>9954389
>St. Petersbug
Written by whomst?
>>9954424
кeм нaпиcaнa ?
>>9954389
>St. Petersbug
You mean Petersburg or am i missing something
Friendly reminder to improve the quality of our discussions.
>>9954360
I hope you find many insightful and cordial lit threads OP
and that you take me with you to wherever they may be
>>9954360
Nope. Rationality is dead.
has anyone read this? is it good?
It is very good.
>>9954452
okay
>>9954349
No, but I've read Imperium by Francis Parker Yockey which is good B)
What is the most esoteric book you've read?
Hardmode: No Jung, Occult, or Gnosticism
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
What characters /lit/ can you highly relate to? I can relate toKochan from Confessions of a Mask
Spock
Giovanni Drogo
>>9954286
Every one of Houellebecq's protagonists
Really makes you thin
>>9954285
- Huckleberry Finn
Great book.
What happened anon did candlejack get yo
i'm feeling way too happy these days. rec me a book that will emotionally destroy me
shut up and appreciate it while it lasts you stupid nigger
Children of Hurin.
A Farewell to Arms