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Another one.

>>10023817
Someone link to cliff sargent's opinion on this please.

>>10024048
cliff sargent?

Bumping this, cause people need to know.

Check out Sergio Pitol hehe
also
http://cedille.webs.ull.es/
some articles en espaniol

Absolutely not. Maybe a little bit of history of relations between Russia, UK and USA in 19th century.

>>10023727
no it's pretty approachable as far as pynchon is concerned. The Illuminatus! Trilogy could be a good primer though

>>10023727
What's the problem, Anon? It's just a

Rag-a-muffin' life
To pull-you-through-that strife
Ain't nothin' to joke,
But if you'll only just smoak
Then maybe it'll be all-right?

[Chorus]
But that (oh)
Full-some pre-tentio-si-ty
That fills your -- thoughts, with me-diocri-ty
It's just (hey!)
Holdin' you back
If it would give you some slack
You might 'preciate ver-bosity

[Neckbeards and shitposters amble in, tripping over each others' feet; an unrealistically proportioned nude male of color begins gyrating his hips in an animated fashion, drawing one's eye--and yes, the Anons' as well!--toward the pendulous 'pendage which describes major arcs at pelvic-level. A passing /pol/lak, copy of The Culture Of Critique in hand, pauses to gaze 'pon the sight, salivating involuntarily]

>>10023705
>Seriously, why do people see reading them as a chore?
They aren't people

Plato is a bore

>>10023735
>plato
>not aristotle
plato is fun.

>>10023689
How about you read them and find out?

>>10023697
anon..

You have quite the lisp sirrah.

>>10023646
An exit bag is a good to help collect your thoughts

>>10023646

poetry got BTFO by prose in the 1800s and never recovered, and it now sells so poorly that there's no need to distinguish modern poetry between "genre" and "literary" since nobody is doing it for profit

>>10023591
>literature
fuck off to >>>/his/

>>10023593
Wow, you're right. I've never heard nihilism mentioned or discussed here.

>>10023591

Anti-essentialism/platonism basically. Generally it's categorical in nature; i.e., there's no such thing as x, there are just things that subjectively look like x, and this subjectivity does nothing to create truth.

>>10023577
Hemingway, Cheever, Carver, O'Connor, Updike. Among the living, Tobias Wolff.
Second yours as well.

Roger Zelazny's short fiction is amazing.

http://www.kulichki.com/moshkow/ZELQZNY/forbreat.txt

>>10024607
>Hemingway, Cheever, Carver, O'Connor, Updike. Among the living, Tobias Wolff.


I like most of these plus Breece DJ Pancake, Irwin Shaw, Harold Brodkey and Barry Hannah

The Greeks

>>10023576
First, you learn Sanskrit.
Then, you learn Vedic Sanskrit.
Then, you read the Vedas.
Then the Brahmanas on those Vedas.
Then you read the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita.

>>10023658
Should I read all four vedas first and the then related brahmanas/upanishads or read one veda and follow with the brahmanas/upanishads of that particular vedic school?
Also, how important is the ramayana? I've been hearing a lot of balinese gamelan lately and a lot of dances and chants are based on events portrayed in the ramayana.
Learning sanskrit sounds really difficult desu, but I guess that the translations are utter shit.

Invaluable for tracing Kafka's development as an author, but not a very good work on its own imo. It's too inchoate, Kafka hadn't really developed his voice at that point.

>>10023572

I can't speak for /lit/ at large but it's unfinished so I guess a lot of people don't care for it or consider it canon (?). I dunno. But I do know this: Martin Kippenberger had an installation called "The Happy End to Kafka's Amerika" is very interesting:

http://socks-studio.com/2011/04/20/martin-kippenberger%E2%80%99s-the-happy-end-of-franz-kafka%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98amerika%E2%80%99-1994/

Kafka is a whiny neurotic Jew, his writing is the ramblings of a deeply disturbed man and I hope to live to see his name scrubbed out of the western canon.
Max Brod should have let him burn his work like he wanted.