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Literal translation in prose. Read it and compare it to the other guys' translations. It's worth giving a try because it's different.

>>9005218

Can you explain literal translation in prose? I've heard people talk about this before...what is it? Is it rewriting something to make it easier for modern people to understand?

>>9005275
... what, the, fuck? Don't you understand what the words 'literal' and 'translation' mean?

>le autistic Viennese man ended philosophy
when will this horrible meme end

>>9005120
>vietnamese man
bro he was from Austria...

>>9005099

>People still study Philosophy after Nietzsche

Really?

>>9004995
>please pay attention to me
Fug off.

>>9005011
no u frick of, cuck

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"Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man." – Ezra Pound

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>>9004950

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hah he wrote the buggo man

>>9004950

>"there's hope, but not for us"
-Kafka to Max Brod

i think the answer to your question is related to the reason Kafka wanted to burn his manuscripts when he died. His work is supremely demoralising and I think I even recall his last words (not sure if to Brod or in his notebooks) being that his work has no value because it doesn't offer any solutions. And in a way he's right - there can be no possible happy ending for the protagonist of a Kafka novel doesn't offer any solutions to the problem of living in modernity. This makes them supremely demoralising for readers. At least by not finishing them he offers to the reader the abstract possibility of a deus ex machina occurring, even though he couldn't bring himself to write such a contrived ending himself.

>>9004926
Is that HP Lovecraft in drag?

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>>9004998
any other ones?

show boat?
giant?

The death of bunny munro

>>9004916
the death of bunny munro

The Fault in Our Stars

>>9004802
She blew it when she went fuckin' ballistic over fanfiction. Seems like a cunt. Seemed interesting when I was a grimdark teenager, but now it just seems campy.

>>9004853
Sounds like someone's sad about feeling like their fan fiction is delegitimized.

>>9004862
No, it was before my time. But she was going around suing tweenage girls for writing fanfiction on the internet. What kind of asshole does that?

>>9004756
you go to /r/books

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Wherever you want you poopoohead.

Read what you wanna.

And don't let other poopooheads from /lit/ tell you you're a pleb for liking Bukowski.

He's nice enough.

>>9004758
this, or kill yourself

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>>9004716

>>9004735
this looks really neat, thanks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Baroque_literature

I think the content of a work determines whether or not it's low literature, not its genre.

>>9004595
Not to most of /lit/. The act of being 'genre fiction' has been turned into a non-term essentially. 'genre fiction' in and of itself has been diluted as a term until it means almost nothing.

>>9004602
I don't see that tbph. /lit/ doesn't generally use 'genre fiction' as a synonym for, say, 'bad book'. If it did, people who didn't like Hemmmingway (or who were rusing) would call his stuff 'genre fiction'.

>>9004583

Phil, is love? philo sophia?

And why did philosophers diss the sophists, Sophia ists, wisdomists?

>>9005096
>And why did philosophers diss the sophists, Sophia ists, wisdomists?
Because they proclaimed to be wise, but actually corrupted the soul of young ones. Refer to Republic, Book I.

>>9004583
>tfw that's my name

feels nice senpai

>>9004524
JUST PULL THE TRIGGER YOU PUSSY!

Agnes Servile

>>9004531
/thread

>>9004445
Kafka by the shore. A lovely autobiographical history. Like Kafka in the 21st century with taoist monk influences.

>>9004445
Read Kafka's short story collections.

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>>9004445
Metamorphosis. Its my first Kafak as well and currently my favourite novel. Not a short story though. Its about 70 pages long. I cant recommend it enough. Probably his most iconic work as well.

The french one.

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This one

Aster Geant's translation of Schelling's translation.

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>using or thinking goodreads is relevant

Why does it upset you so?

>>9004319

man Order of the Phoenix that high?

its like the worst one in the whole series