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I have Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot in my stack. I was walking across my room and saw the book's spine in the corner of my eye, and for a second it looked like the book's title was "The Bible."
Could this be what Dostoevsky intended? If so, my respect just skyrocketed.
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>>8973422
It's translated, you fucking idiot.
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>>8973425
>Dostoevsky knew what his translated title would look like out of the corner of his eye
Fucking genius.
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>>8973429
>P&V
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>Things are about to go from Sinbad to Sinworse
really?
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>The deeds are done and done again in watermelon sugar as my life is written in watermelon sugar
Come on
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>Hey Lucas, what's outside?
>Nothing, just a light in august
Literally unreadable
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>In the museum there was a portrait of the artist as a young man
Dropped
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What were some of the great writers' character and demeanor like?
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>>8973310
All true greats detested women with a passion. And so do I. Wish I was bor n in a more redpilled era where women were in the kitchen where they belong
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>>8973310
They were mostly either cunts or autists, m8. Dunno about philosophers tho.
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>>8973775
i have heard this said about aristotle- aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
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250 pages into this and it's just about some dudes chumming around town getting food. When are you supposed to start caring about what's going on or the characters? Have I just not got far enough? Yeah the prose is nice but it's pretty boring so far.
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>>8973309
eh, maybe you just won't like it. no shame in that, friendo!
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>>8973309
wow you must be a women
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if you dont feel empathy towards Bloom yet you probably won't enjoy much else desu
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>le 19th century Russian novels xD
End this meme. The Russians didn't contribute anything to Western literature. Flaubert is better in every single way.
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>>8973263
1/10
But because it's /lit/, people will bite
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>>8973263
flaubert loved tolstoy though
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>>8973276
source ?
What's some literature that explores a tension between blue and white collar work? I'm at a point in life where I'm expected by everyone around me to find a nice office job, yet more and more I crave physical labor.
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Go do some compound lifts dumbass
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>>8973251
get the office job retard, you can always freelance build someones deick on the weekend
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>>8973251
mindless mental work (in a comfy setting) is better than mindless mental work + straining physical work, at least this is what I am told
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>names his book after a Shakespeare quote
Why the fuck do authors do this? It's a cliche at this point.
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>>8973193
Shakespere is the original memester. his memes are so dank we still use them 500 yrs later.
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>>8973193
David Foster Wallace decorated this whole book with importance, if you watch him in interviews he can tell you about the themes of his books and the points he wanted to express before any of the artistic aspects. It's philosophical/ intellectual showmanship, it's not art.
And it doesn't just stop with what he accomplished in Infinite Jest. Even right before it hit the press, he was trying to paste a picture from Fritz Lang's Metropolis as the cover art. It is one of the most didactic pieces of literature ever created, probably its only unique quality.
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Because he wrote a lot of badass one liners that in and of themselves possess more depth than what mediocre talents will ever produce in their lifetime. So not only do you get a cool title for your book, but you also convey what your book is about on a deeper level. Honestly, you could probably skim any work of Shakes, pick out a cool line, and from that alone build an entire novel around it.
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Post your novel's first sentence. Discuss and rate others
I'll start:
Our horses were galloping towards the setting sun.
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"Geh ins Bett, hör auf mit dem Theater!"
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>>8973136
>our horses galloped towards the setting sun.
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>>8973136
The slick mud caused the car to nearly spin out.
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>They aresaid to be the founding fathers of Western philosophy, whose ideas underpin civilised society.
>But students at a prestigious London university are demanding that figures such as Plato, Descartes and Immanuel Kant should be largely dropped from the curriculum because they are white.
>The student union at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)insiststhat when studying philosophy “the majority of philosophers on our courses” should be from Africa and Asia.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/01/08/university-students-demand-philosophers-including-plato-kant/
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>>8973072
It's the school of Asian and African studies. Still, it's ridiculous that they find it offensive that they're taught Western philosophers alongside non-Western ones.
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They should be arguing for more inclusive and well-rounded syllabi and not dropping parts for others.
It's the difference between "black lives matter" and "all lives matter." The former is exclusionary whereas the latter is inclusive.
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>>8973072
Well whats the problem? Let them study their way. Im sure it will help them in their future endeavours.
Can you recommend me a list of 10 to 15 classics that I can simply read once to say that I have and then never bother with literature ever again?
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>>8972936
9,5,6,5,7,8
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>>8972936
8 6 6 4 6 5
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How am I supposed to take the literary community seriously when there was so much "death of the republic!!!" over emotional bullshittery in the media, with every journalist, novelist, film maker, psychologist, economist, and assorted social scientists literally lining up to write overblown shit about events in 2016? According to many people on lit I should continue to buy their stuff and give them my money and attention and take their opinions more seriously than my own.
I'm serious. There was always some Princeton Professor of Public Discourse or Amherst Lecturer in Philology read to wade in with appeals to analogy, strawmen, false narratives, trivial concepts and frameworks, false dichotomies, and so on. Of course that's what they do for a living anyway but when they speak without their trivial jargon not even the biggest pseudo intellectual can deny it.
Maybe literature is just entertainment like that KitKat I had a few minutes ago... no, that can't be it... how could all the theorising be justified if that was the case...
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>>8972854
Have you considered working as a chef? Because that's some delicious pasta.
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>>8972882
Nice one
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Literary confession thread
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I will end with the Greeks.
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If most literary authors got laid on a regular basis they wouldn't have written such pseudo-nihilist wannabe philosophical garbage.
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I just regurgitate ideas that my professors shit into my mouth
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Just paid $50 euros for this what am I in for?
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M(ob)y Dick
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To have been ripped off holy shit
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>€50 for a fucking Everyman's Library
You're in for some regret. I've bought a copy of Dubliners from the same publishing house for €10.
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Books that can make you insane
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What are some books that can make you insane because of their insight, preferably philosophical.
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emil cioran
conspiracy against the human race
browsing r9k and pol if youre not a white male
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Felt depressed a good few months after reading kierkegaard desu
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>>8972549
Kierkegaard cured my admittedly pretty mild anxiety, no joke.
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Pls no bully.
How exactly do you read a book? Last time I read a book was in my teenage years and I'm really trying to get into reading now but it seems irrationally hard. I enjoy the content (history / politics) but my pacing and concentration is piss poor.
To begin with, I have to read quite slow to comprehend the information and read over a few times. My eyes stray ahead of the text (as if skim-reading) and I have to battle to focus on the word at hand. My concentration is very poor as well, if i'm shaking my legs or twiddling my thumbs I seem to lose my train of thought. I tried reading on the bus and it was a disaster, the shaking book, keeping an eye on the time and the stop... it was erratic and in the end a pointless endeavour.
I feel like an idiot asking "how to read" but I want to know for sure if it's just me, or others have experienced something similar. Thanks.
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You have to practice. Keep reading and try to read a little bit more every day, it'll help your focus and endurance.
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Just read about things that are super interesting. I like reading about cute boys, so my fav is the Odyssey .
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Give up on visualization before you even try. You'll never be able to do it after so many movies and video games.