What are some great medieval books?
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>>8948810
Canterbury Tales
Don Quixote
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>>8948810
Ivanhoe
The Decameron
Orlando Furioso
Faerie Queene
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>this is the current state of literature
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>>8948805
you are just jea-
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SHEEEEEEEEEET
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>>8948805
That's actually fascinating as fuck. It's like the Minecraft subculture is developing their own mythologies set in a completely virtual universe. Something-something-dreamtime.
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>>8948838
Even then EVE Online did a better job of it. How Warcraft can get a movie and EVE doesn't is beyond me
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Is this the best translation?
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>>8948743
I've read C&P and The Idiot by McDuff and thought that they were great. Not an expert obviously, and I don't speak Russian, so I can't judge the quality of his translations on these terms, but for me when I was reading them I loved them.
I tried a P&V translation of The Idiot and it really didn't flow.
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>>8948784
It doesnt matter because his prose is shit anyway
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>>8948794
Whose prose?
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ok fags i but down all the philosophy i wanna read and bought the illiad and oddysey and will now begin from here. ive read all the info pic guides and shit so inb4 that and whatever but what other resources should i use to properly digest these two before going to plato aristotle ect
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>>8948682
start with the greeks
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>>8948682
>what resources should I use
Your brain
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>oddysey
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Why haven't you read the greatest short story ever written? 2017-01-09 01:29:45 Post No.8948676
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Why haven't you read the greatest short story ever written?
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What do you believe is the moral behind this story?
>Late in life, James Joyce wrote to his daughter that it is "the greatest story that the literature of the world knows";[1] Ludwig Wittgenstein was another well-known admirer.[2]
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The moral is "be yourself."
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no it's literally don't be greedy
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>>8948702
This is too simplistic.
I interpret it as the search for God. Man has replaced materials goods for God and in doing so has led to their destruction. What man must realise is that God exists within him, The Kingdom of God Within YOU, it is internal. It is not something to search for externally thus disconnecting YOU from God, it must be found within.
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So the moral lesson of this is don't be too nice (aka don't be a cuck)?
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>>8948665
does every book need a fucking moral lesson, anon? you keep searching for O. Henryesque twists and Aesopian morals, you're going to miss out on the fucking book. Sometimes a book is just a book.
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>>8948706
But this is obviously supposed to have a moral, like Dostos other books. The guy loved his morals.
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>>8948717
Christianity is incompatible with human nature.
There.
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What are /lit/ thoughts on Alice Munro?
She read and wrote for many years before first publishing a work, silently yet obstinately struggling to master the form and subtleties of the short-story. She never gave up, no matter how much daily work or personal problems she had to face.
After the first publication (winner of a prize, but bad with sellings and hardly talked about) she continued to write with the same ardor, without external pomp or fanfare, publishing on average a book of short stories every four years.
It is said that her works are full of humanity and acute details of real life. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize (the first one given to a writer who has worked exclusevly with the short-story).
I've never read anything of her, but I wonder if any of you /lit/zers have read, and what you think about her.
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What I read of hers wasn't worth reading, so I stopped.
I'm open to recommendations but I don't have much hope.
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>she struggled for years
She was a roastie who decided kids and a husband were more important than writing.
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Have you guys ever experienced art consumption burnout? I haven't beena ble to fully focus on anything I 've been watching or reading for half a month now. I have no idea why. Has anyone else gone trough this? It's been really bothering me, as whenever I lose focus on something, I rewind/reread, which makes it take wayyy longer.
I started a fairly vigorous art consumption regime a few months ago, and I was really loving it until for some reason, just now, I've stopped being able to focus on anything, because of weird restlessness. I've missed a lot of reading I like to do daily, just because of lack of involvement in the text. Is there a way out of this rut?
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Well, that depends on how much "art" you are consuming. I read and study for school a total of 6-8 hours a day (10-12 on weekends) and I don't get bored nor unfocused, AS LONG as the content is interesting.
I take 20 minute meditation breaks every couple of hours, where I clear my mind of everything. Try doing that.
Of course, I do have days where I am unable to think and barely get anything done, but that's usually when there are a lot of stressors in my life.
I suggest the aforementioned meditation breaks and also getting some exercise.
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>>8948634
I should be able to get everything done that i want to get down in around 5 hours daily.
but now it's been taking me way longer because of constant rewinds and again, lack of involvement. Nothing in real life has happened to me, so there's nothing really to clear my mind OF, but I can't find the same love of art I used to.
This all started a couple weeks ago when I watched evangelion and loved it, but now I can't enjoy anything else whatsoever. It's hell.
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Take a break
>art consumption regime
And don't do this
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How do you find out who your favorite authors favorite authors are? What are some authors that other authors love?
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Borges loved Kafka
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idgaf about anybodys opinions other than my own desu
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all i know is i love blacked
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Will this be the next most highly studied book akin to Ulysses?
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no you (not necessarily op, but those on /lit/ who actually own it) just blew a load of money on a bunch of jibberish in an attempt to be ahead of the curve
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Christ, you're one stupid fucker
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Best case scenario it's in equal parts ridiculed and respected as highly literate gibberish akin to Finnegans Wake.
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As a non-native english speaker, i usually read translations. but i would like to know, which books are really essential to read on english /lit/?
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None.
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>>8948466
infinite jest
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The Hobbit & LotR
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>reads Faulkner once
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There are only two books, ever, that I dropped halfway through-- 100 Years of Solitude and As I Lay Dying. The latter was fucking horrendous, and I have never read a Faulkner since.
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>>8948440
Same senpai, but with The Unvanquished. Faulkner's prose is just a goddamn trudge
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>>8948440
100 years of solitude really was pretty damn bad, wasn't it?
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>wrote a 3,500 word short story for a competition I think I can win
>re-read the submission guidelines
>it's actually a 2,500 word limit
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Delete the first and last 500 words. You should be doing this with everything you write anyway.
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>>8948408
But then he'd have 3000 words
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delete the last 1000 and conclude with the antagonist waking up, realizing it was all a dream
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Have you read The Emperor's Handbook? Is this translation of Meditations any good?
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Not as good as The Emperor's New Groove tbqh
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Step one: do lots of opium
Step two: like who cares ahahaha u r not ur body lmao just like ignore externals lmao
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No one would give a fuck about this nigger's fag writing if he wasn't an emperor. Stoicism is a joke.
Best translations of Gogol? One of the only Russians I haven't yet read.
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>>8948301
Pevear or listen to this guy
>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-pevearsion-of-russian-literature/
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>>8948301
just Gogol it
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That's a lotta Russians