"the most offensive is not their lying—one can always forgive lying—lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth—what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying…"
Can someone help me understand what Razumikhin means in this passage? For some reason Ive been stuck on it for a long time, I keep reading it over and over to make sense of it, but apparently Im an idiot.
The context is Razumikhin ranting about the way the police are carrying out the murder investigation
Book and chapter?
>>8901558
Crime and Punishment
Part 2
Chapter 4
>>8901546
He's criticizing them for lying not to reach the truth but to propagate further lies.
What's the best translation of this, /lit/?
>>8901448
The one made by your mind when you read it in the original Spanish.
>>8901448
Grossman, but it's Spanish-to-English so translations aren't bad anyway
>>8901448
mine
starting with the greeks in 2017, with a side of shakespeare and bible. is pic related a worthy physical copy to get? i already have a lot of him from gutenberg.org but i mostly use my ereader for fiction.
also i know shakespeare is ficiton. what i meant was pulp fiction, but it's an epub so it's not really pulp... post-paper pulp fiction
>>8901293
No. Get Riverside Shakespeare instead.
I finished reading At the Mountains of Madness last night. What a piece of shit.
Half the """"""""story"""""""""" was describing the same boring architecture over and over. We get it, there were sculptures and little dots and everything was hyper realistic. Get fucking real, what is this, a video game creepypasta? Every other word was "decadent" like nigga tip that fedora harder Fat Normie. Also I'm pretty sure he just made up words too, what the fuck is a "cartouche"? more like "you're a douche". And of course he had to shill for his other works constantly like he isn't the same guy.
pretty sure airplanes didn't exist in 1931 btw
Overall 0/10 would not read again.
>>8901263
>american literature
lol did you expect anything good?
To be fair most creepypasta is written by 16 year olds who just diacovered Lovecraft
>>8901263
Some things are just your opinion, but the facts state you are a retard anyway, so why bother?
>because I am an aeroplane :^)
Thoughts on this one?
I dislike his subject matter so I don't like reading it. He writes well but i dont enjoy it. His short stories and this book are a bore, similar to magical realism - not in a sense that they are about the same aubject but that they offer very little. Reminds me of Nabokov. Style over substance.
>>8901163
Beautiful. Loved it. Currently reading Ulysses.
The youth of our dear Stephen Dedalus and his confusions and uncertainties on life and death. Its very much worth your time. Strongly suggest you, if you haven't, to read The Divine Comedy and The Holy Bible, or at least Genesis, although you can enjoy it even without reading those.
>>8901511
>I dislike his subject matter
Who dislikes handjobs?
well?
>>8901132
omg that mustve been a women or a liberal :)
>>8901132
touche
>>8901132
WTF, I hate Shakespeare now!
Is it possible to adapt/translate the dark, impressionistic aesthetic of Cormac McCarthy to film? Have you seen any that have come close?
I agree with Robert Bresson that what is done in one art cannot be done in the same way in another. But still, do you think its possible to have that kind of aesthetic on film? Is it a matter of unconventional process?
>>8901087
Tarkovsky's films have a similar dark and ethereal atmosphere, but as far as McCarthy-esque The Revenant came pretty close.
M A L I C K
>>8901087
No Country For Old Men. Film was better than the book.
What are some good works about dying? I'm not talking about stuff concerned with what happens after death, but works actually about dying. The process, the extinguishment of being, etc.
>>8901017
>you will never know what happens after death until you die
I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHERE WE GO REEEEEEEEE
The Death of Ivan Ilyich. The Short Story Reading Group is reading it next >>8898002
Some guy claimed to have cancer in a thread a week or two back. A lot of people recommended the Stoics. I think a lot about death (edgy I know) so I picked up Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
Definitely talks a lot about the extinguishment of being.
Hey /lit/, one of my buddies challenged me to re-write Hop on Pop for a 2016 audience, so I did. Tell me what you think.
>>8900964
>>8900967
>>8900976
Ok guys, I have a 2000 words essay to write on 1984 and Brave New World.
The assignement is : Deception in 1984 and BNW
I've been working on it for hours but I'm unable to proceed a make a correct plan and I seriously needs some advice.
How would you proceed?
>How would you proceed?
Consider suicide.
>>8900863
Im going to disregard your underage ass, OP
I wanna know who the propaganda-propagating fucking coward was who drew BB with le ebil toothbrush moustache instead of a regular commie stache.
>>8900863
Is this pasta?
Why do women like Lolita so much?
It is my sister's favourite book. She says she 'loves the way it is written'.
She seems to have OK taste in books overall. No YA. Her favourite author is F. Scott Fitzgerald.
>>8900839
women like books that they can imagine they are a female character in.
>>8900859
>not imagining yourself as at least one of the characters in any book
truly pseud
I'm a pretty fast reader but whenever I read any sort of philosophy i like to take notes, write interesting quotes, concepts etc. This takes me forever to read anything philosophical. Does anyone else run into this problem?
is that really a problem?
comfy pic tho, good shit
That's the proper way to understand philosophical texts, not a problem. Otherwise you are just going to forget everything after you read it, or lose the train of argument if it is a difficult text.
>>8900727
ITs a problem if you are not aiming to contribute to the philosophical debate with your own writings.
What is the aim of yuor efforts? Do you want to become a proffesional philosopher? If so then it sounds like you adopted some good habits, otherwise you are just wasting time.
Reading philosophy in a proffesional manner doesnt really serve people not aiming to become proffesionals.
You go in deep to know the different nuances to be able to argue your own take on the matter when you write your essays.
If you want to simply reading out of interest or if you think philosopy can inspire you or help you with whatever else you are doing, reading it in fine detail is not required and is in fact a waste of time.
>magic realism
>be born in 20th century latin america
>grow up hearing stories from superstitious grandma
>read foreign fantasy book about heroes and creatures
>decide to try and write my own
>magical realism
>>8901119
pepe without lips is not a real pepe
>>8900675
>shitposting in a manner that contributes absolutely nothing
I hope one of the mods deletes this thread.
>Would we /lit/?
I don't care about him or his dumbass book.
>>8900680
Fuck infinite jest
>>8900681
You are bold desu...
I'm in grad school for philosophy and need shit to read when I'm in bed. What are good books or authors for ultimate coziness before beddy-bye?
bump
I read children's books in bed. Chronicles of Narnia, The Secret Garden, Wind in the Willows, stuff like that. It's comfy.
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