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Favorite unknown author(s)?
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>>8847157
Define unknown.
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Homer
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Paul Butfield
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My cat just knocked my copy of the sublime object of ideology into the trash. I had just dropped several cum covered tissues in the trash and now my book is all cummy.
What is the universe trying to tell me? I feel there's some symbolism here.
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PURE UNADULTERATED MEMEOLOGY
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>>8847136
>the cat did something
>"Was it the universe?"
Your cat is telling you you suck at philosophy.
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>>8847183
It was actually the book itself.
Thanks to animism.
Living the life that he led - is Céline a prime example of anti-Romantacization?
To me, he is the antithesis to someone like Nabokov, whose entire work was founded on the chimerical or on idealistic fixation - and not served as critique.
Both Céline and Nabokov wrote books about an older man becoming fixated with a very young girl.
The journeys of Bardamu and Humbert across the American landscape struck a nerve with me, in their contrast.
It seems strange that someone like Nabokov would criticize someone like Céline.
Maybe due to Nabokov's inabiliy to comprehend colloquial writing.
What are /lit/'s thoughts?
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>>8847122
i bet celine nutted inside a lot of beautiful french women and some algerians
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>>8847122
what exactly are your question?
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Nabokov on Celine
>Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Second-rate. A tense-looking but really very loose type of writing.
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>reading this because I feel like I have to or else people will call me a pleb although I have zero social life and have never talked about books since I was in school
>it's LITERALLY just elementary Econ 101 supply and demand applied 50 trillion times
>"The king's new law increased supply; the price fell!"
>"The supply from America decreased; the price rose!"
Now imagine those two quotes filling ten pages each and then repeated all the time (I'm on about page 200). Jesus fucking Christ.
Of course there are many pseudo intellectuals who masturbate over old books who pretend that this is worthwhile. I think this form of pseudo intellectualism is fear of the modern world and the multipolar nature of intellectual achievement. You can't learn all of maths by next week. You need level 5000 autism to contribute to anything. Even the kiddie pool is gigantic (you could spend your life learning introductory things).
So the pseudo intellectuals retreat and pretend that only stuff before 1900 matters. They can't bear admitting that they can't know even 1 %.
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>>8847060
Damn you are stupid.
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This books great, even today, why make this post, im literally going to report you for being such a baiting simpleton.
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>>8847060
Try quoting from the book itself instead of what I would guess is some dumb ass game. Also try not to talk in tropes so much.
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To what degree did he falsify his accounts, and why?
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>>8846985
animals can't talk
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>>8846985
The year 1984 didn't happen the way he claimed it would.
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>>8847063
this
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>started out trying to be a pseud to impress other people
>eventually had read enough to get depressed
>lot of psychedelics and casual sodomic sex
>got into christianity as a way to reconcile with my early childhood's imaginery and punish myself with guilt for my fucked up years
>read only deep esotericism and mysticism for 2 years
>get bored of it, started finding joy in reading novels again
>this time they seem way wider, dreamier and more colorful than before
>write my own crap, win a literary award for it
>have exactly the opinions of the pseud I wanted to be when I was a youngster
>still feel vaguely empty
Anyone else has gone through that same experience?
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>sex
no
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>>8846876
I said "sodomic" though.
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>>8846865
I like mysticism for it's perspective . Bu
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Any good mystery stories?
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The Brothers Karamazov
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Yeah, I want to know, too.
Who writes mystery stories that aren't corny and twee, or labored, or merely clever but very thin as lit.
I see a lot of mystery book covers that look promising -- moody or spooky or what-have-you -- but I start to read them and they don't really grab me.
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>>8846836
The Pledge by F Durrenmatt
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Hey litizens, we've maybe all felt it, perhaps the closest we come to feeling out of our minds. Jealousy, when the deficiency we feel on ourselves manifests as a fearful need to prod our outside world into control.
What are the best books you've read on the subject of or that deal thematically with Jealousy? So far I dig The Kreutzer Sonata, the relevant bits from Proust, and Orlando Furioso is quite nice
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>>8846828
My diary desu
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>>8846828
>see your girl crying at your friend's funeral
>your son looks like your friend
>fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
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>>8846840
Hot damn! Now this is what I'm talking about! I know never to judge a book by it's cover, but I was thinking this was a graphic novel of some sort (not that there's anything bad with those). This though looks like exactly what I was looking for.
Seeing as this De Assis dude is quite esteemed in portuguese, there any English translation you rec? If only one, what would be lost?
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What is the best English translation of Sappho?
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i love that painting of sappho smoking a joint.
the best translation is the one by anne carson.
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>>8846844
That's what I thought, thanks anon
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I've never read Carson's translations, but I really like David West's.
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>science fiction can't be liter--
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Just finished this guy. On to book two pretty soon. Really enjoying it so far.
the whole "it's a translation of an actual book" thing that's going on makes me wonder if severian is a reliable narrator for no real reason at all, and im kinda wondering if im supposed to feel that way or not. either way, pretty neato
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>>8846807
>science fiction can't be overrated shi--
Book of the New Sun is a meme spread by autists who've looked at "real" novels and not understood what makes them good. They've, thus, erroneously concluded that having puzzles and figuring those puzzles out is why they're so acclaimed.
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don't think is worth a new thread so
1. Is Elric better than Geralt
2. what's the figure when you write something without meaning anything? Pic semi related.
What did /lit/ think of this?
Iliked itmostly for how hedescribed social anxiety and disassociation.
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>>8846798
Fuck off, Tao Lin
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>>8846798
Not even worth criticizing, a non-entity
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>>8846798
interesting prose, terribly boring story. I dont care much for feely feels, only thinking feels
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Do you guys ever go through periods of not reading?
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>>8846786
I don't go through periods period.
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>>8846786
I call'em laziness.
Nice pic.
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>>8846786
Anyone who truly loves literature needs to.
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Can anyone recommend me any books on Mussolini?
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>>8846771
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Gentile
idk desu, if you want historical books go to /his/.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upside_Down_(book)
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Today I was forced to revise a long held belief that Don Quixote's sidekick was called Pancho Villa.
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ive been reading gravitys rainbow for several months and im 20% of the way through it
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I began the Aeneid yesterday but I didn't finish it because I was lazy. I still am. I should be reading the thing right now but I'm shitposting.
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I like to read fluffy romance stories because they're perfect for escapism
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What did you think of this book /lit/? I quite liked it, Max Brooks is really good at world building.
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Really fun desu, 3 years later I still remember many of the chapters.
>tfw no blind Japanese man to help me through the z world
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It's a solid piece of entertainment.
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>can't get the movie rights to world war z
>some hack autoreplaces every instance of "zombie" with "robot", pastes in some Harry Potter fanfiction here and there, publishes the result
>grab up the movie rights to the shitty ripoff instead