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I read The Last Wolf and Hermann over the weekend (New Directions just published the two short stories together) and loved them both, Hermann especially. I'd pick that up and give it a read if you're totally unfamiliar with his work.

I'd like to read either Satantango or the book he wrote which one the man booker in 2015 for best international + translation. He's heavily indebted to Bernhard.

>>8787049
Thanks! I was also considering getting "From the North by Hill, From the South by Lake, From the West by Roads, From the East by River" (what a title btw) as it got praised in the press but I'll definitely give Hermann and LW a shot

>>8786734

Correct me if I'm wrong but does anyone else feel like Satantango is basically Hungarian 1984? It feels incredibly similar to it except a more, bleak and depressing outcome. They can't change the system because the system wins them over in the end but because it's so utterly hopeless there's fuck all point in doing so and everything will continue the way it is as the village sinks further into oblivion.

>>8786705
>so damn good written

>>8786705
I am aware of the fact that this is not a literary confession thread, but 'IT' got me into reading.

Now I am an average English major in Germany and living the dream till I die full of regrets and bitter hate for Stephen King.

>>8786718
this, my mom sorta bought it for me on a whim in third grade since I was "running out of" kids books.

Terrible parenting on her part, but I kept reading. Tried going back to it, it was shit.

>>8786705
>Holy shit this book is so damn good written

The Buried Giant.

Can we have "To Kill a God" added to the charts

>>8786629
>can a book that no one read be put on the charts
>p-plz
>it's not like you are jewing for me or anything like that

>>8786546

Go ahead

As long as it isn't some dumb reddit meme

>>8786549
>>8786550
A young boy lives in poverty with his mother and younger sister. Due to the cramped apartment the small boy sleeps in the bathtub while his little sister occupies the remaining bed, where she suffers intense nightmares night after night. He routinely has to wake up and console her.

On the television there is news about children all over the country suffering intense nightmares and getting little to no sleep as a result. Doctors suggest a change of diet, moralists suggest less violent video games, etc.

The boy then discovers the existence of a battle which is taking place between the guardians of dreams and the evil forces which are causing such nightmares and attempting to take over the minds of the young sleepers.

The boy is initiated into the sleeping world, and along with other children his age he secretly changes into the necessary uniform each night before climbing into bed and whispers the spell, which is an obscure and long-forgotten lullaby, which will cause him to enter the sleeping world where he and others fight to protect the dreams of sleepers everywhere and defeat the monsters and evil figures which are causing the nightmares. By day he attends a brutal school and attempts to keep his family afloat, but by night he enters a different world where he is tasked with protecting children everywhere from nightmares.

Eventually we discover that his own mother was once a protector of dreams too, but that after a certain age one loses the imagination necessary to become one. His sister's nightmares pass.

that it's spelt with an "e"

>>8786535
shut the fuck up you cunt and answer the god damn fucking question !

>>8786544
He is correct though, which is the thing that matters most of all.

Also; it tends to be fatal.

>>8786500
>wondering if you can read three books in a semester
Your degree must not be literature related at all.

>>8786532
Of fucking course it is. The thing is that I hear all three of those books are extremely dense and require a lot of time and effort to get a full sense of their brilliance. My question, more specifically, was: is it possible, in a semester, to fully grasp all of these books, without skimming, half assing, etc.

>>8786645
>Read the books
>Read the critics
>Read the Joyce fanatics for some less popular interpretations
A month, tops, of extensive reading and you too can boast having read and understood Joyce among your elitist friends.

>>8786473
The art of the deal

>subscribed to amazon unlimited
>I can get for free
>for free
>free

>>8786493
>literally being this autistic

Bumping for interest.

>>8786450
The Dionysiaca of Nonnus

>>8786450
The doll by boleslaw prus
It's the polish war and peace

>I don't really have any because I was 11
>shitpost in the dorms
>Cho

>>8786298
>shitpost in the dorms

No muggle technology is allowed at Hogwarts!

>>8786300
probably kill myself then

>>8786291
b-b-b-b-b-u-u-u-u-u-m-m-m-p-p-p-p-p

>>8786291
Tropic of Cancer

>>8786291
I have a feeling you'll love Dickens' orphan novels.

is it like a comic book or something

>>8786265
I can take it or House of Leaves it.

>>8786267
it's a book that requires the reader to think in new ways, to decipher codes that are hidden in plain sight but are invisible at the same time. it has unique ways of visualizing the story by twisting the text

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Posting some pretty pictures meanwhile.

>>8786019
gen.lib.rus.ec

literally google name of book + pdf

Try a library, seriously

>21
>neet
>wake up
>read
>sleep

>>8786005
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>23
>neet
>wake up
>eat breakfast
>spend the entire morning reading
>eat lunch
>spend the entire afternoon working on my novel
>eat dinner
>jerk off
>listen to music, shitpost, or watch degenerate anime until I go to sleep
>repeat

One of these days I'll make it and be known as the eccentric genius. One of these days.

Honestly any article is going to be a reduction that misses at best nuance, at worst entire concepts.
Stirner is a bad example because his book is so easy to read and well written. Even then, I had read articles and a book worth of Stirner shitposts, and his philosophy wasn't crystal until I read Ego and his Own.

>>8785969
Well yes, but at the same time I was writing today about how humans constantly fight to suppress vice through agency and came to the conclusion that instead of following older ideals (follow god to go to heaven) or new ideals (follow money to achieve a state of bliss equitable to heaven), to instead only work towards your own goals and agencies, to essentially become self-driven. I had at once realized that I was not the first person to come up with this or discover this concept, yet I still understood it fully through my own reasoning. Since all philosophical concepts stem from logical lines of thought, then when one writes a book about one is similar to a scientist discovering something. In our system of logic these concepts already existed, we just didn't know about them yet. Therefore all philosophical concepts can justifiably be detached from whomever first wrote about them, and we no longer have to study philosophy in terms of its most famous authors.

>>8785957
>wanting to directly engage with a philosophical work could be in and of itself a spook
No. A desire can't be a spook. A desire can be influenced by spooks (like thinking you need to be a "real /lit/ philosopher" so you need to read everything in it's original language). /lit/ is a spook, so don't let "/lit/" tell you what to do.

>since the reader may be attempting to act as a "Philosopher" instead of in their own self-interest
Yeah, kind of. But avoiding doing something for the sake of avoiding labels sounds spooky to me.

From one Ego to another: I can tell you that I myself find value in reading original works (in translation if need be). An article is going to be an interpretation, and while the author of an article may have good points, you would probably get more out of them if you're familiar with the source.

You can certainly use articles and websites like the one you linked as a tool, to see if you like an idea enough to read it in more detail.