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>>8584536
>intellectuales mexicanos

pedro paramo

don quixote

What are Avicennas best known works?

>>8584539
idk

>>8584532
err no. He did not. Avicenna's theory of the uncaused cause is rooted in contingent existence while Aristotle's notion of the unmoved mover is rooted in motion/time. They're different arguments and they are only similar in the sense that they both attempt to retrace existence to one thing via causality. However, their methods for doing so are different and crucially different at that.

Dun Scotus is another medieval philosopher that 'traced' God's existence, yet he did it through 'producibility.' However, none of these philosophers are "ripping off' one another and their proofs are fundamentally different.

>being this much of a cuck

Don't read.

Cover is half the experience.

>>8584490
the fuck is a cover? what do you mean copy? just open your kindle and read ffs

cancer

HS Thompson and Wolfe are treats to read. Totally exhilarating stylistically, and genuinely insightful to boot. I haven't actually read that particular work though.

I've also read a bit of Hersey and Talese, Hiroshima and Frank Sinatra Has a Cold respectively; neither are as audacious in their style as the aforementioned, but they seem like quality journalists and gifted storytellers.

Been meaning to check out Didion and Capote's In Cold Blood.

>>8584481
Why so?

>>8584439
>>>/wsr/

>>8584444
>literary recommendations are not allowed on a literature board

>>8584439
All of Dostoievski's novels deal with it, although in a christian way.
But I'd recommend The conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell. The part about byronian unhappiness the most.

>>8584436
NYC
Boston/Cambridge
San Francisco
Chicago
New Orleans

>>8584436
It really depends on how you define "/lit/ness". NYC is fun if you've got money and I suppose even if you don't there are places like the MET where you can see decent art (they have a Crucifixion and Last Judgment diptych by Jan van Eyck that's pretty cool) at a relatively cheap price. But the actual "literary" scene is pure cancer.

>>8584689
New Orleans isn't that great. The south has better options like Athens, north Alabama's many ultra /lit/ traditional catholic towns, etc.

North Alabama is shockingly /lit/. Downtown Cullman has six or seven coffee shops/delis full of people tutoring and practicing the classics.

>>8584419
It's

I glottal stop apostrophe s

Also this question is gay

this is my cat. it's cool.
its birthday is tomorrow

Skylark by Dezso Kosztolanyi.

>>8584394
Marx: you will be too busy organising partisans to worry about your fuck-ugly face

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>he doesn't have multiple copies of Hypersphere

>>8584379
but I do

>>8586243
>having some copy of the r/4chan scam

/lit/izens really are vain gullible idiots.

Has anyone actually read it? I imagine it could be fun for a few pages before you realize it's just random nonsense.

America has no literature. It has popular drivel.

Nu Yawk

Massachusetts

Eh it could have been really, really good, but Johnny is an absolute garbage character and actually poisons the rest of the book by his presence. Danielewski never found a believable voice for him and he sounds like an inconsistent sophomore creative writing student. I don't care if this was intentional, it's just terrible and literally painful to read a lot of the time. His descent into insanity is unbelievable and lacks any impact, I just want him to fuck off and let me read.

Other criticisms: the novel is so long that it loses its novelty.

It's cool that the book "reads itself" most of the time, but it sometimes feels like all the interesting analysis is basically done for you, it's like having your cake taken when you read a whole section and the gears start turning, and then Danielewski throws in some really straight analysis. Again, I understand that that's an intentional conceit, but it doesn't make for fun reading.

Lastly it's just overwhelming and it doesn't go anywhere. AGAIN, this is intentional, but AGAIN, it's a weakness IMO. Its one of the worst parts of "postmodern" writing - the point is that, like, there is no point, but you can analyze it endlessly anyways! Once you have these suspicions its really hard to devote effort to a good-faith reading of the work. 2666 almost suffers from the same problem but it makes you BELIEVE that there is a centre, that you could find it, even if your search has to extend beyond the work itself. Danielswizzky attempts the same thing in House of Leaves but basically fails, IMO, by overstimulating you to the point that the illusion breaks down.

His characterization of Karen is shit, he tries to do some interesting gender criticism with her, Zampano is sympathetic to her, but there's nothing redeeming or interesting about her.

The ending is tacked on.

But it's a horror novel, right? It's trying to drag up our subterranean fears. So what's the fear here? I think its that the reading never ends. Typical pomo Derrida shit transposed onto a horror novel. What is a text? What is a para text? Who cares, because THE NOVEL IS READING YOU. Moreover I think it plays at our fears that reality depends on observation in a very real metaphysical sense. Quantumshit, so spooky.

Yeah, I dunno. I think its a pretty interesting failure of a book.

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>>8584502
these feels.. these feels are now my feels.

I was fucking confused the entire time.
I like how intense some parts of it gets though.

>>8584120
Le (((postmodern))) trash man author

>>8584120
no. read the russians. if you want something complex and spicy, read Petersburg.

>>8584120
Absolutely

I did 5001

>>8584114
5002 master race reporting in

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>>8584114

Revelation. I get tingles every time I read/hear it.

Two Corinthians

>>8584063
Genesis is pretty good. I like Judges and Job too. For the new testament Matthew is my favorite of Gospel but only because it was the first I read, a few months before the others. Read all the Pauline epistles in succession so I really can't differentiate between them at the moment.

I found lusiadas so boring I quit reading for 10years.

>>8584047
Fernando Pessoa and Jose Saramago desu

I read "A General Theory on Oblivion" and it was alright

reading about their history is pretty cool though