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The Decameron

>>8385922
By definition wouldn't any book about italian poetry give you a ton of leads for pursuing actual italian poetry?

>>8385922
If you like Renaissance poerty, try Petrarch. Decameron is meme material.

>NO PROTESTANT SHIT

Protestants aren't always wrong. Insofar as they are Protestants, they are wrong, granted; but they often say/write orthodox things.

>>8385916
Plato's Complete Works

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>>8385916
Nice try, Satan.

>1 And God spake all these words, saying,
>2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
>3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
>4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

>>8385908
Only nine greek dramas? Plebs, I've read more in the last two weeks.

>>8385928
It's sufficient since almost more than 99% of them become extinct.

>>8385928
This

>>8385929
>99% of greek dramas were lost
>so it's sufficient to only read 20% of the ones that survived

Are you retarded?

>>8385900
magneds :DDD how work?!1!?

>>8385902
fug :-DDDD

>>8385900
dude don't give thales a hard time
he was 75% right

>>8385854
Hey senpai, read Anna Édes, another book of Kosztolányi.
Though I am Hungarian I haven't read Szerb Antal's 'Utas és holdvilág' yet, but it's considered as a classic and also got an NYRB edition (Journey by Moonlight).

Of Kosztolányi, I’ve only read the Esti-books so far, but they were great.

"Journey by Moonlight" I also liked well.

And now we have Krasznahorkai reaching for the sublime.

>>8385854
Great book, but as far as a joy, I cant say that. Depressing as fuck more like it. Reminder that Skylark is the end result of the /r9k/ ideal.

What the author did at the end there was totally unexpected and really masterful, most of the rest of the book was a pleasure.

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>>8385777
shut up nerd

>>8385777
>obnoxious social posturing
Like your post?
Is that the bait?

>>8385777
Some people read, and some people just own books. It has always been this way - commodity fetishism.

>>8385744
Firstly it was the fact he broke into a house and fled which was why it was a 10 year sentence secondly it was more a side task

>>8385744
He was never only devoted to tracking Valjean, he had other duties as well.

>>8385744
>>8387582
>>8388553
Look at this swarm of maggots/ crawled from underneath a stone

>>8385552
Yeah dude, in fact I'd argue It's a more involving read if you're not

>>8385552
Probably more than a dogmatic religious person, but not if you are a Dawkins-tier dogmatic atheist. If you aren't militant about any particular dogma, than this book will shape your life in some way almost guaranteed.Dostoevsky is one of the most honest and genuine writers to have lived. No one gets off the hook in his deep explorations and examinations of how we view the world, not atheists, and no Christians

>>8385563
>>8385567

good posts

Idk you should ask him

It's basically just The Recognitions for teens.

No. At the time stories about troubled youth was very original and provocative, and even when those stories are rampant in today's fiction, Catcher still does it better than nearly all of them. It's very well written, and its protagonist isn't just another angsty teen. Catcher is obviously traumatised over his brother's death and his friend's suicide and his possible sexual abuse and idealizes childhood because of it. And then he finally learns to accept the fall of innocence and let children take care of themselves in the world.

his papa

>>8385492
Nut "Hard-As-A-Motherfucker" Son

/mu/ posters should be banned

Your time isn't worth anything anyway

You're going to die some day.

>>8385460
Heh, that's clever.

>>8385394
If he would've just accepted earlier that he's gay, there would ne no Fight Club and edgelords would have to look for another bible of theirs.

>>8385394
Having gone to HS in the 90s before the internet he was a big deal for me and my friends. Basically the first guy to tell us that being pigeonholed into a proto-nu male role was pretty much a joke. Also Lullaby is an ok book.

In the context of 2010+ culture (and being an adult) he is pretty terrible, and the way he came out is pretty laughable.

>>8385403

He has edgelords for a following, can't deny that. But how is he as a writer? What would Harold Bloom think of him?

Depends on the series. /lit/ will say they are all awful but most are pretty decent

>>8385393
The Teaching Company is GOAT, and easily pirateable. Go to their website, find a course, and type it into one of those torrent search engines. 20 hours of bliss.

Yale and Stanford Open Courses are great as well. Apple U is okish sometimes.

>>8385406
They're great.

I'm taking their course on "The Addictive Brain" right now, it's great.

Gonna pirate "The Art of Reading" next.

What torrent search you got? I use RuTracker and Pirate Bay, but they don't have all of em.

Dunno if it's what you're looking for, but maybe Giuseppe Ungaretti? Italian poet, wrote a bunch of minimalist tidbits while in service - some of them are legitimately heart rending.

The most famous ones

I illuminate (myself)
with immensity

About dawn after a night spent on the watch. Or

It's like being
in the autumn
on the trees
the leaves

eloquently titled, Soldiers. Look him up.

>>8385344
Some examples of german poets: Curt Saemann, Edleff Köppen, Richard Oehring
Not sure about translations though.

>>8385344
http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/MOD/1914warpoets.html

Fordham University Sourcebook

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Am I walking into eternity of /lit/?

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>>8385235
There all the time without you: and ever shall be, shitpost without end.

I just finished Hades.

John Henry Menton took off his hat.

Was my shitpost any good? In the midst of death we are in life. Cockroach on my floor. Squashed. Dead. No. Never gonna give you.

Let you down down down

Desert you.

John Henry Menton stared at my shitpost.

Oh well!

Such fine people we are this morning!