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>annotated edition

only plebs read annotated editions

My diary's complete analysis of joycian fiction desu

>>8372576
I prefer to call my style 'Ulyssean' desu

He should write movies or something, I think... Not books…

>>8372399
his next project is a television series.
he tried writing a film screenplay in the early nineties and it didn't go very well.

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also no

>capitalizes philosophy

>>8372370
>Doesn't capitalize Philosophy

>taking interest in others' philosophy to an absurd level

>>8372354
cute

>>8372354
Finnegans Wake. Especially if you are Galician master race.

>>8372354
none of them. they are all terrible. nothing worthwhile has ever been written in our allpervading language. you should give up now.

I would say that ranking a book's worth or level of "substance" based on how difficult it is to read our how avant garde its narrative techniques areis a bunch of pretentious bullshit, yes, but that's merely my opinion.

Ranking books based on their difficulty is fucking ridiculous and anyone so insecure as to believe that they can shit on someone else for reading literature that they consider to be 'easy' is not worth your time.

I don't see a difference in difficulty between a late era Joyce and Schmidts Zettels Traum.

>>8372343
I liked how feisty his writing can be, how furious of an opponent it made him look. But it's been a long time since I've read him, what would you recommend, anon?

>>8372343
Don't worry, if nothing else he'll always be remembered as the guy Voltaire picked on

>>8372392
Well, his confessions is a great read: funny, colfy, well written. The Emile; or on education is in my opinion one of the best books ever written. Then there's also of course his expressly political essays and some fiction.

Is this book that good? I've actually read and loved three Nikos Kazantazakis books, but nothing about Zorba interests me. Is he like some kind of happy-go-lucky Nietzschean ubermensch or something?

No. Reading isn't this thing I try to do. It's a thing I do to relax before bed. If I had thoughts about not reading it'd probably be bc I didn't enjoy it. Then yeah, at that point I'd consider doing something else. But reading is part of the routine now. Right before sleep I shower, snuggle with my book, masterbate, then pass out.

No. Don't see why I would. It's just another thing I do, like painting or walking.

it's sad that he has a podcast

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>>8372241

>art was pure gold in the past, and a much greater part of every day life

Where does this perception come from? Art has always been in the background. Art has always been swamped with failures and popular garbage.

>>8372241
Bret pls go

>>8372164
Stop writing pleb shit

I hope its not lust for the sake of lust

Find someone to act out the scene with you while you write it out

Then marry them and never let them go

>>8372164
Can you share what you're working on OP? Video just hasn't been doing it for me these past few days.

Also pic unrelated

>>8372156
best part of the book after the try-works and a squeeze of the hand desu.

They're supposed to get you PUMPED for the chase, family

>>8372123
The Ego And Its Own

Go get yourself free my dude

>>8372123
Hunger, Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, A Short History of Decay

>>8372133

Oh nice I had forgotten about Hunger - very good and odd book.

I think Notes from Underground is the most 'crushing' though.

>>8372062
>i'm getting sick of reading about all these fucking dead women
It's the point you retard

>>8372062
Faggot.

the part about the crimes was my favorite

A very dry read

the single life

A great book.

>all extant plays
do you mean all the major Attic or all the plays?

>>8371993
Homer, Hesiod, Thucydides, Plato (almost all of it), Herodotus, the presocrats, Hamilton's Mythology...

Still have the Tragedians and some philosophy to look foward to.

>>8372003
If you liked Thucydides you might want Xenophon too. Same if you want a different view of Socrates. Save Aristophanes for after the tragedies, it'll make more sense.

Not a rhetorical question by the way, I'm really wondering.
t.OP

I am a sick man.

>I would prefer not to