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>>8341984
Hardback for showing off, ebooks and pdfs for reading

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>>8341989
>pdf

Hardbacks are for faggots, paperback 4 life.

Ebooks for my phone when I am out and about.

a decent translation, or preferrably in russian.

then anna karenina

>>8341974
tolstoi a hack
read dosto

>>8341974
Tolstoy, Leo. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter. Read complete works between 14 and 15. Nobody takes his utilitarian moralism seriously. A genius.

>>8341980
Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.

just read it you stupid faggot

>>8341895
I've read it hence I'm asking. I didn't get it.

>>8341860
Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.

The Bible

Bellefleur

>>8341844
This is right though,

God, God's prophets, God's chosen people, God as a human, More prophets.

I'm aware of how cringey this whole topic is but how do I really become spiritually aware through literature?
>Apologies for making a thread that is so ambiguous
Kind of just want to not give a fuck. Like to be at peace with everything in life and live life in a truly spiritually-awakened, redpilled way.

>Fuck this is an autistic way of putting everything, again, sorry for the meme-buzzwords and edgy descriptions.
>I know how retarded it is but I'm poor at articulation

>>8341851
Thanks for the reply, bro!

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Damn, it's a bash Catholics night.

Aren't they suffering enough? The pastors are being persecuted by unforgiving children.

>>8341784
>George Orwell, American Novelist

George Orwell is an entry level author that makes people feel like they're geniuses because they've read his books

I would presume so

One would hope.

Depends where you go, who you work with how much you try.

One of my first classic books I ever read was Goethe's Italian Journey and it has since been one of my favorite books.

Has anyone read Cesare Pavese "This Business of Living"? I like depressing books and it is on the chart for that.

>>8341643
I enjoyed Helen Keller's autobio

Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe, extremely insightful into why he towered above all Germans

Victor Klemperer's diaries (there are various abridged editions), Jewish WW1 war hero litterateur with Aryan wife who tried to survive as best as possible

Marcel Reich-Ranicki's Mein Leben/My Life, biggest German lit critic, huge influence on post-war German literature

Zweig's The World Of Yesterday, autobiography of the Vienna that Zweig lost due to WW1/WW2, the cultural center of Europe

Reck's Diary Of A Man In Despair (NYRB edition is nice), the diary of a reactionary who hated the Nazis

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but he's the demiurge

>>8342035
>filename

my sides

>>8342035

Had a retard moment, read as "dramaturge"

Then I realized I like that concept better.

>deities don't dance

>>8341529
now this is shitposting

>>8341534

I don't understand.

What... do you mean I have friends all of the sudden?

>>8341488
Fernando Pessoa - The Book of Disquiet

Read that anon

>>8341685

Thanks, I'll take a look at this. Bumping for more suggestions

>>8341488
Why?

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I like Rodney Merrill. He writes in dactylic hexameter, and is very faithful in translation.

If you want a simple translation that is beautiful, although not extremely faithful in form or translation, Stanley Lombardo's is the best.

>>8341392

I have only read Fagles translation of Homer so far but it seems that they do what a translator should do, which is to carry over the spirit of the story as best they can. It doesn't rhyme or follow the form exactly as the original obviously.

>>8341392
I've read a half-dozen translations, and Fagles is quite solid: clear, not too clunky. Read, enjoy, try others.

Postmodernism was basically a mistake. New Sincerity is too haphazard and disorganized to pronounce itself a serious literary movement. We should return to Modernism

>>8341270
People want to be more and more like TV characters.
Before people wanted to be like theyre parents, maybe a writer or a historical figure, now they want to be Sheldon Cooper and that cute anime guy who makes cool faces.
Not lit related but the absence of good role models in literature is a factor too. Now youngsters look up to THG chick or the Divergent chick or the "insert YA FANFIC" chick. T'same eastern values are droping dead. Is like Rome in it's final days, decay of everything the society was built on.

>>8341287
More like Romanticism.

I just read a short story that kind of shocked me.

I'm not ready to talk about it.

I'm sure you'll understand.

>>8341003
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

>>8341039
Title?

>>8340820
There's quite a bit of that throughout. They're almost like existential haikus.

the one about the pure nun lady brought me to tears and i cannot even tell you why

When reading through the stories so much goes unsaid, it's a masterful technique used by Joyce. He's a genius