Greetings, friends of 4chan.
My name is Ángel Revilla and i'm a Venezuelan writter and youtuber, currently living in Argentina.
I have published two books called Luna de Pluton and Festival de la Blasfemia. Would you mind reading them? I think you'd like them.
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>>8301717
I only read whites, sorrynot sorry
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>>8301717
Nice try, Tao Lin.
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>>8301717
Is your book Luna de Pluton achieving wide approval in all Latin America?
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Did epistemology before Kant really not have some form of the transcendental deduction?
Did no one ever talk about how the "passive intellect" or receptive faculty shapes intuitions? Were they all naive representationalists?
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>>8301670
I bet you 13456565readzizek324567 dollars you didn't read that number. You just skipped right over it. You didn't even realize I put a useless piece of advice, which borders on a buzzword, in it. No I didn't but you went back and looked.
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>>8301833
Is Zizek the natural next step after reading the Greeks?
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>>8301670
I'm not sure what you mean, but it was mostly 'psychologistic' and concerned with a soul-substance, either as a material thing within the body or as a separate worldly mind-stuff, not as a formative condition of the empirical world itself. That's probably not true of eastern philosophy or even older western philosophy though, just the stuff immediately preceding Kant.
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I have never read any Latin poetry.
I know that the Aeneid is the most famous poetic work that flowered in the Roman Empire; I know that Lucretius “On the Nature of Things” is supposed to be a great analysis of the Universe and its laws; I know that the comedies of Plautus still influence comedy-writers today and that they are the first works of Latin Literature; I know that Ovid was Shakespeare’s favorite poet (and what greater praise can a poet have); I know that Martial was known as the father of epigrams and a great satirist, and that Juvenal.
Yet, although I know these facts, I have never read any of those poets. I would like if you guys could offer me some suggestions of translations, collected editions of best poems, and, if you can, to quote great passages here on this thread.
Thank you very much.
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>>8301616
If you can't read Latin or be bothered to dictionary through it; you lose the meter and sonority of the words, which leaves you only with images formed using mis-nuanced words.
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>>8301623
It is ok. My favorite thing in poetry is the metaphors and the imagery, more than the sound (that's why, in my opinion, Shakespeare is sublime even in translation).
But my native language is Portuguese, so I will try to follow the original texts, even if I am reading the translation in English. Since Portuguese resembles Latin quite significantly, I might have a feeling of how the original sound like.
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learn basic latin. read catullus' couplets. move on to his lesbia poems. then his invective. then ovid's fasti. then lucretius. then back to ovid's metamorphoses, and read anything cicero wrote about language alongside it. then ovid's sadness.
if you want to get into technique more than meaning, after catullus, go through virgil in order and then lucretius.
Why is reading taken seriously while gaming isn't?
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Readers have are 6'2, go to Princeton University, were the valedictorians of their high schools and are handsome,Asian American men.
Gamers are smelly, fat, unemployable, unlovable virgins.
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>>8301577
Yes, that is true.
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>>8301573
Because gaming is supposed to be fun.
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if i start lurking here will i get smart
i already reads book
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what books
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>>8301533
brandon sanderson
edgy allen poe
hp lovecrap
shawn wunjo
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>>8301536
you read shit
you are never going to make it kiddo
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What will I get out of it? 2016-07-20 17:30:30 Post No.8301432
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What will I get out of it?
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Reading a book a day
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Make it a number of pages or hours, not a book. That way you'll be willing to take on challenging literature...
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>>8301432
I bet you 13456565readzizek324567 dollars you didn't read that number. You just skipped right over it. You didn't even realize I put a useless piece of advice, which borders on a buzzword, in it. No I didn't but you went back and looked.
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>>8301432
KNAWLEDGE
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did i fall for the /lit/ meme?
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>>8301426
I hope you didn't buy these in person at a store. That would be embarrasing.
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you have to fucking ask
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I just read this. Is it good?
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>>8301364
You tell us. You just read it didn't you?
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>>8301394
I think that might have been his joke.
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dude has a chocobo in his head lmao
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What does anon think of War and Crime by Tolstoyevsky.
One of the best Svedish novel in my opinion.
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>>8301360
Wasn't Tolstoyevsky russian?
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>>8301410
Back then Sveden was part of the Tsar empire.
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>>8301457
>newfag summer redditors detected
Seriously fuck off. Dostoyevsky AND Tolstoy (two DIFFERENT authors) were RUSSIAN.
Dostoyevsky was the one who wrote Crime and Punishment and Notes from Underground (the latter detailing life of an /r9k/ robot)
Tolstoy wrote War and Peace.
You need to go back, fucking braindamaged normies. And you're wrong about Swedish history
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Japanese History/Poetry 2016-07-20 16:53:22 Post No.8301314
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Hey /lit/,
So I'm wanting to take a little break from the West, and I was wondering: if you HAD to pick one introductory Japanese history book, and one introductory Japanese Poetry book, what would they be?
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>>8301314
Adolf Hitler - Mine Camp for both
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>>8301314
If you really mean "introductory," I would choose The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse and The Making of Modern Japan by Jansen.
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>>8301353
Thanks. I'll check these out. My knowledge of Japanese lit is basically what you learn in American public schools (aka haiku), and my history understanding is Muh Samurai Culture. So I'd like to learn more.
What's some literature that will help me come to terms with the fact that life is never going to pass a certain threshold and 'get good,' yet that for every depression comes a rebound? That life is a constant cycle of disappointments and successes, of existential frustration and elation, and that this continues until it's finally over.
I feel like I've been raised to conceive of life almost like a video game, where if you put in the time and effort you'll level up and eventually 'win.' On a purely intellectual level I understand this to be inaccurate, but I still feel its residual effects lingering. I think I need to read something that actually demonstrates this cycle.
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>>8301263
This is spoken like someone who has never had sex.
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>>8301272
Well you're not wrong
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>>8301263
Absurdism.
Read Camus "The myth of Sisyphus" and Kierkegaard "From Sickness unto Death"
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Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky 2016-07-20 16:20:18 Post No.8301222
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Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
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What does /lit/ think of these guys' translations? Are others' demonstrably better/worse?
For my part I've only read their translation of TM&M, which I liked, and I also liked their interview in the Paris Review (v.i.).
>http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6385/the-art-of-translation-no-4-richard-pevear-and-larissa-volokhonsky
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>>8301222
They're marketed very heavily, but really clearly inferior to the McDuff translations.
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They're a marketing ploy. Their shit is bad. Maybe it's nice for academics because they claim to be the most literal and direct translation, but I doubt even that.
They butchered Master and Margarita.
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I don't like them.
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If nothing matters then Camus's revolt doesn't matter either.
The Myth of Sisyphus is pleb shit for morons. People say it changed their life and you ask how and they say 'Just gives me this feeling of, like woah, things are strange but I'm heroic for, like, putting up with it'
Give reasons why 1. His revolt is of any worth/importance and not equally meaningless 2. Why we must imagine sisyphus happy and 3. In what real-world non abstract bs way this essay is life changing
pro le tip: you can't
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>>8301181
Cosmogramma is excellent.
The Myth of Sisyphus isn't about his revolt having any kind of worth or value, it's about coming to terms with the inherent meaningless of a fundamentally meaningless and absurd existence.
The essay tries to tell you that, despite it being impossible for life to be anything but chaotic and random, we can avoid having to either 1. taking a Kierkgaardian leap of faith or 2. kill ourselves by accepting absurdity and essentially going with it.
We imagine Sisyphus happy because he can accept absurdity and find pleasure in life, even if he doesn't believe it has any salient purpose. That's how the essay is life changing, it is a manifesto for personal agency and self determination in a godless, meaningless universe.
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Give reasons why (...) we must imagine sisyphus happy
You would know if you've understood the actual essay you dipshit
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>>8301198
if his revolt has zero value/worth why would bring it up, why would he add it to the essay?
Sisyphus accepting his absurdity is essentially him not fleeing from what is actually going on, this is the fundamental idea of absurdism, taking reasoning about why to live to the very end, this is what Camus gives himself a pat on the back for. If life has no purpose, fine, but accepting those conditions gives zero reason why one would enjoy it, let alone pushing a boulder up a hill for eternity. That is nothing but heroic sentimentality as far as i can see.
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How come I'm so much better than everyone but my life is terrible? Which book'll help me understand
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try being practical
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Superiority complex aside,
it's called Just World Fallacy
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>>8301164
you mean le JUST world fallacy hahaha!
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I picked up Night Shift on a whim and loved every story. I blasted through Cujo and Misery in less than a week each. Cujo was really good but I LOVED Misery, I couldn't put it down. Should I read through The Stand next, or find something else?
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>>8301065
The Stand is pretty good.
The Shining is pretty good.
Hearts in Atlantis
IT is my favorite.
After you read those, start the Dark Tower.
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>>8301065
Yeah, you know why? Because the dude knows his novels are airport books, and he is happy with that. He is the most sincere author in that regard.
Dolores Clairborne, The Green Mile, Bag of Bones, and Geralds Game are his best if you want something thats not horror.
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>>8301065
Read Needful Things.
The Shining sequel is pretty good.
if you want something short then read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon or his many short story collections.
His cookie story is pretty good and you can read it in 45 minutes below.
http://vqronline.org/fiction/2016/03/cookie-jar