"I summarized The Stranger a long time ago, with a remark I admit was highly paradoxical: 'In our society any man who does not weep at his mother's funeral runs the risk of being sentenced to death.' I only meant that the hero of my book is condemned because he does not play the game."
What the fuck is this shit, he was condemned to death because he killed a man in cold blood was no remorse.
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>>8289104
He killed a nonwhite, hence it wasn't morally wrong
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I dont really understand why people like or analize that shit book that much
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>>8289104
>What the fuck is this shit, he was condemned to death because he killed a man in cold blood was no remorse.
He was a white that killed in Arab in Algeria during the occupation. No jury would ever convict him. It would be like an America white killing a black in a town where lynch mobs happen. Nothing would happen even if they knew what happened.
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Define art
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>>8289097
This board is for literature
fuck off
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Expression of creativity
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Skill in action.
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What's the best translation/ version of the Arabian Nights in English?
There doesn't seem to be any definitive edition even in Arabic and many of the orally transmitted tales from India don't seem to have any written source at all, and since I don't speak or ever intend to learn French I can't read the translation by Galland, who might have invented many of the tales and added Aladdin (who he might very well have invented himself too), Sindbad and Alibaba to the Arabian Nights although they were never considered part of that set of stories in the middle East.
There seems to be a good German translation by a guy named /Lit/mann that I might be able to read, but I'm not sure which of the English one's is best.
Some appear to filter out a lot of sex and violence while another one apparently plays up the sex aspect to a ludicrous extent.
I heard there's another translation from 2008, but I know nothing about that one.
Should I go with the Grub Street version?
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>>8289015
My Islamic Studies professor recommended Haddaway by Norton
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>>8289023
For ants.
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>>8289028
Thanks anon, I heard some good things about Haddaway, but I didn't know how to spell the name so I left him out of my post and couldn't find him on Google
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Give me recs please. Not faulkner.
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Carson McCullers
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Flannery O'Connor.
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Tennessee Williams
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Recommend me some art essays.
I love pic releated.
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Umberto Eco - On Beauty.
More of a book, than an essay.
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Ok, i should've been more specific: i'm looking for essays about modern and postmodern art.
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Fundamentals of Musical Composition by Arnold Schoenberg
Need to write some toughts about this picture for a contest.
I came up with this bulshit for now:
The heavy thunder on the shoulders
thrown by a dark and variable sky
The pallid pyre that guides my escape
setting defeated on the mountain
And then I wanted to end it with something metaphoric about picking up the sun's ashes at the end of the road.
Cringy?
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>>8288820
You can't write or think
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>>8288820
this is undoubtedly the worst shit I've ever read
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Good luck anon, I hate prompts like that.
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Books you've read that after have made you think "NO MAN SHOULD KNOW THIS"
For me friedrich nietzsche - beyond good and evil
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>>8288807
get out
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>>8288807
Mein Kampf
Schopenhauer's 'On Women'
Evola's Ride the Tiger
Spengler's Decline of the West
McDonald's Culture of Critique Series
really makes u think
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>>8288807
the little guide booklet from a box of tampons
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why is this book so praised ? 150 pages in it and it's just a guy complaining. Sure he got a great style and sensibility, but I feel like reading a teenager blog
Should I drop it ? Does it get better ?
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>>8288791
Because it has a cool cover photo of a man who just barely escapes being hit in the head with a football
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>>8288791
The book was originally written as a bunch of fragments and was published after Pessoa's death. Who knows what the final product should be like? Keeping that in mind, you shouldn't read it like a novel. It's a book for dipping into every now and then, like a book of poetry.
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>>8288791
>why is this book so praised ?
>Sure he got a great style and sensibility
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Fil de ctitique en Français.
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Écrivez vos textes. Anon les critique.
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Le petit chat se disposait dans le sommet. Il s'agissait d'un chat doré, mais qui est tombée dans un pot de peinture blanc, maintenant grisâtre par la saleté de la maison.
J'ai juste écrit quelque chose pour le poste je ne veux pas qu'il meure.
Hélas, quand j'écris en français, j'ai une tendance à perdre l'écrit.
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>>8288606
Je cherche dans le vagine,
Je vois Jésus Mahomet,
Je marchais dans le vagine,
et j'entends les applaudiments.
La nuit est jeune dans le vagine,
et je suis perdu,
bien que je ne peux pas retrouver mon chemine,
et que le soleil est déjà mi un.
je sens que j'ai enfin sussidi
je suis retourner à l'utrus
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je l'ai essayé. dégoûtant. mais étant donné sa présence perpétuelle j'ai appris à l'inclure, sans toujours l’intégrer de mon plein gré. mais un jour, sans le moindre soupçon, je l'ai eu avec son compagnon habituel, ce que j'avais évité jusqu’à ce moment la -j'en ignore la raison-, et la chose est devenue totalement claire, l’évidence même s'est présentée d'un coup et j'ai enfin compris ce phénomène qui m’était si étranger, qui me semblait si bizarre et qui me portait à exclure de l’humanité ceux qui en faisaient son quotidien... et quelques jours après, ce sont mes propres habitudes qui ont pris un air nouveau.
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I can't wait to show you all the books I ordered anon.
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>>8288579
>tfw always want to participate in the stack/bookshelf threads but too /lit/ to own a camera
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>>8288599
A good camera does sound like a nice investment. The lens on my samsung galaxy s5 doesn't even focus anymore.
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>>8288599
are you too /lit/ to own a phone?
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Are there any gay stories that are actually good? It's annoying that every book ever has to be straight, or else it's just "doing it for attention". You're fucking living for attention, you piece of shit. Sorry I digress, I'm looking for good gay literature.
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>Sorry, I digress.
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>>8288328
Johnno by David Malouf
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
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Twilight is pretty gay
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So lit, i just finished the brothers karamasow and completly loved it! I have already read the other books by dostojevsky (except the idoit), but my question is were do i continue from here?
Can you recommend me authors or books that are as immersive and philosophical.
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>>8288292
Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Cervantes
I may get shit for this, but I like Kazantzakis in a similar way.
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>>8288292
How the fuck did you enjoy this book? I'm like 1/3rd through it and have to force myself to keep going.
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>>8288305
Why would you get shit for that? What's his reputation?
I have most of his books in Greek but haven't got around to reading them yet.
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hey /lit/,
how many rejection letters have you gotten so far? I've gotten eight so far. At least the letters are getting more personalized. One was even from an editor who told me which of my poems he liked. One letter said my language was beautiful but comes off as pretentious without a story to back it up.
Been popping oxycodone and drinking nyquil, so I expect I'm depressed, but I've been compiling my poems again to resend to other magazines.
How do you deal with rejection?
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People still writes poems in 2016? And worse, there are people who reads poem made in 2016? Damn.
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>>8288153
At least you've mustered the courage to send your shit in rather than leaving it rotting in an infinitely expanding "needs-more-editing" pile.
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>>8288162
Yeah, but my classmate (who I attended poetry class with) already had a poem submitted in our university's magazine for undergraduates. I got nothing to my name despite praise from my professors who forget me after a semester.
>>8288154
yeah?
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what is your experience with faulkner?
which book did you start with and in what order did you read from there?
I'm reading As I Lay Dying, which is the first I've read by him and I'm definitely enjoying it even though I struggled at first with the Southern setting that I feel like I've over-read. But instead of simply an exposition of certain themes relating to the region like poverty, racism, Southern culture, etc. the narrative unfolds through the character's experiences relating to their environment with reference to upbringing and the endemic values and virtues of the area. I've read just over half of the book and I'm finding it quite easy to get through though still managing to have some pretty complex and amazing prose. What are your thoughts on the book?
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My first three Faulkner books were As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, and Absalom, Absalom. It got me hooked on Faulkner for life, and now I've read damn near everything he wrote. I don't think anything surpasses Absalom for me though.
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>>8288149
Agree, Absalom is his best but do not read it first.
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>>8288129
i had an all faulkner class with one of the best professors at georgetown who had taught the course for twenty years. it was pretty legendary, but i still think he's just okay and i dont really plan to re-read any of his stuff.
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The saddest part of /lit/;
It is a vessel of free speech, and that speech is poisoned. What could be accomplished if the lesser minds were outcast?
How do we save a place with true potential for enlightenment of man, from the denigration the soul by idiocy and memes?
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>>8288102
There's one thing and one thing only that the mods could do to immensely improve the board, instantly, overnight, and that's facilitate more threads about David Foster Wallace. Create them, nurture the ones that exist, guide the discussions, and make sure they stay on track. If we're here to discuss literature, ultimately, we are here to discuss David Foster Wallace. There is no way for a person to grasp the full implications of Infinite Jest and not realize this. We're talking about the smartest man who ever lived. You must realize this. It's not a joke anymore. We're seeing the world degenerate further and further into chaos, and we're standing by and watching it happen. You want to fix this board? You want to fix the world? You want to fix your life? You need only take one step: read Infinite Jest. There is no substitute for hard work, and that's what Wallace requires of you if you are to understand him. If you are to understand not just him, but the world. We're not talking about escapist literature, fan fiction, genre nonsense. We're talking about saving our lives. We're talking about meditating on God. We're talking about communing with the primary presence. This is not an issue to be treated lightly.
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>>8288102
you could start by leaving, and never coming back
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>>8288102
We need to make the following required reading before you're allowed to post:
>The Greeks
>My Diary
desu