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Delete your retarded thread and fuck off

>>8255757
How does it feel to be a faggot?

>>8255755
What the fuck, sartre was hella famous

>>8255739
Delillo sticks out like a sore thumb

>>8255758
Right? it's like

>shit
>shit
>shit
>Delillo
>shit

>>8255805
I like DeLillo, but Zero K really isn't that good.

fix your roof, it's raining in

I had a smile because I thought you were talking about the Chekhov story.

You weren't, were you?

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This is a coffee table book with legs so it can become a table, I assume thats what you meant

start with contemporary litterature (aka Houellebecq, Aragon, Nouveau roman, etc..) and thenwhen yu think you have a good command of the language, you can begin reading 19th century litterature and so on

Shove a black dick up your ass

>>8255690
>French
>lit

le pick one

>>8255685
wrote this at 3 am. hit me with all you've got
(1/2)

i swallow and
swallow and
there is no air
in my mouth

no air
at all

i am a cave that is
flooding with
water
and my own sister
is the flood;
she pushes my
head down
until i am face to
face with the
ceramic bottom
of the bathtub
and squeezes my
hair tight in her
fist and i
vomit a little
in the back
of my throat

my vision begins to
colour with faded yellow
and speckled black;
a bee in my face
a bee in my eye
a bee stinging my lips shut and
refusing to let
an aching
gallon of
water outside
leaking through my body
bursting at the seams
where all of my skin
closes and
sews itself up

i swallow and
swallow and kick and
curl and
swallow the infinite
water before me
because i
am in
the ocean and she is
a giant ship
without lifeboats and
i try to
beg but
i am only
talking into the
water
speaking into my
mouth and
yelling at
my teeth

the words
have nowhere to
go but

>>8255767
(2/2)

i could
beg for death;
i could get on my
knees and
lay down in the empty
bathtub and ask her to fill it up
i could ask her to
hold my head down and
never let me up
i could tell her to
call me every
dirty word she can
think of while she slowly
dyes the white water red and
i would tell her to
never let go
even when i close my eyes
and stop struggling

i could
ask her to hold
me underwater by the
throat and scream into my
ears until i bleed
i could turn the faucet and
fill the bathtub
until it is
drowning in itself
until the water is
spilling over the edges
and i would get in and say
please, rosa
please
fill this with your
tears and watch me.
make sure i don't get up
as you drown me and
watch me turn from
white to red to blue
to lifeless

i could beg her for my death
i could ask her
for it
i could ask her
to kill me

she would say yes
she would do it
for me
god knows i would have
done it for her.

>>8255767
>>8255769
There is no reason for your line breaks. You might as well have kept the whole thing as a paragraph.

sorry bro i don't know, but try r eddit. shit site obviously but they have an autistic boner for detective missions like this

>>8255689
Ty I will repost there. Still monitoring this post for any others who may know

>>8255689
where should I post on reddit? I've never used the site before

>>8255649
gr8 b8 m8

r8 8/8

it's bad

>>8255649
Purple prose

>>8255593
can you comment on Pnin?

>>8255613
i can't comment on Pnin with any authority or even insight since it has been nearly a decade since i read it. i was planning to go back to it after a few more of his older works, or maybe latter ones. thinking Speak, Memory and Ada or Ardor next. that is, unless another one catches my fancy.

>>8255593
Laughter in the Dark was ok. Sort of like a less self-involved Lolita.

>it was so realistic!
put up a mirror in your room!

>>8255540
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

>>8255545
I believe i said "pretty realistic" and i only meant the in the portrail of social anxiety and depression

no honestly he's fine. I read looking for Alaska and it was funny and entertaining.

>>8255424
it's fine young adult fiction or whatever you want to call it but he uses the same formula for each book and they keep turning them into movies and it's garbage

>>8255427
k

>>8255385
haha aint that a good thing? some lil bub gunna grab some hungry catapillar and get some melville down his throat

To be fair, most kids read Moby Dick in elementary school.

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>>8255385
>this nigger didn't read moby dick in kindergarten

>>8255377
Mario balotelli and andrea pirlo imo

>>8255377
while pastafags still here is there any nice and easy letteratura italiana thats still pretty good (please no childrens books).

i've read some alberto moravia's, aldo palazzeschi, and some boccaccio but only ever with parallel text.

Are you speaking as an Italian?

Anyway, you can't go wrong with Adelphi: expensive as fuck (even if lately they've been releasing part of their catalog in a economic format), but they've published a few amazing gems you don't want to miss out on - namely, Giorgio Manganelli's complete ouvre, Curzio Malaparte's novels, Michaelstaedter's Persuasione e Rettorica and plenty of other masterpieces I'm still discovering myself.

If you're interested in Philosophy, look into Mimesis Edizioni; same as above, expensive but pretty much the only place you'll find contemporary contributions to a slew of fields, alongside a few rare classics. There's a whole series dedicated to the Gnostic tradition, for example.

The authors he talks about are excellent.

Lit has this bizarre desire to read every single book from cover to cover, where many books are merely utilitarian in their purpose. This is one of those books. You pick it up, read the parts that interest you, skip the rest. Come back later to read the parts that didn't interest you because you are at a different stage of your life in regards to literature. It is a good book to get you excited to read a certain author, or to see some interesting commentary on an author. That's about it really.

>>8257168
bingo

P-please

In Cold Blood

>>8255247
Helter Skelter, The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule. Green River Running Red by the same author is pretty good. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. The Onion Field. Also this >>8255318

Crime and Punishment

Wittgenstein's Mistress

IHNMAIMS still makes me uncomfortable, especially after playing the game.

Are any of the author's other works worth a read?