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>>8252793

Lol

What are the best translations for ANY Spanish work? Any suggestions appreciated, preferably anything by Juan Rulfo.

>>8252863

For Borges, it's Norman Thomas di Giovanni. He worked with Borges personally, who was conversant in English enough to evaluate the translation work. Unfortunately there is an issue with the estate (that largely amounts to a personal conflict with widow Maria Kodama), so the work is hard to come by. It was only briefly in print if ever, but it's available online with some resourcefulness. Barring that, the original translations (by Anthony Kerrigan, James Irby, and so on) are also quite good. The work of Andrew Hurley is deeply idiosyncratic (and commissioned by Kodama to spite di Giovanni) and is to be avoided. (Sadly this is the translation in the otherwise-attractive Collected Fiction and Collected Non-Fiction.)

>>8252534

You can finish that in three days, two if you push it at 200-300 on the first evening

>>8252534
Literally bait (which I just literally bit).

The thing is there are few 500+ pages books worth reading

the haunting of hill house is exactly what you're looking for

>>8252266
Story of O by Anne Desclos maybe? Not exactly horror but it definitely gives you strange feels.

>>8252269
>>8252271
Awesome!! I've never used this board before . Super helpful thanks

honestly i tried to keep up with the maths in the first couple of chapters and eventually ending up just skimming it and reading the dialogues which were super well done as a classicalfag familiar with all the shit bach does in a musical offering

>>8252253
It's an obfuscation of undergraduate automata theory with some cool references posing as a theory of consciousness.

I read it and liked it enough

But i wondered how any of it was useful

Canada

Leacock - Sunshine Sketches of a Small Town
Carson - Autobiography of Red

That's it.

China:
None.

>>8252231
>>8252234
You're being a tad bit rough on yourselves

Also, do you live in China or were you just born there?

>>8251949
>The nation is just a glorification of the state

It can be, but in many cases it is a glorification of culture.

Besides, you only know what you've lost when it's gone forever, so be careful what you wish for.

I think internationalism makes political sense as a form of co-operation, but I don't think that nation states should be destroyed, because national sovereignity keeps supra-national institutions from becoming too powerful if you ask me.

Nationalism or any idea that one culture is better than another is pure horseshit that only completely ignorant adults and mentally inept edgy teens on 4chan subscribe to

>>8251977
Culture should be cheerished, but it should not be associated as a political power like it is today. Culture and power should have nothing to do with each others.

Wether the state should exists or not is a different topic. Globalism isn't something i promote either though.

>>8251927
Kierkegaard or Nietzsche because of this website.

>>8251927
Strindberg.

whoever wrote casper the friendly ghost

>>8251499

fuck off. seriously?

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>>8251527

oh shit.

he's not lying.

>>8251499
Two words: meme magic

Not sure

It's about proving how much better you are than everyone with your obscure tastes. I am the only person to read the naughty poem jesus wrote on his sandals.

text based waifus, the purest kind of waifu

>>8250630

Catch 22 then Moby Dick, Catch 22 is a lot easier to get into. Don't bother reading Brave New World.

Bottom to top

Why the fuck are you posting this again?

>>8250619
I've seen a wild rabbit napping in the sun

>>8250619

Why can't free will be a product of brain phenomena? I can't help but think the whole debate is just a game of semantics.

>>8250637
You are overlooking the illusion part.

>>8250515
It's for normie manchildren who want to feel sophisticated for being "readers" but don't actually like reading.

I thought it was books written by teenagers for teenagers

It's for big dum dums

>>8250366
jesus christ what a woman. name for this sperm worm?

Nothing else will come close to Moby-Dick.

The Border Trilogy, if you love prose
>and tortillas

He literally did though

He was a professor of classics whose first book was about Greek tragedy

>start
>when Herakleitos your main man
kekekekekekekekeke

>>8250153
So, you've dabbled in existentialist philosophy, and now you're going to Heidegger? Who on earth recommended that you should do that?

What are you asking?

>>8250153
Heidegger is incredible, I'm also reading being and time.

It's far more dense and "real" philosophy (a la Kant) than any of the main existentialist guys though, so be ready for metaphysics.

In fact, I highly recommend you go through his short essay "What is Metaphysics" before you begin Being and Time.