Can somebody here please explain the appeal of Kafka's 'the trial' to me? I've read it twice in the last two days, once on Monday and again yesterday. I enjoy Kafka's prose, and I can accept the basic premise of it's satire, but anything past that I cannot comprehend.
Tl;dr why is 'the trial' not the modern art of literature
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>>7793239
>it's satire
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it's supposed to convey the absurdity of bureaucracy, and how it functions like a farce, and how people are enslaved by its ideals, making their actions nonsensical.
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>>7793239
start with winnie the pooh
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What are the most demanding bits of writing you have and took the extra mile to understand?
For me it was the poetry of Anna Ahmatova. She alludes to Klyuyev, Gumiliov, Nerval, Vergilius, her husband Osip Mandelshtam, Cosmas of Maiuma, the bible and anecdotes mentioned by Pliny the Elder and altogether it would only submit to you if you knew a lot about what was going in Russia of the Stalin era; if you were acquainted to the "Journey into the Whirlwind" or "Hope against Hope".
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>>7793174
Reminder to END MISOGYNY ON /LIT/
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Finnegans Wake
The Red Book
Various occult texts. Crowley, Spare, John Dee, Hermes Trismegistus, others
Essays by visual artists are often frustratingly obtuse, I've read a torturous few, but none jump to mind
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>>7793225
roastie status: toasty
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hue
http://theodysseyonline.com/upenn/why-young-adult-novels-beat-classic-literature-every-time/71386
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let's not keep having this thread over and over okay
>>7790567
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>the site is literally named after a piece of classic literature
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>>7793116
>this just in, idiot on internet has stupid opinion
I don't fucking care OP. Please cease making shit threads like this, this isn't /v/.
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Is IJ actually good or just a meme?
How difficult is it? (I have read Ulysses & Gravity's Rainbow)
Not a bait thread btw.
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>>7793114
Sage
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>>7793114
good
not too difficult
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It's good but not great. Funny and touching. Nowhere near the difficulty of the other two meme trilogy books.
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hey /lit/
HOW do you usually read books?
you can share your experience with kindle, laptops etc.
pic rel
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>>7792997
>pick book
>open it
>read page
>read next page
>repeat until book is finished
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>>7792997
I lay on my side or sit in a chair with my legs up on something. The latter if I'm drinking tea or coffee
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>>7793002
Cortazar approves
How do you practice writing ?
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>how do you practice playing an instrument
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>>7792978
by reading
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>>7792982
With that logic everyone who texts should be an amazing writer
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Why have we stopped Žižekposting?
I'm afraid we'll stop jestposting one day.
What's your favorite dead /lit/ meme?
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Žižek is like a good wine. It needs moderation or else it looses it's ideology
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Post your Zizeks. I know you have them. And I want them all.
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Does /lit/ read any literature journals? I've been wanting to start reading one or two ever since learning that authors often start out by publishing their short stories in journals. Ideally, I'm looking for a journal that's rather politically unbiased -- in that it represents both sides of current issues and the like.
Pic related, it's one of the first results when I google searched "literature magazine". What do you all think of it?
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>>7792939
leftist cuckolding basically. So no, I stay clear of indoctrination
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>>7792951
Are you talking about the london magazine or all lit journals?
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>>7792954
all of them
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just finished foundation and empire...so was the mule the kind of characters that the writers put in to the make their audience relate to? his speech at the end explaining his motivations sounded like something out of an anime
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It's no surprise you got that feeling. Kefka was directly inspired by the Mule.
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Hey /lit/ I got a copy of The Odyssey translated by a dude called Robert Fitzgerald. Did I goof or is it a good translation?
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>>7792867
why don't you give it a go, you fat cuckold
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>>7792873
pretty much this, although i maybe would have left out the part about being a fat cuckold... quite harsh
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>>7792867
it's a good translation.
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Good right wing books (pic related)
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Don't even mention "le day of the rope"
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>>7792823
atlas shrugged
also kys
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Camp of the Saints made me laugh
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>>7792823
oy vey! read matin brun
or you could read soumission like a filthy goy
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Bookshop thread?
Pic is inside my favourite one, Voltaire and Rousseau in Glasgow. Christ, I could walk in to that place and spend all my money.
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Mine was deastore.com, closed down two years ago. Free int. Shipping and books in german/italian/english and spanish. Catalogue was insanely big.
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>>7792799
Looks terrible. How are you supposed to get to the shelves if all those stacks are in the way? Also looks like a fire hazard.
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>>7792799
Came in to post the same one, good taste anon
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I'm an editor for a literary magazine. Ask me anything about publishing or whatever.
>I won't say what publication I work for.
>I won't read your stuff.
>I won't tripfag.
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>>7792786
/pol/ and /r9k/ self-identified redpilled conservative white male here:
Are you Jewish?
Are you under company policy to only publish female SJW writers who are trying to subvert Western civilization through degeneracy and the propagation and valorization of interracial relationships?
Do you hate white heterosexual male writers of the conservative bend?
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>>7792795
Go back to whence you came from.
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>>7792786
Quickest way to get thrown out?
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Anyone read the First Law trilogy?
I read it some time ago and I really enjoyed Sand dan Glokta (http://firstlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Glokta).
Can someone recommend some books with similar characters?
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>>7792663
>fantasy
back to /r9k/, kiddo
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>>7792689
not from r9k, faggot
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>>7792705
go back to your anime and 'vidya', frog homo loser.
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ITT: Nietzsche
Are you a fan of his writing style? Who was the best translator? What is his best book?
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>>7792614
>style
yes
>translator
Kaufmann (>inb4 Jewish conspiracy)
>book
The Birth of Tragedy
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I bet in real life Nietzsche was autistic in the exact same way that Michio Kaku is autistic and freaks out every time Jim Norton says hello to him in the elevator.
>Hey, Herr Nietzsche, good morn--
>A-ahh!! Oh, you startled me. I'm dynamite.
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>>7792630
I enjoy the Kaufmann translations as well, except for Zarathustra. I like the Thomas Common version desu