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fuck you no you didn't.

From the Barnes and Noble publisher or different publishers selling through Barnes and Noble?

Most often there are better editions than the Barnes and Noble ones

>>7683852
From B&N. They're the B&N leatherbound classics, which are beautiful and incredibly cheap.

>>7683857
>inb4 meme

Also, where are you from? In Brazil the dollar is expensive as fuck. I really want to buy in bookdepository but I'm just a PoorLatinAmericanFag without money in the bank.

Ya use the wiki. There's not much there.

Self bump

Also, appreciate it if someone could post a non-cancer resolution of the OP image

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>OP wrote >>7683756, a post whose purpose is nearly impossible to ascertain

>>7683783
Good taste in anime girls, tho

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>>7683795
That he does.

The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner.

The anarchist cookbook

This is an 18+ only website.

>>7683628

Milton is better than both.

>>7683633
lolno

Gr8 b8 m8 8/8

>>7683619

Would Lovecraft have had brilliant prose if he were not burdened with autism?

Here antagonistic trolling and retarded sincerity become indistinguishable.

>>7683619
Twain being better than Lovecraft is as obvious and verifiable as gravity or the sum of two and two. Why even point it out?

>>7683588
You'd kinda have to be at least slightly above average to actually appreciate Gaddis. I read a bit of The Recognitions and it's great so far but it has to be one of the most casually dense books I've ever seen.

>>7683571

It's okay to act autistic during a funeral and then murder someone because life is meaningless, man.

>>7683571

It shows to what extent morality is a arbitrary and a construct.

In the ilght of post-modernism, it isn't as ground-breaking as it was back in the day (of modernism).

It's well-written enough that you can enjoy it without foregrounding the philosophy though.

>>7683579

Oh yeah, and I also forgot about the time he helps an abusive husband, because who cares if a woman gets beat up! Life's meaningless!

>>7683563
learn spanish, amigo

>>7683586
Teach me it

>>7683586
It might be useful. But not to read a book written in French

That's what God said when he kicked out Adam and Eve. No joke.

>>7683542
I watched a video about this phrase. Apparently it's an amalgamation of the word "thunder" in multiple languages.

>>7683599
>>7683777
Also a reference to the fall of the tower of babel as a metaphor for Tim Finnegan's fall from the ladder and a number of other things.

>How would you characterize literature described as "operatic" vs "balletic" vs "balladic", et cetera?
I'd characterize that as being pretentious. Where did you see people describe literature like that in the first place?

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>>7683594
Pretentious, maybe. It'd be pretentious if someone only used the word because it sounded like a Cool Word to Use, but translating the structures of art forms into other mediums is nothing new. Which is why I want to have a better gut-level understanding of words like the above (feel free to add more to the list) for my working vernacular.

>>7683707
Well, I've never seen anyone describe a book as "balletic". And, anyway, such descriptions sound pretty pointless when the reader (in this case, you) has to ask other people to explain what the critic wanted to say.

>>7683498
You seem to have made a mistake friend, let me redirect you to the 'Homework' board

>>>/hm/

That sounds quite far fetched to me.

James Ellroy

>>7683442
Which book should I start with?

>>7683423
Gun for sale, graham Greene is exactly this.

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>>7683395
I'm about to dive into the book later today, so not sure how much I could add until then. My only familiarity thus far comes from a (very) few essays and interviews I've read by/of him.

The basic understanding that he operates with is a basic adherence to ideology as the driving force for action, thought, and thus ethics; the dichotomies set up by a society determine what is considered deviant (obviously) and dangerous (a very loaded term when he uses it, which I'd recommend that anons look up in greater detail).

Ethics, as they concern the "self" (which is what The Care of Self is supposedly about), arise along three axes, depending on the type of society you're in: pleasure, actions, and desire. They become more or less relevant in a particular culture's context.

An interesting subtext that I've found so far is how Foucault deviates from Marxism, in the sense that the "self" is conceived of and cared for on a personal/individual level. i.e. the "self" isn't a direct result of the Marxist idea of economic reproduction and ideological apparatuses. The ideology produced in society instead merely determines the particulars of a society's ethics (as they pertain to pleasure, action, and desire) and thus the ways in which someone can deviate, but doesn't implicate the actual production of the self.