Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 4547. page

>>7615804
nah, i'm planning on going into archive/museum/library work as well

>>7615820
I was thinking of going into economy and I'm just about to finish my collegial diploma, but I'm seriously in doubt and it feels like it's not really the time to doubt anything really.

there are a lot of broads in it

i recently got disciplined at work because someone recommended i go into archival/library work and i said "there are a lot of broads in it"

it's currently booming to hell and back in my city, ten thousand of my idiot giggling female coworkers are in it. i wonder if it will be oversaturated within 3 years.

>>7615154
Sure it is.

>Third-greatest masterpiece of 20th century prose. A splendid fantasy

http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations

>>7615968
>Austen, Jane. Great.

18-page short story.

It was okay for a first real try.

my diary desu

Essay on the apocalyptic cycle in William Blake's "Visions of the Daughters of Albion"

14 pages, if memory serves

i can't you repulsed me

The fat man's drenched hat crumpled in a shivering fist
He's lost the whole house from around him
Every single shingle shattered into atoms
Only he remains, standing circumcised on torn earth
Where his living room once was stripped to his skin
With a wet hat in his right hand

Umbrella inverted and undressed
Stuffed in the top of a trash can
"right as rain" spokes reach
Grabbing coats and poking pocket books
Its dress is torn to one last spoke
It pours a sliding sheet of rain over the side, over the side

The cracked earth cow-skull dirt in a no-cloud blue sky capsule
Leaks out the ozone's bald spot along with your brand new closed curtains
A dozen frozen roses and cozmo, the thumbed cat

2 women walk up to a penny
One says, "oh look a penny."
Then the other one says, "oh, it's a lucky one."
Then the one goes, "no it isn't."
And they both walk off

We are poems
But I must be goings

Being and Time
Tao Te Ching
Portable Darkness

>>7608976
The Moors Account - Lalami
The General in his Labyrinth - Marquez
Soumission - Houellebecq

> Siddhartha - Hesse
> Persian Fire - Tom Holland
> How to Practice - Dalai Lama

>>7608333
You are my favorite delusional/troll poster.

>>7608356
All great men were viewed as delusional before they made it. Reserve your resentment for lesser beings.

>>7608333
>memoir about asked no name frogposter

Not sure why anyone would want to read about your life

He's the richest and most popular one

hurr normies hurr YA hurr plebs REEEEEE or something

>>7608149
it's because c/lit/s have probably come into contact with girls who read his stuff and see it as somehow "outsider literature" and therefore intellectual. it must be grating. twilight or the hunger games doesn't have that tinge to it. the perks of being a wallflower does. perhaps now you understand.

>>7605188
Enid Blyton

>>7605253
no need to be insulting. it's not my fault that Infinite Jest is simplistic and Pynchon is juvenile.

>>7605188
good taste senpai

try perec, gass, and schmidt

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>>7615393
Just stared reading it a few days ago. Slow start, but it seems to be getting a bit better. I find his writing style off-putting and the narrative feels choppy. I'm going to try to stick with it in hopes there's a good payoff in the end.

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>>7615563
>I find his writing style off-putting and the narrative feels choppy.
Are you sure you're reading Embassytown by China Mièville?

>>7615700
Opinions are like assholes.

Get the Everyman for Marco
OWC for others

Gregory Hays for Marcus

>>7615208
>>7615155

A.S.L. Farquharson is the translator for Everyman Classic's edition of Meditations

Should I go for gregory hays or the above guy?

>>7615100
It has continuously shaped the Western aesthetics and still deeply influence our culture today. I don't think there's anything culture still studied and held as such a model centuries and centuries after.

>>7615100
Because they started everything and they did it better with a smaller population and with considerably worse technology.

is there any good articles/videos on the importance of the greeks?

>>7614956
>reading contemporary literature

>>7614964
>memeing this hard

You'll have to settle for Tao Lin like the rest of us

>>7614207
>mfw my city on 4chan

I honestly don't know. I've seen it lying around in bookstores and I've leafed through one, but I haven't read any reviews of it. Try looking up reviews which focus on the translation.

Oh, and obligatory:
>translation

>see translation of Ulysses in my native language
>they literally fucked up the title of the book

Thank Christ I'm fluent in English.

>>7615255
Why? French, translated, literature is better than English. I wish I was born in Normandy.

not really. i say this as someone that loves fantasy.
the closest i can think of is Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow which is about the daughter of god, jesus' sister.

Pilgrim's Progress
Kappa
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

Book of the New Sun
Once and Future King
Prince of Nothing

because women read more than men today, and identity politics affiliates books market better than literature today

because men are plebs these days

and cormac is sorta manly, even if he's genre fiction tier

>>7613324
Why, how do we get more men to read?

>>7613320
Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead: funny that the ideal man was written by a woman.