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Guys, can we settle the translation debate right here, right now? Who are the definitive translators of Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov? Should I listen to Amazon and just get the P&V translations?

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I've finally done it /lit/, I managed to get tuberculosis. The most romantic, patrician end is within my grasp.

I wish romantic aesthetics like wasting away from consumption would come back into fashion, it really feels right to me. I know I will eventually die from it, but it's a better ending than most people get. I've been reading a lot of romantic lit to get in the right mindset.

What /lit/ ways have you considered? The only other good one I could think of was opiates, but that's kind of gauche I think- I prefer the wasting gradual erasure thing that TB offers. If I was a girl I think I would like to be a miraculous maid, but it's not as romantic for guys I think.

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ITT: niggas post their 5 fav writers and others try to guess stuff about them niggas IRL

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>Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. Who has not heard such a tale? A turn of the card. The whole universe for such a player has labored clanking to this moment which will tell if he is to die at that man's hand or that man at his. What more certain validation of a man's worth could there be? This enhancement of the game to its ultimate state admits no argument concerning the notion of fate. The selection of one man over another is a preference absolute and irrevocable and it is a dull man indeed who could reckon so profound a decision without agency or significance either one.
>In such games as have for their stake the annihilation of the defeated the decisions are quite clear. This man holding this particular arrangement of cards in his hand is thereby removed from existence. This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.

What did he mean by this?

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What is some 21st Century essential fiction?

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Just admit it /lit/, you will never have an original thought and everything that you spout off about on here is just trite garbage vomited up through your keyboard, you, again, vomiting up, the giant amalgamation of books you've read which, I might add, all contradict each other in some way or another.

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This book changed my life :)

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The Catcher in the Rye By J.D Salinger
Thoughts on this book?

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It is a self-help book, but I'd like to hear what you guys think of it. For those who read it, did it actually help you in some way?

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desu audiobooks are so much better than reading i want to record my own readings of books without audiobooks just to audiobook them back to myself

thoughts?

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What does /lit/ think of Spinoza?

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What are the best novels of the 21st century?

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This is the future you wrote

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Happy 2016, all.

The following is a novelette I wrote last year.

Muse as you like on this thread; you are merely whetting your own scrawl on the pall of my own muses.
I submit thus to you haha

Blame /lit/'s draconian link filters for my links:

-For the main book, type "Serayite" onto Google and hit the Smashwords link.

-For a commentary that explains a lot of the word choices I made and themes I touch on in the work, search "commentary to serayite" into Google and hit the Smashwords link.

~Thanks for your viewership, Ghazy

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For me what makes Star Wars particularly a work of genius for film are the various influences from the Kurosawa movies to 2001 A Space Odyssey, Flash Gordon, the Mongolian costume mixed with Sanscrit, the religions and biblical influences and Norse mythology and the Heroes Journey and countless other things all rolled into one.

My question is, is there a book along these lines which takes a huge array of source material and nods at it while making its own excellent plot and narrative? Sure, LoTR does it in terms of mythology, but it doesn't borrow or show off its prose in the way that Lucas shows off his knowledge of film and copies scenes. Dante could be said to be a tiny bit, or Shakespeare. But is there anything which gives a cheeky nod and a wink here or there to Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Hugo, Cervantes and countless other authors through prose and plot while creating something epic of its own?