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>>7554874
Ovid's Metamorphoses

Mythology - Edith Hamilton
The Library of Greek Mythology - Apollodurus
The Iliad - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Theban Plays - Sophocles
Heracles, Medea, Hecuba - Euripedes
The Oresteia - Aeschylus
The Metamorphoses - Ovid
Heroides - Ovid

>>7554924
>Mythology - Edith Hamilton
This is good if you have no knowledge at all and don't want to read Wikipedia articles

otherwise just read the original sources if you can handle them. Ovid and Homer

>>7554584
>[famous person] cried
name one book that does this

>>7554632
>Nietzsche cried
>Odysseys wept
I am sure there are more.
Kafka on the Shore fits the wider category.

>>7554641
No, wait, that first one is originally called "When Nietzsche wept", Nietzsche cried is just what it was translated to in my country.

Love

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>>7554449
Love is not enough. You must love a babushka. The way Mitya loves Grushenka.

>>7554457
The way Alexei loves Grushenka

>>7554176
is it the kgb translation?

you can't watch porn

>>7554192
kjb yeah

Literally that some people can't see farther than their noses.

>>7553988
So in his description the first group of people take what they see as granted while the second group of people look into it in more depth because relying on the sense alone is inadequate?

Are lots of uni courses teaching Plato right now? A handful of Republic threads lately.

>>7553951

Less people see plays, therefore it's more elite.

>>7553956

That's...that's it?

You can read through the script of a play as literature

Ya man, 29 is basically your last year of life, should start preparing for death and your for a suttee.

It's very different. Hard to explain if you're not familiar with the language, and doubly hard since I learned Chinese first so it's the "default" for me. But generally I think the characters are completely divorced from pronunciation, which means you can glean meaning without having to sound it out. I think that speeds up reading considerably, but the flip side is that characters are typically more expressive in meaning, so you have to pay some more attention to nuances.

I read Chinese works in Chinese (duh) and some Japanese and Korean works in Chinese. For European languages I typically prefer English translations (western names are a nightmare in Chinese, very clunky and awkward, often invoking strange characters).

>>7553897
And would you recommend me to go thorough all this hell? Or had better go and pick up some Spanish instead?

the author looks like he was cursed

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>>7553604
and his publisher was blessed

>>7553603
La Possibilité d'une île

good thread OP. i'm the same as you and i'll be lurking for the recs.

thanks buddy

>>7553466
Try the New Testament and Russian literature.
Maybe some Dante and Petrearch.

Crime and Punishment

To me it felt like a nice epilogue of sorts to On The Road. The Buddhist theme is very superficial, but it's a nice book. You read Kerouac to get a feeling for the subculture of the time and this is probably one of his best expositions of that.

>>7553298
What made you feel that the Buddhism stuff was superficial? To me it seemed quite genuine, especially with him arguing with japhy about east and west really being the same thing and how he sort of had his own perspective that wasnt too bothered, in the end, about what others thought.

>>7553307
Don't get me wrong, I think Kerouac was genuinely interested in Buddhism (case in point, see his short biography of the Buddha). But for a book called The Dharma Bums, supposedly about seeking a spiritual life, it's much more concerned with the superficial Buddhist aesthetic that took over counter-culture America around the 50s/60s. It's not really a critique of the book, just an observation. I thoroughly enjoyed reading more of Kerouac's adventures, but the veneer of Buddhism doesn't really change the On The Road formula much.

BIG

>>7553236
fuck off

>>7553237
JUST

>>7553183
>How to Read Literature Like a Professor or An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory by Andrew Bennett

Why aren't those sufficient?

>>7553186
I haven't read either, I'm just looking for the best example akin to those

Bloom's got a whole series on the analysis of pivotal works by hand picked essays from both himself and other important writers.

His shakespeare is also worth a look i've also farted

>>7553147
>
On your first read?

>>7553150
yes

makes subsequent reads better

>>7553141
Hardly ever. I treat even paperbacks with utmost respect.

work yourself up to it you retard

you don't start training for a marathon by running a fucking marathon

>>7553114
This. What is wrong with people?

>>7553114

I did, went quite well desu.

keats sucks, this is not romanticism. Start with Schiller or Coleridge, pleb.

are you reading Bennett and Royle or what OP

>>7553504
pleb detected