Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 4917. page

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So /lit/ I've been in love for about 2 years and I just can't get her out of my head.

Now I'm a very logical person and seeing love being overused in all forms of art, I wonder is there is a spiritual element on romantic love or is just biological functions.

Is there a book that analyzes those two possibilities?

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Realest thing I've never had to fake...

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Rate the languages you know and provide in what order you learned them. Maybe how good a language seems depends on how many early experiences are tied to it.
For example I read Harry Potter in German first (I was 12), and found it amazing, then in English it seemed robotic and unrelatable.

My favorite languages:
1. Russian
2. German
3. French
4. English

The order I learned them in
1+ 2. Russian/ German
3. French
4. English

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Thoughts? Having been forced to read this I'm really unimpressed. Is everything Wilde wrote this lame?

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Has anyone learned another language for the purpose of reading literature in its original language? Did you get any worthwhile insights over the translations? I want to learn German so that I can read all of the great philosophers in their native tongue.

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Oi /lit/, lets talk some books from the last ten or so years that you think deserve some recognition.

I'm offering up Skippy Dies by Paul Murray. Great book by an Irish author. Some describe it as Hogwarts with drugs and corruption instead of magic. Related characters, very funny, beautiful prose and wide vocabulary. (Can also recommend his other two novels, An Evening Of Long Goodbyes and The Mark and the Void, which came out earlier this year.)

Close runner up would be & Sons by David Gilbert, about a reclusive Salinger-esque author on the verge of being on his death bed, set in Manhattan.

What've youse got?

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>buy avant garde novel consisting of 500 blank pages
>read it

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Hey /lit/, I've compiled a bunch of books that increased my understanding of the world and would like to share them with you, and hopefully get some recommendations as well, most are focused around Black radicalism but include anti-colonial/imperialist/oppression and non-racially focused books.
Includes:

>Critical Race Theory - Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic
>Medical Apartheid - Harriet A. Washington
>The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
>Are Prisons Obsolete - Angela Davis
>Assata, An Autobiography - Assata Shakur
>The Philosophies and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
>Racism without Racists - Eduardo Bonilla Silva
>Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire
>How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney
>Huey P. Newton Reader
>Lies My Teacher Told Me - James W. Loewen
>The Autobiography of Malcolm X - el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (with assistance of Alex Haley)
>The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
Revolutionary Suicide - Huey P. Newton
>Negroes with Guns - Robert F. Williams
>The Black Radical Tradition - Collection of works from many black radicals.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/oo31iudyahban6t/Good_Shit_Mhm.7z

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How do you guys distinguish good literature from bad literature?

I can read a book, get really into it, like it or hate it, but I am so bad at actually valuing a book on its literary content/value.

I seriously thought Murakami was high lit before I came here and someone explained to me why he is not high lit. I can only recognize this shit when people cut it out for me. I want to be able to judge things myself, not be dependent on other people to see what I don't see.

What shall I do? find an introduction to literary criticism?

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If you could make mandatory the reading of 5 philosophy books for everybody which would it be?

Mine:
1

Being and Time
The World as Will and Representation
Being and Nothingness
Cartesian Meditations
Anything by Emil Cioran from his French days

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So why do some people hate this man and call him the japanese coehlo?

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I was wondering if we could possibly have a thread about recommendations for Philosophy.
Personally I have quite some interest in it, but since I didn't go to school for it and never really pursued it at the time, I sometimes feel lost as to which philosophers I should look for, the order and relations they have between each other's way of thinking and, most importantly, which works I should read.
I've been on /lit/ for a while now, use the wiki a whole lot, as well as #bookz, and even though philosophy has always been discussed a lot, but no charts or images for recommendations of works or even some general guide of said works were really made. I might be mistaken, of course, and this exists, so I'd be grateful if someone could post it, should that be the case.
If it really doesn't exist, then could we maybe make it? Maybe something as simple as naming the author, his most noteworthy work or works, keeping in mind how well they can teach someone who is new to all of this, or maybe isn't really bright or intelligent like you guys.
Any quick notes on one author's works being related in any particular way to another author's would be neat, but not necessary.

I chose this image because it's brought me a lot of happiness over the last year or so. It's from the wiki

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I have a chance to see him in a discussion with Yanis Varoufakis.

Should I go? Has anyone here ever gone to see him talk?

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the whole /his/ is crawling with spooks

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Does /lit/ like writing chinese or chinese literature?

pic related I'm learning the HSK level A 800 pls no bully.