Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 830. page

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.

He transcends man.

def not my diary desu

>>9645328
Thank you. I remember someone recommending this in another lit thread, was that you? I had forgotten the title but the description of the book sounded just like what I was after.

what's this from?

Nekojiru Gekijiou

>>9645144
Haven't read it myself but 4.48 psychosis by Sarah Kane is just that

File: Schopenhauer.jpg (14KB, 300x358px) Image search: [Google]

14KB, 300x358px

Any, ANY, book by Arthur Schopenhauer.

File: HA+8-2-16.jpg (609KB, 529x800px) Image search: [Google]

609KB, 529x800px

Han Kang's 'Human Acts' ...

:)

>>9645124
I've been to Norway

I relate

>it's a karl ove spends an hour cleaning the bathroom episode

I really dislike it on my first time. I had no idea what to expect. When I read it months later I loved it. The mystery atmosphere was thicc

willpower

As I always say in threads like these:

>read something you're genuinely interested in. don't read anything for meme value
>turn off your computer and put away your cell phone. Better: Go away from home to a peaceful quiet place like a library or a park to read.
>don't expect to immediately be a master reader. habits form over time

>>9644679
My diary desu

>>9644679
No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai

MY

kanye is a sentient adjective

Most of the good ones

Nabokov is what you are looking for.

>>9644627
I hate that about myself.
People look at me strange as if I'm some alien when I use something outside 5th grade vocabulary. My friend told me that I intimidate people and that I can come off as cold. I was completely oblivious to this before I asked my friend what a girl I was crushing on might think of me. Fuck, /lit/ ruined my social life. Even in HS people referred to me as "school shooter" and I didn't think much of it, but only now do I realize the implications of that nickname.

no

sage

>>9644589
For real?

It's imagery and reoccurring symbolism are kinda blowing me away

File: IMG_2442.jpg (379KB, 1548x2048px) Image search: [Google]

379KB, 1548x2048px

>>9644589
Also it's got a child narrator that is inherently unreliable and his superstitions makes it feel like a fiction in reality. It's phenomenological in a way

File: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Karl Bauer.jpg (206KB, 943x1320px) Image search: [Google]

206KB, 943x1320px

When a dilettante has done what lies within his capacity to complete a work, he
usually makes the excuse that of course it‟s as yet unfinished. Clearly, it never can be
finished because it was never properly started. The master of his art, by means of a
few strokes, produces a finished work; fully worked out or not, it is already
completed. The cleverest kind of dilettante gropes about in uncertainties and, as the
work proceeds, the dubiousness of the initial structure becomes more and more
apparent. Right at the end the faulty nature of the work, impossible to correct,
shows up clearly and so, of course, the work can never be finished.
t. goethe

I love this book, been shilling it on /lit/ for a while.

>>9644235
When will "The Passion of the African Mind" be coming out?

>>9644281
I do like how Liberia was a protectorate of the US during the scramble and received 100,000 dollars in investment so the US could send freed black slaves there, and today they rank just below the Congo for HDI, which was brutally suppressed and enslaved. Really activates those almonds

>>9644226
kys

>>9644226
My god this post is bad

What's so bad about asking for recommendations based on three genres of writing?