I'm learning Spanish right now, what are some good books/poets for a beginner? Would Pablo Neruda be too difficult for a beginner?
Also, general Spanish lit thread.
>>9638248
St. John of the Cross
Now therefore return and go in peace.
I was raised speaking Spanish but learned English when i was 8 and haven't returned to the language since, i can still speak it well enough though. How do i get back into reading Spanish?
>>9638248
Neruda is great and so is >>9638308 John of the Cross
I would recommend Canto General if you want something closer to epic poetry, it is about Latin American history (mainly of the Andes and Chile). It is pretty communist, but since communism is almost like a religion, it can be a source of inspiration.
Spanish poetry of the renaissance is easier to read than Spanish poetry of the baroque (Quevedo and Góngora), even if it's older. San Juan de la Cruz, Fray Luis de Leon, and Garcilaso de la Vega (who was pretty much an italian poet in Spanish) were the great ones.
Rubén Darío from the late XIX century and early XXth century was the first great poet in Spanish in more than a century, and Borges was a quite competent Poet, I would simply get his anthology.
What are the chances that a man named "Gass" would write books almost exclusively about flatulence?
Thank you for the incredible laugh
Why are you afraid of his techniques /lit/? If you would understand him, you could grasp contemporary works and enjoy the wealth they offer.
>>9638097
his style is far more interesting than his substance but I'm greatful to him for being the writer who introduced me to literature
what are /lits thoughts on Gore Vidal?
>>9638094
Buckley was his intellectual superior and he knew it
>>9638166
in a different sense, gore knew how to get at his emotions, and buckley was a hubristic douche that would fall for such a lazy trap. buckley may indeed have been intellectually superior, but gore had the last laugh, as he was far more clever.
>>9638166
lol
What do I need to know before I start reading poetry? How should I read it to get the most out of it?
>there are scholars in 2017 still believing Q1 Hamlet didn't come from his own hand.
>>9637979
lol, this faggot can't even write proper Danish. Sikke en svans
>>9638008
Man this place really is full of kids nowdays.
Which font do you guys like to use on E-Readers?
I like Roboto. I've been using it for so long, now I'm just used to it.
>>9637956
also, do you guys ever read alongside audio books?
Sometimes I like it, but usually it doesn't work out since the way I read doesn't match up with their cadence
What did you think of the short story "Nate the Snake"?
my diary desu
It's actually pretty good, though it's no Kafka
kevin durant did nothing wrong
in this thread post things that you know to be true but are having a hard time accepting
>dfw was just a novelty that no one will read in 100 years
you dont know that to be true at all though.
stop being a faggot/pseud/memer
>>9637786
HD's stylistic unity is widely considered to be a failing or limitation and will undercut critical reception of her work. Her unparalleled aesthetics now ride on the coat-tails of contemporary feminist theory as opposed to being rightly seen as the highest of high-modernism, comparable only to Joyce and maybe Eliot.
>>9637788
dfw was just a boring didactic shit with no insight who covered it up with footnotes and his thesaurus fucking antics
What am I to expect from this guy? I know he used to be very well known couple of decades ago, but now he's more or less forgotten. Same as Zane.
>>9637681
They're comfy af. The first book Master & Commander overdoes it a bit on the nautical autism (nautism?), but he tones it down a bit in Post-Captain which is one of the best books in the series. Overall a great series of adventure books.
>>9637681
Top tier historical fiction that is as comfy as it comes, with the partial exception of the second book where he tries unsuccessfully to imitate Austen.
Also, at least two or three outstanding puns or malaprops each book.
Post your favorite piece of poetry
Here's mine:
> The best
> way to get
> answers
> is to ask
> questions
> Rudolf Hess
>>9637680
go to sleep rudolf
>>9637680
I plan on going through the major "story collection" works and so far I'm looking at
>Metamorphoses
>Decameron
>Heptameron
>Canterbury Tales
>Arabian Nights
Is there anything else I'm missing? Any suggestions?
http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html
Those are the main ones. You could also add Confessio Amantis, tales of count lucanor, and Gesta Romanorum
>>9637621
Also the book of Daniel in the bible
If I wanted to get into the legend of Cúchulainn where should I start?
>>9637494
Fate Stay Night.
The inspiration for 1984
>>9637452
How so?
https://www.counter-currents.com/2015/09/how-i-write-and-you-can-too/