ex-Yugoslavia literature thread.
we haven't had in a long time
last one: https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S9217368
>>9647409
My dad is working on a memoir about his time as a Serbian soldier during the Srebinica massacres if that counts. Set for release early next year, albeit in Serbian
>>9647421
Pa da li su lična iskustva ili objektivo gledanje dešavanja (koliko god da je to moguće)
>>9647423
Здpaвo cepбcкий бpaт я caм pycки кaдa я и ты вмecтe бичe peмyв Typcки aлбaнcки кaбaб ?? ????
>Кocoвa этo cepбия
Cлaвa !!!!!!
Thoughts on Debord?
Specifically Society of the Spectacle.
He inspired a lot of great new techniques in advertising, ironically. (guerilla marketing, detournement)
I like his concepts on psychogeography. Lifestlyist radicalism is in my opinion a function of spectacle too. Read Franz Fanon instead. That dude was the best of the existentialist Marxists.
accurate
>>9646701
"The spectacle is not a collection of images, rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images."
I think this is the most succinct description of our world. I won't go as far as to say that all philosophy afterwards is irrelevant, but I think this is the fundamental starting position for all thinking since.
Who is the great American literary character?
My vote is Ignatius Reilly.
I should really get to reading that book someday.
>>9646576
Fuark why is there no Confederacy of Dunces movie starring Nick Offerman???? Better than John Candy would've been imo.
does anyone know what the original ending was?
How is /lit/ going to celebrate Bloomsday?
by pissing in my diaper and throwing it at pedestrians on the beach
LOL
This foolish OP just posted an upside down photograph!
what a moron!
"Joyce chose the date as it was the date of his first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle; they walked to the Dublin suburb of Ringsend, where Nora masturbated him."
I can't stop laughing.
post a sample of your writing and i'll tell you if you're good or bad, or something else.
>>9639094
Luring in the stamina of the campaign, the willows only sifted through a small percentage of the stench of the open sewer main upwind of the conference hall. Many of the staunch citizens approached their seats with a grimace of disgust and a gush of vomit splashing against the back of their throats, wondering what they'll have to agree to that day just to keep their fingers inside. Little did they realize that their hair cuts were in vain, and it was simply an execution of an aboriginal at the expense of the high royal society of Lieught Scleoupo. There was much revulsion at the sight of the blood of the native, which always served to titillate the impressionable revolutionaries, who had so much to prove with so little power to do it, they typically backed down from dissenting parties on a rate of 30% after that, which is tweaked magnificently later on in life when stocks are established to their social security numbers.
Mama caca poo poo pee pee
*BRAAAAPAAPAPPP*
Mama caca Pepe? Poopee
/lit/erary confessions thread. Confess how awful you are and make us all feel better about ourselves for browsing 4chan 18 hours a day.
i unironically believe /lit/ has made me a smarter, happier and more well-rounded person
I use books as coasters on my coffee table. It's a new coffee table and I don't want stains but I'm not wasting money on circular pieces of porcelain just so they get dirty from the base of cups and mugs. Shitty books provide a fine enough coaster.
Cracking the spine is fine (I encourage it - you don't want to look like a faggot who hasn't read any of his books now, do you?)
eReaders are more cost-effective but I'd rather have a physical book that I can use as a coaster.
I once came into the middle of a library book and returned it like it was no biggie.
I steal books from book stores if they're in the public domain. It's not really stealing though if nobody owns it.
>>9632501
T B H, I feel similar. If it wasn't for one day I wanted a break from/mu/ and /v/and I came here for opinions on the few books I had read back then, I probably would be a pretty casual reader which would be a shame as I have discovered some of my favourite books through recommendations and discussions on here (Moby Dick, Crime & Punishment, Don Quixote, King Lear, Dubliners, etc). Shitposting and /pol/posting aside, I do enjoy my time here and it's made me appreciate reading more.
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/6-reasons-why-rupi-kaur-is-the-greatest-poet-of-our-time
1. Not only is he an amazing writer, he is also a great artist (pic related)
2.he is proud of his heritage
Hitler is definitely not ashamed of his heritage. In his speeches you will hear him speak fondly of his country and roots.
3. He is not afraid to write about "not so pretty things"
In hitler
Lets be honest, reading about things like beauty standards, national socialism and racism are not very uplifting but nonetheless are still major topics that should be addressed. And that is exactly what Hitler does in his writing. He fearlessly tackles problems head on with his writing, not daring to stop at anything.
4. He is self published
If you do not understand what self published means, it basically means instead of trying to find a company that would print her book for her, he just took absorbed the publishing company using his political party(pretty badass, right?).
5. She has reasons behind every aspect of her poetry
Things like ordering words in such a way as to form legible sentences to a reader might not seem like a big deal, but all his words are treated with great care. The idea came to him from his german roots, since books tend to also have a literary structure there.
6. He is a feminist.
Hitler encouraged abortions, hired female officers and staff to run concentration camps and hired a woman director to film "Triumph of the Will." Also Hitler supported eugenics just like Margaret Sanger. Throughout his life he refused to sleep with women, because he respected them that much.
>>9650804
>5. She has reasons behind every aspect of her poetry
Did you just misgender the Fuhrer, you filthy degenerate?
Le epic troll bruh
>this is considered trolling among nu-channers
Just bought this. What's the best story in this book.
Throw some titles at me.
just read all of ficciones
circular ruins lad
>>9650777
just read them all, they're all pretty good (if similar)
make sue you read up on them afterwards, i.e. follow the references to other texts and people (use a guide for the more cryptic references). Improves the experience a lot
also read Eco's stuff afterwards, his stuff is like the novel form of Borges
Tomorrow I'm going to hospital for a week, need some recommendation, recently I'm in a mood for monsters, demon etc.
>>9650742
John Dies at the End
Dresden Files
Horns (Joe Hill)
Hounded series (Hearne)
I just realized I don't actually know that many books, which surprises me.
>>9650748
Thank you but
>Dresden Files
I don't know why but for me this is shit
>horns
Better than a movie?
>>9650742
Hemlock Grove.
Which translation of the Iliad should Ilisten to? Right now I'm considering either Pope or Fagle. Problem with Pope is that I'm too much of a brainlet to follow the plot and pay attention to the beautiful poetry at the same time.
>>9650184
Fagle is recommended often here.
>>9650184
I was looking into getting Audiobook versions of Fagles'a translations for both The Iliad and The Oddesey, but I can find an unabridged Fagles of the former. This is on audible anyway.
Who the fuck is that?
What is literature's importance?
The big car is shitposters, the small car is /lit/, the truck is /pol/
>>9650029
Communing with the past at its most painstaking and thoughtful-- there's no other way.
>>9650055
jej
Can you explain, in your own words, what makes a story good?
If you take for example Homer's Odyssey and compare it to plebian trash like Harry Potter, why is one considered fine literature and the other not? Is it the themes that are addressed, or the prose? Is the message or the method how you measure the greatness of a story, or is it both? I don't have a background in literary study, so I'd like to get the opinion of this board.
Do your homework on your own
>>9649970
helpful
>>9649960
the oddysey sucks, the only reason anyone reads it is because a bunch of other people did and referenced it, a lot like the bible
>"all the good things in life, all of the best things in life, in work and play, in friendships and family, are still just passing things"
Is Stephen Harper the most /lit/ head of state in recent decades?
>>9649958
>stephen harper
>being a head of state
>kys
>>9649958
Because he said something that most children already know? No.
>>9649958
Yes and Canada sorely needs him back in charge.
/thread
Any feminist literature like pic related that isn't American feminazi try hard tier?
>>9649605
Please recommend me titles kind sir
ttc is feminist?
>>9649627
Yes it explains how the female spirit is as important as the male and that without each other nothing would exist
Lao Tzu does a better job at explaining than me though
The Ego and his Own/The Unique and Its Property has a brand new translation. Have you guys read some of it yet? Some say its funny as fuck as the new translator exposed the hidden jokes that were lost in translation.
In the introduction there is an excelent essay called ''Stirner the Wiseguy'' wich explains in detail what the original intend was of his book.
Could you guys gues what it is?Its pure Hegelian Shitposting
Also here is the new translation for free.
https://archive.org/details/MaxStirnerTheUniqueAndItsProperty
>implying the new translation isn't a spook.
>>9649377
>the unique
stirnerfags confirmed for literally special snowflake tier
>>9649883
epic meme bro