Recommend me some true patrician literature. I'm sick of only reading entry-level shit like Vonnegut and Faulkner.
>>8189317
fuck OFF /mu/ how about you find some shit on your own developing your own taste for once
>>8189317
Green Eggs and Ham.
>>8189317
Step one: Go outside. That's it. You clearly need to go outside.
>>8189317
>entry-level shit like Vonnegut and Faulkner
>>8189317
finnegans wake you filthy plebeian
>>8189331
Vonnegut and Faulkner are taught in high school for a reason: they're entry-level.
>>8189345
if you think faulkner is entry level you aren't reading faulkner right.
>>8189355
Don't make me summon the corn father.
>>8189317
Really, Gabriel Marquez is entry level?
Won a fucking Nobel Prize.
>>8189401
>"Won a fucking Nobel Prize."
>Nobel Prize meaning anything
start with the bible and homer
>>8189317
Assisted Living. Has an amazon review that says "where are the SJWs when you need them".
Behold the dream of Borges realized.
https://libraryofbabel.info/
>>8189317
Dream of Red Mansions isn't even written in classical Chinese. Pretty pleb.
read Céline, Sebald, Thomas Bernard, Clarice Lispector, Life: A users manueal by Perec
>>8190033
Hey dubs, it's quads, any recommendations on good translations or where to start with your list?
>>8189317
Tacitus, Cavafy, Albert Caraco, Gracián, Ariosto, Lautréamont, Gómez Dávila, Ernst Jünger, Snorri Sturluson, Paul Valéry, Chamisso, Larbaud, Ortega y Gasset, De Quincey, Ernest Hello, Sterne, Casanova, Bossuet, Cecco Angiolieri, Terence, Alfieri, Julien Gracq, ibn Khaldun, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Retz, Pindar, Goldsmith, Khayyam, Hölderlin, Mallarmé, Svevo, Kawabata, Bloy, Musil, Gide, Kenshin, Baratynsky, Calvino, Stendhal, Marcus Aurelius, etc.
>>8190061
Life: a users manual from Vintage
Hour of the Star: latest translation
Céline: Journey to the End of the Night, followed by Death on credit. You can stop after that, or continue with the war trilogy if you really love him
Sebald: Rings of Staurn
Thomas Bernard: Just pick something
>>8190082
Thanks, hoss.
>>8190078
And I unforgivably forgot Joseph de Maistre.
Gargantua & Pantagruel
Carpenter's Gothic
Moby Dick
The Betrothed
The Apes of God
>>8189982
Well, for once I am glad to be native swedish. Can't think of anything harder to translate t b h, but even though I thought the translation read pretty dull I guess it should be still very worth to read it.
>>8190126
What did he mean by this?
>>8190125
More like Naive Swedish
>>8189345
quality :Ddd
>>8190078
>no one showed appreciation for my list of patrician writers
It's not like they're discussed often here.
>>8190000
nice.
>>8191481
just know that when i read your list i felt overwhelmed by your superior intellect
>>8189317
Middle brow and lower will think you're really smart if you say you've read Infinite Jest and like it.
Smart people know better than to be impressed by the fact that you've read some books.
>>8189317
Esoteric mediaeval Latin poetry. Elegiac couplets are for andies though; read either exclusively dactylic hexameter (and not dumbasses who took weird liberties with the meter—it must be D/S-D/S-D-S-D/S-D-S) or meters with fewer than 10 total attestations in Latin lit
Anything else is churl tier
>>8192906
*dandies and D/S-D/S-D/S-D/S-D-S
>>8191481
I've saved every name listed in my word doc of patrician authors that I will read in 50 years. thanks friend
>>8189401
>nobel prize
>>8194508
IKR