What's the most well written book, which contains the secrets of life, so highly intellectual and passed down from scholar to scholar?
>>8330656
Gravity's rainbow and infinite jest
>>8330656
>scholars
Do not care about enlightenment.
That said, Hebrew wisdom literature like Ecclesiastes and Job, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, St. John of the Cross and Augustine, the mahabharata and hindic brahmin prayer regimen probably all count. Calvino does some interesting stuff, but so does pic related.
>>8330656
Bump
>>8330656
East of Eden
>>8330656
Tibetan book of the dead and the I-ching?
>>8330656
Ficciones
The Bible is literally that
TSZ
>>8331034
>East of Eden
This is it
>>8330656
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>>8333258
This is it
>>8330663
Why do people post this shit? These books are pretty good, but they aren't Ulysses. Nothing is Ulysses. The answer is Ulysses.
>>8330656
All and Everything series
Dream of the Red Chamber series
The Pāli Canon
The Brothers KaramazovMicromégas
Honestly the Bible.
>>8332584
>well written book
Ecclesiastes
all is vanity
>>8333463
Dude it's the book from with 85% of modern literature draws inspiration and story ideals. I get if your an atheist not liking it for its religious points. But Dawkins the most anti religious man ever born admits to it importance to literature.
>>8331034
yup
>>8332431
Are all the stories in this book in his collected fictions book?
>>8333486
Yeah I really trust a scientist's view on literature, you're right anon.