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Hey /lit/, I know a lot of you are strong proponents of reading literature by movement (start with the greeks), and I've seemed to have stumbled around the big works. I'm looking into improving my foundation. I've marked some of the authors on this image that I've completed reading (once). Do any of you have advice, on where I should go next? Judging from the image I've posted, it'd have me starting at Don Quixote, but I've read a number of posters, in the archive, admonishing reading this work via translation. I'm currently unable to read Spanish(also, Russian), and I don't really have the time to learn them either (I'm already too deep into Chinese literature). Should I give up on reading these works? In my findings, I've read that I'd be able to read Dostoyevsky, as his prose isn't as neglected in translations (McDuff, Magarshack, Avsey, Matlaw, MacAndrew).
well, /lit/?
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>>8453199
start with the greeks
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>>8453199
>Joyce at such a prominent position
You guys love getting memed on, huh
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>>8453209
You're actually less helpful than >>8453201. I quite enjoy Joyce, as I am Scottish.
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That chart is ridiculous and needlessly complicated. I assume the red is your marking, OP?
Seems like you're not a total pleb if you've touched Melville and Joyce (although you are if you're following this damned chart)--regardless, Bolaño is the correct choice. The Savage Detectives is where you will continue and you will have the most compelling literary experience of your life. It is the novel that got me into literature as a whole, the second section is possibly the most impressive piece of writing I've encountered from a writer: over 60+ voices painting a picture of Bolaño's alter ego Belano over decades of brief but fierce encounters.
This quote sums the books tone up nicely: Ah, what a shame they don't make Los Suicidas mezcal anymore, what a shame that time pases, don't you think? what a shame that we die, and get old, and everything good goes galloping away from us.
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>>8453218
>I quite enjoy Joyce, as I am Scottish
My condolences
The thing is that if you enjoy Joyce, it's already over. You should just stop reading books and start a farm or something
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>>8453224
I will look into this, thank you for the reply.
>>8453228
I'm already living unemployed in Taiwan.
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>>8453199
The fact that Chuck fucking Klosterman is on that list, absolutely fucking ridiculous. Tao Lin's not even an ironist. "Woolfe" implies the author of the chart couldn't distinguish between Virginia and Tom.
To continue on my post, you will enjoy Lorrie Moore (I recommend her collection Self-Help), you know what, I'm just going to post some favorite short story links of several writers from the list and that may help you OP.
Raymond Carver:
http://www.giuliotortello.it/ebook/cathedral.pdf
Donald Barthelme:
https://wiki.williams.edu/download/attachments/4723011/the+school.pdf?version=1
George Saunders (the best contemporary short fiction writer):
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/15/the-semplica-girl-diaries
John Updike:
http://brainstorm-services.com/wcu-2004/A&P.pdf
James Baldwin:
http://swcta.net/moore/files/2012/02/sonnysblues.pdf
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>>8453228
And fuck off cunt you couldn't be less helpful to this guy clearly just starting to sort out his taste in literature.
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Why isn't Chesterton on that list?
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>>8453248
Very generous of you!
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>>8453279
https://talkbacktv1.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/60sdb.pdf
Bolaño and short story/Lorrie Moore guy, posting some more Barthelme. Ignore the short story in between "The Balloon" and "Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning" but read those two, those are excellent.
The Balloon is so tender, the only short story that can make me cry every time I read it without almost any characterization. That last paragraph god damn.
The Robert Kennedy story is hilarious and dear.
Barthelme was a fucking genius.
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>>8453250
>And fuck off cunt you couldn't be less helpful to this guy clearly just starting to sort out his taste in literature
He has no taste, so thankfully that's already sorted out
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>>8453246
What's that gate to? The unemployed's cemetery?
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>>8453507
I live in the woods.
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>>8453279
Are you from badphil?
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>>8454254
No, I don't really use the internet that much.
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>>8453224
I'm at 81/601 of the Savage Detectives .pdf, it's pretty good so far.
(I'm going to sleep, BNUMP)
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