Any books that represent the comfy yet melancholy winter season?

I like to reread Oblomov when the weather outside is frightful.

>>8775650
what if the fire is so delightful?

>>8775702
blaze it

Someone should chop up all the comfy winter parts of Harry Potter into one book desu

The Magic Mountain.

>>8775510
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>>8775510
children's fairy tales

>>8775702
Well Oblomov is the embodiment of the 'since we've got no place to go' sentiment.

>>8775510
Catcher in the Rye

Why no one likes Summer here?

>>8775880
Because it's not /lit/

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is comfy for winter. Most Murakami is

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>>8775767
>children's fairy tales
Not far off. I think traditional stories in general fit. Obviously northern ones in particular. I've lined up pic related for December.

Looking forward to reading Gawain and the Green Knight over the Christmas period.

>>8775880
I like summer

>>8775880
Warm weather is for low iq savages who can't read.

The closer you get to the equator the less patrician you get.

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>>8775880
I get too sweaty and too self conscious

The Castle by Kafka is bretty good cold weather book.

>>8775880
have you ever been on 4chan during the summer?

i'm just starting Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and so far it's like cold or something the kids are about to go on winter break or something

>>8776005
this guy gets it

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>>8776977
>tfw going to read this next

>>8775510
Moominland Midwinter (Tove Jansson)

>>8775510
last story of Dubliners

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>>8775510
collected ghost stories of MR James

>>8775880
wuthering heights has most seasons

Gravity's Rainbow

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>>8775510
the start of Moby Dick is ultra-comfy modo.

>>8775880
winter is sterile and quiet, people don't want to go out there aren't any bugs in the air bothering you.

it's also easier to warm up in the cold than cool off in the heat, and there's a particular type of warmth that can only be achieved by having part of your body exposed to cold air, such as your nose and ears, while the rest of your body is wrapped up warmly.

>>8775880
normie season

>>8778195
what are these like? been meaning to read for a while

>>8775510
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country has some stunning depictions of winter.

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>>8775510
I've always enjoyed reading Moby Dick around mid-autumn, early winter. The writing and the story seem to pair nicely with this time of year, especially in New England.

>>8778237
weird, eerie, gothic, like the feeling that someone is watching you when you sleep
start with oh whistle and i'll come to you my lad

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>>8778256
Moby Dick makes me want to visit Nantucket in December.

I remember flying from London to JFK in early March a few years ago and looking out the window over a frozen Canadian and New England Atlantic coastline. It looked comfy as hell.

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>>8775880
Summer can be /lit/ in a Southern Gothic, hazy sort of way but it is not quite as comfy as winter. If you have not ever spent a winter in the Northern part of the country then I would understand not seeing the appeal of winter.

Summer is nice but winter transforms the world. When I think of winter I think first of the feeling you get when walking outside after a snowstorm. You look around and everything is some shade of white or grey. The ground blends into the sky. Every space is smaller; the road, sidewalks, and driveways become roughly defined passages. Every sound is muted; instead you hear the sounds of snow. You might not know this but snow falling from the sky makes a sound, heard behind and above you. There is the sounds of people trying to tame snow, shovels scraping, salt hitting the ground. Most memorable is the sound snow makes as it moves against itself, the crunch of boots or skis or sleds pushing the powder into the ground.

>>8778276
I'm Brazilian, so I never truly experienced winter.

>>8778276
You think of winter as very dark, also, but when the snow falls even in the middle of the night you can see everything very clearly because it reflects the tiniest bit of light very well.

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>>8778289
I don't really think of winter as dark, sorry if it came across that way. Though I think you'd have to agreed that during a snowstorm it is darker than not, and I find this comforting.

Winter is actually brighter in many ways than summer, a sunny day in winter is almost too bright.

The reflective qualities of snow are extremely comfy.

>>8778284
Come visit!

>>8778274
New England is comfy year round, every season i a different sort of way. I used to think I wanted to live out west in the mountains but I know I'll never leave.

Winter in early months is beautiful, in later months is wretched and disgusting, especially in a city. I live in eastern Canada, where we get a LOT of snow from maritime climates (Perpetually 5+feet of snow on the ground). Snow ploughs constantly have to be in operation, pushing and compacting snow to the sides of roads so traffic can continue. This gets mixed with all the sludge, dirt, and dust that is normally there underfoot but is not visible due to the black asphalt and gritty sidewalks. The contrast with the white snow makes it look like enourmous mountains of filth that stay there on the side of the road for months (jan-april, sometimes may) and are like massive ugly monoliths of shit throughout the city. Also, you faggots aestheticize shoveling snow but it is hard, backbreaking work, especially when there is as much of it as there is here.

Winter fucking sucks

>>8778314
Shoveling snow is rewarding and not especially difficult if you're not a pussy.

Also I find the ugliness of late winter to be creatively inspiring, although in a different way than early winter.

Maybe you should move somewhere tame so that winter doesn't offend you're delicate sensibilities.

>>8778301
>Come visit!
I hope I can, in the future.

>>8778320
>Shoveling snow is rewarding and not especially difficult if you're not a pussy.

You don't live where I live.

Take your pathetic Steinbeckian wankery somewhere else. My father can no longer walk from snow-shoveling ruining his back, and I've slipped a disc doing the same. Maybe you think it's pretty to get all sweaty like the common man once or twice a year. When it's something you have to do for two hours a day, every day for 6 months of the year, sometimes twice daily (a chore infinitely more difficult than any strenuous gym routine) it loses its 'reward' pretty fucking quickly

>>8778339
Your poor technique is not that anon's fault, pal.

>>8778341
it has nothing to do with technique when it is something you do day in and day out for years. The body eventually wears down

>>8775880
>Why no one likes Summer here?

There are less people around. I don't like people much.

There are no insects. I hate insects.

The night is longer. I like the night. I like it when I can roam the streets in the dark without having to stay up very late and I especially like it when I get up and it's still dark and I see a rectangle of that rusty orange hue that the cloud-covered sky takes in a city lit by sodium lights. I can curl back and imagine for a while that it will never end.

There is less sun. I don't like the sun. What sun there is is light amber and slanted and carves long shadows.

My body doesn't deal well with heat and humidity. There's nothing you can do to ward off heat if you're outside. There's only so many layers you can take off and even if you were to go about stark naked, it wouldn't help much. In fact it would be worse because you'd be exposed to that blunt white sun that makes the sky feel like a lid and everything under it look dirty. In the winter you can always put on another sweater, hat, mitten, fur. You can move more. There's not much less you can move when you're lying in the shade and it still feels like the air is vaporized sweat in a city-wide smelly sauna, save of having a cardiac arrest.

In the winter it is easier to be alone.

Best of all, winter essentializes the landscape--and if that's not a word, you know what it would mean if it was. With less people, animals, sometimes even cars around, less leaves, bushes, grass, with drab colours and a blank sky, fall and winter distill the great outside to its basic shapes and intentions. Snow is, of course, the ultimate equalizer. It democratically uplifts or nihilistically annuls, depending on how you are inclined to see it. I, for one, each time I wake up to tamed roofs across the street, dream for a while of a silent second flood by a covenant-breaking senile god.

So basically what my esteemed fellow contributors have better said here: >>8778232
>>8778276

>>8778301
>I don't really think of winter as dark
t. southerner

Already approaching 6 hrs of daylight here and I'm just at the 60th parallel north

>>8775944
>Mabinogion

Nice choice man, look into the Codex Aneirin too, particularly if you like early medieval Welsh poetry.

>>8778348
You should invest in a snow blower. Worth every penny.

t. norwegian lad

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>>8775510
"To Build a Fire" Jack London

>>8778637
this story is literally the opposite of comfy, it's about a man slowly dying in the tundra while his dog watches

>>8778658
really?

>>8778604
>look into the Codex Aneirin too
Thanks, I shall. I'd really like to learn more about Welsh myth and traditional stories in general because they're highly under-represented in general Celtic literature, and, despite being from Wales, I learnt very little whilst growing up.

OFFICIAL /lit/ seasons ranking:

winter >>>>> autumn > spring >>>>> summer

(the >'s are log base 10)

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>>8775510

>>8778681
Why do you guys like winter so much? It's depressing. What's wrong with summer?

>>8778681
Real winter is shite, there's a reason all the eskimos an hero. Autumn is depressing af. Spring is the most lit and summer is the overall GOAT season. desu.

>>8778475
Well said.

>>8778600
I guess most people are southerners compared to you. Whats it like up there?

>>8778695
>there's a reason all the eskimos an hero
Yeah, because their traditional culture and way of life has been completely devalued and made untenable by the introduction of the oil industry into the arctic circle.

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>>8778695
>Autumn is depressing

What?

Come visit

>>8778686
I love the movie, I'll be sure to check this out.

>>8778348
>>8778339
I'd hate to have such a negative outlook on life.

Many people shovel snow as much or more than you and are fine. And like the other anon said, maybe just get a snowblower if you are so beat down from shoveling.

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>>8778695

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>>8778681
>Not living in a tropical village where seasons don't matter, and it's allways warm and sunny.

ISHYGDDT

>>8778693
Winter is not to be experienced in cities. Real winter exists when you go out into the woods and rural areas. Til the snow reaches you eyebrows, walk on frozen lakes in the middle of the night and gaze up at the stars and aurora borealis. While a luxury for some, winter with snow hardens oneself.


Plus you can spend all day inside, by a fire with a good book, or create something.

>>8778714
this is the least /lit/ thing possible

I feel like it should be said for clarity that when we talk of winter we're not talking about a half inch of snow in East Texas.

Or at least I'm not.

>>8778705
>What?

I meant it's depressing after the leaves fall off and the world suddently looks like some post-apocalyptic russian hellhole.

>>8778718
"El coronel no tiene quien le escriba" Gabriel García Márquez

"No One Writes to the Colonel" Gabriel García Márquez

Read this and you will understand tropic quietness and melancholy.

>>8778715
Now that you mention it, winter is pretty cozy out in the middle of nowhere or even the suburbs. I'd forgotten that because winter in cities is like, fuck this I'm just going to jump out of my window. Nothing cozy about it, unless you live in a scenic/historical city with 400 year old coffee shops and bookstores.

>>8778714
People down there tend to be quick to anger. Weather to too hot, therefore the people are too hot. Not lit

>>8778741
again, this
>>8778731

>>8778731
>reading third tier spic lit

ISHYGDT

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If you want to understand the literariness of winter and the cold then I recommend this short radio documentary.

https://soundcloud.com/radio3documentary/r3docs-20-jan-13-a-brief-1

>>8778733
I live in the middle of a city and the last blizzard was amazing. All the roads were empty and the rows of townhouses look gorgeous. I walk across the street from my house to watch the snow fall on the main road while drinking a glass of port and eating a bowl of chowder at a pub

>>8778750
>falling to /lit/ memes

ISHYGDDT

>>8778755
spics get out. see >>8776005

>>8775510

some i've liked to reread for that winter sense:

kawabata - snow country
tanizaki - some prefer nettles
mishima - spring snow
dazai - the setting sun

ishiguro - artist of the floating world
murakami - hardboiled wonderland and the end of the world

calvino - the complete cosmicomics

joyce - the dead

>>8778767
>murakami - hardboiled wonderland and the end of the world
The alternate chapters that take place in that strange dream world are fantastic wintery reading.

>>8778339

>There are places in the world where people break their backs shoveling fucking snow

Move tbqh.

>Summer isn't /lit/
Try having an amazing day in an exotic beach in Brazil to sit down by the pool, exausted, in a stuffy warm night, hearing only the splashing waves and the coconut palms in the strong wind
Then tell me you wouldn't want to read the shit out of a book

>>8778775
yes murakami's prose can get kind of stilted or repetitive in some works, but he's perfect for that winter, snow, nostalgia wistful melancholic flavor

>>8778751
thi sis pretty comfy thx

>>8778796
>it's another spic episode

i want this rerun to stop desu

>>8778697
it's both dark and cold, but unlike the darkness you get used to the cold

>>8778796
I live in a tropical city in Brazil, at 300 meters from the beach.
It sucks.

>>8778767
shit son the Jappos really this patrician about winter?

>>8778884
not him but yes

the comfy feeling of winter melancholy, of bleakness, of atavistic, ancestral memories and the past, fits extremely well with japanese aesthetics

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>>8778850
You're welcome. I've been gathering some comfy Radio 3 shows for winter listening this year.

https://soundcloud.com/radio3essays/forests-and-faith-under-the
https://soundcloud.com/radio3essays/northern-lights-cornerstones-1
https://soundcloud.com/radio3documentary/sunday-feature-the-1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03bc96m

>>8778871
Tons of bunda though.

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>>8775510
The moomin winter book, Taikatalvi in finnish

Pic is from my window a minute ago, from Helsinki, the very south of the country
We have sunlight for 6 hours and 20 minutes per day, it is getting shorter still. The sun set five hours ago and it will rise in 13 hours.

I fucking hate autumn, wish it was winter

>>8779067
fugg I wish I could be in Funland

>>8778901
>>8778884

i really enjoyed Tanizak's In Praise of Shadows as a short essay introduction to Japanese aesthetics—not directly winter-related, but topical with themes of subtlety, contrast, elegance, and landscapes

this is what i have in mind when someone calls a novel "comfy"—a sense of memory, detachment, and looking back at some part of your life

winter is a good season for that

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>>8779082
/lit/erally why

it's cold but it doesn't snow
without snow you cannot see anything outside
it is not the end-of-summer-kind-of-autumn, it's the fuck-you-with-dead-treebranches kind of autumn we've had going on for some two months now
We got some snow a couple weeks ago but it all melted

Where do you live?

>>8778274
West Coast canada Herę
Never get snów, only rains.its rain 50 of the last 52 days here in Vancouver. If I wasn't in school I'd love it so I could read all day. Instead I'm stuck with finals and working on the side. I have comfy movie recs:
Dekalog
Beau Travail
Fargo
Let the Right One In (original)

>>8779105
Looks and sounds just like Britain. What's the deal? I thought you Scandis were supposed to live in a winter wonderland?

>>8779105
Canada. We got snow but its all but melted now and we've got frozen rain now.


No other reason than I'd like to visit Funland :)

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>>8779127
Is pic related more what you were looking for?
taken a couple years ago

>>8779140
I'd like to visit Canada and Minnesota (for the finno-american memes)
Where in Canada would be good?

>>8779166
what are you looking for? I'm usually in Quebec and it's pretty comfy here. Don't worry about speaking French. If you come here and its evident (by I'm assuming your accent) no one will bother you.


The West Coast has some of the best mountains and trails if you're into outdoor activities

>>8779005
Almost all of it black.

>>8779187
And? Are you in Bahia?

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>>8779180
I've actually mainly thought about Quebec as I speak french (my father is from Genève) and it borders the Hudson Bay. I also like the whole separatist thing de la belle province, hon hon hon
Though I saw a film from Quebec and couldn't comprehend a word, that's a thick dialect you guys have there

>>8779005
porra br ces têm que baixar o nível da parada hein

>>8779166
I love in Minnesota and can confirm that everything outside of the Twin Cities is a Nordic memeland.

>>8779256
The separatists are laughed at now. No one takes them seriously and its mostly the older generation.

Yea, this is Norman french, straight from the XVIIe siècle

>>8779263
Take it easy.

>>8779256
>>8779266
Is it really that bad though? I don't speak French, but it doesn't sound *that* different from standard French, the inflection just sounds a bit different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw5Re7k1KBA

>>8779291
Colloquialisms and slang are really the biggest difference. Also a lot of Quebecois rely on idioms

>>8779232
And I don't find black people attractive.
Yes, sadly.

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>>8779265
It's good that you love in Minnesota :-)
Have you ever been to New Finland? I heard it's a village somewhere there
Also what is your muh heritage?

>>8779266
Too bad, I like a bit of localism

>>8779291
It's not that noticeable in the interview, true

>>8775510
Anna Karenina since snowing in Russia/winter feels

>>8779296
I've heard that Quebec French is much more likely to use old French words for new things instead of loanwords from other languages, is that true?

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>>8779105
Here's the late autumn wonderland we've got a couple of streets from my home. My family things I'm crazy for finding this comfy and for even venturing there--for fun, even.

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>>8779091
indeed. stay comfy friend

>>8775713
With fanart. I remember spending my vacations reading and googling harry potter stuff all day. Comfy!

>>8775880
I for one love summer. Shakespeare sonnets are perfect for high noon

>>8775713

the comfy winters end after book 4 though, after that it's just edgy teenage romp

>>8778195
I've always associated M.R. James more with autumn

>>8779309
Lol no I haven't but I've been to plenty of places up in the northern part of the state that could pass as New Finland. Muh heritage is German and Swedish/Norwegian. Where are you from m8

>>8779067
how cold it gettin dere?

>>8779166
Depends on what you want.

Top tier Canada is BC as long as you don't mind asians.

Montreal is cool for a bit of Franco culture mixed with Canadian, just don't stray too far into the rest of Quebec because it becomes a lot more french and a lot more boring.

Ontario is the most American Canada gets, especially Toronto which is basically just a big metro area with a few cultural landmarks. Niagra is pretty great for the falls but the rest of the city is a total tourist hive, kitschy amusement stuff everywhere.

If you want skiing and snow go somewhere near the rockies, Alberta or Eastern BC. Alberta is pretty trash otherwise though, Calgary is a city, but a city's a city.

Tbh Canada's only cool to really explore in the summer with the exception of the Rockies. Avoid the maritime provinces they are shit

>>8780052
Yeah, the only cool parts of Canada are the rockies and the area around the boarder that America lets us keep