The Western Canon

>>8854231
>Pynchon

pleb

>>8854244
>>8854246

Wow /lit/ is really helpful and nice. Thanks.

>>8854255
Lol who anywhere ever lead you to believe otherwise? Pleb

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>>8854231

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>take one of the top /lit/ lists
>read only books written by dead white men
>success

You'll be busy for quite a while.

>>8854231
This is all you need. Then just jump around reading any author that catches your attention.

Myths from Mesopotamia
Iliad and Odyssey
Theogony
Plays from Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
Aeneid
Ovid's Metamorphoses
The Bible
Beowulf
The Song of Roland
Cantar de mio Cid
Divine Comedy
Decameron
The Canterbury Tales
Orlando Furioso
Lazarillo de Tormes
The Faerie Queene
Shakespeare's Complete
Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
Don Quixote
Paradise Lost
Goethe's Faust

>>8854231
This?

http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtbloom.html

>>8856096
>Marlowe as canonical
>not Rabelais or Lope de Vega

>>8856576
It isn't supposed to be a canon list anon.

>>8856096
>The Canterbury Tales
>essential

>>8856096
I would call this list, "Make sure /lit/ respects you."

Not a bad list, just unsure of what overall message it is conveying

>>8856758
Most references in the western canon can be traced back to one of those works. It excludes philosophy though.

>>8856751
Have you read it?

>>8857093
>reading
>/lit/ shitposting

Pick one anon