I'm studying philosophy and literature at school, but I'm

read The Floating Opera. its funny, philosophical and light.

read Sebald and Dostoevsky

The true enlightment is reading Camus and Dostoevsky and realising that true wisdom lies in fiction

>>9383836
Literature is like condensed experience. Try to think of it as expanding your pool of raw, unweighted phenomenal and conceptual material which will help you in making convincing philosophical arguments. At the very least it will improve your writing.

>>9383836
Because in literature you get to widen the scope and make human statements like these:

>I’ve read parts of the Tractatus, but I have no formal training in mathematical logic and I couldn't say a thing about the technical aspects of the book. I like the way he uses the language. Even in translation, it's very evocative. It's like reading Martian. The language is mysteriously simple and self-assured. It suggests without the slightest arrogance that there's no alternative to these remarks. The statements are machine-tooled. Wittgenstein is the language of outer space, a very precise race of people.

>>9384314
>a very precise
>there are 20 gorillion interpretations of Tractatus

>>9383836
If you didn't like paintings, you wouldn't try to get into them by looking at every painting as a philosophical statement. And you definitely wouldn't start saying garbage like, "true wisdom lies in paintings."

When you are reading a book, you are reading a work of a craft. And while I actually do agree with both >>9384292 and probably also >>9384245, I think if you're expecting anything out of your books other than that they be well made, you're going to be frustrated and disappointed, or else limited to a small subset of books and really better off just reading more philosophy.