10 novels to give the best possible understanding of literature/the

"Start with the Greeks".

>>9648395
People looking to "get into literature" should start with whatever they happen to enjoy, for heaven's sake. Leave the Greeks for when your own curiosity leads you to them.

>>9648284

descartes - meditations
hobbes - leviathan
hume - treatise of human nature
rousseau - discourse on the origins of inequality
kant - critique of pure reason
mill - utilitarianism
hegel - phenomenology of spirit
marx - capital
wittgenstein - tractatus
heidegger - being and time

>>9648449
>wittgenstein - tractatus
Come on man

ive been thinking about this kinda thing too

someone post the images of like the /lit top 100 or whatever

>>9648284
>10 novels to give the best possible understanding of literature/the canon.

For understanding influences?

The Odyssey, Homer.
Shakespeare, Hamlet.
Paradise Lost, Milton.
Faust, Goethe.
Don Quixote, Cervantes
Pride and Prejudice, Austen.
Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky
Sons and Lovers, Lawrence.
Death in Venice, Mann
Metamorphosis, Kafka.

>>9648449
i physically recoiled

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>>9648449
>Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit
>no The World as Will and Representation

>>9648508
shakespeare is definitely the best play written by hamlet

>>9648449
Why does the absence of just a single book makes me think your whole list is worthless and you don't really have a clue about philosophy?
Because it's Plato's fucking Republic that's missing

>>9648551
As memeish as it is, you really do need some Greeks.

>>9648532

schopenhauer is a minor pessimist. not really necessary to understand western phil cause he didnt influence anyone, except nietzsche who exploded most of his thought anyway.