How do you learn to better appreciate/understand fiction

that picture is so very excellent

something something nietzsche
idk
just looking at that image

I selectively seek out fiction to enhance my aesthetics to be honest

>>9747637
Nietzsche Birth of Tragedy
Oscar Wilde The Decay of Lying
Anything by Walter Pater especially the Renaissance
Immanuel Kant Critique of Judgment (get a selection from an art/literary theory anthology, that will be all you need)
Peep this -- https://www.amazon.com/Art-Theory-1900-Anthology-Changing/dp/0631227083 when you finish that, why not -- https://www.amazon.com/Art-Theory-1815-1900-Anthology-Changing/dp/0631200665/ref=pd_sim_14_3/135-9152422-1545608?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=7R6GG2CPZN5WCC4BYTGP

This will be a banger for you, really fuck up your thinking and put you on to some crazy shit -- https://www.amazon.com/Routledge-Companion-Aesthetics-Philosophy-Companions/dp/0415782872/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1499891950&sr=1-4&keywords=Routledge+aesthetics

Read Walter Benjamin, like most of what he wrote. If you fucked with it, peep Adorno & Horkheimer on the Dialectic of Enlightenment

This is sick -- https://selforganizedseminar.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/rancic3a8re-jacques-politics-aesthetics-distribution-sensible-new-scan.pdf

and yeah, >>9747739 , fiction is integral to all this, cannot be understated. But fuck whatever lists of shlock you find on this board, peep Rushdie's Midnight's Children, that should give you plenty to work with.
Cheers, good luck, this may fuck up your life in huge ways you aren't ready for but you'll be better for it.

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>>9747637

Everything I read on Aesthetics is an insufficient tossing of language to comprehend that which is untranslatable directly from the experience of living, while also laying down arbitrary modes of taste towards what "beauty" is.

It's a meme. If you want to really learn about aesthetics you need to go out and live in it.

>>9747759
Wow, thanks anon.

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>>9747728
I like this one