What is final boss of literature?

>>9939459

Finnegans Wake is always memed here as The Final Boss of Literature but as someone else posted, it's probably more like the Optional Final Superboss of Literature where you need the best weapons to take it down

>>9939459
Wittgenstein and Heidegger

>>9939459
Tommaso Pincio.

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>>9939468
Pic related

>>9939459
Modern /lit/ answer: Capitalism and Schizophrenia hurr durr what's literature

Voynich manuscripts
Finnegans wake
ZETTEL'STRAUM
Thousand Plateaus

>>9939459
Hegel

I'd say >>9939467 is correct.

If upon victory you want to say "Congratulations, you've finished literature! You can continue leveling up for fun or retire!", then those books would likely be Ulysses and/or In Search of Lost Time.

Another optional boss would be Ezra Pound's Cantos.

Henry Darger - The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion

>>9939459
yourself

The entire works of Voltaire

>>9939459
Finnegans Wake.

>>9939587
>In Search of Lost Time

You are probably right. Although, I think it may be necessary to read it in the original French.

>>9939468
I'm not very familiar with Marty's thought, but shouldn't he and Witty esclude each other?

>>9939459
The Atlanteans

>>9939459
The Cat in the Hat.

>>9939459
Prose: Gass
Poetry: Pound

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>>9940549
>Gas
Bro! Read Gaddis: the better Willy. You understand what I'm saying? I repeat. Repeat what I said to me.

>>9939459
Philosophy: Adorno

Unironically the answer is probably some obscure feminist literature that is completely unreadable but which pseuds pretend to understand for larp points

>>9940569
Bro! Read Gaddis: the better Willy.

The first and last boss of literature will always be Shakespeare. You can never fully appreciate him until you have read everything else of significance

>>9940549
>Gass
>end boss tier prose
how silly.

>>9940786
>She knew she was a LASS WITHOUT A LACK. And I groan. Put my small penis inside her. Only the chair was moved. And I came like an ad in the mail.
Literally unsurpassed.

The Greeks. After you dealt with them, you're done.

Ramayana and the rest of the Hindu Epics.

>>9940989
>unsurpassed
in what? sub-rabelaisian grotesqueries? you're unsurpassed in ignorance, my man.

Zettels Traum

>>9940633
kek

>>9941073
this. or Adalbert Stifter "Der Nachsommer"

>>9939459

Ulysses

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Behold

The Omni-Final Ultimate Dreadboss of Finality

>>9941128
Is this the Finnish Ulysses with 70 pages about walking across the room?

>>9941135
Yes. It's the Ultimate Dreadboss because you have to learn Finnish in order to even start reading it, as there is no extant translation from the original.

Being a Finn and thus already knowing Finnish equates to meme-magic and thus disqualifies you from taking part (sorry not sorry). So the Dreadboss retains his difficulty whoever you are.

>>9941146

>this Finn desperately trying to shill his irrelevant language

kek.

>>9941146
Because Finnish is so easy to pronounce I can just read it out loud, what type of plebs read for content anyways?

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>>9941152
I'm not Finnish, why would I disqualify myself from this? My identification of this book as the Dreadboss is partly due to Finnish being considered one of the most difficult languages to try and learn. I certainly don't plan on learning it. Confronting the Dreadboss is simply not the fate which the Pancreator has in store for me.

>>9941165
If you waste your time reading a novel that long without understanding anything at all, well, the Dreadboss has beaten *you*. You've spent all that time for precisely nothing, your efforts spent fruitlessly with nothing gained, fading into black, like tears in the rain.

>>9941128
tfw read it in highschool, Not even that hard.

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>>9941194
t. magic meme man

>>9941177
I only read for meter and phonetic enjoyment

>>9939587
>Another optional boss would be Ezra Pound's Cantos.
Just rented this from my library without knowing it was so hard, what am I in for?

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*blocks you path*

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>yfw the tutorial guide is also the final boss.

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*teleports behind you*

>>9941736
You mean Plato

>>9941751
I recently bought this as someone who has very little experience with literature and I admit I'm having kind of a hard time with it and absorbing its meanings.
Should I invest more time on it or just read other stuff before trying it again?

Finishing your backlog

Phil Anselmo.

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>>9939467
Reasonable.

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>>9939459
How about nearly 1400 pages of the Vollmann?

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Read em and weep, boys.

>>9942467
RE

back to /v/, manchildren
literature isn't dark souls

>>9943710
Wow, you win the competition of who is least competitive! Well done! You are so impressive about how you don't care about impressing people. Do you have a girlfriend, anon?

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>>9943714
>>9943710

F

>>9943714
>Do you have a girlfriend, anon?
pretty easy when you're not a "vidya" addicted peter pan eunuch

>>9943728

caring this much about the state of a 4chan board is inherently eunuch tho

>>9943728
The shit just lingers in the air, Randy.
>>9943724
I notice that you did not actually answer the question.

>>9943730
this is an art board. weren't you a philistine, you too would feel pretty sad to see it colonized by anti-art /v/edditors

>>9943732

>this is an art board.

this is a toilet.

>weren't you a philistine

haha i knew it you are a posturing pseud cunt. get rekt newfag.

>>9939459
Being and Time. Good fucking luck bitch

>>9943736
>doubles down on philistine, toxic attitude
>reddit spacing
lmao. just close this tab, chug some mt dew and resume your child pastimes. leave us alone

>>9939468
t. person who's never studied either
Heidegger was a bastard halfwit and Wittgenstein is just a footnote to Frege, eclipsed by Dummett, Brandom, Davidson, and even some of his scholars like Brian McGuinness and Crispin Wright

>>9940783
probably this desu
>>9941073
>just a shitty german clone of joyce and poe
>>9941128
if you know Finnish its meme-tier
>>9941779
you're thinking of it wrong probably
it isn't anything straightforward with a plot
its a series of loosely related observations by a rather renowned poet
there's actually an ongoing academic controversy on how it should be understood as a work (and thus translated)
>>9943687
its fantastic historical fiction on an interesting subject its easily readable

>>9943737
read Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard
it BTFOs Heidegger so hard you'll never read him again

>>9943748
>this is an art board
>we all space our lines according to criteria
What the fuck are you smoking, O great 4chan leader? Go fuck your high horse, kid.

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Philosophy: Hegel

>[T]ruly to escape Hegel involves an exact appreciation of the price we have to pay to detach ourselves from him. It assumes that we are aware of the extent to which Hegel, insidiously perhaps, is close to us; it implies a knowledge, in that which permits us to think against Hegel, of that which remains Hegelian. We have to determine the extent to which our anti-Hegelianism is possibly one of his tricks directed against us, at the end of which he stands, motionless, waiting for us.

>>9943760
Tl;dr
>Hegel said opposition is a natural part of idea development so to even oppose Hegel constructively supports his point.

Get fucked you bald rapist-looking pseud.

>>9943757
we get it: you're a contrarian retard

>>9943748
>>doubles down on philistine, toxic attitude
protip: you are a posturing ass.
>>reddit spacing
reddit spacing is a meme that newfags use to try and call out other newfags.

stop posting you are shit at it.

>>9943764
>UR A CONTRARIAN RETARD
well gee lets see what I was being contrary to then?

>DURR HEIDEGGER AND WITTY ARE GENIUSES!!!
>SHAKESPEARE IS GARBAGE
>ARNO SCHMIDT > JOYCE
>ALASTALON SALISSA IS THE SPINE OF THE WESTERN CANON
>Book of Disquiet has a plot???
>Dying Grass is barely even english reeee
>Being and Time isn't utter trash

yeah for some reason I think I'll stick to being a contrarian "retard" rather than follow the above.

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Against the Day by Pynchon

>>9943778
Take your pills kid

>>9943757
I get that the Book doesn't have a narrative or a cohesive structure, but I'm just having difficulty understanding what the hell Pessoa/Soares is trying to convey with each passage

I'm also reading it in Portuguese, so unless it's heavily edited, I think I won't have much trouble with the language

>>9939459
Dan Schneider - A Norwegian In The Family

>>9944991
Keep Yourself Safe

>>9939459
Los Sorias. That's it.

>>9941073
>german poop jokes are the final boss of literature
seems about right

>>9944997
Are you portuguese or brazilian? Brazilians normally have a bit of trouble understanding european portuguese.

>>9941135
It is better than Ulysses, not even a competition.

>>9943757
>Wittgenstein is just a footnote to Frege, eclipsed by Dummett, Brandom, Davidson, and even some of his scholars like Brian McGuinness and Crispin Wright
How is possible to be so wrong?

Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra.

>>9945395
Right?

>>9945332
If it were really that good it'd be written in English.