/lit/ - Literature

around two hundred

the purpose of life is not happiness, but rather heroic accomplishment. Every soul encompasses potential heroism, I thought. But every soul flickers for a few adolescent years with heroic visions, before resigning itself to mediocre values, before submitting to the lives of others, shrivelling & finally perishing. Why should I not be a soul, which no matter what the sacrifice required, attained heroism? Who could know? Perhaps I would be victorious in my pursuit of heroism. But then the victory itself would no longer have any meaning, but only the tireless striving toward it.

works & days, p60

>>12380009

What is this about Mister Ming?

Axu? Where is our chinese friend Axu?

Axu Ming!!

>>12380051

the former

Am i missing something?

one of them has a parallel modern greek translation

weird troll thread

Does it exist in fiction?

just stop going

i prefer novels which are problematic but ultimately optimistic

focussing too much on poverty is a sort of cop-out & you eventually fail because you never even bothered to raise yourself out of it

what i read - eliade's diary

what i expected - intense descriptions of procrastination & romanian architecture

what i got - pages & pages of erotica, as well as endlessly repetitive references to some place in romania called the cismigiu gardens, as well as name-dropping of right-wing intellectuals such as bergson & d'annunzio

Any speculative bildungsromane?

Any?

i am interested in the character known as marculescu or simply marcu from eliade's diary & gaudeamus bildungsromane

Can anyone give me a deeper insight in to this character? Is he the most intelligent character in the novels?

which is worse - North Dublin or South London?

Can't this be solved by simply finding out which German philosopher influences him the most?

Where to start with this chap's fiction?

Look, chaps, I understand you guys are all in to this anagrammatic PoMo shite, but what in the F U C K does "readn't" mean?

>>12369633

It, by virtue of not being written after the emergence of Kant's oeuvre, is Non-Kantian.

>>12365648

What does he think PoMo is?

>>12363963

>>12363901

Adorno & the Critical Theorists are not a major force in PoMo. I do not think you could even describe them as PoMo. They are popular amongst contrarians, I would think.

>>12362905

& what other system of thought do you wish to return to?

>>12363369
But alchemy today surely fits in to a PoMo narrative moreso than a Conservative one.

>>12362874

Maybe. Are you a Kantian, a Burkean or what?