/lit/ - Literature

entire classic art

>no, I mean like those tumblr pics of famous authors or people reading in tasteful setting
not /lit/-related

>>17223853
oh, ok

>>17223833

>>17223955
that's exactly what i was looking for

time is a flat circle

>>17223817
Have you tried not doing that?

>>17223817
You have to quit instant gratification from the internet. 4chan, Youtube, all the crap that gives you that hit of dopamine you crave. Quit for a week. Your brain is fried and needs to rewire. A healthy dopamine reward system is essential for the sustained concentration and focus reading requires.

>>17223816
>what's the reason for this meme?
because the people you find great found people great who found people great who made antiquity the center of their education.

A guide for the strong, a filter for the weak

>>17224051
suck on a blowtorch and get your retarded face back to /tv/ you illiterate baboon

>he thinks i'm from /tv/

>>17223816
If you're interested in western philosophy, the greeks are the foundation of everything, so you should start with them
If you're interested in eastern philosophy, it's also good to know about them but not particularly necessary

>>17223770
Im gonna need a testosterone replacement therapy after seeing that comic.

>>17223770
If you post these comics then your mother will develop bowel cancer

>>17223770
I'm gonna need HRT after seeing that comic.

>>17223770

The Frenchman

>>17223745
both of them

>>17223745
Sartre got BTFO by based Céline.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/comment/celine.htm

>>17223745
Both are literally garbage tier. Camus a little less so, but Sartre is truly awful

>>17223745
Sartre based on his phisiognomy

>>17225401
Quite true desu

Good book, shitty thread

>>17223718
pretty cool cover, wish the skull was just solid though

>>17227405
It's the weird Mexican dead people Christmas skull.

if you're not or never have been a genuine boozebag it might be hard to understand

>>17224179
>I'm going to start with the Greeks
>by reading a poem that was written by a Roman in 8 AD

not exactly disagreeing with you either, just thought this was funny hehe.

>>17224179
Reading Hesiod or even Apollodorus is a really bad way to get someone started with reading mate

>>17224188
We are young and life is long, I'll get to the source material eventually. I'm reading Hamilton to get a broad overview and then I'll move onto the Iliad.

>>17224208
>I'm reading Hamilton to get a broad overview and then I'll move onto the Iliad.
this is a good way of starting, don't let fags tell you otherwise

>>17224278
Thank you fren.

The title alone annoys me

>>17224098
what did you study

>>17224198
What will You Give for This Beauty? by Ali Akbar Natiq
He is the best young contemporary author(a far greater poet but his work is still untranslated) from my country. It's a collection of shorties. I haven't read it in English but his work is top-tier in Urdu.
He worked as a mason his whole life lurking from village to village. The source of reading material was from him to steal from his school, government libraries and his dad who use to bring books for him from Middle East while he was working there as a mason. Despite being from piss poor village background and lack of university education he mogs the shit out of every privileged author in the country.

>>17224252
awesome, other novels from outside anglosphere? not trying to be woke, just like reading about life in different cultures

>>17223640
that would definitely be Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

>>17223968
>I doubt those authors rejected the idea of good and evil

yes they did

>>17224144
No they didnt but if they did they would be subversive too

>>17223950
Yes

>>17224157
Euripides was pretty subversive, but I doubt he's a jewish globalist

>>17223628
I like the books.

He is, personally, very un likeable.

Bukowski rapes a crazy chick in Post Office

>>17223623
>Hi, I have trouble reading the nutritional contents on a can of food. Do you think I could read Plato???

It's basically the same so, yes.

>>17228521
>>17223596
Synder bat is bad, except for Black mirror. Morrison's batepic is the best bat run so go for that

>>17228719
>that achieves more than most lit whilst being engaging at every moment
kill yourself dilettante.

Thanks anons, I have written down most of the recs of the thread.
We really should do charts of the most /lit/ comics and manga for people who want to get into them.

From Hell is good. Moore at his best.

>>17230012
overrated
also already mentioned here >>17228587
also you are a faggot and should kys

>>17223594
This one

>>17223594
2666

>>17223590
You are misusing the gigachad meme you fucking retard. Nobody who consooms meaningless words like that avoids being a emasculated fat cunt

>>17223758
Welcome newfriend

>>17223584
I unironically believe that if Novalis had finished Heinrich von Ofterdingen it would've transformed the world and eventually led to a new Golden Era of mankind. Fuck tuberculosis.

>>17223584
I know it’s not exactly the Greeks,
But Robert Jordan dying before he finished the wheel of time really sucks.

>>17224656
Thats sad, never read it tho. All i know that it has like ten books in its series

>>17223584
Hölderlin's The Death of Empedocles. Three versions, none of them complete. Very sad stuff

>>17223584
Robert Musil
Big Boook about modernity in austria about a supposed dude without any qualities whatsoever.

>>17223565
idk man. fuck it. Epictetus is great, the gist will get through.

>>17223541
>Cervantes
Huh, I guess he really was a pseud after all

>>17223527
Schopenhauer started his magnum opus with a quote from Rousseau.
He also appreciated Hume.

>>17223527
I remember him mentioning Goethe a bit in essays and aphorisms.

>>17223527
Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Cervantes' Don Quixote, and Rousseau's Julie are the four best novels according to him

>>17223527
I remember he learnt Spanish to read the Spanish Golden Age authors, especially Gracián and Calderón. He even made some translations.

>>17227505
it's true though

>>17225882
>the matrix
What did you mean by this?

>as a kid... I had no questions... about the world
When I was a kid I was full of questions about the world and frustrated with my ability to articulate them. I read philosophy because I can't not. Philosophy is unlikely to make you happy, but it will undermine how highly you value happiness.

Those who aren't called to it should avoid philosophy. It won't help them or philosophy. They receive the effects of philosophy as it spreads out into wider culture, decades or centuries later.

Political education, though, is important for everyone. If you cannot see yourself as a member of a social body, you will not be able to combat the structural forces and trends of that society.

>>17223489
Insofar as wisdom literature builds foresight or makes for a more level head when there are decisions to make, it can clear the attic, so to speak, of an awful lot of junk that interferes with that--pop culture junk especially, but also the influence of bad parents or mentors, if any, and other such misfortunes of circumstance. Partly it depends on one's capacity to assimilate what's been read, and take it seriously enough to test ideas out in lots of little ways when you're still young and have the energy to do so, which in the longer run also preserves the same kind of vitality seen as a value through it. One of the things that made Montaigne exemplary as a sage is that he read the then extant philosophers as a child, along with anything else he could get his hands on that countless others before him noticed were worth keeping and preserving, a process that itself is frankly embedded in and frequently referred to in his writing. I had a rather "free range" sort of childhood with a lot more outdoor and science nerd kind of play than time in front of screens or in the rigid boxes of extracurricular activities designed for stupid children by stupid parents, but still learned a lot about how to live, and what to live for, from literature grounded in things about human nature, and the natural world, that are not subject to change by any act of will or invention, but are at best accommodated.

>>17227562
its true but its not significant

when wee are Ripe for A Emper in this Contrey Call for me to take the helm or a Consler in the Afare of trouth Amen and Amen

>>17223459
What's it about?

>>17223655
Haha

>>17223469
What even happened to him?

>>17223459
verbatim et s p e l l a t i m