/lit/ - Literature

>>22352556
1. Islam
2. Ibn Sina, Baudrillard, Nietzsche
3. Simulacra and Simulation, Scorch Atlas, Devdas

I'm reading two books concurrently;
A Methodology of Possession - James Ellis
The Problem of the Puer Aeternus - Marie Louise von Franz

The first book is a schizophrenic recounting of the author's foray into his own dreamscape, part fiction, part Landian philosophy; it is very much like one of Land's other books, Phyl-Undhu, in which the paper thin plot is more like a driver for the philosophies of the narrator.
The second book delves into the Jungian archetype of the Puer Aeturnus, or of eternal youth; the idea of it is very distinct from the modern iteration, the sort of 'bing bing-wahoo and snoy' amalgamation of pure filth, and more so about the lackadaisicality of these people. Delves a lot into mythic figures, and ties the Aeternus into those charicatures as well. I found it to be a really good companion piece to another book, Therese Raquin, by Emile Zola, though I won't say here as to why.