/lit/ - Literature

>>13498153
Not a book, but it's the most I have

https://theralphretort.com/frenchman-claims-he-impregnated-600-africans-over-two-year-sexcapde-2022018/

>>9779401
French

My biggest problem is that I'm a total autist. Since I started a year and a half ago, I created a vocabulary list. I initially intended it to just be a few words and phrases but, at this point, it's over 350 pages long. Every time I come across a word I don't know I note it down and later look it up on 5 different dictionaries and add all the different definitions to the list. Even if it's a word that obvious, I still feel I have to note it down because it's not on my list.

Despite this, I feel I've made good progress. I just think I could progress quicker if I could just abandon this stupid list.

>>9509577
>Two semesters of undergrad math would do more good for your mind than a decade of postdoc philosophy research.

Read the rest of my very short and simple post, pseud. Specifically the part about zeitgeist. Philosophy informs man and helps generations understand their times. It inspires art and social change. Two semesters of undergrad math will make you well-rounded, sure, but only an idiot compares it to philosophy. 10/10 nice bait I'm mad.

>>9442646
Unironically this >>9442672 and >>9444669.

Everyone should be conversant in Jung's analysis of the conscious and collective unconscious that make the individual and the symbols/drama that work upon it.

Bernays is a good starting point for understanding the symbol-saturated world we live in. Also good: Baudrillard's Simulacra & Simulation, or Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle, or Barthes' Mythologies. They describe very well the desolation of late capitalism, but do not offer a solution to 21st century mind control.

This anon's >>9444692 comment is correct in that a society's norms and failures of the state are expressed in a zeitgeist, but that is mutable and the individual can escape. Understanding the psychology of man (and his structures) is essential - and I would say this is OP's ultimate goal.

>>9422464
mfw the OGs anticipated and solved existentialism 104000 weeks ago

Qui sont les meilleurs poètes français?

What is your process for reading a book in another language? Do you stop when you hit a word you don't know and can't figure out through context or do you simply push forward?

I ask because I've read two books in French over the past few months. Each one was less than 200 pages but they took me about three months each to read because everytime I hit a new word I would stop, look up the definition on a 3 or 4 different dictionaries, and put it on my vocabulary list. I felt I improved my vocabulary greatly by doing this but it's real grind. The next three books I plan to read are over 300 pages each and I'm considering just reading them without constantly looking up the new words I stumble across but I'm worried I won't get as much out of them.