/lit/ - Literature

>>22060664
Read the Life of Samuel Johnson from beginning to end, and don't come back until you've finished. It will make a new man of you.

>>19111896
>Comes close to BOTNS
>Sandersoy

>>17408195
I'm not flaming — Disco Elysium affected me in the way that very personal books do [e.g., Demian if you're a young pretentious esotericist; The Tartar Steppe if you're a middle-aged Arab]. The game speaks to anyone who has relished in the grief of their losses, especially those who (like myself) used to abuse alcohol in such a way. Great literature can instruct and guide, but good literature can still help the reader feel less alone. (Thus you get the paradox of the teen who reads The Fountainhead and sez "lol Howard Rourke is totally me!!!1!".)

Also, Disco Elysium is the only work I've seen that captures the 2010s shift in info-consumption and communication. No, neither Tao Lin nor his wife achieved it. I hope that there's enough spirit out there to write the next timeless novel, since DFW, DeLillo, and Franzen are all fucking failing nerds. But if there isn't, then we can at least be comforted by works that embody the spirit-o'-the-times.

>>17253318
>Extrapolating that to things that aren't alphabet letters
>things that aren't alphabet letters
>aren't alphabet letters
>alphabet letters
>on the 20th century
>cringe af ngl
Come Again?

>>13110701

>>12751479
>Plato has nothing to do with artistic fiction or verse

>>12544284
What does this have to do with literature?

>>12537918
What's the concept? Seeing how many words you don't know you can use wrong in the smallest amount of time?

>>12481515
Is this actually for real? What the shit kind of self-help involves summoning a rapist tiger succubus?

>>12407904
>our literary tradition is only second to the French
Mind to elaborate at least a bit? I'm not suggesting anything, just interested in your opinion.
>I have to concur with other posters that "I FUCKING LOVE RUSSIAN LIT" redditry by people who have only read Tolstoyevsky or Gogol at most is cringy and opfag should kys himself.
As a Russian I do concur. Having your culture praised by shallow retards is worse than having it criticized to the bone. I mean it's anecdotal, but I swear to fucking god, I have met a person who thought Marx was Russian. And these people probably couldn't even actually read War and Peace that they praise so much.

>people complaining about the book being colonialist or "anti-white"
I knew this board had become infested by plebs but not to this point

>>11105052
>trump and brexit are related
Oh do go on about how British Euroskepticism and American Nationalism are deeply related

>>11042051
>prometheus

>>11038114
>Boycotting goods and choosing industries for the workers and unions to focus on is a waste of time
You really have no idea how an economy is meant to transition into socialism do you?

>>10926428
>no he doesnt
Yes he does

>>10918060
>Why does x think a of y when y actually meant z
>Gives absolutely no citations to validate each variable
Disgusting
>>>/pol/

>>10910263
>What can workers actually do within the unions? Not only are they centralised organisations
Aaaaaand discarded

>what does /lit/ think about pseud e-celebs
Not much

>>10903660
>I haven't actually read anything evola has written because of anecdotal experiences and fuck /pol/, therefore Crowley is much better than him
It's takes a special kind of autism to be you

>mfw people haven't refuted idealism and accepted materialism

>>10748982
>>10749082
>>10749070
Do you know how hard it is to take you seriously when you can't even type out a proper sentence?

>>10252199
>For instance, if the original language has the word "red" we can translate the word as scarlet, rose, cardinal, ruby, vermillion, blush, burgundy, etc. Choosing from the list of possibilities and reading the choice in a sentence can change the meaning for the reader.
thanks for reminding me why I don't ever use that site

Dante posting has never been worse.