/lit/ - Literature

>>19811250
>first novel = first book

>>19782611
>alternatives
>twitter

I'm torn between loving and hating Tristan.

What do I do?

>Wagner was imitating the Greek epic cycles with the Ring, specifically Aeschylus' Oresteia
>only makes one
Why are moderns like this? Why can't they have an output of fifty works or more?

freezing and your information being sold to global buyers (unironically).

>>16342768
>Oh, I don’t wish little J.B.S. any harm! There where he is his fate is cruel enough! Since we’re talking about a homework assignment I would give him a seven out of a possible twenty and let’s not talk about it anymore... But on page 462 the little turd shocks me! The damned rotten asshole! What does he dare to write? “If Céline supported the socialist theses of the Nazis it’s because he was paid.” And I quote. Yes! This then is what this little dung-beetle wrote while I was in prison risking a hanging. Filthy little bastard full of shit, you come out from between my ass cheeks to soil me from outside! Cain anus ptooey! What are you hoping for? That they murder me! It’s obvious! Here! Let me squash you! Yes!... I see his photos, those bug eyes...that hook...that slobbering leech...he’s a cestode! What won’t he invent, this monster, so that they assassinate me! Barely out of my caca and he denounces me! What’s best is that on page 451 he has the venom to warn us: “A man who finds it natural to denounce men can’t have our notion of honor. He doesn’t even see those for whom he is a benefactor with our eyes; his generosity, his kindness is not like our kindness and generosity: it isn’t possible to localize passion.”
>In my asshole where he can be found we can’t ask of J.B.S. too see clearly or to explain himself simply. J.B.S. it seems has nevertheless foreseen the solitude and obscurity of my anus...J.B.S. obviously is talking about himself when he writes on page 451: “This man fears every kind of solitude, that of the genius as well as that of the assassin.” Let’s understand what this means...

What the fuck was wrong with Celine?

>>16268199

>>15972481
You have ENTRENCHED me into helplessness because of the empty awareness of something we know not, so a moments self-reflection becomes utter unwise and uncharacter, deprecation.

HUG ME! HUG ME BROS! OR YOUR MOTHERS WILL DIE!

>spend at least an hour a day for the last day learning Attic Greek
>listen to over 500 hours of college lectures and books about Greek politics, history, mythology, and philosophy
>Drops almost $700 on various Greek language works from Herodotus to Euripides
>FINALLY feel I'm ready to Start With The Greeks
>start reading Plato
>bunch of boring ass dialogues
>Ok, tries Aristotle instead
>Waffles about everything, and has been proven empirically wrong 3 out of 4 times.
> OK, at least I can read the New Testament in the original language!
> New Testament is written in the most straightforward style using 6th grade tier grammar. Absolutely nothing is lost just using an English literal translation.
> Well, maybe I can make use of all that time I spent learning Greek talking with actual Greek people.
> Greeks are either SJWs who don't want to talk about the classics because of it's problematic use by white nationalists, golden dawn retards sperging how Macedonians aren't Greek and how they want to take back Anatolia, or normal Eurotrash who just wanna fuck and get high and don't care about culture.

Please, I hope no one else falls for these stupid meme charts on here. I swear they were created just to troll gullible retards like me. Greek works got their place in the Western canon, Homer was fun, Herodotus was a good read, but please don't let sperglords on here fetishizing the classics trick you, There's been 2000 years and there's been so many more works written since then worth your time, just read what you want in your original language.


tldr; wasted a year of my life falling for the Start With The Greek meme

The worst part is wondering how you’ll find the strength tomorrow to go on doing what you did today and have been doing for much too long, where you’ll find the strength for all that stupid running around, those projects that come to nothing, those attempts to escape from crushing necessity, which always founder and serve only to convince you one more time that destiny is implacable, that every night will find you down and out, crushed by the dread of more and more sordid and insecure tomorrows. And maybe it’s treacherous old age coming on, threatening the worst.

Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been able to kill myself.

>teachers and professors think I'm average at literary criticism
>all I did was write what was necessary
>skimmed what I was writing about
Books about being normal?

>>14820199
>>14820444
Our nonfiction comes from fiction.

>>14772472
>Why are most people not able to sympathize with the extremely beautiful people?
I know that feel, you have to learn to hold yourself as the aristocracy of the people. Both in character and esteem.

Thirsty women and jealous men are bad, but the worst thing, is never being able to be loved.

Think I might live in the woods, the burden of lesser beings sufferings is far too great.

>>12843452
Felt like i was having a stroke or going through a fever dream when reading this.
Why are most /lit/ posters illiterate?

>tfw studying one of the most soulless degrees
i need a hug guys

>>11697313
then what does?