/lit/ - Literature

>>16205804
>I have a copy of Infinite Jest that I made halfway through before stopping at a sentence that goes like ''If and so but and so.'' I looked it up an apparently this is a sentence made of 6 conjunctions, meaning there is (6-1)! = 5! = 120 possible logical ways of interpreting / parsing this sentence. When I read that sentence, I put the book down, called the friend who told me to read it a faggot, and I now plan on burning it on a barbecue, because life is too short for 120 possible interpretations of a sentence.
>I read a lot of Hemingway as part of English courses in college, I've saved none of the books, but yes I've basically read everything he ever wrote, and a posthumous semi-autobiography from his notes in Paris.
>I grew out of Bukowski the second I stopped being a teenager. The artsy teenage girls around me didn't. I prefer British romanticist and German existentialist poetry, because I am an adult.
>I've never read Ayn Rand, my libertarian phase was thankfully devoid of her egomaniacal propaganda - can't say the same for the people who eventually became progressives to cover for their love of Rand.
5. Want to read Goethe.
6. Never read Lolita, don't want to, pedophiles should be shot
7. I don't know what that book is, and I don't care to look it up. I have a strict reading list based on the western canon, and some personal recommendations.

So..... 0/7, nice try McHugh. Who even still listens to women's opinions anymore?

>>16048940
I am obsessed with Rainer Maria Rilke, and German existentialist poets.
-The Panther
-Autumn
-Widening Circles
-The Loner
-Do you still remember: falling stars
-Moonlight Night

Listen to Robert Bly read them, and listen to David Whyte. They get the vibe correctly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS-6q4cvv1k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXFby6TEwZk

I will be reading all of his translated works this Autumn for comfort and inspiration.

Yes, I discovered him through Robin Williams' reading of a translated version of Der Panther in the movie Awakenings - I am not ashamed of it, even tho I know the translation doesn't perfectly capture the rhyme, it fully captures the idea. As someone who feels like my will and abilities have been repressed by mental illness for long enough, it resonated with me.

His works involve an existentialist view for the love of solitude and love of self as the highest possible task, and that's precisely what I need in my life right now, as I heal and individuate into a man.