/lit/ - Literature

>>23323293
>this makes the Rand fags seethe

>>23311708
The Double is fantastic and it annoys me that Dostoy was mocked for it after his debut being so strong. The Double is both funny, enigmatic, prosaic, cringy and historically significant in my view. I am sure that there are books both before and contemporary to it that dealt with mental health, but The Double is so obviously some kind of proto-portrayal of schizophrenia. The prose is repetative but that is intentional and is characteristic of Golyadkin. I tore through that book in three days because I couldn't let it go, that rarely happens to me. The scene in which Golyadkin debates with himself whether he's to enter the party or not is master class cringe material. Due to me being such a fan of cringe literature (I love the scene in which the underground man paces up and down the little get together with his school fellows) I absolutely love the "A Nasty Story" or whatever it is called. That book isn't merely a critique on the contemporary feeling of historical reform in Tsarist Russia, it is also an acknowledgement that even if a person has the best intentions of crossing class divisions it simply isn't possible unless due to extreme charisma and some kind of intangible appropriateness. Lastly that book doesn't have plot or anything (mostly due to its short length) but manages to provide an engrossing narrative simply because the whole theme is cringe, and cringe is delicious in prose but unbearable in video format.

>>20631268
>You should read them for their cultural impact if nothing else.
it's harry potter

>>18778825

>>18768086
>The Stranger, Atlas Shrugged and The Art of The Deal placed in the same league as The Brothers Karamazov and Don Quixote

>Ulysses in mid-tier

>Clifford For President not in God Tier

>women are not weaker than men
>book has "redefining" in the subtitle

>buying from someone means they own you

China would go bankrupt if the USA refused to do business with it tomorrow. And all the USA would get is slightly higher prices. Stop masturbating over export based economies.

>>10805683
>brand new