/lit/ - Literature

The greatest mind since Montaigne

>>11432884
>>11432884
Read while also doing other activities to fight depression like therapy, maybe temporary medication, exercise, and dieting.

Read anything that makes you both think and feel. Depression makes it harder to both think and feel and great literature helps you think and feel. Proust, Dostoevsky, Hesse and William Blake do this for me. Or have a stack of literature above, and some poetry, and some philosophy, and you read a little poetry, then a little philosophy, then a little literature, and so on. As long as you both think and feel, you will be supplementing the mental and emotional toll that depression takes on you.

How many In Search of Lost Time books have you read? What do you think of them?

I'm on Within a Budding Grove. I can see why many people don't like Proust, and why many people love him, and for me personally Swann's Way came at a perfect time in my life and spoke to me very well. To me the walking paths symbolize different paths of life that people commit themselves to, such as love (Swann's way walking path) and social status (Guermantes way walking path), and neither of them are the ideal path. I also read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and Siddhartha by Hesse right before Swann's Way so I guess I'm just in that mindset.

Which authors are widely considered to be the best of all time? I see a lot of Joyce, Proust, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, who else?

>>10000000
Put the GOAT in the screenshot

Daily reminder that if he went into physics he'd surpass Einstein, in business he'd surpass Rockefeller, martial arts he'd surpass Bruce Lee. This man was the single smartest and most talented person who ever lived.

What do you people think of Proust and his work? As much as I like it, I find it unsuitable for dedicated, sit-down reading, I have to stick different books in the midst of my reading to be able to not get exhausted by it. (Feels more like I'm simply viewing another man's life, witnessing all the thought processes in the meanwhile, instead of 'reading a novel').

Admittedly I'm a shitter, I've been reading the complete work for almost 2 years now, and yet I've barely managed to get to the middle of Within a Budding Grove.