/lit/ - Literature

>>15212143
Exactly.

>>15212153
Join your local pop-up gaeltacht.
Táim ábalta gaeilge a labhairt le mo chairde anois mar an ócáid. Tá a lán craic ann, agus eiríonn an teanga níos éasca le t-am. Is féidir leat bualadh le daoine suimiúla freisin.

>>15211910
Spent a whole summer learning Ancient Greek to read Homer. Made poor translations of the Iliad's first few chapters, but was very much worth it. Made me appreciate Homer so much more.

I'm always learning Irish, but thinking of soon learning some German for a better appreciation of Kant, Hegel, and Marx.

>>15121650
You're doing it wrong. Beckett isn't 'understood' in a logical sense, it is all built on intuition, reflexivity and paradox. Beckett studies is a massive field, and all of the scholars approach him very differently for these reasons. Read the trilogy of novels and I think you'll get a stronger idea of what he is doing, which in my view is: to undermine the entire history of thought. This sounds reductive, and it is, there's a LOT to it. He understands the mind more than most. If you're looking to go further with the plays, Endgame is much more straightforward and accessible, and I think personally, his best. He wrote in French, because he had a basic understanding of French, and so when he translated his work back into English, he was only using the most essential language. In this sense he is erudite, although I'm sure you could find any number of passages that would appear to the less patient or initiated to be purple prose gibberish. Beckett is usually framed as responding to Joyce, so looking into that dynamic may be helpful to you to an extent. But in my view he eclipses Joyce. One of the all-time greats. The wisest, funniest, most touching writer for me.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

>>14809756
Damn...Samuel Beckett looks like THAT???