/lit/ - Literature

I just ordered this bad boy. What should I expect?

wtf i love japanese literature now

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São Paulo

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The Makioka Sisters (Tanizaki);
The History of Art (Gombrich);
Dead Souls (Gogol);
Sentimento do Mundo (Carlos Drummond de Andrade);

Thought on Jun'ichirō Tanizaki ? Is this book worth the read ?

Come read The Makioka Sisters / 細雪 with us. It's like Japanese Anna Karenina in terms of importance/cultural relevance/general aesthetic, or so I was told. Learn yourself something about Actually Important TM Japanese literature instead of shitposting Murakami and Mishima memes.

Epub available in the pinned messages on Discord.

We start tomorrow, finish by Jan 13.

https://discord.gg/EqTc4Kb

Tanizaki is without a doubt the greatest japanese novelist that ever lived and pic related is his magnum opus and the most important modern japanese novel. Anyone who disagrees with this has either i) not enough knowledge of japanese history, culture and society ii) not enough familiarity with japanese literature, specially modern literature