/lit/ - Literature

What are some kino books in defense of socialism in the modern era?

My mother recently died and I'm now sorting through her large collection of books.
She had, among a lot more:
>Complete Kafka
>Complete Shakespeare
>Complete Ovid and Livy.
>Robert Graves
>Complete English De Sade
>Biographies of Joe Orton (+ diaries) Warhol (+ diaries) Lucian Freud, Picasso, Rupert Everett, Agatha Christie, Philip Larkin, Salvador Dali, Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas and Coco Chanel.
>Several books by Houellebecq
>Complete Jeanette Winterson
>Complete Martin and Kingsley Amis.
>Complete Steinbeck
>Complete Orwell.
>Chaucer
>Complete Margaret Drabble
>Complete Iain Banks (dude who wrote Wasp Factory)
>Complete Dylan Thomas
>A whole load of classical and contemporary art books.
>Plus every UK Bestseller for the past 20 years, and loads of more obscure novels from that time.

Whenever I tried to talk about literature she told me to shut up, and she never talked about it either, though she knew it was my main interest. wtf.

Jordan Peterson is living proof that fame destroys people. The guy had a lot more interesting shit to say when he was just some random unknown psych professor who recorded his lectures.

>>17922055
>Would they fast forward a movie too?
Yes, they do. I have known first hand that young zoomers play netflix series at 1.25 or 1.5 speed so they can binge watch more. I am not kidding.

>>17808060

Psychoanalysis was dropped because it's too intellectually demanding for psychology students. I've been to a few therapies years ago and can't imagine these idiots understanding something like this.

>>15259016
>>15257123
Oh wow, this is a translation of a poem I found at an exhibition of children's poetry like a year ago. It's written by children that fled from war-torn countries, primarily Syria. I'm
>>15252425
by the way. The exhibition had their poems painted over the walls, there's also a book with the collected poems. Unfortunately I can't seem to find a copy online, but I found a paper on it, so here's some more translations. The Aleppo one is definitely my favorite though.

War eats apples. Vases, flowers, paper.
Eats girls and boys too.
Now war stomps his foot. He's angry.
-Zainab Hamdoun, 10 years old

Peace dove, why do you hide?
We need you.
Endure for my sake.
Me and you against the war.
-Tala Abrezj, 13 years old

A refugee is like the tree in our garden.
I pulled it from the ground
to plant it in our neighbors garden.
But it died.
-???

>tfw you realize every book is about awakening to higher consciousness
EVERY
SINGLE
ONE
WAKE
UP

>Man ate from the tree of knowledge and God banished him from eden and hid the tree of life

>>11475384
Circular ruins, library of Babylon

>>11475341
I just read this as well OP. he packs lots of info into a few pages. I had low expectations going in but pleasantly surprised. Will definitely be rereading at some point

What if our ideas and cultures are like creatures engaged in a memetic darwinian survival of the fittest? Meta creatures evolving within our collective sphere of thought

are books hyperreal?

>>11212689
Don DeCucko morelike

>character attempts a monologue on ineffable experiences.

How do you feel about the slang and linguistic quirks of your hometown?

Something to be shed and left behind like baby teeth, or something to be used as a weapon against the homogenisation of language?

>title of the book is the title of a book in the book.

I just got into /literature/ this year again. I'm going to start on the Western Canon soon, but here's what I've read so far to get back into reading.

> Beowulf (Heaney)
> The Stranger (Camus)
> Meditations (Aurelius)
> The Myth of Sisyphus (Camus)
> Frankenstein (Shelley)
> Why I Am Not A Christian (Russel)
> Tao Te Ching (Tzu)
> Grendel (Gardner)
> Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut)
> The Hobbit (Tolkie )
> Siddhartha (Hesse)
> Beowulf (Tolkien)
> Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
> The Pearl (Steinbeck)
> In Dubious Battle (Steinbeck)
> Huck Finn (Twain)
> Tom Sawyer (Twain)
> A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce)
> Stoner (Williams)
> Dubliners (Joyce)
> Ulysses (Joyce)
> The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)

>>9621079
>tfw Violet Baudelaire and Sabrina from a Pokémon are the earliest waifus I can remember

>>9576607
>What can I expect?

Annoying levels of Derridaean deconstruction and in general postmodernistic literary criticism.

When you're done you're going to be an exceptionally nihilistic but bourgeois liberal who thinks the meaning of life is cocktail parties.

>>9577830
This is obviously it.

>>9525030

Tell me your family members' favourite books.

>>9494438
OP here, yeah I get the same. Kind of that feeling like when you're sitting on a cliff and think: "I could just push off, a slight little push, and I'd fall to my death". Or you could just stab someone. You're life would be fucked forever, but it's a possibility.

You _could_ just do that. There's nothing stopping you. And it's absolutely terrifying.

When I'm walking down the street, that random guy could stab me in the neck and my life would be over. It's so fragile, and yet I delude myself into thinking it's more robust than it actually is. It could end at any moment.

Absolute freedom combined with the "veil" lifting from time to time is terrifying.

Post your favourite euphemisms.

>in the family way