/lit/ - Literature

Pic related by far. Anything by Handke, Alice Munro, Patrick Modiano. I think Crash by J.G. Ballard is incredibly weak. For classics, Sappho is literally unreadable, and Hesiod is subhuman. Too many philosophy books to list, but definitely Schopenhauer’s Essays and Aphorisms and anything by Leibniz. I think Nabokov’s early American novels reveal how little he actually had to contribute, Laughter in the Dark is substantially worse than several pulp novels I’ve read. Speaking of, Raymond Chandler is a hack for low iqs. I can say the same about John Barth, whose Lost in the Funhouse is not very fun at all. I’m not a weeb, so anything I pick up by Mishima, Tanazaki, Kawabata, etc. is pointless to my rarified sensibilities.