/lit/ - Literature

>Mine is a highly susceptible, intense, voracious yet uncommonly sensitive and fastidious sensuality, which must somehow or other be flattered if my mind is to accomplish the agonizing labor of calling a non-existent world into being.

>>20944744

What author had the biggest brain?

>>19350010

>>19235494
What does this mean?

>>18687704
>gay alien skull
You called?

>>18653146
skull mogged.

>>18459254
>His physical appearance in 1839 was described by the painter Friedrich Pecht: strikingly elegant, indeed aristocratic in his appearance, despite his somewhat short legs, and with such a strikingly beautiful woman on his arm (his wife Minna] that she alone would have sufficed to make the couple interesting, if Wagner himself had not had such an arresting head that one’s attention was involuntarily fixed upon him.

>Meeting him a few years later (1843), the author Eliza Wille described him thus: It had remained a fleeting encounter […]. But Wagner’s features had impressed themselves on my mind: his elegant, supple figure, the head with the mighty brow, the acute eye and the energetic lines around his small and tightly closed mouth. A painter who was sitting next to me drew my attention to his straight, protruding chin, which seemed to be carved out of stone, giving the face a special character.

>>18031049
Don't mind me, just posting the greatest German poet since Goethe.

Is redemption a valid philosophical concept?

Wagner believed his poems/libretti were worth reading alone as a play, was he right?

>>17211576
Read Wagner's own essays and prose works. One of the most important thinkers on art during the 19th century, and was instrumental for much more, such as anthropology.

>>16403399
>>16403420
What were his thoughts?