/lit/ - Literature

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Here is the only list you'll need:
https://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/beste.html

What do you think of the literary tastes of the award-winning art critic Piero Scaruffi?
Novels: https://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/best100.html
Poems: https://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/bestpo.html
Plays: https://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/bestth.html

Kafka, Franz: The Trial (1915)
Stendhal: The Red and the Black (1830)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russia, 1821): "Bratia Karamazovy/ Brothers Karamazov" (1880)
Mann, Thomas: Buddenbrooks (1901)
James, Henry: The Golden Bowl
Joyce, James: Ulysses
Francois Rabelais (France, 1494): "Gargantua et Pantagruel" (1552)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spain, 1547): "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha" (1615)
Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margherita (1940)
Witkiewicz, Stanislaw: Insatiability
Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Nabokov, Vladimir: Ada
Pynchon, Thomas: Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
Gogol, Nikolaj: Dead Souls (1852)
Faulkner, William: Light in August
Dostoevskij, Fyodor: The Idiot (1869)
Musil: The Man Without Qualities(1933)
Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
Tolstoy, Lev: War and Peace
Celine: Journey to the End of the Night (1932)
GarciaMarquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
Zola, Emile: Germinal (1885)
Bolano, Roberto: 2666 (2003)
Canetti: Autodafe (1935)
Balzac, Honore: Eugene Grandet (1833)
Jose, Saramago: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984)
Svevo, Italo: Coscienza di Zeno/ Zeno's Consciousness (1923)
Bernhard, Thomas: "Korrektur/ Correction" (1975)
Goncarov, Ivan: Oblomov (1859)
Carpentier, Alejo: "Lost Steps" (1953)
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary (1856)
Gaddis, William: The Recognitions
Pavese, Cesare: Luna e i Falo'/ Moon and Bonfires (1950)
Krasznahorkai, Laszlo: Satantango (1985)
Cortazar, Julio: Rayuela (1963)
Vargas-Llosa, Mario: "Conversacion en la Catedral" (1969)
Gide: Les Faux-Monnayeurs (1925)
Barth, John: Giles Goat Boy
Murakami, Haruki: "Sekai no Owari to Ha-doboirudo Wanda-rando/ Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" (1985)
Camus: "The Stranger" (1942)
Kis, Danilo: Clessidra (1972)
Schnitzler, Arthur: Traumnovelle/ Dream Story (1925)
Lem: Solaris (1961)
Peter Nadas (1942): "Emlekiratok Konyve/ Book of Memoirs" (1986)
Melville: "Moby Dick" (1851)
Marcel Proust: "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu" (1922)
Rushdie: "Midnight's Children" (1980)
Bellow, Saul: "Herzog" (1964)
Pavic, Milroad: "The Dictionary of the Khazars" (1984)
Donoso, Jose: "El Obsceno Pajaro de la Noche" (1970) ++
Lessing, Doris: "The Golden Notebook" (1962)
Hrabal, Bohumil: "Prilis Hlucna Samota/ Too Loud a Solitude (1976)
Tanizaki, Junichiro: "Sasameyuki/ Makioka Sisters" (1948)
Gadda: Cognizione del Dolore (1963)

>French-born Michel Foucault was launched by a massive marketing campaign as the French response to Nietzsche with Discipline & Punish (1975). The book was ridicule: the only thing that was truly interesting was his impersonation of the bald clown, i.e. his lack of hair. The novelty works for just a few months. After another terrible book, History of Sexuality (1976), he was wiped out by the new wave.

>The hype was rapidly forgotten and he died in 1984 of AIDS.

According to Piero Scaruffi it's the second best novel of all time though I'm pretty sure he stole his list of books from somewhere else and hasn't actually read most of them.

Only serious answer ITT:
https://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/bestj.html

I'm a 100 iq midwit and I'm looking for books that will hold my attention but still be enjoyable. I've been going through some philosophy books but my attention usually gives out less than halfway though and I think the book would be better as just a 15 page article. Anyone have any books that I could read fully and enjoy the entire way through? I'm interesting in art, music, cinema, culture, history, philosophy (not much).

>Why are there age limits? Why can't I marry an 8-year old? Helen of Troy was 12. Juliet and Cleopatra were still teenagers when they became famous. Most heroines of classic novels and poems were underage by today's laws. Thomas Edison married a 16-year-old. Medical studies show that the best age for a woman to have children is between 15 and 25 (lowest chances of miscarriage, of birth defects and, last but not least, of the woman dying while giving birth); while the worst age is after the mid 30s. And the younger you are, the more likely you are to cement a real friendship with your children; the older you are, the more likely that the "generational gap" will hurt your children's psychology. Therefore it is much more natural to have a child at 16 than at 40. In countless countries of the world women have their first child at a very young age, and stop having children at a relatively young age. Nonetheless, in the USA it is illegal to have sex before 18 (but, note, only if the partner is over 18, which is like saying that it is ok to rob a bank if you are a banker), while it is perfectly legal to get pregnant at 40 or (thanks to medical progress) even at 70.
>Note that all of these forms of marriage were common in ancient times before the introduction of Christian "morality" (Islam, which came after Christianity, still allows them). Therefore one could find stronger arguments in favor of these forms of marriage than in favor of homosexual marriage (which has been relatively rare throughout the centuries and is persecuted in just about every society of the world).

What can I read if i want to learn art criticism? I want to learn how to converse and argue about art like critics do. They seem to understand the philosophy about how to make an argument for art and I haven't been able to find anything that goes over that. I'll take a book that goes over any type. Music, film, painting etc.

>>14198305
Why are there limits?

>>13868378
Nice bait lol

>1. Kafka, Franz: The Trial (1915)
>2. Stendhal: The Red and the Black (1830)
>3. Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russia, 1821): "Bratia Karamazovy/ Brothers Karamazov" (1880)
>4. Mann, Thomas: Buddenbrooks (1901)
>5. James, Henry: The Golden Bowl
>6. Joyce, James: Ulysses
>7. Francois Rabelais (France, 1494): "Gargantua et Pantagruel" (1552)
>8. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spain, 1547): "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha" (1615)
>9. Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margherita (1940)
>10. Witkiewicz, Stanislaw: Insatiability
>11. Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
>12. Nabokov, Vladimir: Ada
>13. Pynchon, Thomas: Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
>14. Gogol, Nikolaj: Dead Souls (1852)
>15. Faulkner, William: Light in August
>16. Dostoevskij, Fyodor: The Idiot (1869)
>17. Musil: The Man Without Qualities(1933)
>18. Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
>19. Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
>20. Tolstoy, Lev: War and Peace
>21. Celine: Journey to the End of the Night (1932)
>22. GarciaMarquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
>23. Zola, Emile: Germinal (1885)
>24. Canetti: Autodafe (1935)
>25. Balzac, Honore: Eugene Grandet (1833)
>26. Jose, Saramago: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984)
>27. Svevo, Italo: Coscienza di Zeno/ Zeno's Consciousness (1923)
>28. Bernhard, Thomas: "Korrektur/ Correction" (1975)
>29. Goncarov, Ivan: Oblomov (1859)
>30. Carpentier, Alejo: "Lost Steps" (1953)
>31. Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary (1856)
>32. Gaddis, William: The Recognitions
>33. Pavese, Cesare: Luna e i Falo'/ Moon and Bonfires (1950)
>34. Krasznahorkai, Laszlo: Satantango (1985)
>35. Cortazar, Julio: Rayuela (1963)
>36. Vargas-Llosa, Mario: "Conversacion en la Catedral" (1969)
>37. Gide: Les Faux-Monnayeurs (1925)
>38. Barth, John: Giles Goat Boy
>39. Murakami, Haruki: "Sekai no Owari to Ha-doboirudo Wanda-rando/ Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" (1985)
>40. Camus: "The Stranger" (1942)
>41. Kis, Danilo: Clessidra (1972)
>42. Schnitzler, Arthur: Traumnovelle/ Dream Story (1925)
>43. Lem: Solaris (1961)
>44. Peter Nadas (1942): "Emlekiratok Konyve/ Book of Memoirs" (1986)
>45. Melville: "Moby Dick" (1851)
>46. Marcel Proust: "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu" (1922)
>47. Rushdie: "Midnight's Children" (1980)
>48. Bellow, Saul: "Herzog" (1964)
>49. Pavic, Milroad: "The Dictionary of the Khazars" (1984)
>50. Donoso, Jose: "El Obsceno Pajaro de la Noche" (1970) ++
>51. Lessing, Doris: "The Golden Notebook" (1962)
>52. Hrabal, Bohumil: "Prilis Hlucna Samota/ Too Loud a Solitude (1976)
>53. Tanizaki, Junichiro: "Sasameyuki/ Makioka Sisters" (1948)
>54. Gadda: Cognizione del Dolore (1963)
Maybe not the greatest but also favorites:
>Gombrowicz: Pornography (1960)
>PerezGaldos, Benito: Nazarin (1895)
>Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1985)
>Abe Kobo: Woman in the Dunes (1962)
>Buzzati, Dino: Deserto dei tartari (1940)
>Unamuno, Miguel: Nebla (1914)
>Oe, Kenzaburo: Silent Cry (1967)
>Singer, Isaac: Moskat Family (1950)

1. Kafka, Franz: The Trial (1915)
2. Stendhal: The Red and the Black (1830)
3. Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russia, 1821): "Bratia 4. Karamazovy/ Brothers Karamazov" (1880)
4. Mann, Thomas: Buddenbrooks (1901)
5. James, Henry: The Golden Bowl
6. Joyce, James: Ulysses
7. Francois Rabelais (France, 1494): "Gargantua et Pantagruel" (1552)
8. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spain, 1547): "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha" (1615)
9. Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margherita (1940)
10. Witkiewicz, Stanislaw: Insatiability

Well, /lit/?

>>>/mu/

The real question is, who can be our Scaruffi.

As a woman, the more beautiful you are the less motivated you are to improve your intelligence, knowledge, skills, and personality in general by 50% of the population. If you are beautiful, you get plenty of attention anyway, and for most people "attention" is a main driver of personality development. You are in demand all the time, regardless.
Worse: it is very likely that men pretend to be impressed by whatever she says and does, a fact that may further diminish her motivation to self-improvement, and may further increase the reason that women don't find her interesting.
The risk is that a big component of her cognitive development stops at 16. She doesn't need to inform herself on current events, read books, watch intellectual movies, go to lectures, etc because she is invited by so many males to so many events. Cute girls don't need to come up with topics of conversation. It is their male suitors who desperately try to find a topic of conversation that interests them. She doesn't need to have a personality to attract attention, and the risk is that she won't form one. She is not genetically dumb, but the risk is that she will get progressively "dumb".

Since 1850 and only one per writer.

1. Kafka, Franz: The Trial (1915)
2. Stendhal: The Red and the Black (1830)
3. Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russia, 1821): "Bratia Karamazovy/ Brothers Karamazov" (1880)
4. Mann, Thomas: Buddenbrooks (1901)
5. James, Henry: The Golden Bowl
6. Joyce, James: Ulysses
7. Francois Rabelais (France, 1494): "Gargantua et Pantagruel" (1552)
8. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spain, 1547): "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha" (1615)
9. Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margherita (1940)
10. Witkiewicz, Stanislaw: Insatiability
11. Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
12. Nabokov, Vladimir: Ada
13. Pynchon, Thomas: Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
14. Gogol, Nikolaj: Dead Souls (1852)
15. Faulkner, William: Light in August
16. Dostoevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot (1869)
17. Musil: The Man Without Qualities(1933)
18. Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
19. Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
20. Tolstoy, Lev: War and Peace
21. Celine: Journey to the End of the Night (1932)
22. Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
23. Zola, Emile: Germinal (1885)
24. Canetti: Autodafe (1935)
25. Balzac, Honore: Eugene Grandet (1833)

The more beautiful you are the less motivated you are to improve your intelligence, knowledge, skills, and personality in general by 50% of the population. If you are beautiful, you get plenty of attention anyway, and for most people "attention" is a main driver of personality development. You are in demand all the time, regardless.
Worse: it is very likely that men pretend to be impressed by whatever she says and does, a fact that may further diminish her motivation to self-improvement, and may further increase the reason that women don't find her interesting.
The risk is that a big component of her cognitive development stops at 16. She doesn't need to inform herself on current events, read books, watch intellectual movies, go to lectures, etc because she is invited by so many males to so many events. Cute girls don't need to come up with topics of conversation. It is their male suitors who desperately try to find a topic of conversation that interests them. She doesn't need to have a personality to attract attention, and the risk is that she won't form one. She is not genetically dumb, but the risk is that she will get progressively "dumb".

Anyone here ever read any of his books?

>>9916028

http://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/besti.html

The fact that so many books still name Harry Potter “the greatest or most significant or most influential” children’s series ever only tells you how far kid’s writing still is from becoming a serious art. Drama critics have long recognized that the greatest drama writers of all times are Tolstoy or Goethe, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Romance critics rank the highly controversial Harlequin over classic writers who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Children’s book critics are still blinded by commercial success: Harry Potter sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Romance critics grow up reading a lot of romance books of the past, drama critics grow up reading a lot of drama books of the past. Children’s book critics are often totally ignorant of the children’s books of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that JK Rowling did anything worth of being saved.

What does /lit/ think of him? Why isn't he /ourguy/ like /mu/? He's a thinker.