/lit/ - Literature

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>"though" at the end of sentences

Have you ever learned another language to read a particular author?

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>'though' at the end of sentences
>'based off of'
>using 'mad' as 'angry' rather than 'insane/crazy'
I have always associated them with eggplants and zoomers.

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1. The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”
2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”
3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
4. Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”
5. Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.”
6. Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.”
7. The obsession with a plot. “Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.”
8. The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.”
10. Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”
11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.”
12. Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.”
13. Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.”
14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.

What did he get wrong? What did he get right?

From Umberto Eco's essay 'Ur-Fascism' (1995) in the New York Review.

>read book in English
>it reads like awkward convoluted dogshit
>read a French translation of same book
>absolute improvement, a fine text
The author was Henry James btw. Translations CAN improve a text sometimes.

So don't die, anon.

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Ask us anything

Any books on this topic?

Why there is nothing rather than something?

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I'm translating something just out of boredom and at one point the narrator refers to a river by name without saying what it is. Example: let's say the river is called "Doubs", the narrator says something like "his house was near the Doubs", so my question is, should I translate that as "near the river Doubs" to spare me from having to use a note to specify "Doubs" is a river (something that people from the original language know by culture)? Or should I just say "the Doubs" and do nothing to explain what it is (no note, no "river Doubs")?

why do the cops make lefties seethe so much? it feels like a thousand women in their period ITT

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What books can be considered hard to read for the common reader but rewarding in the end if he puts in the effort?

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Hello /lit/izens. I am a /tv/ chad. Since I actually know good storytelling and my medium didn't die 60 years ago, feel free to ask me anything.

I come from /tv/ so I do not dwell on a dead medium and actually know a lot about good writing, storytelling and culturally significant themes. AMA

>At the setting of the match, I truly was the Master of Go.

Sasuga Kawabata.