/lit/ - Literature

Am I a brainlet if I find this hard to read?

>*starts ranting about how Thule and Atlantis are totally true bro*
You didn't fall for this piece of shit, did you anon?

I just got a few chapters into pic related and I've never came across a book that I had to look so many words up. I've got a list of about 20 words so far. Figured doing it this way and studying those words would help my vocabulary.

What are some of the highest reading level books and where does this rank? It certainly has the most esoteric words I've come across in a book.

>>16959491
>And is there a precise moment in time where you believe things were better?

No, and this is what memesters don’t get about the traditionalists.

From the foreword to Revolt Against the World:
>”As far as the historical aspect is concerned, it is necessary to indicate the width of the horizons confronting us. In an antitraditional sense, the first forces of decadence began to be tangibly manifested between the eighth and the sixth centuries B.C., as can be concluded from the sporadic and characteristic alterations in the forms of the social and spiritual life of many peoples that occurred during this time. Thus, the limit corresponds to so-called historical times, since according to many people, whatever occurred before this period no longer constitutes the object of “history.” History is replaced by legends and myths and thus no hard facts can be established, only conjectures. The fact remains, however, that according to traditional teachings, the abovementioned period merely inherited the effects of even more remote causes; during this period, what was presaged was the critical phase of an even longer cycle known in the East us the “Dark Age,” in the classical world as the " Iron Age,” and in the Nordic sagas, as the “Age of the Wolf. [...]
This is the case as far as the historical aspect is concerned, and yet this aspect is totally relative. If everything that is “historical” is included in what is “modem,” then to go beyond the modem world (which is the only way to reveal its meaning), is essentially a process of traveling beyond the limits that most people assign to “history.” It is necessary to understand that in this direction, we no longer find anything that is susceptible again to becoming “history.” The fact that positive inquiry was not able to make history beyond a certain period is not at all a fortuitous circumstance, nor is it due to a mere uncertainty concerning sources and dates or to the lack of vestigial traces. In order to understand the spiritual background typical of every nonmodem civilization, it is necessary to retain the idea that the opposition between historical times and “prehistoric” or “mythological” times is not the relative opposition proper to two homogeneous parts of the same time frame, but rather the qualitative and substantial opposition between times (or experiences of time) that are not of the same kind. Traditional man did not have the same experience of time as modem man; he had a supertemporal sense of time and in this sensation lived every form of his worid, Thus, the modem researchers of “history” at a given point encounter an interruption of the series and an incomprehensible gap, beyond which they cannot construct any “certain” and meaningful historical theory; they can only rely upon fragmentary, external, and often contradictoiy elements—unless they radically change their method and mentality.”
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>>16401597

Redpill me on Julius Evola

How much of a meme is this book? Is there legitimate critique of modern society in here or it just mindless reactionary rhetoric?

hey /lit/

i have a reading group with a few friends and evola is on the list for this week. want to pick a short extract from Revolt Against the Modern World or Ride the Tiger, only problem is none of us have read the books.

What would be a good chapter or extract to pick that gives a small glimpse of what Evola's on about?

When did you realize that the Islamic State is the living realization of the radical Traditionalist revolt against modernity that men like Julius Evola dreamed of?

What are /lit/'s thoughts on Julius Evola's work?

>>6370623

What i'm into, /lit/?