/lit/ - Literature

>>22885779
Essays in Idleness by Yoshida Kenkō abated my loneliness and taught me to slow down and look at the aesthetic beauty inherent in things.
The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald made me feel incredibly desolate and aware of being surrounded by all-encompassing, ever-present Destruction.
Not a traditionalist, but Guénon's Reign of Quantity opened my eyes to a more acute awareness of the vertical dimension of human life.
Dante, and part of Cristoforo Landino's commentary on the Commedia, made me see poetry transcends all other art and how poets can bring down divinely inspired wisdom.
Also, platonic philosophy and religious scriptures, obviously, but I feel that's almost cheating.

>>18205622
>The shadow of night is drawn like a black veil across the earth, and since almost all creatures, from one meridian to the next, lie down after the sun has set, so, he continues, one might, in following the setting sun, see on our globe nothing but prone bodies, row upon row, as if leveled by the scythe of Saturn—an endless graveyard for a humanity struck by falling sickness.
Incredible book. His best, but the other three 'novels', his non-fiction, and his unfinished 'Campo Santo' are all worth reading.