/lit/ - Literature

Why haven't you read Rabelais?

What are some of the best resources for learning symbolism and its analysis in literature? It would be impossible to appreciate the entirety of a given scholar's ability to reference in oftentimes obscure ways, so how would I best understand common and uncommon patterns so that I may at least have some grasp of the symbolism that is in some of my favorite literature?

>>9000711

confirmed actual /lit/erati

What does /lit/ think of François Rabelais?

Don't be a shit all your life. - Rabelais

>>8488112
heh, someone's grumpy i didn't like his lit waifu.
No, i'm sure Davy Wally is a great author. You're right, but aren't you always?

>In such ways, those who had been great lords in this world earned a poor, wretched, nasty living there below. Philosophers on the contrary, and those who had been indigent in this world had their turn at being fat lords in that world beyond.

>I saw Diogenes, in a large purple robe, a sceptre in his right hand, parading magnificently about like a prelate and driving Alexander the Great to distraction for having failed properly to patch his breeches; he paid him for it with great thwacks from his stick.

What's your excuse for not reading G&P?

Is /lit/ faster today for some reason?

Also who is this guy? He's in a collection of books I own but I've never heard of him. What is his best work?

>>7525782
oh the one on lib gen, les éditions des londres, has a contemporary adaptation and the original so i'll guess i'll go for that one

Swift and de Sade, too.