/lit/ - Literature

>>20825704
One of the "start with the Greeks" was decent, included Aesop and Aristophanes and all that, actually focused on literature.
There's a two-part guide to drama that's so historically detailed and diverse (accounts for Spanish, French theatre, even far-eastern) I doubt it was made by an anglo.
An anon made an absurdly massive chart of ancient and medieval texts that in any way relate to homosexuality. I'm not sure if it's finished.
Some nation-oriented charts are good, as usually they're made by Euros who had proper education in their native literary tradition (e.g. pic related).

>>19216449
pic related for Serbia
+ Miroslav Krleža and Ranko Marinković for Croatia

Something I have found. This has some poetry recommendations, but I'm still interested in short stories

Serbian essential literature v1.2

>>10453872
Came here to post this. He's a genius.
Also, Marinković and Andrić (who usually isn't regarded as a Croatian writer but should be mentioned as well; he won a Nobel, after all)

>>10452742
>mythology
As a Croat, there really isn't any coherent folk mythology here. In the early 20th century Ivana Brlić Mažuranić described the situation: "Whoever has even slightly studied mythology knows that sadly our Slavic mythology in its whole is a collection of nearly incoherent conjectures, a field of ruins from which only names stick out like pillars."
She may have exaggerated, I am not familiar with other slavic mythologies, but that is still absolutely true for Croatian culture. Brlić Mažuranić herself wrote "Tales from long ago", which functions like slavic folk tales and wonderfully captures the feel and atmosphere of them, but they are still only pseudo-mythology, sort of like Tolkien.

Patriotism is far more important in our cultures than folk tales. In Croatia we have Nikola Šubić Zrinski (an opera), Ivan Mažuranić's "Death of Smail-aga Čengić" (Smrt smail-age Čengića, a romanticist epic poem) and August Šenoa's historical novels, for example. In Russia there's Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov", Poland has Sienkiewicz's "With Fire and Sword"...

Ok, if you just want a simple list, from ex-Yugoslavia you should read Miroslav Krleža, Ranko Marinković (Croats), Ivo Andrić, Meša Selimović (Bosnians) and pic related for Serbs. There are other excellent Croatian writers, but their translations are rare or non-existent, so I won't mention them.

enjoy

serbian lit

if you haven't read all of these books you aren't truly well read

in this thread we will post about literature that rarely gets talked about

I'm starting off with a chart to Serbian essential literature that every cultured man should read.
many of these writers were even praised by Harold Bloom.