/lit/ - Literature

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>Are you trying to learn every romance language no matter how pointless to unlock some Xbox Achievement?
As a matter of fact, I kind of am. I speak portuguese natively, am fluent in italian, started learning latin recently and want to learn french (which will be the hardest) and spanish (which will be the easiest) as well.

I started learning italian purely because of literature (and still, main motivation to learn French and Spanish is literature), but in the process I realized I really love learning new languages, and because of this "pre-disposition" to learn Romantic Languages because they all derived from Latin, I figured why not try to learn Romanian too, which is a beautiful language, even if doesn't have that many classics/great books or even if it is not an emerginc economic potency? Why not use the potential to learn it?

my two inspirations are joyce and pic related, magnificent modernist brazilian writer Guimarães Rosa.

"I speak: Portuguese, German, French, English, Spanish, Italian, Esperanto, some Russian; I read: Swedish, Dutch, Latin and Greek (but with the dictionary right next to me); I understand some German dialects; I studied the grammar of: Hungarian, Arabic, Sanskrit, Lithuanian, Polish, Tupi, Hebrew, Japanese, Czech, Finnish, Danish; I dabbled in others. But all at a very basic level. And I think that studying the spirit and the mechanism of other languages helps greatly to more deeply understand the national language [of Brazil]. In general, however, I studied for pleasure, desire, distraction".

Maybe later on I will even try German and Esperanto

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really, putting assis next to jayce and proust? for me, guimarães rosa is way superior, and if there is one brazilian writer to compare to these 2 guys, its obviously Rosa. given, I dislike realism and romance, after reading the realist trilogy, reading Grande sertão: veredas was a fucking relief, seriously. love me some modernism.

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guimarães rosa, brazilian. wrote grande sertão: veredas, or, the devil to pay in the backlands

some /lit/ gentlemen that had cats
>jorge luis borges
>jean paul sartre
>edgar allan poe
>charles dickens
>guimarães rosa
>Mark Twain - “When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.”