/lit/ - Literature

>>18480453
pt 2.

>>18478685
>>18478897
>>18478986
I'll put it up in a month or two. I'm building a website to host a few different projects on and once its done I'll have pdfs of this and some other books there for free. In the meantime you can get a copy here >>18477617 and help support me to be a NEET who reads and translates all day long :^)

>>18478706
Its a really great company. I think their print on demand model is going to revolutionize printing, there's been a couple other posters I've seen on /lit/ also using it to promote their work, translations, etc. It cuts out the middle man of going through an established publisher so anybody can put out books and promote them without any gatekeeping.

>>18477895
I could get behind this. Something I've noticed from Shimoi's work is the sheer amount of self promotion he and his friends give each other, its that kind of community of writers promoting each others books and interacting with each other that made all the prewar/postwar art movements possible. Would be cool to see /lit/ spawn something similar. I know for a fact that I'm not the first person on /lit/ to use Lulu as a platform for translations.

>>18479053
Thanks anon, you're a good guy.

>>18478923
I've been surprised by how interested in western literature a lot of Japanese authors are. Recently I was reading Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and he spends a chapter talking about Montaigne and Mainländer and criticizing Schopenhauer for being all talk and not killing himself. Its a shame many Westerners don't have the same dynamism and willingness to learn from other cultures as the Japanese do. But then, the Japanese are pretty incredible in that capacity.