/lit/ - Literature

where do i start with goethe?

Hey /lit/erati I am curious what our demographics are. Post your highest academic degree, field of study, favorite genre, and favorite text(s) in the genre.

I'll start
>PhD
>Philosophy
>German Idealism
>Primary Text: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
>Secondary Text: Eckart Förster's The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy

It has to do with the immortal spirit and tradition so synonymous with Masonry.

I make Creative Commons licensed electronic music, and I have recently started incorporating lyrics adapted from Public Domain poetry and quotations. I use TTS software and heavily edit the timing and pitch to create something vaguely like singing.

If you have any favourite, exceptionally old poems that you think would work as musical lyrics, please let me know.

My stipulations:
The poem (or historical quotation) must have been published before 1901.
The original text and an English translation must be available online.

Previously released pieces:
(text, translation and citation in video descriptions)

maiori forsan
https://youtu.be/kHvFHiRan2A
辞世とは
https://youtu.be/xBL01B37YdA
Gnyðja mundu grísir
https://youtu.be/0Rk8t-MgEms
馬を
https://youtu.be/CwQptyZ-uug

Looking for canonical biographies on Caesar and Napoleon. Also, post canonical biographies on other great men.

>>18542699
Was pic related just doing what Mass Media had told him?
Because he was sleeping around, getting drunk, possibly trying drugs and indulging his Orientalist views of praising the East while despising Europe.

Nah, he wasn't.
The problem is you who won't be able to enjoy life as it is and complain "it's just that I am too smart for decay"

get a life

>>17339416
>literature
i only read college textbooks. im not wasting my time with crappy recs from /lit/

https://opensyllabus.org/

>right wing is Nazi
>it's okay to punch Nazi
>Nazis are monsters and not people
>fight monsters like in the movies
Seems like a dialectical shift happened at some time that responds to perceived totalitarian sensibilities as treatable with totalitarian methods. Cancel culture is a response to former left wing movements and an unconscious embrace of "right wing" totalitarian methods. It's all so soft though because soft people are behind it. Older crowds will continue to be upset as online continents emerge to rectify the discomfort.

Read hamlet AND then read Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

is there any sort of penpal program where i can write to someone from across the world.

>>16267346
You have to have a prerequisite knowledge of all of Goethe’s, Kant’s and Schopenhauer’s works to truly grasp the philosophical message behind those lyrics. Basically, it’s affirming A = A and A =/= A, exemplifying the inherent duality and unity in all things, the true metaphysical will.

How's your writing coming along, anon? Are you working on a project at the minute?

My ~6k short story is now sitting at ~20k words and I'm not finished yet. I think I might have tricked myself into a novel.

What are some overrated writers whose works have that outlived themself?

For those who speak German, what about Goethe is so great that does not come across in translation. What about his prose/verse makes him the German Shakespeare?

Philosophy mainly makes life more interesting now, getting at what could be the truth is a mere side-effect. The more a philosophy is like a work of art the better it is.

Saudi Arabian literature thread

>>15157296
>In the
winter of 1813-14 Goethe often engaged in philosophic conversation with the disillusionized youth whose moroseness and unsociability invited unfavorable comment on many sides, not least from his own mother. He initiated him into his pet theory, the anti-Newtonian 'Farbenlehre,' and on this subject the two afterwards kept up a lively correspondence. On many occasions Goethe expressed praise and admiration for the young scholar who, he said, ' will outgrow us all some fine day.'

>Not getting masters degrees in Literature, Philosophy and a Science

It's like you don't even want to be one of the Immortals

>>15048285
it is possible though

Which translation of Goethe's Faust is the best?

What was Goethe's point about Romanticism? That it's an unhealthy way to think and feel that leads to tragedy? What is the alternative? Does he either explicitly or implicitly display any alternatives within any of his books?

Is it me, or does Faust lose the plot in part two? What's with the gryphons and sphinxes, and where did he get the three mothers from?