/lit/ - Literature

>>23179305
Sometimes it genuinely terrifies me I share a planet with the person who wrote that blurb and the people who read the book in any way except to mock it.
That combination of words in the summary must activate sleeper agents. The entire thing is totally incomprehensible to anyone from 2018 or earlier

>>23135108
I'm a sucker for picaresque fiction I suppose. Ha
Might as well have thrown Rabelais on. I do think at least one of the decameron/canterbury/arabian nights would be good to have because of the frame structure. I've never been partial to Beowulf amongst the heroic stories so no disagreement there. Someone who has read the russians in russian might have a more substantial rebuttal to you than I do

>>22547925
if you're going to shill your book, at the very least make it worthwhile to read

>>22515780
"maverick polyphemos" was the best for me. Imagining john mccain mumbling about eating people had me rolling
>>22515770
There's a joke in there about her being the lolcow of helios or something
>>22515847
I teach undergrad and can confirm that it's being taught in high schools. I teach it in our lit course sequence and get students who are almost convinced an elaborate joke was being played on them when they were reading an actual legitimate translation.

>>22445638
>>22448730
But you really should have a rock solid understanding of geography first.

One of the most hellish things is an author starts writing about an area and I have to stop reading for a moment to go and find the physical location of this new city, or port.

Be able to draw France and England on a piece of paper. Not perfectly mind you, but before you study France, you need to be able to point to Brittany and Genoa on a map. Before you study England, you need to point to Hadrian's wall and Dublin. History is like a jigsaw puzzle. Every book you read is another puzzle piece, so read books that roughly connect to each other rather than reading two isolated books.

Best chudcore poets?

>>22298088
>88

What's your favourite hell from Dante's Inferno?

>27
>Decameron by Boccaccio
>Doing well. Have been busy at work. Need to make friends.

What is some essential literature on philosophy of aesthetics? General /aesthetics/ thread I guess.

>>19856532
It's ok I guess, rent feels like a waste but i can't afford to buy just yet.
>>19856538
Do you reckon writing a diary/memoir might help?

Whether it’s about unrequited love, friendship, abuse, share the best written works on relationships.

>>18829877
>Blasted by Sarah Kane
>La Pelle by Curzio Malaparte
>120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade
>The Second Apocalypse series by R Scott Bakker

>>18804068
>Storm clouds are raging all around my door
>I think to myself I might not take it any more
>Take a woman like your kind
>To find the man in me
>But, oh, what a wonderful feeling
>Just to know that you are near
>Sets my a heart a-reeling
>From my toes up to my ears
>The man in me will hide sometimes to keep from bein' seen
>But that's just because he doesn't want turn into some machine
>Took a woman like you
>To get through to the man in me