/lit/ - Literature

>>16603830
Due to a lack of funds, i can't buy anything on paper nor can i purchase an e-reader, so i've been reading on my smartphone and lord knows how uncomfortable it is. The ADD also isn't helping, as i tend to quickly give up and jump from one task to the other.
So far i've been getting through pic related, the sickness unto death, and ariel.
I feel like i'm not processing information correctly, and if you guys have any tips on how to deal with that i would be very thankful.

What is the point of this book? Does it get better? Read about one third of it and still nothing is happening.

>The average reader will spend 14 hours and 38 minutes reading The Magic Mountain at 250 WPM (words per minute).

What am I in for?

Just finished pic related. Hold me, bros.

Every cover for this book is pure #aesthetics

What was the magic mountain even about? It felt like I was having an acid trip the whole time and it was fun to read but I didn't learn anything.

Mohamed/Ahmed w/e, here you go

Woolf is shit
read some real patrician modernism instead, pic related is the same "rich people talking and shit" but 10000 times better

>>8912330
forgot pic

Just finished reading this
Jesus Christ just fucking hold me

>You will never goof around with Hans Castorp, discussing the illusion of time.
>You will never just walk quietly with Joachim Ziemßen.
>You will never listen to Naphta and Settembrini having brilliant discussion
>You will never pretend to speak French with Madame Chauchat.
>You will never joke around with Behrens.
>The 20th century is over.
Why even live?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j65v7OqlW6I

I've spent my entire life desperately wishing that I was someone other than who I am. Is this going to be the rest of my life?

I heard this book was very difficult, but when I saw it in the library today I read the first couple pages and it was delightful. The prose literally delighted me. Should I check it out next time I go?

I'm just warming up OP

"Right-Wing" literature stopped existing after the French Revolution and the Enlightenment.

For example one can historically see this change:

pre-revolution and concurrently to it: Philosophic-religious justification for Absolute Monarchy. (Burke, De Maistre)

post-revolution: Justification for Republican Tory-ism , defined by enlightenment values (Hume, Kant, Hegel, Rousseau)


The most elusive is reactionarism which was was never a legitimate movement, for example Nietzsche is not exactly a reactionary but an aristocratic anarchist with more in common with Machiavelli (grand politics) than Junker. Junker on the other hand advocated a purely Platonic republic built on common values.

Another aspect of this misunderstanding is that Nazism and Fascism were confused for reactionary movements (i.e. traditionalism) when in fact they were the penultimate expression for the Enlightenment. (culminating in techno-scientific nihilism as Heidegger discovered)

A good deal of this opposition is found in Thomas Man's book The Magic Mountain, especially Enlightenment Humanism vs. Communitarian traditionalism. But it is a fact that traditionalism was never a movement in politics,but an incarnation of various "resistances" against Capitalism (Catholicism is especially noteworthy for it's resistance to the new order of things)

Is this worth reading, or is it a gigantic bore?

So far I'm interested, but it does seem like the book will get boring as it drags on. Opinions?

Which translation is better, H T Lowe-Porter or John E. Woods?

Only Lowe-Porter is available at my library at the moment, just want to make sure it isn't a sufficiently inferior translation or anything.

Anyone read The Magic Mountain? What did you think? I've never read Mann before and this may be my first.

What's the comfiest book you've ever read?
Pic very related