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>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 4 15:07:53 2019 No.12535844 [View] File: 33 KB, 400x320, lepoet.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Daily reminder that most of your favourite authors read the classics in translation.

Anonymous Wed Dec 5 20:39:36 2018 No.12188065 [View]
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>Great Spanish Novel: a badass wandering knight lunatic
>Great French Novel: a badass struggling ex-convict
>Great Italian Poem: a badass afterlife adventurer
>Great Mexican Novel: a badass cruel macho landowner
>Great American Novel: a badass vengeful sea captain
>Great Irish Novel: Cuckold Jewish advertising salesman

Why did Joyce hate his people so muh?

Anonymous Thu Nov 29 20:20:02 2018 No.12156642 [View]
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There's no progress nor will in art. Otherwise, the last book ever published would be better than Don Quixote or The Divine Comedy, or someone could simply say "I'm going to write a masterpiece better than Ulysses" and then do it.

Prove me wrong.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 17:57:07 2018 No.11964156 [View] File: 32 KB, 400x320, lepoet.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >God tier: Philosophy >Patrician tier: Poetry >Okay tier: Short stories >Pleb tier Novels

Anonymous Mon Sep 24 00:39:26 2018 No.11833250 [View]
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>Great Spanish Novel: a badass wandering knight lunatic
>Great French Novel: a badass struggling ex-convict
>>Great Italian Poem: a badass afterlife adventurer
>Great American Novel: a badass vengeful sea captain
>Great Mexican Novel: a badass cruel macho landowner
>Great Irish Novel: Cuckold Jew advertising salesman

Why did Joyce hate his people so muh?

Anonymous Mon Sep 24 00:25:47 2018 No.11833198 [DELETED]

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>Great Spanish Novel: a badass wandering knight lunatic
>Great French Novel: a badass struggling
ex-convict
>Great American Novel: a badass vengeful sea captain
>Great Mexican Novel: a badass cruel macho landowner
>Great Irish Novel: Cuckold Jew advertising salesman

What did Joyce mean by this?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 2 15:48:14 2018 No.11724376 [View] File: 32 KB, 400x320, lepoet.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Should a fiction author be read chronologically (e.g. Faulkner, McCarthy, etc)?

Some of Bolaño's favorite books. Anonymous Wed Jun 27 13:53:35 2018 No.11382768 [View]
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>Don Quixote, by Cervantes
>Moby-Dick, by Melville
>Borges' entire body of work
>Hopscotch, by Cortazar
>A Confederacy of Dunces, by Toole
>Nadja, by Breton
>Jacques Vaché's letters
>All the "Ubu" plays by Jarry
>Life a User's Manual by Perec
>The Trial and The Castle by Kafka
>Lichtenberg's aphorisms
>Tractatus, by Wittgenstein
>The Invention of More, by Bioy Casares
>Satyricon, by Petronius.
>History of Rome, by Livy
>Pensées by Pascal

Thoughts?

>>	Best time of the day to lurk here? Anonymous Wed Mar 14 15:21:19 2018 No.10842335 [View] File: 32 KB, 400x320, lepoet.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It's dead here in the morning and at midnight, anons. What's the best time of the day to expect replies and feedback?

>>	Poetry is the most useless kind of literature. The unemployed uncle of the family. Anonymous Sun Mar 4 17:12:14 2018 No.10794420 [View] File: 32 KB, 400x320, lepoet.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Seriously, what's its use?

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