/lit/ - Literature

Are there any good books that go into detail, in an unbiased manner as possible (however much that may be), why fascism (or any variant thereof) completely and utterly failed whenever it was attempted to be put into practice?

She's the grace of my days, the dream I see while I'm awake. I love her; and she's all the happiness in this life I may obtain. Grace is her being, blessing when her eyes uncaringly meet mine. I wish I was fifteen years older, so I could marry her, so I wouldn't feel bad for loving my professor, but my love is genuine, my love is undaunted, and so then I stoically admire her, dream of her, for it to be a dream forever perhaps, but when she looks - oh how she looks at me - with her round, profound eyes - and smiles ... I wish to dream forever.

Gogol desu

Buy her the short stories of Flannery O'Connor if she's into dark humor and brutal depictions of grace. Get her "Kitchen" by Banana Yoshimoto if she's a slightly quirky weeb with a fun sense of levity. Get her "Kassandra" by Christa Wolf if she is turned on by the Greeks (like my wife is). Get her an Alice Munro collection if she's a nice, pensive girl with a deep capacity for sympathy. Get her "Autobiography of Red" if she's into gay shit, like the Greeks. Get her "White Walls" by Tatyana Tolstaya if she likes (or would like) Anna Karenina. Even McCullers is great (as this >>10646823 anon suggested) if she's into 1930s Americana.

If you're hell-bent on giving her Kafka (or if she doesn't fit the mold of any of the above), you have three options:
>Near to the Wild Heart, by Lispector. Good choice if she's a patrician.
>Kristin Lavransdatter, by Undset. Good choice if she's into pastoral doorstoppers that examine medieval life through a modern lens — with sex.
>Actually, scratch that last one, get her The Book of Margery Kempe. That shit made me laugh like no Kafka has ever been able to do.
>The Castle, by Kafka. Good choice if you're an insensitive asshole who has to force his mediocre taste on an unwilling partner. Make sure to get the modern (c. 2005) translation.

Read the soliloquies out loud; it would be good practice to memorize your favorites. The Norton Critical Edition has a neat collection of secondary lit, as well as fragments of related plays (like the Greeks) so as to draw parallels and allusions. Honestly, if you're worried about devouring the text, I can't recommend the Norton Crit. enough.

I've only seen stage adaptations worth watching. Hamlet is far too big for the movies.

hello /lit/
i would like to get into reading. usually i only read online, barely books, but that doesnt mean im not interested in it. i am a bit lazy, but i plucked up the courage now and want to start something i delayed for a long time - reading. what are some good books for novices, like me? what would you recommend me?

So I walked into the haze
And a million dirty ways
Now I see you lying there
Like a lie low losing air, air

Black rocks and shoreline sand
Still that summer I cannot bare
And I wipe the sand of my arms
The Spanish Sahara, the place that you'd wanna
Leave the horror here

Forget the horror here
Forget the horror here
Leave it all down here
It's future rust and then it's future dust

Forget the horror here
Forget the horror here
Leave it all down here
It's future rust and then it's future dust


Now the waves they drag you down
Carry you to broken ground
Though I find you in the sand
Wipe you clean with dirty hands

So goddamn this boiling space
The Spanish Sahara, the place that you'd wanna
Leave the horror here

Forget the horror here
Forget the horror here
Leave it all down here
It's future rust and then it's future dust

I'm the fury in your head
I'm the fury in your bed
I'm the ghost in the back of your head
'Cause I am

I'm the fury in your head
I'm the fury in your bed
I'm the ghost in the back of your head
'Cause I am

I'm the fury in your head
I'm the fury in your bed
I'm the ghost in the back of your head
'Cause I am

Forget the horror here
Forget the horror here
Leave it all down here
It's future rust and it's future dust

Choir of furies in your head
Choir of furies in your bed
I'm the ghost in the back of your head
'Cause I am

I'm the fury in your head
I'm the fury in your bed
I'm the ghost in the back of your head
'Cause I am

Choir of furies in your head
Choir of furies in your bed
I'm the ghost in the back of your head
'Cause I am

>>9739238
eh

>>12377
>>12524
>find your qt
>grab a bunch of books
>"stumble" next to her and drop them all
>drop some stupid ass reference to pleb literature like "oh no Dobby has been a bad elf lol"
>she will giggle and help you pick them up
>at the bottom of the pile there's a small empty note
>drop a Sherlock reference and say you need her number for investigative reasons
>after hearing two pop references in a row her panties will already be soaking wet but at the small chance that you aren't already banging her on one of the tables you've got yourself a date at the nearest vegan joint

>>9088994
Fuck you, you're not helping

Is there any legitimate way to overcome death anxiety without adopting some kind of religious or "spiritual" belief?

I feel so uneducated when it comes to general knowledge, recent history and modern politics
Some things take my interest but i'll usually get a book on the subject and drop it because i'm either not engaged or lose interest
What i'm thinking is that shows i wasn't actually interested in said subject and the cycle continues

Do i just preserve or just keep searching for things that genuinely interest me deeply?
Also any recs for gen. knowledge/recent history/politics for a basic understanding and reference points?

>Anglos exist

Have to read a book till friday and do a report for class. I was going to do something on Plato or Seneca, but my teacher told me I can't because we're done with the classical period.

So, /lit/, recommend me an easy interesting book.
(bonus points if it's actually good)

The teacher recommends Tolstoy, Dostoyevski, Balzac, Zola & Stendhal, or any modern 20th century literature.

Just look at the raw emotion in this picture. It's poetic.

>>8551150
Easy mode: Harry Potter

>draw scar on forehead
>wear round glasses
>don't be blonde

What's even the point of reading Kirkegaard if you're an atheist? Isn't it just for historical importance or pretentiousness then?