/lit/ - Literature

is there a site or book that gives a concise or simple explanatory summary on plato's dialogues?

>>14852390
Let it all out anon. You'll feel much better afterwards.

>>14097888
rude

>>9909222
> the final chapter

Thinking about it is just enough to break my fucking heart, anon.

>>9848161
> Especially the moment where Hector's wife talks about their child never reaching manhood and how an Aechean soldier is likely to kill their child out of anger when they pillage the city. You know all hope is lost by this point but they still try their best to pay their respects.

I know it's inevitable but at that point I hoped that Troy wouldn't fall.

Can we get a thread based upon our utter despair regarding literature that is lost forever? Which piece of lost literature hurts the most for you?

> only 12 of Aristophanes' 40 plays survived
> The Epic of Gilgamesh will forever be incomplete
> Shakespeare's Hamlet is speculated to not truly be his own but written from the recollections of the actors who had performed in the original Hamlet

>>9633196
This is a bit too real for me.

> Pynchon will probably never write another book
> The Passenger will be published unfinished and posthumously because McCarthy is 88 years old and may not have long left
> 2666 was intended by Bolano as a series of novels but instead published it as a single novel to help his family financially before he died
> Akutagawa killed himself in his late 20s-early 30s - if he lived he could have published more wonderful works like Rashomon
> not literature, but Sadao Yamanaka, influential pre-war Japanese filmmaker (influenced Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu) was forced into the Japanese military for making a film critical of the government and died in battle with the Japanese. Due to Japan's lack of archiving early films, most of his films are lost except for three, and one of those films is considered to be unfinished/not completely restored.
> Fritz Lang's Metropolis is technically incomplete by another 50 minutes.

> sitting in the university cafe, coffee, laptop, books like the bible, meditations, confessions, etc open. using them to make citations in the dissertation i'm writing.
> a sort of qt girl comes by and checks out my books
> "oh hello, just looking what you read" - this is honestly how she said it but I didn't think twice, whatever
> "OK, just got an essay i'm writing, y'see..."
> "Are you a christian?"
> "Not really but I do apply some of the positive aspects of christian ethics into my own lifesty--"
> "So you hate gay people then?"
> "What? N-no, I mean, many christians are very accepting of--"
> "Don't you lot believe black people were cursed by God because they left Israel?"
> "What"
> "These are all really racist books"
> group of people from another table, some girls and a black guy overhear her say that and start shouting
> "The fuck are you reading nazi shit for?"
> "No, no, it's for an essay..."
> "Racist shit isn't cool, mate" - the black guy is knocking my books off the table and sits on the table, making sure to nudge my laptop out of the way
> he holds my coffee and knocks it over the table and my notes
> one of the girls literally says "Hit him!" enough times
> I try gathering my books off the floor, they push me over and walk away laughing.
> notice one of my books is gone, realise later that the pages have been ripped out from it and dropped along the corridors as I leave the cafe

Anyone got any stories with dealing with plebs?

>>9426236
> tfw this is the only edition available to us in the UK
> the cover is similar for The Road, Suttree, Outer Dark and anything that isn't The Border Trilogy

I still bought it.

Why are normies so hedonistic?

Is someone born into the middle class capable of producing great works of literature?

>>9347997

>>9264264
>watches anime as a replacement for interaction with real women

>>9124706
Please, no bully

>>8416764
>>8416768
>>8416772 (recommendations for ants)
>>8416773
I don't have time for this

>I have read 10 pages in the last 10 days

The Greeks aren't going well.

>>8274295
I absolutely loved vidya. Getting hyped for new releases and playing games for hours each day, but then it just kind of stopped. Most new releases seem very similar, if something looks interesting I have either no energy to play it or it turns out to be shit. After I got bored of playing singleplayer games I had a phase of playing competitive games so I have like 4k hours in Dota 2 and 2k in CS:GO but you get bored of them as well.

I'm sure my lust for cartoons will die out sooner or later, I just don't know what I'll do afterwards.

>Always liked anime
>Start reading
>Watch anime
>Realize how shit anime is

What did reading ruin for you?

>>7116900
o-ok

I just wanna be hip!

>>6860563

>read book
>some character is introduced, no discription at all, sometimes not even sex
>have just a white shadow drifting along the happenings in my imagination
>start giving him/her traits in my mind according to their actions
>end up with a well rounded look I created and content to go with it
>some chapter comes around where character is described
>is nothing like your imagination

>>6210800
maybe...

>>4381500
>you will never be as cool as anno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh0qbJAQhgk