/lit/ - Literature

>>22059874
In Search of Lost Time, no doubt about it. Proust writes in the final volume, or rather his narrator as he sets out to finally begin his work (which is to write the novel you're just about to finish), that it would be inaccurate to say he thought of those who'd read his book as "his" readers, but rather that they would be readers of their own selves; that his book would merely be a magnifying glass which he'd furnish them with, giving them the means to do so. What he's saying is not new to the reader, of course, as they would by that point already know what he was up to; they (ie, me) would already have started reading themselves with the help of his magnifying glass.

>>18943230
Never read any of Yeats' plays actually. I think I'll do that, and take a look at Synge too. It's only recently that I've become interested in theatre. Thanks for the recs, anon.

>>18884681
If you get angry very fast, read The Idiot. It helped me realize how everyone struggles and that you should feel pity for them since they turned out in a way that makes others angry towards them. I cant remember the last time I got angry at someone after I read that. Be careful though, you might become alot more sad.

>>18815814
His books are easy to read, slighty better than YA or typical "woman" reading. Sometimes weird metaphysical stuff, and sometimes just simple romance and real life. Try reading Kafka on the Shore or Norwegian Wood. If you like those you will find the rest of his stuff okay or good. Some of his short stories collections are pretty good, but some are hit and miss as well.

If you want to read just to have something to talk with a girl about, I say go for it. It is not a waste of time reading Murakami. Good luck with the qt.

I'm reading a swedish book on the poetry of Yeats called Be Secret And Exult (but in swedish).

>>17615992
I actually inherited a whole shelf of Schiller and Goethe from my recently deceased grandmother. Guess I have to learn german.

>>16364871
>26
>Valentin
>Louis
>Georges
>Eugéne
>Marcel
>Proust

>>16349004
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

I am putting a small photo of Proust in my bookshelf.

>>16136229
There are a few solid norwegian and danish posters on this board so I'll let them speak for their respective country. Some fantastic swedish writers are Pär Lagerkvist, Eyvind Johnson, August Strindberg, Hjalmar Bergman, and Hjalmar Söderberg.

ive read three books this year

Did anything decent come out in the 2010s?

Bonus points if you recc something outside of /lit/'s top 100

>>14290500
>imblying the body is not a prison already

I had a friend, first half-playfully, suggest that poetry is the lowest form of art, and I feigned outrage in response. Later on he returned to the subject and asked me, seriously, if I didn't think poetry was the lowest form of art and why, as if it's lack of value was obvious to him and everyone else. Had to put on a lid on it to not ruin the entire fucking evening.

The follow is less specific, but I also become unnecessarily mad when I see or hear people try to elevate Harry Potter and other YA, suggesting they're somehow JUST as good as any european classic, perhaps better. And every time some anti-intellectual low-brow faggot thinks he's being cool by sticking it to some old dead man by proudly admitting to never having finished Moby-Dick.

I requested my copy but it still hasn't come in the mail yet.
>>13812342
Those were my poems, anon. Not my real name, of course. But this post really made my day. Thank you.

>>13380197
>>13380269
Fuck man
I guess /lit/ really is the only place I can have these conversations

>>13353577
I want to be the empathetic general pracitioner who splits his time between his own little private clinic and doing home calls.

Basically Bernard Rieux.

>>12334870
Hans Björkegren

Doing some prep courses to be able to apply for medical school, cruising on my solid verbal IQ for the SAT. Probably heading for Uppsala; some scandis might know of it.

I feel a deep unending despair, i feel like a plant witout water or sunlight. If the soul is real, mine aches. I have nothing to live for. I am a failure in every way possible. I am a moron, a man child, and a loser. Of course i blame myself. I always blame myself. I hate myself more than any other person ever could.


ps. cremate me

>>10880255
Requesting some patrician anon to buy the book so we can make fun of it

>>10463555
Office N° 1- Miguel Otero Silva

>>9433480
its hard enough even finding someone with whom you can discuss these things at a meaningful level, never mind someone who you can agree with

Personally, I have only met a handful of like-minded people in my whole life with whom I could have honest discussion. I spoke to one for the first time in years the other day and it was like a weight off my shoulders to just be able to speak freely.

Honestly, cherish this connection if you ever encounter it