/lit/ - Literature

What do you guys think of this book?

Has anyone here read this? Opinions?

Everything in this thread, please post lists of definitive/essential classics you've read that you think everyone should read. Let's do away with the entry-level stuff like 1984, Brave New World, too, shall we?


Picture related, to start us off. Too lazy at the moment to add more

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This is not exactly literature related, but I thought that this might be the best board to ask

I am trying to teach myself a language, and I am having considerable difficulty in remembering vocabulary that I am learning. I will find a word, or a few to learn, but within a few moments forget it. Even if I repeat this process multiple times, with myself repeating it aloud and using it in sentences I often forget it only to remember it later

Do you have any tips on memorising new words? Whether they be in English or a foreign language?

WOW, DID NOT KNOW HEARN DID THE TRANSLATION. HE WAS THE GUY THAT ENDED UP LIVING IN JAPAN, HEAD OF LITERATURE AT TOKYO IMPERIAL BEFORE SOSEKI I BELIEVE. I LOVED HIS SPOOKY STORIES AND RETELLINGS OF JAPANESE FOLK TALES AS WELL

A book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptation of Saint Anthony was Flaubert’s lifelong work, thirty years in the making. Based on the story of the third-century saint who lived on an isolated mountaintop in the Egyptian desert, it is a fantastical rendering of one night during which Anthony is besieged by carnal temptations and philosophical doubt.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic reproduces the distinguished Lafcadio Hearn translation, which translator Richard Sieburth calls “a splendid period piece from one of America’s premier translators of nineteenth-century French prose. In Lafcadio Hearn’s Latinate rendering, Flaubert’s experimental drama of the modern consciousness reads as weirdly as its oneiric original.”