/lit/ - Literature

What are some simple Italian books? B1ish preferably.
Also, what book, if I'm able to read and understand, would allow me to make a definitive claim to knowing Italian?

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>First-born king, the reverend one; and upon him all the immortals grew, blessed gods and goddesses and rivers and lovely springs and everything else that had then been born; and he himself became the sole One.

Developed between age 19-21.
I became a radical sceptic, or rather realized intuition is before all understanding, and intuition is not knowledge but our strongest belief: trust, hope, and conviction, are at the root of all human thought and action and interaction. The idea of "rational" and "reasonable" are beliefs, sanity is a belief, everything is belief—so I embraced this and realized I already believe in X and Y and to believe I shouldn't believe in more or less are equally true (objectively speaking). And I guess all of this intellectual entertainment of belief changed something in my brain, because I'm now deep in theology and mysticism, and I might have been on the doorstep of mystic experience.

Act and pretend awakens sincere faith.

Is the sixty pages too much? I seem to just keep adding to what's meant to be short.

>OP removes some fluff of his short little tale.

What even is a short story anyway Babylon Revisited is barely the length of a chapter of another story? While To the Lighthouse is the length of half a book; is it even a short story? What are plays and long poems? This is all so very confusing.

>OP had never written a book before.

Was this even fluff: "her naked soles upon the morning grass tingled her soul. She wakes."? Too purple? Cliched? On the nose? No this won't do.

>OP went on like this for hours, never seeing a plausible end. He failed to see that it's hopeless to revise and write at the same time—let it flow and finish flowing, then scrutinize.

>>13452791
>[1]=high priority, not optional
>[2] = optional compared to [1]
First Alcibiades[1] > Last Days of Socrates [1] (except not Phaedo yet [2]) > Meno-Protagoras-Cratylus[2] > Theaetetus-Sophist-Statesman[1] > Symposium[2]-Phaedrus[1] > Gorgias[2] > Republic[1] > Philebus[1] > Phaedo[1] > Laws[2] > Timaeus [1/2] (I would say the first two thirds are essential, but not all of it) > Aristotle[2] (for which you'll need a secondary guide) > Parmenides [1] > Plotinus

Charmides, Laches, Lysis, and Ion are all [2]
Theages[2] and Plato's Letters[2] are more like Platonic "deep lore", especially the seventh and second, I would call them essential to read before Plotinus.
Minos compliments Laws.
The minor dialogues are underrated, but not "essential" so to say, they're of low direct influence.

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Let me play to thee a song of Phane!