/lit/ - Literature

What you want, friend is Medieval literature. Songs of deeds, knightly romances, that sort of thing. When men were courageous, ferocious, and daring, but also sensitive, thoughtful, and pious. Real men, not the caricatures of men we have today.

Read The Song of Roland. Read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Read Parzival. Read the works of Chretien de Troyes.

Parzival. I fucking love Wolfram von Eschenbach.

You know what? Let's do something simple. Let's all post books that we think the majority of the board would enjoy if they read them. Not even novels, per se; it can be any longer work.

I think Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach is really delightful, and I think it would be broadly enjoyed if more people read it these days. I'm a fan of medieval romances in general, and there's a lot of beauty and grandeur in the story Wolfram writes about Parzival and Gawain. There's even a little banter on Wolfram's part, which is typical of medieval writers but never fails to make me smile.