/lit/ - Literature

It would be entirely untrue for anybody on /lit/ or elsewhere to claim that anybody but themselves is their "favorite guy". Just think of all those times you have been to close to suicide, miserable beyond description, ready to pack it in, yet didn't once consider the notion that being anybody but yourself would be preferable. I imagine it's a form of existential Stockholm Syndrome, i.e. that despite your wretchedness and despite the absolutely irredeemable nature of your squalid existence there is not a single soul on this earth, dead or alive, who you'd prefer to be. Maybe, I'll admit, you'd quite enjoy to have been [italics] in the position [/italics] (I know italics don't work on /lit/, but I'd like for those words to be read as if italicized please - go back and read them again if you didn't read them as intended the first time) of Adolf Hitler in, say, 1933, but if even the hottest, most aesthetically flawless instagram model is someone that none of us (I assert) would actually like to "be" in the sense that if we were able to write our memoir the memories of that model would become available to us and not those of our past / current self (or "selves"). So my answer is that my own memoir, among the most obscure books currently in existence, is my favorite and therefore one that I would recommend you read. Indeed, looking back on the events of my own life like some conqueror in some distant, exotic land (on the crest of a mighty peak perhaps) looking back at the now-tame lands he has previously traversed , I am flabbergasted at just how profound, intellectually advanced and envy-inducing my experience thus far has been. It is as though some noumenal being, desiring to taste first-hand the numerous delights of mortal life entered my body in a non-sexual way on the day of my birth and dictated my Will in the direction of zeniths and nadirs of which most people are oblivious. My favorite writings are my own writings, about me, my favourite guy. Oh if only I could somehow cleave my existence in two and truly embrace myself in order to escape this loneliness in which I rot! Alas, life giveth and life taketh away. A profound and peerless mind is perhaps fated to a life of isolation and obscurity. But would I trade it for any other. Would I hell!

>>10340221

>>10340169
My diary desu

tldr: my diary desu

>>10340169
Of Walking in Ice is pretty fun.

History of My Life (Everyman Library Classics) - Giacomo Casanova (abridged down to 1500 pages in one volume)
Mozarts Letters, Mozarts Life - Robert Spaethling (2/3rds of Mozart's correspondence)
Correspondence - Immanuel Kant (Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant)
Biographia Literaria: The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume 7 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (greatest autobiography ever written)
Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory - Stanley Cavell
Good-Bye to All That - Robert Graves
Zibaldone - Giacomo Leopardi
Last Words From Montmartre - Qiu Miaojin
The Rings of Saturn - W G Sebald
The Peregrine - J.A. Baker
The Journal, 1837-1861 - Henry David Thoreau
The Gray Notebook - Josep Pla
Culture and Value - Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Waste Books - Lichtenberg

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>>10340221
>>10340236

So where is it?


I wanna read [italics] your diary [/italics].

>>10340398
thanks

>>10340169
No letters of Mozart? As should be surprising to absolutely noone, the popular portrayal of him as a buffoon is inaccurate.

>>10340449
I thought I put Mozart's letters in the OP.

>>10340169

>>10340463
I do not see it in your image, but someone beat me to it anyway.

>>10340485
I did not imply that I did put ''Mozart: A Life in Letters'' - in the OP - I implied that I thought I had done so; but here I went astray, and, in my blunder I missed putting an image of Mozart: A Life in Letters' cover in the OP picture.

So I found pretty much what I was looking for. Now I'm looking for more books like pic related.

>>10340531
Hey look, I found - more.
Might be absolute dog-shit, but I'm reading this.

>>10340169
Do you mean an epistolary?

>>10340169
>obscure memoirs/letters/journals/essay

so basically tumblr?

>>10340398
>Biographia Literaria
What makes this so great?

>>10340169
There are extensive missionary reports from French jesuits sent back "home" from the New World to mainland Europe available online. But it seems like most are written with the goal of obtaining more funding and full of majestic word salads.