/lit/ - Literature

>>11403904
I'm redpilled, not a fucking multicultural cuck. Fuck liberal beliefs. Read Culture of Critique

I think I've read stuff from Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, France, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, the UK, Norway... Belgium, perhaps? Defintiely Russia. Bit around the Balkans and the Baltic, desu, Don't really know how to go about finding worthwhile shit from there nor, to be honest, I'm really interested in that.

Oh, I've read Eliade so that's Romania at least.

>>11403928
>Hungary
Which one?

The anti-multiculturalism post got deleted. SAD!

eg kan ikkje alle måli ein mælar i Europa eg då...

>>11403935
Krasznahorkai, obv. I'm too much of a pseud to know about anyone else.

recommend me some czech and serbian shit plz

>>11403904
>scandi lit

>>11403904
så tag dog for fanden noget der er noget værd i stedet for det bras som du har lagt op

I read Doctor Glas, was alright, not great but okay
Probably gonna read Hunger eventually

>>11403974
Did you call me a faggot?

14/49 (cause Idk what Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan are doing on that list tbqh)

>>11403998
in a roundabout way, yes

>>11404004
It's on there for the same reason Georgia and Armenia are, they are former soviet republics that either have close cultural ties with Europe or have been russified.

>>11403948
Czech: Hrabal, Ota Pavel, Skvorecky, Myskova, Vaculik, Viewegh. Pavel and Hrabal are my god-tier though.

>>11404004
What have you read from Belarus

>>11404019
>former soviet republics that [...] have been russified.
then you have to include pretty much the whole central Asia

desu I've been recently to both Azerbaijan and Georgia, Georgia feels culturally like Europe and geographically it makes sense.
Azerbaijan still makes sense geographically but it feels very different (although it feels a bit like Turkey, which doesn't feel close to Europe thaat much as well), I guess I'm biased by the fact that a friend of mine asked some Azerbaijani people to which continent they feel like they belong to and the reply was "Asia" (but I'm not even sure if that's the major opinion there).

Now, Kazakhstan doesn't even make sense geographically anymore. I'm genuinely curious about why it is included in "Europe", this is news for me.

>>11404026
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich

>>11404022
*snap*
Yep

>>11403904
Have you started Doktor Glas yet?

>>11404069
Yes I'm halfway through it, will probably finish it tonight (it's pretty short)

>>11404056
I'm by no means an expert, and I really can't answer properly but I suppose they themselves feel that they have a primarily (imperial) Russian and thus European identity, while their neighbors do not.

>>11404063
Oh, that's not fiction..

>>11403904
>every country in Europe has a book worth reading
White people actually believe this.

>>11404074
How are you liking it so far?

>>11403904

only Britain, France, Germany (well, German speaking since Kafka wasn't technically in "Germany"), Poland, and Russia.

Obviously there's Don Quixote which I still have to read. But what are the essential Portuguese and modern Italian/Greek novels?

>>11404109

>>11403943
Er du fuld bror?

>>11403904
No. Much less from mongrel viking-eskimo countries like the ones you listed.

Has anyone read Jon Fosse?

>>11404076
It's funny because it seem to me that post-soviet countries (at least the few ones I got to know) see Europe and Russia as polar opposites, which is something that seems to play a huge role on their identity. For example, Georgians identify themselves as Europeans cause they somewhat hate Russia/the USSR, while Kyrgyz people (the few I know) sort of identify themselves with Russia and faaar from Europe (usually even saying something like "in our countries..." referring to Kyrgyzstan and Russia). Althought the later example is very far geographically from Europe as well, but it's the only example I know of a "post-soviet" country in "good terms" with Russia and that I know people from it.

>>11404080
OP said "book" :P

>>11403948
>serbian
Milorad Pavić - Dictionary of Khazars seems relatively popular on /lit/, for such an obscure literary tradition. Also, Andrić (if you count him as a serb...)

>>11403904
No

What appeal is there in Swedish literature? Do Swedish girls read much? Asking for a friend.

>>11404199
>Swedish
Danish or Norwegian is what you want to read

>>11404199
>What appeal is there in Swedish literature?
Pippi Longstocking you fucking pleb

The king of scandi-/lit/?

>>11404107
Incredibly well written, even though the prose is simple. It made an impression on me that from the first few pages I was already "hooked in" to the atmosphere. I'll reread some parts after I finish it to see how that happened.
As for the plot - we'll see.

>>11404219
what about after you've grown up?

>>11403904
No I'm not gay

>>11404258
>>11404193
>>11404089
Leave the board niggers

Let me rec Hungarian lit if someone is interested:
Madach: Tragedy of Man - it's similar to Faust as it revolves around the dialogue of Lucifer and a human (Adam from Genesis). Lucifer takes Adam through the different periods of history - Greek democracy, Roman hedonism, Medieval times with Christian values, the Age of Enlightenment, the French Revolution, Industrial Revolution and the future. The story is built upon the Hegelian dialectics - the current era being the thesis, Adam coming up with an antithesis and the next era being the synthesis. It's one of my favourites. An animated movie was made out of it, so you could check that out first and the book is up online aswell.
Marai: Embers - A short (120 pages) novel about friendship. Two elderly men meet after decades of not seeing each other and finally settle ehat happened in the past. Very interesting read and personally I love how Marai writes.
I can wholeheartedly recommend Nadas, Krasznahorkai and Imre Kertesz too.

>>11404306
Any Hungarian theologians worth reading mate?

>>11404306
I've read this https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8119811-az-utols-ember which for some reason is translated in my language. Very /comfy/ and (I think) obscure sci-fi.

>>11404235
While the plot isn't much to write home about, I always found his describtions of Stockholm very beautiful much more so than Strindbergs. His language in general is very pretty as well, of the swedish authors I've read only Martinsson gets close to writing as well as Söderberg

does Luxembourg even have any authors?

>>11404344
Good question. Luxembourg is the hardest one out of all Europe to find literature from. Extra hard if you want something translated in English

>>11404344
There's also San Marino and Andorra... Vatican at least should have theological texts.

Has anyone ever read a Maltese book?

any god scandinavian cinema? I have already seen Bergman, Dreyer, Trier, Kaurismaki, Ostlund and Roy Andersson.

(we should be allowed to hve a film general thread on /lit/. /tv/ is absolute garbage)

>>11404420
I haven't read it yet but I will once I get to Malta

>>11403904
What's that cover of hunger from?

>>11404431
Jagten (2012)

>>11404314
Not really. Of course I could say literature that is connected to faith (such as the mentioned ToM) but I don't know about any strictly theological works. Well, there is Peter Pazmany, the leader of the counter-reformation in Hungary, and whose works and sermons are actually quite enjoyable even as an irreligious person but I highly doubt that they are translated into English.
Traditionalism is somewhat connected to theology, so I'll drop the name of Bela Hamvas too, but I will not recommend him as I haven't read anything from him yet.

>>11404450
I can second this, good movie. Also check out Apples of Adam.

>>11404434

Thanks, man. It's heartening to know that our literature (limited though it may be) has some visibility.

Personally, I'm not much of a fan of Immanuel. I think he gets by on government support more so than by actual talent. His poetry is pretty good, though. Same with Daniel Massa.

If you want a prose stylist, then Frans Sammut is (at least in Maltese) your man. Never read any of them in translation, and, frankly, I'm not confident that the Maltese one is as translatable a sentiment as it is a language.

Good luck, though!

>>11404483
>If you want a prose stylist, then Frans Sammut
Is there anything of him translated in English or French?

>>11404493
I'm not sure you about that, sorry.

However, if given an option, go for Il-Gagga (The Cage) or Samuraj (Samurai -- though this is deliberately misspelt into Maltese)

>>11404466
Thanks for the recs, I'll go digging. It seems that some of their works has been translated into german, so that's a start

>>11404470
>Apples of Adam.
Highly recommended! Pretty sure that the english title is Adam's apples, tho'

>>11404483
My dog is maltese lol

>>11403904
Best Eurolit:
1. Russia
2. France
3. Germany
UK lit sux, with the exception of Maugham.
USA lit? Not too shabby! (But below the three on my list.)

>>11404022
Also, Kafka wrote in German but he was a Czech

>>11405351
>no éire
Confirmed pleb

>>11403904
What publisher is that Hunger from? I've looked everywhere and can't find it