/lit/ - Literature

>>11870806
What did you like about them? Have you read them in the original languages?

>>11870806
babbys first classic lit

Those books suck

>>11870872

Lmfao, because I'm sure you've read all of these yourself, you pathetic faggot

>>11870806

>it's old and praised by a bunch of white guys therefore it's good

Mine, in no particular order, are:
The Magic Mountain
War and Peace
Hopscotch
The Man Without Qualities
The Sleepwalkers

how pseud from 1 to 10?

>>11872475
t.harry potter fan

>>11870858
I love that they all focus on deeper spiritual messages. They are all written by authors with connections to hermetic thought and metaphysical spirituality.
Alice focusing on the boundaries of the imagination and the subconscious ability to create your own world.
Faust showcases the proper alchemy thought process and how to deal with one's own demons in the most literal way
Don Quixote explores the limitless nature of the mind and tests the readers limits with the purposeful unfinished work
Inferno helps one identify the truths of universal and self morality while also building on the idea that hell is a self made concept
And paradise lost shows that there is no evil in truth but only perspective

I guess for these books are not only entertaining but also have helped expand my mind towards universal truths

>>11872571
Any connection between all these for you?

>>11872475
t. woman

>>11872985
Yes, in of all of them you get characters with this feeling of being static, looking for something that they can’t quite figure out, but it’s determinant for them to move on and engage in action, some find it, some don’t. I actually think this idea is central to all of these books, but the aesthetic surrounding it is very different in everyone of them. Now that I think about it Anna Karenina is more direct in showing this idea than W&P, but the beauty I got from W&P is incomparable.

>>11873051
Until the last bit there, I just figured that (you) were another Pierre tracker (W&P).

>>11873074
more of an Andrey guy t b h

>>11872935
I guess a better way to put this is that for me these 5 books all represent deep old methods of thought and philosophy that is masked in such a way that they present an exciting tale. If you read all 5 and haven't felt like you've grown than either you are spiritually complete, which is unlikely, or you've missed their deeper meanings

>>11873051
Do you or did you feel this same static nature in your life. Or the need to find an out pertaining to your daily life?

>>11873089
Of course. I feel it every single moment of my life, so I guess that’s why I look back to those books the most. Thing is I encounter this idea in almost everything I read.

>>11872475
t. nigger