/lit/ - Literature

>>13345219
Born just in time to read Mongolian baskets in English.

>>13345219
Learn one of those languages and you might prove your own OP wrong. Nobody ever learned all the interesting languages in the world anyway, just pick what you like.

>>13345354
yup *sips*

>>13345219
False!
I've read proust in french

And it's nice you mention Tagore

>>13345219
>didn't say Dostoevsky or Tolstoy in Russian
>chose Bely instead

>>13345402
This was very based of op Bely is much better than those hacks

cant wait to read tagore in indian

>>13345402
for me, its Sokolov

>couldn't think of anyone for korean
chuckled

>>13345219
>ywn read mahfouz in arabic
but i have, anon.

>>13345219
not with that attitude

>>13345219
>tagore in indian
Ah yes, the original Indian version. So much better than the Bengali

people that try to collect books like pokemon cards annoy the fuck out of me, there's obviously more good books to read than you have time to actually read in life

>>13345605
Korea has no culture

>>13347275
wrong, eating live octopus is cultural as fuck, people even die for that.

>>13347275
Kpop

>>13347275
A foremost exporter of music and film. Soon to be of literature too :^)

>>13347282
not high culture
>>13347309
western af and also garbage
>>13347314
they have no talent at literature and their music is garbage

>>13347388
니가 see 이상

>ywn read simenon in belgian
lmao

no fucks given desu

>>13345219
>ywn crack OP's stupid fucking head open and make the world a better place

lads, where does a foreigner starts with leopardi (in italian)?

>>13347521
plz dont bully apu he make mistake

>>13347531

Sempre caro mi fu quest’ermo colle,
e questa siepe, che da tanta parte
dell’ultimo orizzonte il guardo esclude.
Ma sedendo e mirando, interminati
spazi di là da quella, e sovrumani
silenzi, e profondissima quïete
io nel pensier mi fingo; ove per poco
il cor non si spaura. E come il vento
odo stormir tra queste piante, io quello
infinito silenzio a questa voce
vo comparando: e mi sovvien l’eterno,
e le morte stagioni, e la presente
e viva, e il suon di lei. Così tra questa
immensità s’annega il pensier mio:
e il naufragar m’è dolce in questo mare.

>ywn read me in any language

bumpp

>>13345219
The only one that matters there is Virgil in latin. Others are memes

>>13345219
I grew up bilingual speaking arabic at home and english whenever I was at school or out.
Before I read Mahfouz in arabic my horizons only extended to those of the western canon, but this has changed since.
One thing I can say with absolute certainty is that Mahfouz's prose is much more beautiful than those of English-speaking authors of his time. He's a wonderful writer and a master of the pen.

>>13345219
>Belgian

>>13348101

>tfw can read Hamsun, Ibsen, Kielland, Bjorneboe, Vesaas, Bjerke etc in Norwegian

feelsgoodman

>austrians speak austrian
autism

>>13345219
>ywn read bernhard in austrian
>ywn read joyce in
>ywn read shakespeare in swahili
>ywn read in korean

I'm reading Pessoa in portuguese
It's unbelievable how good it is, my new favorite book honestly

>>13350681
are you portuguese native speaker?

>>13350681
yes

>indian

Kek

>>13345402
>Dostoevsky
>not Dostoyevskii

>>13345219
>tfw you're Portuguese and read Camões, Eça and Pessoa

>>13345219
>austrian
>belgian
>iranian
>chinese
>filipino (Rizal wrote in Spanish)
>Indian
anon, I...

>>13345219
But you can. if you put in the work you can learn the important romance languages quite quickly.

>>13345219
>tagore in indian
Based retard.

>>13349562
>tfw Norwegian is the plebbest of the Scandi languages
How come you are "i kjoekkenet", but "paa soverommet"?

>>13345219
>tfw Im german but i dont give a shit about meta physics so I only read prose and neetsche

>>13347531
With Young Signorino poems

>>ywn read simenon in belgian
>>13345219
"Belgian"
Do you mean French, or maybe you mean Flemish (dominant language in Belgium)?
Pseuds are gonna pseud

I have also read a book by an author in the original language in this list, OP, you have made a mistake

>>13355696
it's a meme baka

>>13348101
I just read you nigga

>>13347275
>>13347388
Korea has some good poets like Kim Soo-young, Baek Seok and Lee Seong-bok

>>13345219
>ywn read kawabata in japanese
>browses an anime fanboard for 10 years and still can't speak weebrunes
bruh

>>13356738
Great. Now name a single korean novelist worth a shit.

>>13356982
Choi In-hun

>>13357055
wait 3 months while i get through my backlog and then pick this guy up, and i'll tell you whether he is indeed worth a shit or not.

>>13357178
sorry but I'm gonna end myself before 3 months later

>>13357262
based and blackpilled. leave me your stacc

french isn't that hard to read m8