/lit/ - Literature

>>13653969
Oh wow, do you make a living with your special interest or is it just for the enjoyment?

>>13653969
That's impressive dedication to say the least. Does it ever get boring to keep reading on the same few subjects over and over?

I checked out my usual book sources after getting my pay. The carts had some good stuff, and I also looked through what an "outlet" type book store had to offer. Most were pretty cheap, around two to three euros.

>Lev Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
I had these volumes missing from a German set they scattered across different book stands throughout the city. Finally managed to get the remaining three volumes. I want to better my German. It's getting kinda rusty.
>Don DeLillo - Underworld
It was in good enough shape, and was around a buck, so I saw no reason to not to get caught up in the spectacle. I should increase my awareness of American literature, even if the majority of what the US produces seems utterly annoying or wholly uninteresting to me.
>Guy de Maupassant - Bel-Ami
I was recommended it a few times by acquaintances. Seems interesting.
>Madách - The Last Days of Csák / Moses
Two dramas by the author of "The Tragedy of Man", one of the greatest pieces of Hungarian literature. Sadly it turned out to be a fluke, and he never managed to write anything as good as that. Still, I want to see what he does with the story of Moses.
>Shu-La-Zi - Anecdotes from the life of Linji Yixuan
Apparently it's just orientalism from the pen of a Tibetologist. Still, I want to see what it's like or if it has any value as a source of information on Buddhism.
It was also recommended by an acquaintance before.
>Kornai - The Socialist System
Recently, my interests took to the left a bit for some reason, and it seemed appropriate. It was also disgustingly cheap and unused. (We are talking about fast food dollar menu meal prices here.)
>Deleuze-Guattari - Kafka: Towards a minor literature
Saw it at a bookfest for three-four times the price. Seems short and interesting, mainly because of the authors. (Though it's not like I'm not in love with Kafka's writings.)
>Niklas Luhman - The Reality of Mass Media
Continuing the "critique of contemporary society" line of interest I seem to have gotten recently.
>Derek Bickerton - Language and Species
>"To erase the past once and for all"? (A quote from the Hungarian lyrics of the International)
A short study discussing the depiction of historical personalities in Hungarian social-democrat and communist propaganda between 1890 and 1919. Seems to be peak academic wankery, a thing I like very much.
>Representation of Spaces in Classical and Contemporary Russian Literature
I'm hoping to extract some good book titles from this one, mainly on the contemporary front. Basically just scout-work.
>Lucian - Selected dialogues
The title of the first dialogue seemed interesting "Ikaromenippos - or, the space-traveller". Don't know what to expect.

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Stack(s) for a current writing project.
>>13654490
Good stack.

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>>13653965
Good stack anon.

Book fair haul

>>13657659
Goddamn all those Oxfords. Nice haul. The Italian is an especially good one, hope you enjoy it.

>>13657689
Yeah, I love our book fair. Awesome, I look forward to it.

>>13656777
Trips confirm

space wasters, get with the times

>>13658330
>falls off your lap
>*crash*
>a dog pisses over it
>*explodes*
pss nothing personel kid

>>13658330
Imagine being this autistic.

>>13658330
>tfw own your own house so can fill it with all the books you’ll ever want instead of running out of space in moms basement and being forced to use an e-reader to make room for semen covered anime figurines and bottles of urine that litter your desk

>>13656261
Looks interesting, what's it about?

The bottom book is the collected Eugenio Montale, while the cracked middle is Goethe italian journey which I'm about a third through.

>>13658858
Take a proper image, dipshit, nobody cares about your pseud-y angles and looking "artistic"

>>13655234
>"Ikaromenippos - or, the space-traveller". Don't know what to expect.
Hilarity and epic bantz

>>13653965
I have almost all these books, this is very weird. Like, the exact king I have are Misery and Different Seasons, right next to Silence of the Lambs. So many similar editions too. I am creeped

>>13656261
>All that Sacks but not Hallucinations

It's worth it for the story about Sacks' own experience alone.

>>13655234
Hi Hunganon bro

>>13658858
>Webster and Ford together
Out of all the crack smoking ideas penguin has had over the years, I'm surprised it took them this long to release a Jacobean incest anthology.

>>13658875
Kudos bro, excellent taste imo

>>13658895
Ford is one of strongest playwrights in English. Webster i know less well. I've read Malfi and thats' it .

>>13658720
Language and poetry, mostly.
>>13658877
Hallucinations is good, but I already knew most of its contents from my acid-head/psych-student phase, so I just flipped through looking for exceptions to that already-knowing and then didn't purchase it. The deliriant bit with the Bertrand Russell spider is hilarious, though.

>>13658890
Hi

>>13658974
Webster's a master but often gets overlooked despite his dominating presence in the period after Shakespeare. It's a bit like trying to get people to read Marlowe. If you're ever in London, try to catch a Webster play at the new Blackfriars. Fucking nightmare circus in a candlelit closet.

Yeah, I think that I am based.

>>13659816
*tips fedora*

>>13653969
Your shelves are about to break

>>13659816
>Worst Girl
>Genre fiction
>Gravity's Rainbow creasing Europe Central's cover
What's in that small box on the left? (And is it made out of porcelain?

>>13659422
Based

>>13653969
Hey, dad

>>13653965
ytu

>>13653965

>>13659422
only good post

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>>13661244
Big homo

>>13659816
>Asuka
Based
>Shikinami
Cringe

>>13661244
Beautiful

Does anybody have that one picture of the guy with the lifting thing in his room and a copy of the rise and fall of the third reich

>>13653965
>Wordsworth Classics
oh no no no no

everyone on this board only ever has top-10-list core shit

>>13662483
Really?
>>13661327

>>13662458
guys please this is an emergency

>>13659422

>>13659816
How’s Europe Central?. Never read any Vollman but really want to

>>13661244
big, black and hard, just how the nazis like it ;)

>>13662483
I don’t give shit about memesade by retarded yankee college kids

>>13662648
Deserving, to be fair. Unless you're an earl or duke of something you can't afford that eccentricity.

>>13653965

>>13663604
Lmao. Gets me every time.

>>13658330
the kindle shills have been out in full force lately, what's going on? Are they upping the campaign in preparation for a new model?

>>13664019
Might be last shipments before tariffs

>>13659816
>omon ra
>utena
based

>>13661244
7/10

>>13664778
Boring. Especially the bottom row.

>>13655234
Madáchot miért szeretik ennyien?

>>13661244
What’s in it?

>>13663988
Genuinely based af

>>13664778
Is On the road worth a read?

These (I) came today. Gonna read them from the top down. Tried for weeks to find second hand copies but there’s zero within about 100 miles of my house.

>>13666780
Read Marcus last my lad

>>13653965
10/10, most plebeian shelf I've seen in my entire life.

>>13663604

>>13666786
Thanks for the tip my dude

>>13666834
Thanks

These are just my desk books, my shelves are too messy.

>>13666927
Based Arthur miller, no crucible?

>>13658858
Don't make me crane my neck 90º just to read the titles

>>13655234
Bazisolt magyar. Bazisolt magyar írókkal teli polccal 11/10

>>13666927

cool shelf about tyranny bro

>>13666893
The absolute state of this post

>>13666549
Your complete lack of organization is hurting my autism. You've got at least 2 Stephen King books on every shelf but none of them are together.

>>13653965
Only got into reading recently so pls no bulli.

Read these since the start of summer. So im still figuring out.

my favorites so far :
>1984
>Szolzsenyicins
>Nietzsche
>Kafka

Want to get into philosophy now.

Recommendations are welcomed

>>13667330
My bad anon I need to fix this. I just moved and threw the books up there for the sake of time. Need to organize better.

>>13658330
>reading the digital jew

>>13667346
>12 memersons for life

>>13667568
Like i said I just read everything I can get my hands on. I know he is a meme but hey, this book was on our shelf for a year or so so I gave it a try.

Pretty avarage imo

>>13667346
> Zarathustra új fordítás nagyon jó
> Zizektől sikerült a legclickbaitebb könyvet kiadni
> Helikon zsebkönyvekből még a Kantot ajánlom, meg a Schopenhauert (mondjunk az kb Petersonnal egy kategória)
> Harari politikai giccs
> Horthy lol

>>13667123
Ugh yeah fuckin hate that tyrant Hamlet

>>13667346
You'd probably enjoy Mishima Yukio. Jelenkor has a nice new edition of Confessions of a Mask in Hungarian (Egy maszk vallomásai)

>>13667346
Ha tetszett az 1984, Babits Elza pilótája is tetszeni fog. Korábban írt, és sok tekintetben erősebben ható disztópikus regény.

>>13666180
Mert sikerült írnia egy világirodalmi színvonalú művet. A Tragédia a magyar irodalom egyik csúcsa, kiváló a nyelvezete, filozófiai megalapozása, struktúrája és kivitelezése.

>>13667346
>2019
>Péterfi Jordánia
Értem én, hogy periférián élünk, de anon plíz.
Dosztótól én inkább a Bűn és Bűnhődéssel kezdtem volna a helyedben, aztán kielemezném a Feljegyzések első részét tüzetesen. Nem előfeltétel, csak tudd, hogy nem feltétlenül a legjobb részbe ugrottál bele egyből a Félkegyelművel.
>Barna Dani
Mehet a kukába.
Ha tetszett Kafkától a Per, akkor lehet olvasni a novellákat, a Kastélyt, illetve Robert Walser írásait, aki nagy hatással volt Kafkára. (Megjelentek magyar nyelven is.)
>Szolzsenyicin
Solzhenitsyn. Ha érdekelnek ilyen kis cuki anektodák és történetek a Sztálinizmusról, akkor "Dmitry Shostakovich-Solomon Volkov: Testimony" (Magyarul "Testamentum" címen jelent meg, de ne keresd. mert borsos áron vesztegetik, és még a kötése is fos, legalábbis ismerőstől azt hallottam.)
Amúgy csak beszabadultál egy Libribe, aztán levettél majd' minden polákos mémkönyvet, vagy mi?

>>13667916
Akkor már inkább olvassa angolul, mert a magyar kiadást az angol nyomán készítették.

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1/5

>>13668610
2/5

>>13668614
3/5

>>13668617
4/5

>>13668621
5/5

>>13668621
>Akutagawa
>>13668628
>Against Nature
excellent

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>>13659816
hell yeah

>>13653965
Excited for the future

>>13668628
If we met we could be friends, impeccable taste Monsieur

>>13667346
>reading nietzsche without having read schopenhauer or any of the greeks

>>13653965
hoes mad (24x)

>>13663547
more like just what the nazis recruited

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>>13668703
>Akutagawa
What's wrong with Akutagawa?

>>13669460
he said he was excellent

>>13667935
>Amúgy csak beszabadultál egy Libribe, aztán levettél majd' minden polákos mémkönyvet, vagy mi?

Nem, sokat közülük csak a polcról szedtem le (igaz hogy a Libri-ből van nálunk a polc) mert még azt se tudtam szeretek e olvasni bármit, Harry Potter és Tronok harcán kívül, mondom nemrég kezdtem szóval nem vagyok annyira szofiztikált ebben. Szolzsenyicin-t már rendeltem (nem
is nagyon tervezem többé mém-könyvesboltba tenni a lábam)

Köszi a tanácsot amúgy

>>13658703
Basements really aren't that common anymore, update your dead boomer memes.

[Tori Loves Rachel. Faggot. I like girls.]

>>13658858
Sei Italiano?

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>>13670086
I don't think italians read Italian poems in English, anon

>>13667346
menj az anyad pichajaba

>>13669890
is that a good thesaurus?

>>13670452
:’(

>>13667930
Jól hangzik köszi !

>>13670086
no, ma, sto imparando.

>>13670464
[One of the fucking best. Phones do everything now, but it feels good to have a physical ace of staves on deck, right? Right. Lit teacher from seventh grade told me to get one and I have kept one ever since. A writer's third call on a drunk night when he just needs a decent blowjob for some whiskey dick. Chungus. Or whatever. Free Emiya.]

>>13665734
Ouch

>>13663988
Found the "classical liberal" who listens to Jordan Peterson.

>>13666780
>Tried for weeks to find second hand copies
Abebooks

>>13669851
>nem is nagyon tervezem többé mém-könyvesboltba tenni a lábam
Általában megéri mindent antikváriumban beszerezni, vagy körülnézni Budapest utcáin, hogy a Közhasznú Könyvterjesztők épp mit árulnak.
Újat akkor éri meg venni, ha újra kiadtak valamit amiből anno csak alacsony példányszámú nyomást csináltak. (Pl. Helikon új Konfuciusz fordítása, mert a régi kiadás az relatíve ritka, mivel egy háromkötetes antológia része.) (inb4 de a szukits kiadta 199X-ben. Tudom, de azt még életemben nem láttam eladásra kínálva. Tartalomra megegyezik az Akadémiai Kiadó változatával a hatvanas évekből.)

>>13653965
1/?

>>13671142
2/?

>>13671150
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>>13671164
6/?

>>13671150
post your wallpaper m'man

>>13671172
sure. mulholland drive for anyone curious.

>>13671169
this is my to read stack also

>>13663988
>the Terror
the TV show is better

>>13671169
>>13671189
Impressive collection

How many of them have you read?

>>13671219
nothing in that to read stack is read and my bedside stack are current reads. some things like Kant or Hero w/ 100 faces were only specific sections, and some things like Euripides were only a specific play or two. Stuff like Homer or Dante I buy in both poetry and prose for comparison, but only really have read the poetry versions.

Besides all that, otherwise pretty much all of it.

>>13671180
Much appreciated! And nice collection, too.

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How long does it take you to complete a stack ?

>>13671010
I'm not and I don't

>>13670621
Forza amico

>>13669868
Stay mad basementfag

>>13668942
Nice selection my dude.

Does /lit/ ever buy comic books?

>>13662648
based zoomers

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>>13668628
I like you

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What do you guys do with your old books? Dump them at HPB? Ebay?

Went to second hand bookstore recently, expected them to have 2-3 books on my list instead they had almost everything.

>>13672309
1.2-1.4 books a week for me

>>13674484
Keep them.

>>13674484
Plan to take them to a thrift shop and then forget about them for several years

>>13674620
Reading a shitty paperback of W&P sounds like an unpleasant experience

>>13667346
cool cover on gulag archipelago
not a fan of harari though

>>13674678
This

>>13659422
Stacking books like that is for those who don't want guests to know they read the works of L Ron Hubbard.