/lit/ - Literature

The point of reading is to read not to have read, fuckbrick

>>14999089
That's a cool platitude but it means nothing. You will never be truly /lit/ since you'll never have read everything of importance. To do that you'd have to be an academic like Nabokov.

I hate how they changed the guy on the back of the first book.

>>14999139
Why do you have to read everything? Why care about being truly lit?

>>14999222
Ok. Double trips has changed my mind.

>>14999222
witnessed

>>14999234
Pirate the ebook and decide for yourself. Imo the book didn't really impress me. There was a whole lot of pseudoscientific mumbo jumbo.

>>14999082
>But it will take you months to read all of Shakespeare.
Exaggeration, or perhaps accurate but misleading. If you're serious about it with this quarantine I'd say it'd take TWO months, tops. Once you get into the swing of things you can easily put away at least two plays a day and chip away at the sonnets before bed.

apu.. easy on the tendies

>being able to spend months reading the works of an author you love is a bad thing

I wish there were dozens and dozens of Tarkovsky films too

>>14999757
Lmao

>>14999769
I get that. But if you want to be a filmmaker for example, you can reach a point where you've watched all there is to watch, and can now think about making a contribution to the artform.
With literature it's different. There's always more and more.

>>14999777
>>14999222
goddam all the trips itt

>>14999769
Bresson was one of Tarokvsky's 2 favorite directors, check him out. I think Bergmann was the other?

>>15000146
what? no you can't. There's more films than you could watch in a lifetime.

>>15000265
I am aware of both but welcome the suggestions anyway.

>>14999746

I mean he's literally funded by the surviving Koch brother to spout these feudalist platitudes so

>>14999222
>999
>222
blessed post

>>15000310
How about Alain Resnais? Last Year at Marienbad is great. Here's a list an anon gave me .

Wojciech Has
Jacques Rivette
Raul Ruiz
Shuji Terayama
Jean Cocteau
Juraj Herz - The Cremator, Morgiana
Peter Greenaway
Takashi Miike
Lucio Fulci
Dusan Makavejev
David Cronenberg
Sergei Parajanov to a certain extent
Ken Russell
Stefan Uher
Alain Resnais
Nicolas Roeg
Andrzej Zulawski
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Jaromil Jires
Kenneth Anger
Maya Deren
Jan Svankmajer
Guy Maddin
Jodorowsky too although i'm not a huge fan.
Czechoslovak New Wave is full of films with dreamlike, weird images. Daisies is popular

>>15000265
>There's more films than you could watch in a lifetime.
I'm talking about great films, not all films.

>>15000146
Devouring media to gain mastery of it has more to do with a keen understanding of it rather than consuming a massive amount of it, let alone an entirety of a form, although that does help to develop an idea of what you might want to do. The first generation of rock musicians in England like Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page became virtuoso guitarists listening to a tiny library of imported American blues guitarists in the lates 50s. For a long time, writers like Hemingway only read the Russians through Garnett's awful translations. Do you really think directors like Coppola became geniuses by watching every single film?

>>15000361
Yeah, so am I. Not to mention that you almost never watch a great film once, just like you almost never read a great book once.

>>15000368
>clapton and page
>Virtuoso
>Laughing robert fripp.png

>>15000371
>Not to mention that you almost never watch a great film once, just like you almost never read a great book once.
That makes it even worse, since reading a book already takes longer than watching a movie, reading a book twice will take way longer than watching a movie twice.

>>15000368
>writers like Hemingway only read the Russians through Garnett's awful translations
Is this true? Surely Hemingway is a minority in this regard. A guy like Nabokov read a fuckton.

>>14999222
Witnessed. And I agree.

>>15000392
>Nabokov
Dislike him.

>>15000392
Nabokov grew up in Russia and only left after the revolution, when he was 18/19. He would've had no need to read a translation of Russian.