/lit/ - Literature

>>15547382
please leave

>>15547401
Ignore this dumbass.

Maybe Pierre Hadot, Alberto Laiseca, Stephan Zweig, Rodolfo Walsh and Bruno Schulz.

>>15547382
The Bible

>>15547382
Juan Rulfo, Baltazar Gracian (loved by Shoppy), def Gaddis.

>>15547382
>pls share ur secret stash of cool, edgy books full of amazinge secrets about lyfe women and redpills!

eat shit

>>15547401
>>15547431
This is the scum of /lit/, I hope one day God shines a light on them and kills them soon.

I love Piglia and Julián Ríos (Octavio Paz BFF).
Also Raul Gomez Jattin's poetry is great. (he was a colombian bum and schizoid iirc)

>>15547411
Seconding Laiseca

>>15547382
Cirlot's Dictionary of symbols is GOAT

>>15547382
post the latest Patrician-core Chart and I'll contribute

Sounds terribly pretentious but okay

>>15547530
Great rec, thx!

>>15547528
here

>>15547382
Carlo Emilio Gadda MUST be in it

>>15547382
A couple of Manguel's books are great.

>>15547550
Stoner, Augustus, and Butcher's Crossing by John Williams

>>15547431
this but unironically please

>>15547382
discord . gg/mVNUytg

>>15547550

>atlas shrugged
>patrician

pick one
just think of all the pathetic cucks that you'd automatically have to consider to be patrician if that book were, in fact,patrician

>>15547558
this

infinite jest, gravity's rainbow, ulysses

The Bṛhatkathāślokasaṃgraha by Budhasvāmin

>>15547382

Thomas Browne
Edith Stein
Bernard Lonergan
Hermann Broch
Maurice Blanchot
WV Quine
Clark Ashton Smith

ars poetica

>>15547550
no faust 2? weaklings

>>15548491
nice pics

This Gothic masterpiece. 1/2

>The margin of the forest under whose high branches Titus was standing was an interwoven screen of foliage, more like a green wall constructed for some histrionic purpose than a natural growth. Was it to hide away some drama that it arose there, so sheer and so thick? Or was it the backcloth of some immortal mime? Which was the stage and which the audience? There was not a sound.

>Titus, wrenching two boughs apart, thrust himself forward and wriggled into the green darkness; thrust again, prising his feet against a great lateral root. The leaves and the moss were cold with the dew. Working forwards on his elbows, he found his way almost completely barred by a tough network of boughs; but the edge of his eagerness to break his way through was whetted, for a branch had swung back and switched him across his cheek, and in the pain of the moment he fought the muscled branches, until the upper part of his body had forced a gap which he kept from re-closing with his aching shoulders. His arms were forward of his body and he was able to free his face of the leaves, and, as he panted to regain his breath, to see ahead of him, spreading into the clear distances, the forest floor like a sea of golden moss. From its heaving expanses, arose, as through the chimera of a daydream, a phantasmic gathering of ancient oaks. Like dappled gods they stood, each in his own preserve, the wide glades of moss flowing between them in swathes of gold and green and away into the clear, dwindling distances.

>When his breath came more easily, Titus realized the silence of the picture that hung there before him. Like a canvas of gold with its hundreds of majestic oaks, their winding branches dividing and sub-dividing into gilded fingertips the solid acorns and the deep clusters of the legendary leaves.

>His heart beat loudly as the warm breath of the silence flowed about him and drew him in.

>In his last wrench and thrust to escape from the marginal boughs, his coat was tom off bodily by a thorn-tree with a hand of hideous fingers. He left it there, hanging from the branch, the long thorns of the tree impaling it like the finger-nails of a ghoul.

>>15547668
Honestly in the current political climate Atlas Shrugged is back to being patrician.

>>15547411
Was looking at reading some Zweig. Any recommendations?

Parzival by Wolfram Von Eschenbach should be on the list. A fantastic Medieval epic that every man should read.

>>15550169
2/2

>Once the noise of his fight with the branches had subsided and the warm everlasting silence had come down again, he stepped forward upon the moss. It was resilient and springy, its golden surface exquisitely compact. He moved again with a higher tread and found that on landing it was the easiest thing in the world to float off into the next movement. The ground was made for running on, for every step lifted the body into the next. Titus leapt to his right and began to lope off down the dark-green verge of the forest in giant bounds. The exhilaration of these 'flights' through the air were for some while all absorbing, but as their novelty staled so there came a mounting terror, for the thick screen of the forest's verge on his right appeared endless, stretching away, as it did, to the limit of his vision; and the motionless, soundless glow of the oaks and the great spaces of moss on his left seemed never to change, though tree after tree swam by him as he fled.

Not a bird called. Not a squirrel moved among the branches. Not a leaf fell.
>Even his feet when they struck the moss were soundless; only a faint sigh passed his ears as he floated, reminding him that there was such a thing as sound.

>And now, what he had loved he loathed. He loathed this deathly, terrible silence. He loathed the gold light among the trees, the endless vistas of the moss - even the gliding flight from footmark to footmark. For it was as though he were being drawn towards some dangerous place or person, and that he had no power to hold himself back. The mid-air thrill was now the thrill of Fear.

>He had been afraid of leaving the dark margin on his right, for it was his only hold upon his location; but now he felt it as part of some devilish plan, and that to cling to its tangled skirt would be to deliver himself to some ambushed horror; and so he turned suddenly to his left and, although the vistas of oakland were now a sickening and phantom land, he bounded into its gold heart with all the speed he could.

>>15550169
ait im interested

>>15549705

What do you think of each?

>>15547382
patrician bump incoming

>>15550451
needless to say, it's more interesting if you read the books.

I'd recommend them. Remember that when you get to slow bits, you need to keep going;
you'll find they're pretty interesting as far as slogs go. Book 2, Gormenghast, is the best. Some if it is magnificent, like the scene I just gave an extract of.

>>15550169
Mervyn Peake is a classic

>>15547530
good choice

Fags always talk about the movie but forget the book which is a hidden gem.

>>15550207
What the best English translation for it?

>>15548554
Also conspicuous by their absence are Seneca, Lucretius, Longinus, Lord Chesterfield, and other such naturals to the perspective: Rarity in reference isn't the difference, but the lack of vertigo, a certain take-it-or-leave it attitude to power.

>>15548226
the what now

>>15554139
the bṛhatka... bṛhatkathā... branatganna work here anymore anymore anyway

>>15547431
Lmao lefties MAD

>>15547382
Robert Walser. He was very well thought of by Herman Hesse, Stefan Zweig, Walter Benjamin, and Kafka. Especially Kafka.

Anabase by Saint-John Perse
Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician by Alfred Jarry
The Adventurous Heart by Ernst Jünger
The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of Ethics for the Technological Age by Hans Jonas

>>15550708
Nice

>>15547382
>Sup
kys you stupid nigger

>>15547411
>Alberto Laiseca
A total meme. Don't let the argiefags tell you otherwise.

>>15550206
I think the best introduction to Zweig is "Chess Story." Very short and engaging, but gets deep into his style and interests. "The Post Office Girl" alongside "Beware of Pity" are probably his most interesting novels. Overall though, "The World of Yesterday," which is a sort of autobiography and a reflection on interwar Vienna really sets the stage for what it is that Zweig is trying to investigate in his writing, so if you want to take the time, I would highly recommend you start with that, as it really puts his work into context.