/lit/ - Literature

>>15787957
>Didn’t some greek philosophers write some journals?
No

>>15787958
>Enchiridion of Epictetus
not exactly a journal but still

>>15787986
Greco-Romans are not exactly philosophers

>>15787957
>Didn’t some greek philosophers write some journals?
Not exactly. You have to remember that the ancient Greeks often had slaves who transcribed things for them and often wouldn't write in their own hand.
There are theories that Aristotle's books are in fact lecture notes of at least one of his students, and that things like the Apophthegmata Laconica of Plutarch were somewhat like scrapbooks used as research for later texts.
There is also 'Attic Nights' of Aulus Gellius which is a kind of journal but called a 'commonplace book' where Gellius records various episodes and anecdotes that happened or learned during his studies.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Philosophical Writings

>>15787957
St Augustine's Confessions are basically personal journals that got published later on although not really since he intended for it to be published, but it still is a very personal collection of thoughts regarding a man and his relationship with God over his life.

>>15788074
Yeah like Socrates had that Plato slave to write his ramblings

>>15787957
The complete works of Julius Caeser

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>>15788144
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>>15788074
thank you brahs
OP here,

>>15788196
glad to help anon

>>15787957
Montaigne's Essais of course

Goethe: Italian Journey, The sorrows of young Werther

my diary

Mircea Eliade:
- Romanul adolescentului miop
- Gaudeamus

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>>15788144
>Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl

Memoirs of Hadrian?

>>15790333
whats the problem?

>>15787957

I think religious texts like the Bible, Koran or the Bhuddist works are journals.

The Guy who was sent to force Japan to open it's ports open had some interesting writings, Commodore Amtthew Perry
The only one of his I've read is 'Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan'

But memoirs/autobiographies are pretty much my favourite genre. The ones I like are
-Reagan Diaries,
-Inside the Third Reich,
-The Hitler book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/65461.The_Hitler_Book
(about the information obtained about Hitler by torturing close aides of Hitler and then cross checking their accounts but while keeping them in different rooms),
-pretty much all of nixon's books, (Namely Six Crises and Memoirs of RIchard Nixon)
-Twenty Letters to a Friend by Svetlanna(Stalin's daughter
-Writings of Leon Trotsky
-Molotov Remembers
-My DIsillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman
-Stalin's Agent: The Life and Death of Alexander Orlov
-The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Dr.Li(pretty revealing and nasty things about Mao, censored in China)

Been reading Bolton's book recently
>>15790744
he's a Retarded natzee

>>15791910
*Matthew
Also forgot to mention, Maisky Diaries and Marco Polo's writings. The latter is amazing.

>>15787957

Do you read people's journals even before they are published just like many modern writers these days do? Or do you wait until after the journals and memoirs have been published? Because I think writers these days will do anything if they want to get their hands on material that they can use in their writings even if it means looking at other people's journals even if those journals owned by those people were not meant to be read by other people.

Read John Mitchel's jail journal

>>15792694

Read your mom's diary.

>>15790333
>Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl