/lit/ - Literature

lol lastime ich ec ked al literure is mad byhu mans lol

The French did humanism in literature best.

Rabelais
Ronsard
Montaigne
Du Bellay

Superior to your English and Italian faggots.

Carl Sagan.

>>1579316

I'm French, I read Rabelais and he's not half as good as Dostoevsky (in a ''humanist'' way). And I don't see how Ronsard and Du Bellay are humanists, dumbfuck.

It's the Brothers Karamazov, OP.

>>1579326

I was thinking it must either be The Brothers Karamazov or The Trial.

>>1579336

The Trial is superior, but The Brother's Karamazov influenced modern humanism more.

bumping for more suggestions

not op, bump.

Not as good as TBK, but Journey to the End of the Night

The Gawd Delusions

oration on the dignity of man or maybe the essays of montaigne

voltaire's essays or cat scratch fever by ted nugent

The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

Oration on the Dignity of Man

>>1579319 The Demon Haunted World?

also Colonel Robert G. Ingersol's essays are good.

>>1579945

Of course.

good thread truman, sorry for being mean to you

>>1580012

is this the part where we fuck?

>>1579868

I completely forgot about that book.

Also, are existentialism and absurdism always humanist?

dont even think about it

>>1580034

>are existentialism and absurdism always humanist?

Not when it's religious existentialism, despite what they'd like you to think.

Shakespeare invented modern humanism.

>>1580070
and plato invented thinking

>>1580081

Nonsense, that was Thales

>>1580081

Plato refined and perfected the fundamental ideas which came to define philosophy, as Shakey did with humanism and Kafka did for absurdism.

i give up you guys win with your amazing ability to miss the point.

>>1580103

You mean just because shakespeare outlined humanism in his literature doesn't mean that people didn't have identical ideas before him?

Soo i liked "The Sirens of Titan"
It was really good in my opinion

>>1579336

I cant see how the trial is humanist. If anything, is anarchist and pessimist.

>>1580150

The intellectuals of the east and of former totalitarian countries may agree with you, however western thought often interprets The Trial as an existentialist / absurdist novel. The trial represents death and the absurdity of the life.

I think Kafka intended for both meanings to be present, and actually they compliment each other quite well.

OKAY, AS PROMISED, HERE IS MY LIST:
DEMONS - DOSTOEVSKY

>>1580922

How is that humanist?

>>1580941
IT'S SOME GUY PRETENDING TO BE, IN AN EFFORT TO GET ME TO STOP USING CAPS. WHICH WON'T HAPPEN.

>>1580941
BECAUSE IT"S ABOUT HUMANS, HURR DURR.

>>1580943
DON'T LISTEN TO THAT RETARD, REPORT ALL THE GUYS POSTING IN CAPS, I WON'T DO IT ANYMORE.

THANK YOU, /LIT/

NOW I'M GOING BACK TO JAPAN

>>1580945
I'M GOING BACK TO JAPAN TO READ GONCHAROV AND DOCTOR JEKYLL

The Decameron

If Dante has claims to the "divine comedy," then Boccacio has the "mortal comedy"

bump for moar

>>1580139
I read that not too long ago, as well.

I really liked it too. :)

Think I might give Mother Night a go next.