/lit/ - Literature

I've read that.

>>16322351
post ur own example then

>>16322351
/thread

>>16322358
No, you fucking suck

>>16322342
I'd be surprised if any of you have read it

>>16322342
>diary of a man in despair
sounds like my diary desu

>>16322358
ok.

>>16322373
Have a similar old orange and buff Penguin classic copy of Anthony Powell's Venusberg- my selection

>>16322342
it's on my shelf desu

I plan to read Joseph Roth - The Hotel Years, followed by this, then At the Mind's Limits by Jean Amery

think it will be quite a broad an immersive arc

Sort of explains why my grandparents miss the USSR, which is why I wanted to read it.

>>16322342
>Be an ordinary middle-aged German
>Grew up before the Nazis and hardly agree with them
>Get mobilized and sent to Poland
>Told to murder civilians, children included
>Officers won't punish you if you refuse but decide to participate in a few executions before you begin to refuse, because all your Kameraden are doing it too
>Have to live with yourself after all that

>>16322757
come on

my great-grandfather's biography

>>16322342
Why read it when you LIVE it. haha gottem

>>16322342

>>16322342
Legitimately the best surrealism ive ever read and nobody done read that shit

>>16322342
Unironically my diary desu

>>16322342

>>16322817
Peterson shilled that book hard, every pseud has read it

>>16322342
don't trust the goodreads reviews on this one

>>16322342
I want to saw The Black Book by Lawrence Durrell, but the real answer is "La Night et les Enfants de la Nuit", by Clémence Ramnoux, which she started writing as an appendix to her thesis in Greek philology before publishing it as a standalone book. It's about cosmogonies, the transition from Chthonian to Ouranian gods in Greek mythology, and the emergence of physical discourse from mythological lore.

>>16324552
don't trust goodreads reviews ever

>>16322342
Definitely

bob

>>16322342

>Feminist Interpretations of Augustine
>Marxism and Christianity by Alasdair MacIntyre

>>16324549
I'm far from the only person who's read it, but it feels like I'm the only person on /lit/ who's read it. Easily one of the best books I've ever read. A surreal magical realism novella that's sort of a ghost story, but more in the sad sense than the scary sense. It's like the framework of a more typical "guy goes back to his home town and remembers things" story, but in this incredibly strange and surreal setting.

Genuinely surprised how much I liked it.

letsf dwont saveyou

>>16324658
Aaaaaaand I misread OP's post. Nevermind.

>>16324634
Ah, yes, you're probably the only person on this entire website who's read one of the books most commonly associated with magical realism and the Latin American boom, one that's shilled on every single Hispanic lit thread or "rec me some latinx writers" threads on /lit/.

>>16324552
Didn't someone convert it into epub here?

>>16324634
I'll check this out, sold me

This is a Kafkaesque novella about a young peasant tartar educated in Stalinist Moscow who returns to his nomadic people along the Steppe with the intent of revitalizing the tribe with Communist society by undertaking this exodus into the desert. I wonder if any of it is tongue-in-cheek or not since it was censored during Platanov's lifetime although if anything I would say the Soviets are portrayed quite favourably.

>>16324739
I literally never see it discussed on here. It'll maybe be plopped in the middle of a giant chart full of Latin American recommendations, but that's all. No one actually talks about it

>>16324843
Lurk more.

>>16324843
dude /lit/ is like 82% pretentious Mexicans.

>>16324868
I'm conviced that /lit/ is atleast 30% romanians

>>16324861
I lurk here more than I'm proud to admit

>>16324868
Sounds wrong

>>16324634
First heard of this book in a "Reading Like a Writer" book my mom bought me because I wrote 1 short story for school. I had forgotten the title but it described how the firstish scene where the narrator is traveling with Abundio basically contains a series of twists. I had forgotten the title of the book, but I had heard of Pedro Paramo on /lit/ and found and read a pdf and realized it was that book. Bought and reread it at some point later.

>>16322342
all the good books I've read I've been recommended on here save for lord jim and that's not really an obscure book

>>16322713
what's it about?

>>16324534
Is it good? I am put off by hearing his stuff was children stories.

>>16325202
They are allegories about the modernization of Japan. They are dark, violent, and sad but some are really funny. They're "fables" that children could read, but only adults will fully understand the messages. HIGHLY recommend. Fuck, it was incredible.

>>16325283
You have convinced me. I am always looking for dark fables, weird fiction stories and horror stories to read.

>>16325295
You won't be disappointed. Enjoy, anon.

>>16324803
I would highly recommend this too but I completely fail to see how the Soviets are portrayed positively in the main story.

Platonov’s story “The Return” which was also in that collection has the most cinematic last scene of any story I’ve ever read, good on the Soviets for always being so literally kino

>>16326376
Absolutely based. "The Return" brought a tear to my eye. Only other Russian short story that had as brilliant of an ending was "Gusev".

The Rainbow Stories by William T Vollmann

>>16324803
if you want to go a little earlier in the Soviet timeline, I recommend this - its a nice, Borges-esque collection. I just finished it a few days ago, and was incredibly surprised at how good it is.

I guarantee I'm the only one in the thread who has read this book—it's a small local publishing.

It's an autobiographical tale of a young German noblewoman who flees her family's Baltic estate in the last days of World War II and has to trek across the devasted countryside on her horse while the Soviets encroach behind her.

I'd certainly recommend you give it a read if you like these sorts of accounts.

>>16327859
Working my way through some Borges at the moment in its original Spanish so I'll give this a look. If you want another similar short story writer I recommend Danilo Kiš if you haven't read him already.

>>16328930
Thanks for the rec fren

Great book. There are only a couple of YouTube videos about it (PaperBirds being one) and its presence is almost nonexistent on GoodReads

I hope someone here has read this

>>16324868
Pretentious Mexican here, you're definitely right.

>>16324634
This is my favorite book. But it's not an obscure read whatsoever. Everyone in Mexico know this book. You're probably an anglo-cuck who had to read a translation.

>>16323279
scan a pdf nigger

>>16324578
>>16324634
>>16322757
Read it

>>16324578
I read this
and 1982, Janine
And Poor Things
Alasdair Gray is tits

>>16322342

underrated af

It's kinda disappointing I've never seen this book mentioned here. A really good collection of short stories by a Mexican writer. Latin American lit is not appreciated enough.

>>16324766
I have read it and it is beyond great . Simon whitechapel is just my cup of tea when it comes to transgressive literature .

One of his unfinished novels. Wish there was more, I love the way that Novalis communicates his ideas. Also, Henry von Ofterdingen.

>>16324868
this is correct
t. pretentious Mexican

>>16329700
read it, great choice, you should read Hölderlin if you haven't

https://discord.gg/H9ejXg word

>>16322757
idiot

>>16329505
I don't have it, I read it at a library from where I have been revoked access to :(

>>16324868
Considering the demographic makeup of America, especially in the 20-30 age bracket, this is unsurprising.

t. European of Algerian extraction

>>16325035
It's an essay by a Croatian talking about how what replaced socialism is shit, so it's no wonder that people miss the Socialist Republic.

>>16329520
Good