/lit/ - Literature

>>16563300
I like these threads

>>16563319
me too, man. have another one.

>>16563319
me three. pic rel isn't exactly obscure, but following this thread

>>16563300
This was pretty good and made me buy his short stories.

Nice little gem from wakefield press

really good recent poetry

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>>16563383
what are these about?

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>>16563300
As great as Quinn is she’s entry level you gay faggot

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>>16563882
just post obscure lit dude, who gives a fuck about levels.

Bakers response to Smarts by Central Station

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>>16563334
Yes, those are some of the best /lit/ threads usually. I wish some super autistic anon would compile a chart of the best recs in "obscure /lit/" threads.

I've abundantly shilled Clémence Ramnoux's "Night and the Children of Night" a few weeks back. I believe it deserves yet more shilling, along with Ramnoux's entire philological work.

>>16563901
Ann Quinn isn’t obscure that’s my point you fucking cunt

>>16563300
Obligatory Lanark mention. Not so obscure but still underrated. I deserves to be made into a /lit/ meme.

Not his best but great nevertheless

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>>16563300
I'm not into polars but that was surprisingly good.

>>16563300
Faulkner clearly isn't obscure by any stretch of the imagination, but I NEVER hear this book get brought up, even in Faulkner threads, despite this being an absolute masterpiece. It's a forgotten treasure.

>>16564046
Masterpiece yes but in no way is it forgotten

>>16563347
Some kid marked up your book, dude.

>>16563383
The Suspended Vocation is about a young seminarian embroiled in a conspiracy between several factions and sects of French monastic life, being accused of belonging to either side, trialed by libertine impostors from his former life and philosophical priests waxing atheistic. It's written as a critical review by a critic who comes across the story (a book by the same name) and keeps shitting on the writer's abilities.

>>16563455
The Suspended Vocation is about a young seminarian embroiled in a conspiracy between several factions and sects of French monastic life, being accused of belonging to either side, trialed by libertine impostors from his former life and philosophical priests waxing atheistic. It's written as a critical review by a critic who comes across the story (a book by the same name) and keeps shitting on the writer's abilities.

>>16563300

Mars by Fritz Zorn

These threads are very nice but they would be better if posters did a little summary of the book (or why they liked it). Thanks for posting anyway anons!

>>16563300
American Traveler tours the world between the wars and writes about his experiences. He swims the panama canal, crosses the alps on a circus elephant, buys a slave boy in Timbuktu and frees him after much annoyance, and crosses the pacific in a Chinese junk. Halliburton tells you stories of the ancient world as he wanders through ruins that have not yet been fenced off. It's aimed at younger readers, but its a great time capsule.

Not obscure by any means but I've never seen it mentioned here before. It's great

Not necessarily obscure, but I feel Abe is a very overlooked author around here.

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nice thread

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I just finished this and it's become one of my favorite novels. I was shocked that a novel written in such a conventional style could have the act of reading be such a joy. A real testament to the author

it got lewis and tolkein to try writing science fiction but i never hear anybody talk about it.

one of his lesser known books.

I have never read Asimov's science fiction, my only experience with the man is through his lesser known history books.

>>16565858
Who's that by

>>16563892
This book Is crazy obscure. What's it about?

>>16566973
It’s part of a trilogy charting the life of a man know as gotobed. Dawn is from his birth to his mid to late twenties. Really well written in the same vein as Joyce et al

>>16566926
In no way obscure

>>16566884
Not obscure in any way

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>>16564632

Not obscure so don’t post them you sacks of shit

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>>16567267
Thank you for your contributions.

>>16567309
I’ve posted four books you stain

>>16567363
You should have left it at that

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>>16563300
>On Elegance while Sleeping
As a kid, the MC used to be the best corpse finder in his town (bodies would travel down river from Paris). He likes whoring a lot, and praises different STDs.
It's a pretty short diary of a Des Esseintes type (Huysmans) with a bit of the Underground man: full-on Decadence.
The writer's personna is quite interesting.
I could've sworn the English edition was by NYRB but I'm wrong apparently.

>>16564539
Very good book. It was mentioned all the time back when Eastern European lit was more popular (Szerb, Gyula Krudy, Grombowicz, etc). It's still posted in these threads

>>16563300
I don't know how obscure picrel is since I learned of its existence in /lit/ and quite recently; it was praised by Samuel Beckett; and two of his books are printed by NYRB, but whatever. I've tried shilling it before in threads asking for NEET and depressive literature so I'll do it again.
It's an incredibly funny book and pretty pathetic at the same time. A guy tries to make friends out of strangers (he's desperare for company), but he's poor, unlikable and he doesn't want to get a job. Probably one of the top 3 or 4 funniest books I've read this year.
The first vignette and the one about the factory owner's daughter were great.

I never see this guy mentioned in the Scandinavian threads, this book was great. Loved the language, really light and colorful. I have so many vivid images still in my mind when I think back on it.
It's kind of similar to Death in Venice in that it reads almost like a Greek play with the heavy symbolism and foreshadowing, but it's much lighter in tone. The Markurells of Wadköping is the English title.

>>16563347
lewd
yuck

>>16567415
the title is fucking brilliant
what's this about?

>>16567453
great recommendation, anon, I also read this book. protagonist is really the incarnation of an arrogant and unlikable, yet pitiful person. Pretty funny, how he reasons in his inner monologues while totally sperging out in front of other people.

>>16567453
where can i pirate it? it's not in book4you

>>16565939
lmao

>>16568019
https://files.catbox.moe/ckweny.zip

>>16567453
If it is on NYRB then it is not rare. NYRB is normie entry-level publication

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bump

Haven't read it yet but I'm very interested.

>>16570642
>“My name’s King Clyde The Destroyer and I’m fourteen-years-old and I’m tough as nails and I’ve lived in a dump my whole life...”Meet Clyde, a little boy whose whole world has been trash since the day he was born. In the massive garbage dump he calls home, Clyde navigates a dangerous landscape of trash mountains and the ever-present dread of what lies out there in The Great Beyond – the cracked and lightning-kissed land outside his Kingdom where he has never ventured to go. Within those walls, Clyde rules over the land as King, imagining himself a Hollywood stuntman as he “races” cars around The Used Car Lot, reading books at The Library, or reminiscing about long-lost family vacations while at The Memory Palace. Beyond those walls are dangers unimaginable, such as the gruesome monsters Clyde’s mother warned him about – the ones that will eat his face off if he dares step foot beyond the Kingdom walls. But that’s not the only warning his mother gave, for there’s always the danger of invading Out-of-Towners – gasmasked nomads known to roam the dry land, stopping off at lifeless towns and garbage dumps to pillage for supplies and food, where anything or anyone could be on the menu. Yes, as a genuine momma’s boy, Clyde takes these warnings to heart, but when a new family of Out-of-Towners lays down roots in his Kingdom, things are going to change for Clyde who’ll soon learn to see garbage for what it really is – and where the monsters really live.

Does anyone ever actually wind up reading any of the books from these threads?

>>16570658
Everyone here has read Schulz, you insecure dweeb.

>>16570698
We've all read Ferdydurke too, right? I am just checking

>>16570735
Yes, the two most recognized names in Polish /lit/ get posted here regularly and appear in /lit/ charts. We would have more literature threads if Evolafags would kill themselves already

>>16570658
I write down some of the titles that seem interesting and get to them eventually. That’s how I found out about Schulz, if I remember correctly.

>>16570975
And here's an earlier cover, which I prefer.

>>16567267
I haven't heard of either.
>inb4 uneducated American
It's true tho.

>>16565939
Stop shilling your own shit.

>>16567265
Fucking shut up, you contrarian moron.

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>>16570745
At least it isn't Guenon anymore. I want to go back to DFW and Bloomposting.

>>16571024
This looks interesting. What's it about anon?

>>16563300
The Inquisitory, by Robert Pinget, though maybe that's only obscure in the U.S.
Ditto Who Are You, by Anna Kavan
And Obermann, by Étienne Pivert de Senancour

>>16564330
This sounds fantastic.

>>16566895
Love this book.

>>16564330
Klossowski was kinda degenerate (read his Baphomet and saw his artwork). Does that book have any weird sex or S&M stuff?

>>16570986
This guy is from where I grew up and went to college. Pretty to cool to have such a based writer from my city.

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>>16563300
Pic related is a really good selection, although his more famous book is The Book of Monelle. Schwob was pretty influential. Apparently he was friends with great writers as well (Daudet, de Goncourt, Proust, Mirbeau). Borges and Bioy loved him.
Here's an epub because it's not on B-ok.cc.
>https://files.catbox.moe/1qgiyu.zip

Dalkey and Wakefield (US) have a great catalog, it's a shame it's hard to find online copies.

>>16566884
How is John Gardner obscure?

thanks for the rec tho

>>16564284
what short stories of his do you like? I've had his collected stories for ages but I can't spark my interest in it.

It isn't that obscure, but I very rarely see it discussed here: Juan Rulfo's The Golden Cockerel. It's pretty great and often comes with several short stories of his, most of which give an imposing sense of dread.

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>>16567911
This makes me think of Hamsun's Hunger which I liked, so I'll definitely check out the book.

>>16567911
>Pretty funny, how he reasons in his inner monologues while totally sperging out in front of other people.
>sperging out

yeah not taking recs from someone who uses ridiculous words like that without knowing how painful it is to be a sperg..shame on you

>>16574269
Definitely similar to Hunger, but this translation reads a lot better imo. It's such a plain and self aware character the comedy gets across more easily compared to the guy in Hunger and his big dreams and self delusion.

>>16563300
Very good and very short

I never see this mentioned

>>16573756
extremely based recommendation, some of my favourite short stories are in there

>>16572593
No, nothing explicit at least. There's mention of a sodomite sect (which reminded me of Acéphale) but that's it.

>>16569634
thanks based anony

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>>16566926
Wtf is this? I've never even heard of these books.

>>16574288
It will have to wait for a while because I can't find it on b-ok nor on libgen

>>16563912
I could do it, anon. To be quite honestly it's very hard to find a book I've read in one of these threads but I will list the books which I see posted often in some of these threads or which have good reviews and critical acclaim.

>>16575271
>To be quite honest
Fixed.

>>16575271
Wouldn’t that just be a list of the least obscure books posted in the obscure books threads? Not that I’m against the idea.

>>16575283
You're kind of right anon. In this case it wouldn't be much of an "obscure" chart, but maybe mostly overlooked books like pic related, which aren't much discussed in this board and aren't well known.

It's mentioned by Nabokov as one of the greatest masterpieces of literature but barely gets recognized as much as the other books he mentioned like In Search of Lost Time or Ulysses. Damn good book though and very underrated author.

>>16569634
>>16567453

>rilke and gide admired him
that's high praise

>>16575232
See >>16569634

>>16574292
That's a part of the collection I suggested above!
It's also got lesser known works by Wells, Kafka, Borges, Barthelme, Lawrence, Capote, Malamud, Vonnegut, and White.

>>16575374
I have read this. It’s pretty good, although with How stylistic it is I imagine I missed out on a lot by reading an English translation

>>16563915

I've never heard of her. Stop being a caustic little cum sock and post books ffs

>>16572161
>Ditto Who Are You, by Anna Kavan
Glad to see this suggestion, I'd like to post Asylum's Piece or A Scarcity of Love by her as soon as I saw the thread

>>16574259
All of them have their strong and weak points so I get something out of all them.the one with the British soldier is great.he is very Irish though.he reminds me of a watered down Joyce which isn’t an insult

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>>16575329
Blind Owl is often mentioned here

>>16567687
>lewd
>yuck
You a sissy faggot?

>>16577374
yes daddy

>>16564337
How is this obscure you uncultured swine?

>>16577348
You don't see it in the main charts though. It'd be a good chart showing alternatives to most of the /lit/ canon.

>>16576167
I'm reading it now, it is very good. I don't think it is obscure though

>>16563334
this book is so bad

>>16574252
Maybe he's well-known in the US, but I had never heard of him

>>16578699
what didn't you like, anon?

Not sure how well known this is, it was recced by some other anon earlier this year
I wasn't always 100% sure what was going on, but without question a beautiful journey with a clear, if heavy handed message

>>16578383
I read it because someone recommended it here.

Enjoy your depression!

>>16563912
Is any of her stuff translated?

Bump.
Note for future threads: suggest adding a quick rundown so it's not just random book covers and titles.

>>16578504
I just took the thread to mean 'obscure on /lit/. Have barely seen this mentioned.

>>16576461
Thanks I just finished Dubliners and I think my brain is adjusting to Joyce's style in that book... I think my Joyce reading will help me with Frank O'Connor who I found odd to read.

By one of Borges' mentors, for some reason somewhat ignored in Argentina.

>>16579756
How is Rimbaud doomer-tier? Celan, Lautreamont and Baudelaire obviously but Rimbaud?

>>16582565
Une saison en enfer kinda (definitely Mauvais sang).

>>16582747
Yeah I see it for Une saison en enfer, it's just surprising to say the complete work but it won't hurt anyone to read it anyway

>>16582565
i'd asked the same question when the chart was being compiled, but nobody answered

>>16582251
somewhat related to your post....

I've read The Invention of Morel but goddamn it's weird af...not sure if i'd recommend