/lit/ - Literature

>>17340994
Nice anon, I am mad jelly!

have u started?

>>17340994
Didn’t know there was a collection

>>17340994
>all that weeb shit
Why the hell do I come here.

>>17341034
Not yet. Plan to though! Been meaning to get into this series for a while now!

>>17341003
Thanks man!

>>17341067
There are a couple of full sets. This one's by Modern Library though there is another albeit rarer version by Everyman's.

>>17341113
this is an anime website

>>17340994
You just had to include Arifureta to the right lmao

>>17341128
Did you at least read another edition of Swann's Way or are you going in completely blind? It's $95 on Amazon, which is a lot for books you might not even like.

This is most of my new shit that I've been reading over pdfs for a bit. Yes I know there's a fair amount of penguin shit, they're mostly holidays gifts so what can ya do.

>>17341220
Nah, haven't read any of it yet, don't like spoiling myself like that. Managed to get it for cheaper on Book Depository using a couple of Coupon Codes though.

>>17341240
Based Books there anon.

>>17341184
It was by pure coincidence that they were there indeed.

>>17341269
You got some balls then. I've been burnt too many times, to buy a series that I hadn't read the first volume.

>>17341113
your right, go back

>>17341240
Damn bro finish your books

>>17340994
Very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's books.

>>17340994
Most recent haul. Halfway done with them.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Great Leveler
Ordinary Men
The New Class War
Modern man in search of a Soul
The Heart of Buddhas Teaching
Beyond Good and Evil

Oh and some shitty adult piano books.

You don't get pictures you scuffed consumerists.

>>17341113
Weeb faggots should hang. They are not human.

>>17341113
Seek help

>>17341756
I do man I just have a tendency to chip away at all of them simultaneously instead of focusing on one, but I have finished the Illiad already.

>>17341812
watch out for that edge

>>17340994
I (fairly) recently got the grey “Remembrance Of Things Past” box. Going to start in a couple weeks. I’ll probably just do one volume at a time though and finish by year’s end. Haven’t decided yet

>>17340994
That collection is so nice, i really want one

>>17341926
Keep your eye on the Amazon price. I saw it drop below $50 a couple times last year

>>17341812
t. 21 year old living at home

>>17341113
>complaining about there being anime fans on an anime image board
I shiggy diggy

>>17341113
yeah I bet you didn't expect that, after the omnipresent anime pictures on every fucking board

>>17341812
then why are you on a weeb website, faggot?

>>17341908
Faggot
>>17341952
Lol, weeb fags posting and jerking off to anime pictures, while being middle class white incels for sure don't live at home with their mom. You weeb posting retard. You have to be mentally ill to be a weeb or to love anime like some faggots here do. Hahaa cartoons so cute, cartoon girls so cute, because i can never touch a woman irl, haha let me post some more. Get a rope, you weebposting trash. You are useless to everybody around you, you should be stomped to the ground you useless incel degenerate.

>>17342033
There are specific boards for your incel retardation. Fuck off there you subhuman trash.

>>17342038
>that whole speech

Looks like i hit a nerve

>>17342043
Go back to pol, no one here takes you seriously

>>17341812
>>17342038
>>17342043
Autism at its finest

>>17342056
STFU you jew trusting retard nigger brain

>>17342062
This has to be satire

>>17342049
>Mommmy look im posting anime haha they so cutteeeee i want to cuddle with them. SHUT UP MOM, I CANT GET A REAL WOMAN, I DONT WANT THEM. I HAVE MY PICTURES. Dumb mom

>>17342056
Never been there. Now fuck off back to /a/ you mentally undeveloped, emotionally vacant trash. Sedulous mongrel.

>>17342070
Anyone who trust Jews or has a nigger brain should be put to death immediately for the sake of the planet

>>17342038
hoes mad

now your just overdoing it, I'm thinking cringe

>>17342115
Kys weebtrash

>>17342118
That was not me, you naive mongrel.

>>17342074
>>17342089
I think you are a little worked up

Breathe in slowly

>>17342131
I'm just fine. Now go back to /a/ you subhuman trash.

>>17342138
Op had a figurine in the background

Relax

>>17342141
OP should throw that figurine and those shitty anime books to the trash where they belong, his whole family, everybody who comes into his tiny little room, is laughing at him. Everybody is making fun of him. Grow the fuck up OP. Stop being an abomination against all laws of nature.

>>17342152
You care too much

Move out of your parents house and get a job bum

>>17342043
>>17342038
4chan always has been and always be intrinsically linked to anime. Don't like it, fuck off
>>17342152
>his whole family, everybody who comes into his tiny little room, is laughing at him. Everybody is making fun of him.
and? who gives a shit what they think?

>>17342168
I'm doing just fine. Now stop projecting and start growing up, you repulsive weeb posting monkey.

>>17342179
>I'm doing just fine

You clearly aren't

>>17340994
*gnloid consumerism

>>17342171
>but anime website
Fuck off subhuman. Take your medications, go to some therapy, maybe you will become normal.
Be my guest, be the laughing stock of everybody around you but one thing is clear, you are a mentally ill person. In a normal society you would be locked behind bars, in some institution, you putrid mongrel.

>>17342184
No worries, just fine here. Subhumans should be put into their place though.

>all these booklets arguing about anime because they dont have any recent purchases
ngmi

>>17342189
>Be my guest, be the laughing stock of everybody around you but one thing is clear, you are a mentally ill person. In a normal society you would be locked behind bars, in some institution, you putrid mongrel.
yet you're here on the same website as me and many others like me. aren't you? stupid faggot neck yourself

>>17342245
Literature board. Not a board to display your subhuman nature and mental illness you mindless dog.

>>17342293
literature board on an anime website retard

>>17342293
Did your harlot mother encourage such profane outbursts when you were a child or would she be disappointed in you if she knew what you are posting here?

Be better

>>17340994
>weeb shit in the background
You're a fag and we know you're not going to read those books.

>>17342299
>4chan is a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images. There are boards dedicated to a variety of topics, from Japanese animation and culture to videogames, music, and photography
Your anime atrocities have their own, dedicated board.
>>17342300
Mindless cur. Weebs should be genocided.

My books haven't arrived yet. but I bought:
>Kanteletar
>Poetic Edda
>Pekko Setukaiseepos
>The Crisis of Our Age by Pitirim Sorokin
I'm mostly expecting Sorokin's book. I've heard its pretty insightful, and few books that can throw critique at Spengler.
>>17341113
You shouldn't come here, you leaving would be better for everybody.

>>17342293
You just derailed an entire lit thread because you got triggered over anime. I think you're the one who should go back to your containment board. No one here cares about your sensitive feelings.

>>17342347
I agree with him. Weebs should be gassed.

>>17342347
Kys weeb, you are a disgrace.

>>17342351
>>17342358
You guys should kiss

>>17342361
>promoting homosexuality
Yep, it's a weeb. Instead of watching Bleach try drinking it.

>>17342364
What's wrong with homosexuality?

Let me guess, you're closeted.

>>17342361
No, I'm not gay, unlike your weeb closeted self.

>>17342374
>>17342376
You two should kiss.

>>17342318
>Gets angry about what is, at most, something in the background but not the main topic.
>Subverts the thread and makes it the main topic.
>Claims it's a literature board even though they're the one who subverted the entire thread.

Fella is clearly a Coomer Brainlet trying to act as some sort of Moral Crusader as his brain is so filled with coom he can't stand the sight of women. Whether it be from art or real life.

>>17340994
Also, OP, I recently bought Lolita and King, Queen, Knave by Nabokov, go check 'em out.

>>17342380
You are gay.

>>17342395
I said weeb faggots should hang, it's true.
>anime
>women
You are mentally ill. Seek help.

>>17342395
>Lolita
pede

Great thread guys haha...

>I hate anime
>I’m gonna derail a lit thread by incessantly talking about anime
Wew

>>17340994
Congratulations, you bought the best translation.

>>17341240
Whats wrong with penguin? Theyre fine

>>17340994

>>17344323
>getting memed into Vollman
Kek

Got this during the first week of January. They were a pain in the ass to get. Specially the presocratics one. Couldn’t find it in my country and had to deliver it from the US. There was some trouble due to conversion rates and I was fully charged double. Bank is still processing my money, fucking pain in the ass.

>>17344336
What do you mean

>>17340994
Going to read Proust after Crime and Punishment (currently reading) and Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Any tips?

>>17344383
it’s a good book, I think it’s worth it

>>17341240
>holidays gifts
biggest lie I've heard from somebody trying to fit in with morons

>>17342038
Didn't read stay mad faggot

Behold true literature

>>17343670
yeah, the peng is nothing to be ashamed of, bro

>>17344803
"Why yes I was gifted Spinoza's Ethics but I'm definitely not an idiot who would buy a penguin translation, right guys? How stupid are they?"

>>17345125
I just think if people can take pride in how shit wordsworth is, why is penguin an issue ya know? Its not great but its not terrible either

>>17344841
Weeb-tier cringe, but impossible to hate that aesthetic.

>>17346388
>week tier cringe
Youre insecure. Work on yourself king.

>>17341113

>>17344841
>doesn't read japanese
fake/ironic weeb

>>17344487
If you're gonna read Proust then you better be in it for the long haul. And make sure to get The Moncrieff-Kilmartin-Enright translation since that seems to be the most reliable one. Penguin's is still uncharted territory, though I have heard that their version of Swann's Way is pretty good, translated by Lydia Davis.

Also, how's James? I've a copy of his Ambassadors here but I haven't read it yet due to prior commitments.

>>17346835
>Textbook projection

>>17347158
What exactly am I projecting retard? He's the one who's self conscious about liking things on an anonymous image board. Quit regurgitating things you hear in your psych 101 college class faggotoid

>>17341113
it's an anime website you retard. I hate it too but it is what it is

>>17347010
I want to learn bro but I literally dont know where to start and I dont want to half ass it by doing some duolingo once every few weeks when I remember to.

>>17347215
>Absolutely triggered.
You're embarrassing yourself calling others self-conscious with that ass-blasted attitude, anon.

>>17347275
Ok lol, dil8 troon

>Mo Yan - Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
I got a bunch of store credit for Christmas and I decided to spend it on something new. I liked Republic of Wine, this came out last year, the publisher does small print runs and it's a nightmare to find their shit second hand, so given my general interest in Chinese literature it was a given that I'd cop it after I found it on accident online.
The edition itself is a bit bare bones. No table of contents, no notes, nothing. It's Spartan.

>Liu E - The Wanderings of Lao Can
A late Qing-era novel about a wandering practitioner of medicine. Never heard of it before I found it on accident while looking through random lists for uni.
Seems kind of interesting, but it's a low priority for now. I only copped it because it was cheap and you never know when it might get sold again for that cheap, if at all.

>Alajos Mécs - Unknown Japan
It's an old collection of writings from the 20s and 30s. Book itself was published in 1942.
Really, the only reason I got it is because I hope the author wrote down some interesting anecdotes in it, and that the last chapters talking about "Japan the Conqueror" and "Japan the Terrible" will have that weird, old right wing style that always makes me smile for some reason.

>>17340994
>paintings in proust
I MUST have it
thank you OP

btw you should take a look at pic related, it's a must after you read the recherche. Idk if it was translated, but it isn't that difficult since the important parts are the images

>>17347376
Hey anon, OP here, checked out the book in your pic. Sadly there's no English translation on it and it's pretty pricey. How's the book like though? I've Google translated the Amazon description and it seems pretty similar to Paintings in Proust. What does it provide in terms of furthering one's understanding of In Search of Lost Time?

>>17347361
>And that the last chapters talking about "Japan the Conqueror" and "Japan the Terrible" will have that weird, old right wing style that always makes me smile for some reason.

It's for you Anon.

>>17347548
basically it shows photographies of various places (and i think also paintings) described in the recherche with a little description
it's really comfy to compare the mental image of what you read and see how similar and different it is form what you thought it would be
of course this books makes sense if it's read after the recherche

>>17345384
It is terrible. Better than nothing but absolutely terrible.
Best (in no order):
Loeb Classical Library
Hackett
Oxford
Cambridge
SUNY Press (State University of New York) Clarendon
Mid-top tier:
Other universities
Okay:
Dover
Shit:
Penguin

>>17347627
Ah, I see. I might purchase it then in the future if language doesn't play a huge part in it. Hopefully it doesn't run out of stock since it seems to be a pretty rare book. Also, do you suggest reading Paintings in Proust before or After you've read a volume of the series?

Currently reading these before bed.
Goldfinger is cozy
Wolf in the Whale is interesting, I’m not far enough into it to make a sweeping statement on its quality, but I am enjoying the strangeness of it- apparently the multi gendered reincarnation stuff is lifted directly from Inuit folklore- I’d like to do some research of my own, and the author helpfully provides a fuckload of primary sources
False prophets is funny, that’s not the main goal of the book but goddamn it cracks me up.

>>17347361
I really like hearing about untranslated or relatively unknown foreign lit in these threads.

>>17347654
>Best
>Hackett

>>17340994
I just started reading The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Its really good

>>17340994
Literally just arrived in the mail 15 minutes ago.

>>17347654
>Loeb Classical Library
I too, enjoy my library looking like a Christmas tree.

>>17340994
I bought a second reprint of the first edition of Finnegans Wage viking press. Pic rel.
Does anyone know how lucky I was? Ebay says it's worth 200 bucks, I paid 25.

>>17343670
>>17345125
>>17345384
>>17344803
>>17345177
You're... right bros... you're right.

>>17344323
LOL are you the guy that was posting about Players a few days ago?

>>17348311
The Leopold & Loeb Classic Library is all red.

>>17348902
No, actually. I bought those books like a day or two before that thread was made.

>>17341944
Cheers, i'll definitely do that

>>17344450
>he doesn't know

>>17349377
yeah, and let's keep it that way you simian-browed fucking knuckle-dragging imbecile.

>>17347654
this post was made by a literal retard. If you read the translations of loeb, you are literally retarded. If you know latin and ancient greek, then loeb is great. Penguin and oxford have the best translations and the best critical apparatus, though penguin usually edges out oxford on translation. Hackett is okay, sometimes have some good ass translators like Lombardo. Cambridge is fine too. But dover is absolutely shit. Same with wordsworth.

>>17349377
Stop being gay, Vollmann is so fucking good

>>17350132
Whats good about him?

>>17350121
ignore this idiot anon who thinks Penguin has the best translations lmao

>>17350540
Penguin front-loaded their translations with Lydia Davis', which is good in an exactly-what-Proust-said way. They get worse after that.

Just read it in French

>>17340994
what a faggot

>>17341240
> The Book of Disquiet
>Based

>>17350121
>Same with wordsworth.
When the work isn't translated (or the public domain translation is good), they are the best bang for your buck.

>>17341240
>penguin shit, they're mostly holidays gifts so what can ya do.
Ask them next time to just give you a gift card for your local book store

>>17347226
>>17341968
>>17341183

>>17352383
always has been for weebs, always will be
>so America belong to indians?
Yes

>>17341220
are you telling me 6 paperbacks is $95

god i hate publishing

I found Penguin editions of Don Quixote and The Count of Monkey Crisco at Goodwill the other day. Great condition. Never read Don Quixote and I actually really, really enjoy it. Guess it's a classic for a reason.

Copped a bunch of shit from that princeton sale... I gotta stop consoomin

>>17340994
This, and The Silmarillion for 2000. It was a good deal.

>>17347867
>Ah, I see. I might purchase it then in the future if language doesn't play a huge part in it. Hopefully it doesn't run out of stock since it seems to be a pretty rare book. Also, do you suggest reading Paintings in Proust before or After you've read a volume of the series?
I need to check how much text is in that book, give me some minutes
Personally I'd read them simultaneously. The recherche is huge, you may forget something if you read it after
if the book goes chronologically, it would be great: after you read about a painting & stuff you read the corresponding part in the other books

This is mostly from my local used book shop's going out business sale. Everything was 75% off, so I got some stuff that now seems a little questionable. I got caught up in the savings and now I'm not sure I actually want to read all these

>>17352383
cosplay
video games
pokemon
>papercraft
Wallpapers
worksafe gif
worksafe requests
>not anime
anon...

>>17352383
cosplay
video games
pokemon
papercraft
Wallpapers
worksafe gif
worksafe requests
>not anime
anon...

>>17352711
okay well, it has more text than I expected (half of the pages, few lines tho)
even if they are just descriptions and references on Proust's work

so it may not be actually worth if you don't know italian
maybe you could find a pdf copy online or something.. idk

>>17352383
Based

>>17352383
faggot

>>17352383
Completely true.

>>17352383
if you think this, leave

>>17352383
Truth kills the weebs...

>>17347654
>Dover
This isn't /sci/, and dover is shit. I appreciate their $10 reprinted math textbooks for what they are, but they should be below penguin.

Also, what is SUNY doing up there? I have never seen a book from them and I wouldn't expect anyone to consider them an Oxford/Cambridge level publisher.

The more I look at your list the less sense it makes. I think you just took some books you own and like and wrote down what you saw on the jackets.

>>17340994

Nice collection! Arifureta and 02:)