/lit/ - Literature

>>17703242
Lautréamont
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Marcel Schwob
Huysmans

Stendhal and Goncharov

Arabian Nights

>>17703242

>TFW no cutie pothead who still dresses classically but probably gives insane blowies after a few bong hits.

Goethe’s green serpent and the beautiful lily, Jean Paul, Murray Gilchrist, stenbock, Swinburne, some parts of Keats, Li-he, basically the decadents as a whole and a ton of the romantics.

Good taste OP.

>>17703259
These are also great recommendations, also some Ernest dowson, the book Seraphita by Balzac, classics like the Golden ass, a good portion of Borges, Gerard de nerval is another great one. You have a lot of options OP

I’ll probably try to keep this thread bumped, I also find my favorite to be that intersection of fantasy, fairy tale, mystic, decadent and weird fiction

ambrose Bierce (?

>>17703242
Julian Gracq

Barbey d'Aurevilly and Remy de Gourmont would also probably be of interest

>>17703332
that's what I'm looking for, I want to get soaked in that kind of literature

>>17703461
Jean Paul was a major influence on Hoffman so you’ll probably love him.

Gilchrist while now kinda obscure, had absolutely phenomenal prose and is just on the border of weird and decadent, his short stories “the crimson weaver” “witch in-grain” “dame inowslad” “the basilisk” “the return “ and “the pageant of ghosts” you can find his night on the moor or stone dragon collection on b-ok

Stenbock is a minor decadent poet, while he often focuses too much on romance for my taste, his poems were he does let himself flex his imagination do go quite lovely, and I hear great things about his Faust. His best poem is the three spinning sisters which is about the fates. Swinburne also has extreme mythological power and the melancholy of the decadents unified completely, you’ll probably enjoy the Lion share of his work. Begin with garden of proserpine and hertha. The decadent aesthetic and mystical-infinity is largely a carryover from romanticism so Blake, Keats and the like are going to be of interest, but also check out the mutability cantos of Edmund Spenser. If you want to go full oriental, Li-he, the Chu Ci and the Li Shangyin are best. But really almost everything recommended in this thread is pretty great.

Clark Ashton Smith

>>17703542
Also this thing might interest you.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Book

And just because of interest in Dunsany check out this fellow.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ledwidge

His poetry with Dunsany’s introduction https://archive.org/details/completepoemsoff00ledwiala

Tennyson might also be of interest especially the lotos eaters and “the day-dream”

And of course you might enjoy the older classics; Dunsany himself made a translation of horace’s odes, and everyone knows the strangeness of Ovid.

>>17703552
>>17703584
Yeah these two are great also. Don’t forget Mr James. Lovecraft’s essay on horror has a ton of good recs, as does James’s. Le fanu is another option.

Here’s the James essay where he shills his favorites.

https://www.berfrois.com/2015/10/m-r-james-on-ghost-stories/

>>17703602
More on The Yellow Book
And Henry James of all people
https://youtu.be/4svNgJRbT78

>>17703242
Robert Louis Stevenson

>>17703552
Also check out the Machen short stories The White People and The Shining Pyramid

>>17703242
Check out Hanns Heinz Ewers, particularly his novels Alraune and The Sorcerer's Apprentice. He definitely fits the macabre, decadent, and mystical descriptions with stories rooted in old folklore and superstition that collides with modern cynicism. Try to avoid anything with Joe Bandel's name attached as he's an amateur translator publishing shitty print-on-demand jobs full of typos. I think all the old translations are now public domain and so there are a lot of facsimile copies of the originals available.

shit, my native language is Spanish, are there authors of that style who write in Spanish? Borges or Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer occurs to me, but I am looking for something more similar to the Maloror songs, well, I must learn French and English anyway

>>17703757
also maybe Claude Seignolle, folklorist who turned to fiction inspired by his research. very atmospheric stories set among the rural French peasantry

Rulfo, Basile, Schulz, Akutagawa, and the short stories of de Maupassant.
Do you like magical realism?

>>17703461
Schwob is exactly what you're looking for then. Have you read him Frater?
>>17703770
Same answer, Schwob was a huge influence on Borges. I cannot say for sure because I haven't read enough Borges to have a definitive verdict, but he strikes me as his biggest influence.

>>17703757
Looks like Libgen only has bandel, ought I check the internet archive or elsewhere?

>>17703824
No I actually haven’t though I am aware of him. I’ll definitely put him back on my to read list.

>>17703875
>Looks like Libgen only has bandel, ought I check the internet archive or elsewhere?
Unfortunately not very familiar with ebook resources, but I'd imagine they have to be floating around somewhere if people are selling reproductions. If it helps narrow the search at all, Alraune was translated by S Guy Endore and The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Ludwig Lewisohn.

>>17703242

Nathaniel Hawthorne
it might interest

>>17703965
Which is your favorite of his short stories? I liked the stone face and the great carbuncle

>>17703242
this

>>17703242
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Other Irving Tales

>>17703272
>used to like this girl, start dating
>she invites me over without saying why
>it's to smoke pot
>break up with her on the spot
>the look of indignation before she started crying is something I will never forget
I hate druggies, they ruin good people.

Bump

>>17704877
You will never truly live

>>17703242
Gustav Meyrink's "The Golem"

>>17704877
Should have called the cops and reported her

maybe too obvious, but Theophile Gautier

>>17705555
>dude WEED bro you NEED it to TRULY LIVE
I had my time as a teen where i did plenty of drugs and honestly I dont understand how people can think like this. are you still 15 when all this stuff still feels so new and fresh or did you just never grow as a human being and are now dependent on it?

>>17703242
BEHEAD ALL SATANS

Bump

And what is the name of the style of the authors they mentioned, decadence, symbolism, romanticism?

>>17706800
Decadence, romanticism, symbolism, Fantasy, fairy Tale, magical realism and the Aestheticism movement would probably cover in broad strokes the elements here.

>>17706800
Oh and weird fiction. But a lot of these blur into each other.