/lit/ - Literature

>>19268628
Pic not related I assume. But it's a great book, yeah.

>>19268628
Hey I live by that farm. It's not in Ohio. Or a farm. The view is much better facing the other way.

>>19268628
>good books you've only discovered through /lit/
Someone here mentioned the poet Geoffrey Hill. I took a look and he might be worth spending a little time on.

>or that've been fallen into obscurity
I got hold of Burton's "The Anatomy of Melancholy" recently & have been dipping into it. It's a pretty impressive display of erudition (he basically quotes about 200 authors every page) and when you read it you realise lots of famous people have stolen from it. (Samuel Beckett supposedly liked it, and I found a couple of things he lifted almost word-for-word.)

>>19269240
Are you that girl? Post feet please.

>>19268628
El Nuevo Tesoro de la Juventud
Historia del Movimiento Obrero
Cuadernos de Historia

>>19268628
picrel. still grateful to the anon who reccd it

>>19269421
thanks m8

Read this masterpiece

>>19268628
someone recommended this back in like 2016

i will continue shilling russian postmodernists.

Bump

>>19269459
Sorokin isn't obscure.

moss - klaus modick
gilda trillim - steven l. peck
the tidings of the trees - wolfgang hilbig

not sure if obscure, but they're contemporary and not widely read. wolfgang is probably the most read out of the three, he was tipped for a nobel if he hadn't died i think.

>>19268628
Bought this because someone posted a thread thanking an anon for recommending this. Now I want to thank the anon that thanked the anon for recommending this

>>19269453
i used to recommend that all the time (and still do from time to time), i wonder if that was me
wonderful book, perhaps my favourite

some anon recommended me this in a thread earlier this year and i really loved it. part of me thinks maybe they were trolling by recommending an especially weird book full of gay sex and blood and schizo ramblings and endless dismembered penises in a "you must read what the anon below you posts" thread but after i managed to acquire a copy at a reasonable price i was very happy

>>19270823
Sebald is absolutely not obscure you fucking midwit. You need to lurk way more

Good for halloween time too

>>19270932
I'm willing to bet you that 85% of Americans have no fucking clue who Sebald is, so yeah, I'd say he's somewhat obscure.

>>19268628

>>19271306
Sebald is obscure in a similar way to how someone like Knausgaard might be obscure. Most people would have no idea who they are, but anyone who follows literature at all would have seen their name mentioned. It would be way higher than 85% btw, more like 95% maybe even if it was the general populace that was asked.

>>19271306
>>19271405
What do you y'all like about him / that book?

>>19268628
>Mexican novel set in France
>Built around the i ching and the contemplation of the photograph of a Chinese man being tortured
>Inspired by Bataille
>It mostly revolves around a single instant, narrated at the beginning of the novel, from different point of views and different ways it could have happened
>That instant is sometimes confused with other instants that took place in the past
>Nothing is certain, a character might be another character or a reflection in a mieror
>Metafictional at timed

>>19268628
Discovered here but i don't know if it is obscure

>>19273122
Fuck excuse my typos, I'm a phoneposter. Here's another book.
>Light surrealist uruguayan writer
>Proust but the objects themselves are sentient and hold the memories themselves
>A girl falls in love with a balcony
>A man becomes obsessed with a doll, ruining his marriage
>A fat woman pays a man to ride her around her fake pool (an amazing and beautiful short story btw)

>>19269240
reminds me of Days of Heaven
>Or a farm
yeah, looks like one of those godawful american country houses

>>19273146
Another one.
>Lyrical short stories about the Mexican revolution in a Northern town
>Told from the perspective of a little girl desensitized to violence
>Inspired Pedro Páramo

A series of four Guyanese novellas all of which are fantastic, but particularly The Palace of the Peacock.

A wonderful book set in missionary hospital in decolonialising Africa. The main character is very similar to Lydgate from Middlemarch, and the story mirrors his, but the whole book is centred around him.
Based on 20 years of research, it shows what a mess decolonisation was, but it's not really a white man's burden type of story either.

>>19274035
Hi Evan