/lit/ - Literature

>>20791669
askingforaaproval
pleb/10

>>20791669
you probably fantasize every night about getting prowled by a studly werewolf/10

Great taste, good recs.

>>20791669
>C**r*n
>Zw**g
>Including Musil and Zw**g on the same list
I'm laughing at you because you clearly think you have taste.
0/10 for including Zweig.

>>20791669
Someone who just started reading books this year but has a superiority complex so they feel the need to arbitrarily select books they have not simply because of he books have a certain connotation to serious readers

>>20791976
…have not read*

>>20791877
The hell is wrong with Zweig? I got a collection of his novellas and have only read Chess Story so far, but I liked it.

Why do you treat books like music albums stupid faggot

The biggest problem with this kind of post is that (outside of the obvious fishing for compliments), you don’t have “taste” in books simply because you’ve read certain books—a retard could have the same stack and read them, genuinely enjoy them too—but not owing to the fact that he has any taste, because he would enjoy any book that came his way, except he didn’t happen to choose to read any genres fiction that looks like bad taste.
So in a world where a Google search can shit out a top 100 of the greatest works ever handing out your reading list means nothing. It means you can listen to other people’s recommendations or navigate a bookshop.
Tell me why any of those books are important to YOU.

>>20791994
>The hell is wrong with Zweig?
Zweig is bad. He's a claptrap sensationalist, a woman's writer, a YA writer, and was never respected by any of his peers (Musil, Mann, Hesse, etc.).
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n02/michael-hofmann/vermicular-dither

>>20792066
I think that the only way to really know of someone has good taste is how they explain why they like a certain book. The book doesn't even have to be amazing, but giving a thoughtful review of a pulp novel means more to me than some trite 2 liner about "the canon" and trying to sound off classics like they're funko pop collectibles. Reading shouldn't be done to sign off a bingo card of top 100 best novels, it ought to be done for plaina nd simple enjoyment and gratification. Reading is an indulgence of the respectable but not a sign of respectability.

>>20792201
This.
>>20792452
basado

>>20792452
The normie of normies

>>20791877
What the hell is wrong with Cioran?

>>20792452
Tell me how I know yoy have a neckbeard.

>>20791669
>Vertigo
The worst of Sebald. You have no taste, tastelet.

>>20791669
Not bad; I do strongly prefer My Friends over A Winter Journal myself though

>>20792452
Honki

>>20791679
Fpbp

>>20791669
alri, especially bernhard, but nietzsche is a bit childish

Here is everything I have given 5 stars

>>20791669
>Rate my taste
havnt read any of those books so cant say what your taste is

>>20791669
>Canti
Based 10/10

>>20794047
based, post goodreads

>>20791669
Did you read the poems in the original language? I Just don't see the point of reading translated poetry unless it epic poem with long story. One of the joys of poetry is how it sounds in the original language and that is lost in translation. Shakespeare plays make me diamonds hearing some of those soliloquies

>>20791669
>Capitalist Realism
1/10

better than the cliche dosto, homer, tolstoy tards who all have the taste of an artificial intelligence

>>20794321
Sounds like you and the OP

>>20791669
Are you a 30 something arts grad student?

>>20791669
>Over half are translations
You are getting less than half of what a native speaker gets from the experience of reading these books. There being no english-language books indicates that either you are incapable of appreciating what is sublime in literature, or that you are posturing to strangers on the internet.

>>20791669
WTF this is my topster of what I read last year why are you are posting it lmao

here is my year in music so far since you hijacked my literally taste, go ahead and steal my music taste too!
2021.jpg

>>20794589
Films I watched last year:

Now you can have a personality!

>>20791976
I've read everything on the chart

The idea of a serious reader is laughable, not something to strive to be

>>20792066
It's not to show my taste but what I've read last year

None of these I read because they're in x greatest book list

>>20794589
>trout mask replica
ah another pretentious tryhard

>>20792744
Yeah I preferred The Rings of Saturn, the chart in OPs (mine, btw) was simply 2021 reads!

>>20792893
I started my friends earlier, when does it get good?

>>20794593
>mother and the whore
>night train
>the noose
based

>>20793813
How is Nietzsche childish? You clearly haven't read him
>>20794266
No translated. I don't agree with your sentiment, nor do I read for the musicality of poetry. I think serious poets have something to say, and most translators do a fine job of getting the meaning across fine in a different language. Pic related, you can understand it just fine in English.

>>20794331
I'm 24 compsci major

>>20794607
Filtered! It's good music, light and fun.

>>20794554
Translated works aren't lesser if the translator is good. In some instances it can even improve upon the original.

>>20794626
Forgot to include pic related

>>20794612
Do you have any recs? Haven't watched anything in a while.

>Cioran
>Bernhard

Ligottichad spotted

>>20794630
>e mi sovvien l'eterno
>and the eternal comes to mind
jesus fucking christ

>>20794670
>he thinks the only way to know Cioran and Bernhard is from Trangotti
This board is irredeemable

>>20794670
Ligotti is mid.

>>20794677
Suggest an alternative translation, of the whole poem. I will critique it.

>>20794683
>Suggest an alternative translation
I don't know, I'm not a translator. What I do know that the one you posted is terrible. I also don't know if a good one is possible, nor do I care.

>>20791669
Where's the Bible?

>>20794647
Du côté d'Orouët
Przesłuchanie
Konopielka
Údolí včel
Malá mořská víla
A tanú

>>20794688
Its terrible because it doesn't adhere to the original word for word? The important thing is preserving the heart of the poem, getting its meaning across. Does this translation alter the meaning significantly?

>>20794695
It completely butchers the delicate and deliberate movement between ideas of the poem (among other things, this is the most noticeable)
>The important thing is preserving the heart of the poem, getting its meaning across.
A pedestrian understanding of poetry. If the heart of the poem was solely in its meaning then a paraphrase of a poem would be neither more nor less valuable than said poem, in which case poetry would be worthless as an artform.

>Thread we're everyone but OP is being a faggot
strange

>>20794717
Also there's stuff that's just flat out wrong, silenzio is silence, not stillness; voce is voice, not noise.

>>20791669
>7/8

>>20791994
Poet. Take or leave the prose.

>>20792173
>(Musil, Mann, Hesse, etc.)
1/3

>>20791669
10/10

>>20794679
You gotta give to Ligotti for making those writers popular in Anglo spheres. Before Ligotti they were almost obscure.

>>20794589
MODS

>>20794999
I'm 24...

Niggercattle thread. Chart makers are subhumans

>>20794626
>How is Nietzsche childish? You clearly haven't read him
i'm mistrustful of any philosopher who does not have a firm grasp of mathematics

>>20795407
Found the analytical cuck.

>>20792452
Lolichad... I kneel

>>20794997
HAHAHAHAH homy shit you are a retarded pseudointellectual. Go back to /tv/ so you can true detective post

>>20795767
Keep coping retar, that's the fucking truth. Ligotti is responsible for the new popularity of Pessimistic writers and this also includes Mainländer and Zapffe along them.

>>20791669
Keeper of the sheep! Only poem I ever bothered to learn another language for. Good taste my friend. I will finally read musil because of this.

>>20795800
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Thanks for the laff, m8

>>20791669
Every time I try to read Cioran I end up with a massive headache afterwards. Not because his prose style is bad, in fact, it's exceptional. But his neuroses bleed all over the page. I can hardly handle my own, I don't need to handle someone else's.

>>20795803
Cope harder

>>20791669
Cool. Rate mine.

>>20795863
Late 20s schizoid artfag who likes to likes to go on night walks to ponder in total silence

>>20795801
Enjoy, friend. Musil is best taken in small doses.

>>20795806
Is there even a more neurotic author?

>>20795863
Based for blanchot and beckett. Will check the others

>>20795863
It was difficult to imagine anyone have worst selection of books than OP, but here you are, m8.

>>20796620
>Enjoy, friend. Musil is best taken in small doses
Only for pseudo-intellectual faggots who are clearly punching above their weight by reading him simply because they can’t even define taste

so this board is just /tv/ or /mu/ now?

>>20796654
You sound insecure. I suggest you go outside and socialize for a bit.

>>20796640
Why is my selection bad? All fine books and authors I'd say, what's the issue?

>>20796689
>you sound insecure
Nice projection. Must have been looking at your reflection in the screen as you typed that.

>>20796699
It’s a selection of book carefully chosen by someone who has read less than 100 books in their life and is pretending to know what constitutes good taste for approval by others. It’s what I’d expect—yours and OP’s—from someone who is new to reading, but gets mad when they realize others have read some author they thought they were only aware of

>>20796727
That's a third grader's comeback. You shouldn't be on here buddy
>>20796748
Show me your oh so erudite taste. Those books appealed to me, simple as.

>>20792559
Reddit comment

>>20791669
What’s this site?

>>20797076
Topsters2

>>20794611
at the first page

>>20795301
I was referring to the CP

>That's a third grader's comeback. You shouldn't be on here buddy

>>20791669
the ones i've read were great, i'll check out the rest
thanks for the recs, anon

>>20797786
There is none
>>20798006
If you haven't read Sebald make sure the first is Rings of Saturn

>>20795416
actually i'm more into the likes of Husserl, analytic philosophy is, with some exceptions, of little interest to me

>>20791679
fpbp

>>20800228
I made the chart last year to post in the 2021 reads threads. How is that asking for approval?