/lit/ - Literature

>>21540508
that looks really uncomfortable

Molloy

>>21540508
Thoreau’s journal published by NYRB

>>21540844
I like Beckett but only in small doses. I get worn out quickly

>>21540508
To the Lighthouse. I won't

god damn these barefoot girls, they do it to me every time

just stay away from dentists until we get this all sorted, anons

>>21540508
let me make this clear. if i don't marry a beautiful woman who will read books with me while her feet are on my lap i will eventually kill myself
also i'm reading pessoa poetry

>>21540978
I feel the same way. Pessoa orthonym or from the gang?

>>21540508
None of your business.

>>21540508
Journey to the End of the Night

>>21541040
Is there something to gain from reading this book, or is it just pessimistic jerking?

>>21541059
I'm struggling to read it honestly. I still don't know what I can gain from this book but it's fun to read in a sense. Sentences are mostly narrator's monologues like complaining about things. I sometimes like his sense of humour.

Bleeding Edge by Tom Pynchon. It's about a fraud detective cyberpunk milf in 2001 jew york who likes to give footjobs to 4chan hackers and get railed out by CIA spooks

José Luis Borges - short stories bundle (Aleph, Ficciones, and all the others). He has a fun writing style but the stories are quite erudite and frankly a bit dull. They're more like reflections, without a plot or anything.

I also bought Mario Vargas Llosa's The War of the End of the World, hoping it is good. Got Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and Boelgakov's The Master and Margarita on the waiting pile too, not really sure where to start.

I've been looking for a worthy read for ages, nothing has been able to top the magisterial 100 Years of Solitude or Love in Times of Cholera so far...

>>21540508
I don’t read.

>>21540508
Tonight I'll finish el Túnel, and then I'll be out of town for a few days and am considering reading either Auf den Marmorklippen or Effi Briest

>>21541148
>I still don't know what I can gain from this book but it's fun to read in a sense
same here. I feel like theres something crucial about the book that im not getting

Just started Red Rising.

>>21541164
>Love in Times of Cholera
100 Years of Solitude is one of my favorite books, but I've never heard of this one. Should I read it, is it similar to 100?

>>21540508
Kafka on the Shore

Rereading Dubliners

>>21541270
It helps get you laid. Hot women love those jaded french writers

>>21541353
It is similar in many ways, being from the same hand. It has the same style of writing that I absolutely love. It's also filled with lots and lots of anecdotes (some humorous, some sad, some downright magical/unbelievable), and just like Solitude it also serves as an abstraction of Columbian history and society, and of course the nature of humanity.

I loved it. Not as much as I love 100 years of Solitude, which is hands down my favorite book, but it's pretty close. I genuinely grew as a human being from reading it, not many books do that to me.

>>21540978
Based. I'm reading the book of disquiet, 100 pages left, and it is really good so far. If i were to summarize the book in the least amount of words i would use these two verses of Herrera:
>Tanto bien representa la memoria
>y tanto mal encuentra la presencia

Authority. I think the Southern Reach trilogy is very comfy. It's above junkfood.

>>21541457
Okay, thank you. I will read it

>>21540978
I'm always reading Pessoa, obsessed in some ways with everything that he wrote on diverse topics.

Recently was reading some texts on metaphysics and occultism. Namely, Raphael Baldaya, the heteronym that made astrological charts and wrote about the topic as well.

I've also been trying to translate, for recreation, some of Álvaro de Campos' poems.
I'll leave one here which i find funny.
If you have any suggestions, remarks or corrections, pray tell.

>CARRY NATION by Álvaro de Campos (original text: http://arquivopessoa.net/textos/1111))

Not an aesthetic saint, like Saint Teresa,
Not a saint of the dogmas,
Not a saint.
But a human saint, crazy and divine,
Maternal, aggressively maternal,
Hateful, like all saints,
Persistent, with the madness of sanctity.
I hate her and I'm with the head clear
And I give her cheers without knowing why!
American stupor with a halo of stars!
Witch of good intention...

Don't leave her roses on the grave,
But laurels, the laurels of glory
Lets make the praise and the insult!
Lets drink to the health of her immortality
That strong wine of drunkards.

I, that never did anything in the world,
I, that never knew to want or to know,
I, that was always the absence of my will,
I salute you, crazy mommy, sentimental system!
Specimen of human aspiration!
Wonder of good gesture, of a great will!

My Joan of Arc without homeland!
My human Saint Teresa!
Stupid like all saints
And militant like the soul that wants to win the world!

It's in the wine that you hated that you must be saluted!
It's with crying shouted toasts that we'll canonize you!

Salutation from enemy to enemy!
I, falling drunk many times just because I didn't want to feel,
I, many times drunk, for not having enough soul,
I, your opposite,
Rip the sword from the angels, the angels that keep the Eden,
And raise it in ecstasy, and shout to your name.

trying to understand the people of the bad god

>>21540838
yeah you'd slide right off the chair you fat greasy fuck

>>21540508
Count of Monte Cristo
>first thirty or so chapters are pure kino
>then it switches to two dandies fucking around in rome and hooooly shit its boring as hell
>finally in Paris, so hopefully it gets better. I cant wait for V E N G E A N C E

>>21540508
About 2/3 of the way through this, pretty good stuff. Casi and I could have been bros

I saw this book was gonna be adapted into a series starring one of my favourite actresses (Riley Keough).Thought I might give it a shot since it has a been a while since I have red anything pulp, literature or otherwise.It is a retrospective pseudo biography of the breakup of a fictional band.
Enjoying it thus far.I have the fear that the titular character is gonna end up a pseudo Mary Sue. It is too soon to tell.

>>21541016
The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro

>>21541469
Book of Disquiet probably the best book I've ever read

>>21541359
I'm reading Norwegian Wood. Might read Kafka on the shore afterwards, unless I read some non-fiction first instead.

>>21540508
i'd lick that feet all day long

>>21540508
This thread

Cause Unknown The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022

it is the book of the century thus far

>>21542826
How is it so far? Kafka is great (only 50 pages in). Never read Murakami before this.

Moby-Dick.
Also pic related.

>>21540508
Congo by Michael Crichton. Started slow with a lot of tech talk and whatnot but I just finished the chapter where the plane took off. It was written in 1980 but they had international remote controlled cameras and voice/fingerprint security ID etc, I didn't think those things existed back then

>>21540508
Don Quixote.

Almost finished the first part after training a while to get into the groove (been reading tstoy and dostoyevsky the past year lol). Should I get straight onto part 2 or give it a break before going back

>>21540508
I'm reading Gide. I'm reading his Faux-Monnayeurs. What do I think of it is this, that it's certainly Gidean, but I feel at times that he's trying too hard to write a novel. His dialogue is remarkably good, but it was already good in his fiction which weren't proper novels. His "abstract" prose sequences(that which is neither narration nor dialogue) is obviously excellent, but why wouldn't they be(see : his Journal).
What I have most trouble with is the actual narration. It seems like he's forcing himself to tell a story despite himself. He tries to break it up with the Journal chapters sure, but I almost wish he had taken the format he had used for La Porte Etroite, where first came the story itself and followed by an "alternative angle" through the personal journal.

I have the softest affection for Gide so I can't help but find beauty in this novel, but I am disappointed, at least in this first reading(which has been done in a rather depressive state, and so maybe that is why I have been unpleased with it at times),with how unkempt the structure seems. He's never been a very architectural author, but in this novel I feel like it's especially loose. Also, he uses certain narrative voices, particularly at the beginning, which really didn't please me(Diderot-ish "well let's see what our characters are up to now). It just seems that he's throwing everything into this work, with little mediation, little discernment.

Any other Gide fans here, who weren't too satisfied with this book on their first reading? I'll certainly read it again, and soon, but still...

>>21542146
Sergio was my boss for some time. His other work sucks unfortunately, and do not watch the movie for NS. I was convinced he sold movie rights to retire—nope. Disappointed he let it become pure shit.

>>21543821
Have you ever read his Dostoyevsky book? Even though I’m not into Gide, I appreciate the effort you put into this post. Every now and then i eye The Immoralist but always decide on something else. His Dostoyevsky book I’d love to read but it seems to be out of print in English

>>21543834
>Sergio was my boss for some time
Oh no way! I’m actually reading this book after figuring it would be fun to knock it off my reading list while studying law courses (am a devfag looking to make a career change so surveying some options). Are you also a public defender?

>>21543845
Was a PD for a few years. Left the legal profession entirely to be a NEET. You either come to love it, or you’ll despise being a pettifogging shyster (defended a SovCit who kept calling me that kek). Much happier now just reading and writing all day for myself. If you go law, pursue IP — eliminates a lot of the KJD retards who end up in the profession because they majored in political science and did not know what else to do.

>>21540508
I've been reading infitine jest for 15 months inbetween other stuff, the other day my Captain literally called me a pseud for reading it

>>21543901
Assuming you are talking about an O-3, then he’s just insecure since he was a business major with a 2.5 gpa. The lowest common denominator of people with degrees become officers. It’s glorified daycare for retards who were not born with trustfunds

>>21543917
I'm British so there's a bit more of a class element to it. he's older so I think he was evoking the stereotype of the kind of person that probably would of read it when he was at university like 10 years ago or something, which I dont think really exists anymore. also he recommended I read sun tzu right after which was like wew

Ordinary Men. How every single one of us are capable of unspeakable evil.

>>21540508
Stoner and All The Pretty Horses.
First McCarthy novel. I'm enjoying it so far. I went into my local bookshop looking for blood meridian, but this was the only one the shop had by him. Felt adventurous, grateful for it.
Reading stoner as a tiny book club with my gf. She's bored.

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>>21540508
Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis by Freud. Got tired of hearing and hearing and hearing about Freud and decided to listen to the man himself, see what it's all about. Will say that he's a good writer. Didn't expect to be entertained.

>>21544391
careful anon you're gonna wake the le edgy 15 year olds

>>21541040
>>21541059
>>21541148
I'm reading it too
For the first half I wasn't really "getting" it but there was a moment and a line in the middle that really stood out to me and I keep thinking about. I do enjoy his sense of humor, but you should know that the book is very pessimistic and negative overall. The narrator is very jaded and broken, but it's fairly earned because of his experience in the great war. Idk what the history of the author was, if he fought in the war or whatever, but it makes sense that the book has such a dark tone and message. Even if you don't agree with his outlook, you can still understand where it's coming from, and you can get alot from realizing the fact that a man like Tolkien went through the same things the narrator from this book went though, yet he came out and wrote one of the most beautiful, uplifting, hopeful novels around instead of turning into a nihilitic faggot
So there's that

evening in paradise by lucia berlin, somewhat autobiographical and lucid short stories that really get under the skin, she is very insightful and writes wonderfully
ka by roberto calasso, it's hard to really describe what he does but it's kind of like a scholarly but poetic retelling of hindu myths, beautiful and interesting

>>21540508
Casinò Royale.

>>21540508
The letters of C.S. Lewis to children.

>>21540508
started with this yesterday. Once in a while, especially after reading some large literary tomes, I gravitate towards simple Penguin pop-sci/self-help stuff. Always ridiculously easy read, and often not even a waste of time, since you can get some simple, practical insight for daily life from them.

>>21540508
Recently I read hitchhiker's guide and the lion the witch and the wardrobe. I liked these because they were short and memorable. How should I be finding more of these?

>>21543821
Hello anon. I’ve only read immoralist. What next

>>21540508
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
I never realised that apocalyptic writing was a genre in itself, and Nero a cosmic spectre who could return at any time and in any age.

The stories of the Sibylline Oracles, specifically the Sibylle of Cumae and Tarquinius Superbus are fantastic.
>Tarquinius Superbus bought the books from the Sibylle of Cumae. He claimed that she offered him 9 books for an exorbitant high price. When he tried to negotiate about that price, Sibylle tossed three of the books into the fire.
>For the six remaining books she asked the same price as she had asked for the nine books. When Tarquinius made a remark about this, again she threw three of the books into the fire.
>And again she asked the same price. Fearing to have to leave empty handed, Tarquinius accepted and paid the price for three where he could have had nine books. More likely is that Tarquinius invented this story to defend himself why he had paid too much for the three books.
>The books were kept in a room beneath the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline hill. In times of great dangers these books were consulted by the decemviri (ten-men) in order to find out which religious measures had to be taken that would appease the gods.
Whilst perambulating around this period I happened upon 'The Rape of Lucrece' by Shakespeare, which is a brutal narrative poem of post rape despair and revenge, leading to the expulsion of the royal family of Rome.

See some crossover between the likes of Hesiod and OT thought, Hellenistic Judaism was more syncretic than I once believed.
This is in a way disheartening because I do not have time to read Philo or Josephus.
Furthermore, many ideas that made their way into the medieval period have their roots in the pseudepigrapha, for example the idea of Solomon as wizard/magician/sorcerer par excellence.
I also enjoyed the creeping gnostic themes presented in such fragmentary texts as 'Apocryphon of Ezekiel' (blind man and crippled man in the garden of the king representing the distinction between body and soul) and the overtly Sethian 'Apocalypse of Adam'.

Big shout out to my niggas Enoch, Methuselah Baruch, Esdra, The 3 patriarchs, the 12 patriarchs and THE MOTHERFUCKING METATRON.

Worth reading if you can handle that a good third of the writing is dog wank.

>>21545411
How do you have time to read a giant collection of pseudepigrapha but not Josephus? Not judging anon, I find writers like him and Tacitus pretty forbidding too. Is it because it’s a collection of distinct works and therefore maintains some kind of novelty?

>>21545540
desu anon I fell down a rabbit hole of 'things to read in order to understand Dante and Shakespeare' Homer, Pindar, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Apollodorous OT, NT, Apocrypha, Ovid, then I discovered there was even more... and more... and more...
and I still have not read Dante or Shakespeare.
Things are starting to get out of hand now, I just wanted to understand The Inferno and instead I am catapulted on a wild ride, with seemingly no end.

>>21545547
minor lie because I have read about half of Shakespeare but then encountered Troilus and Cressida and ran back to Homeric Hymns, Ovid and Virgil.
Cap in hand, and suitably ashamed.

>>21545547
>>21545559
Was Troilus and Cressida any good? I want to read it soon. In my opinion I think you should be steeped by now in at least enough cultural context to enrich your first readings of those texts. There is no need for some omniscient degree of knowledge before approaching a work of literature. And there will always be “more” you could know. After all, it’s not like you read (or could read) Aeschylus or Pindar with that same degree of preparation.

>>21545573
>it’s not like you read (or could read) Aeschylus or Pindar with that same degree of preparation.
I never thought of it like that, you've offered me some relief there.
I have not started Troi & Cress yet, as I said I opened it, figured the context was Troy and then ran back to the classical literature relating to it.
You know what anon? I'm going to take your advice and start reading it anyway, pretty crazy times here, quite liberating to break free actually.
The need for context has become a bit of a toll gavel wrapped around my neck.

>>21544638
"You've got to work the angles, that's all"

>>21545573
if you're interested so far my favourite Shakespeare has been 'Love's Labour's Lost' and 'The Tempest', which in terms of supposed authorship date is the alpha comedy and omega comedy.
What Shakespeare have you enjoyed?

>>21545411
I'm on the same reading list and I've found some goodies
>Rastafarian Books of Meqabyan from maybe 500AD
>"The Genesis Apocryphon"
I've still a lot more to read though.

>>21545581
>>21545596
Thanks anon. I’m glad I could bring you some relief. It’s one of my vices too, though unlike you I’m not conscientious enough to work through everything consecutively.
I’ve only read little bits of Shakespeare but I am always stunned and overawed by his power of invention. I like his sonnets, what little I have read of them. They have a strange quality. Even in their use of visual metaphor they aren’t vivid in the exact same way that many other poems are, they aren’t constructing a consistent (or should I say habitable) sense of place. They seem to operate on a more abstract plane of experience, kind of like the desert images produced by the weird diction of the Bible — but they’re not remote in their abstraction, maybe distilled is a better word — fevered, anxious, troubled by torrents of emotion, passionately vivid. cut through with a desperate intensity. Visceral sickness with love. But also extremely considered. I’m laying the superlatives on too thick because I don’t quite know how to describe the weird effect the sonnets have on me.
I’m also interested in the merchant of Venice and Coriolanus

>>21540508
im 12 pages into the popol vuh
pretty cool so far

>>21540508
Life for sale by Mishima. The protagonist tries to commit suicide but after botching it he decides to post his life for sale in the Tokyo classifieds, basically saying ill do whatever you want as long as it kills me. He gets exponentially wackier and wackier requests and people coming to buy his life again and again because he just can't catch a break and die already. Its quite a funny book and Mishima lets loose on his goofier side. I'm only 80 pages in and I hoping by the end of the book Mishima ends the book with the feel of picrel

>>21545632
>Books of Meqabyan
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43900903-1-3-meqabyan-in-standard-english?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=4qPoT1pYut&rank=1
Is this what you mean?
Do you have a preferred translation?
>The Genesis Apocryphon
Decent collections or anthologies containing this?
I don't believe this is translated by Charlesworth, even though it is classed as pseudepigrapha and seems to by all rights have a place amongst other apocalyptic writings favoured by the Essene community.

KJV. I'm Catholic and not anglo so I never read it before, but it truly is beautiful stuff. I got teary-eyed in the gospels.

>>21545683
>Is this what you mean?
Yeah, I bought the "Ethiopian books of the Bible" and they didn't put the 'standard English' translation in that compilation.
I just read the Apocryphon here, not a whole lot too it, it's badly damaged.
https://pages.charlotte.edu/john-reeves/course-materials/rels-2104-hebrew-scripturesold-testament/translation-of-1q-genesis-apocryphon/

>>21545635
> fevered, anxious, troubled by torrents of emotion, passionately vivid. cut through with a desperate intensity. Visceral sickness with love. But also extremely considered.
I have not read them yet, but enjoyed your superlatives, perhaps a thickly layered yet delicious butter spread heartily upon the toast of life.
The Merchant of Venice has a great twist regarding extracting the pound of flesh, i'll leave it at that.
Shylock is perceived as quite a sad character, although the man is clearly a villain who uses OT stories like Jacob and Laban to fleece his goy customers with no remorse.
I suppose post-ww2 atrocity propaganda has something to do with modern, I believe tepid, interpretations and apologism.

>>21540902
I'M A LOT LIKE YOU
SO PLEASE
HELLO
I'M HERE
I'M WAITING

>>21541159
does every Pynchon book have this much sex? I've been reading Gravity's Rainbow and it's alright but I'm such and incel I get suicidal thoughts from the sex scenes and those are like 80 % of the scenes.

>>21545721
Thanks anon, I think the Genesis Apocryphon must have some similarity to Jubilees, which also attempts to elucidate the earlier histories.
Interesting to see that the Apocryphon touches upon the vein of Genesis 6, this is also expanded upon in Jubilees (and Enoch but you are familiar with the Ethiopian canon so will know this).

>>21544638
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>>21541059
Journey isn't actually pessimistic. He describes negative things, not things negatively. Celine recognizes the ultimate good of the world in Journey via that uncle in the jungle and the like.

>>21540508
Lolita
I borrowed dubliners a month ago from my local library and still haven't finished it

>>21545785
Yeah the pseudepigraph stuff like the Apocryphon and the Jubilees both feature extended thinly-veiled dream-allegories to describe the plots of future chapters, which clearly marks them out as pseudepigraph.
I haven't touched Esdras yet, I was crawling my way through the Bible linearly starting with Genesis. I stopped at the Ark of the Covenant in Exodus and now I'm finishing off miscellaneous books before I look at the Ark in depth.

>>21545819
Enjoy!

>In mysticism, the Hebrew word קבלה (Kabbalah) has a Gematria (numerical value) of 137. It describes the “corresponding loops” which clasped together enjoin the two sections of the Tabernacle’s ceiling. These loops divided the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies — the physical dimension and the spiritual dimension — and at the boundary line of the physical world, the number 137 emerges.
>Moses’ Tabernacle, the earthly dwelling place of God, was 13.7 meters long.
>Abraham died at age 175, but when he was commanded by God to offer his son up as a sacrifice, he was 137. According to the Torah, Moses’ father lived to 137, so did Ishmael and Levi.

https://ronkowitz.medium.com/the-answer-to-life-the-universe-and-everything-is-137-maybe-d9fdc1fb596f

>>21545850
thanks

>>21545819
Also don't miss Numbers 2:9
Judah was camped farthest east, the first tribe to feel the rays of the sun. What is their population? 186,400 - the speed of light.

>>21540508
Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer or whatever is called in English
AMA

>>21545276
The Pastoral Symphony is definitely his greatest work, by Joyce considered a masterpiece. Also check out his Paludes, short and delicious(I guess like the Pastoral too...)
>>21543838
I haven't. As I said above, if you don't like Gide yet but want to give him a shot check out the Pastoral Symphony.

Recently finished Siddharta by Hermann Hesse. Now went onto a "social critique" by a b-tier conservative politician because I'm trying to absorb opinions of different kinds.

It's really, really bad. Literally just a bunch of "hurr snowflakes", cherry picking arguments, along woth tons of just "I mean x word means this but I THINK".

Good thing it's a super short read. Cannot wait to put the entire thing in my fireplace.

>>21544623
nice

>>21545411
based

>>21541159
Footjobs…yes, very interdasting.

>>21540508
St John of Damascus - Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith

>>21542126
>Old Testament Theology
It prophecises Jesus Christ. Saved you reading

>>21545696
I have the ESV but I want a copy of KJV. Now I’m extra motivated.

>>21545696
>teary-eyed in the gospels
Try and keep dry eyes when reading the Psalms
>Hear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
>And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
>For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
>Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

the myth of normal by Gabor Maté

>>21546713
Oh I’m retarded. I forgot I have read pastoral symphony kek. It was beautiful. I’ll check out the paludes. I’ve got counterfeiters, fruits of the earth and if it die on my bookshelf but want to leave those for a bit later

>>21540508
Man’s Search for Meaning.
It’s okay, but I can only read a little bit at a time because it gives me severe existential panic and terror.

Trudging through The Jolly Corner by Henry James

>>21543418
I really like Murakami, but didn't like Kafka too much.
I'd recommend the Wind-up Bird Chronicle.

>>21545411
SHWEP enjoyer? your unnecessary usage of par excellence made me wonder

For school
>Sophocles Oedipus trilogy
>The Republic book 8
>The order of things Foucault
>The Tractatus Wittgenstein
Personally
>The idiot (barely started)
>Fanged neumena (occasionally skim)
>Discipline and punish (1/5th I recon)
>How to prove it (1/3rd through)
>Slaughterhouse 5 (first page)
And I uhhh hate it all :)

>>21545107
This book was great. I felt self-actualized during my detox month doing shit I had put off enjoying: fixing my VR, reading more, getting enough sleep, exercising, etc

I’m currently reading Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. To say I’m disappointed would be an understatement. (I loved Notes from Underground) I am currently at part 4 and the only feeling I have from reading this far is annoyance. I am left wondering for what reason did he write this? Please, someone who loved this book tell me why?

>>21548808
>Illustrious prince
A bullet to the head please.

>>21546713
Not the anon(s) that replied, but did you read it in the original French or in translation? I have nothing to add, just curious about your experience reading Gide since I’m looking to get into his books too.

>>21540508
Just resumed reading The Gate after a two day hiatus to read In The Distance which was very good but he seemed torn between using Håkon as a symbol and treating him as a character which killed much of the emotional impact and at times it felt very much like "trust me bro, he is hurting." Look forward to reading Trust. The Gate is good so far, I developed a surprising connection to Sosuke and Oyone, they seem doomed to quietly suffer and it hurts.
>>21543821
Marshlands is on my stack, picked it up a few times but never been quite in the mood for clever.
>>21545676
Was very unimpressed by that one, gets rather repetitive , same joke over and over.

>>21540978
Oh shit you just made me remember I bought a small anthology of his poems, neat

>>21541164
Nice going anon.
Yeah some of Borges's stories don't really have a plot. Can't say I found them dull though, that's too bad.
I only read The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y los perros) by Llosa. Thought it was an impressive first novel, really good. Heard his style gets more complicated after that.
And yeah, those two are bangers by Marquéz
>>21541353
Very similar prose style (Marquéz had a Hemingway phase, this doesn't belong to it), a lovely read. Not magical realism though, just in case

>>21547185
Really you gotta look at the fringes for meaningful, or at least entertaining conservative thought. The type of book you're talking about is for actual idiots

sontag’s against interpretation essay collection. they’re pretty enjoyable to read desu; does anyone here have other lit crit writer recommendations?

Finished The Fugitive and about 20 pages into Time Regained. I was a little tired of the whole Albertine saga, but the long passages about grief and forgetting were really refreshing. So far I'm enjoying the callbacks to the beginning of the novel, the stuff with Morel and Saint-Loup is pretty funny too.

>>21549222
Absolutely correct. But I bought it used in a 3 for $2 deal so I thought why not, you know?

>>21548675
No, i'm just European and speak right prop'ly m'lord.
This?
https://shwep.net/
Looks breddy interdasting anon.

>>21540508
FEET

>>21540978
TFW already there

You can make it anon, as long as you're not a fucking sperg / polack / Fall into the incel hole there is hope

>>21548675
lmao another fellow esotericist nerd

what other good media is there? which physical books do you like for starters?

>>21540508
Almost done with Tristram Shandy, a book out of time that feels distinctly 18th c. but also like it could have been written tomorrow. I’m also reading Macyntire, Double Cross. Your stereotyped image of mid-century spies is surprisingly accurate. Probably because actual spies invented the spy-fiction genre.

The Black Tulip by Dumas.

>>21548756
Good to hear! I’ve already spent a year or two in the past without a smartphone because I felt addicted, now I’m using one again (it was an expensive gift from my family), but I felt like I already achieved a good balance in life with being online and offline due to the dumbphone experience. This book kinda makes me re-evaluate that feeling, seeing there are some habits that kinda crept in again.

>I felt self-actualized during my detox month doing shit I had put off enjoying
Has this self-actualization stuck around for you? Or was it mostly contained to that detox month? Curious to hear about your experience

>>21540508
The /lit/ middleschooler's pack of course
>Moby Dick (translated)
>Fellowship of the Ring (People really exaggerate on the 3 paragraphs of tree descriptions. It's a balanced dose of dialogue, character and enviroment descriptions, with an occasional wall of text about the forest trail they're taking)

>>21549868
>tfw sperg
oh well, at least when im a wizard i'll be able to levitate or whatever. anyway, im going to finish beyond good and evil and do androids dream of electric sheep? today.

>>21540508
The Red Badge of Courage. It's great so far. The battle scenes are not too far off from Storm of Steel.

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>>21541935
Based Pessoa-bros, have a bump.
This is still the best place for talking about poetry. No attention-thots allowed.

(I'm here forever, I guess)

>>21541935
Good translation, lad.

>>21550079
>Moby Dick (translated)
A decent read. Wasn't my cup of tea however, how are you liking it?

>>21548268
What about After Dark? I can't decide between that or Life for sale by Mishima for my next book purchase

The Holy Bible and The Ascent of Mount Carmel by St. John of the Cross. It verbalizes mysticism and detachment as I experienced it (to some extent) and is a great tool to bring you back to God when you forgot His way. Insanely well written. There is something about writings and biographies of saints that feel like an expansion and explanaition of the Holy Bible.

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>>21545547
This anon is the essence of lit/. God bless him. kek

Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation, and Murakami's Kafka on the Shore for the second time.

Annihilation has been really enjoyable, but I am a sucker for sci-fi horror tinged mystery and doomed expeditions in particular. Excited for the other two books in the trilogy, it's easier to do the "weird shit happens" in isolation than to examine the effects of that weird shit having happened in a broader, perhaps societal context (Which I'm assuming, hoping, the other two books will address)

Kafka on the Shore I'm not getting much out of, I was on a Murakami kick when I read it three or four years ago, and adored it then for breaking from the typical narrators he employs. Was hoping to glean some insight into the larger picture/intended direction this time around, but it's still largely lost on me. Spirits and mundane concerns.

>>21540844
Nice dude.

I read the opening sequence, about A and C passing in the landscape, while I was on the train back from work, passing through unlit farmland. It was the best reading experience of 2022 for me.

Have you got to the second half, the Jacques Moran part, yet? All the stuff about his son cracks me up.