/lit/ - Literature

>>21677615
Russia is Eastern Europe too

>>21677615
The doll

>>21677615
Dead Souls by Gogol

Fuck me I typed Dark Souls initially. I don't even like the game

>>21677615
Madách Imre's "The Tragedy of Man", it's like an eastern euro Paradise Lost or Faust soaked in Hegel's philosophy.

>>21677615
Use the linked list to find what you need:

http://sonic.net/~rteeter/grtbloom.html

The Mountain Wreath is pure kino but I'm not sure how well it can translate since it's a narrative poem.

>>21677615

"In Europe, happiness stops at Vienna. Beyond, misery upon misery, since the beginning." -Emil Cioran, who himself came from "beyond" Vienna. This line was written during the Cold War, when it was doubly true.

>b-but suffering produces good lit

It can, just saying I would never want to live there.

>>21677623
Yeah but their works are famous

>>21677790
I moved to the Balkans and I don't agree. But you find a higher prevalence of envy and mental illness that you can only see in former Communist counties. People overall are happier and have a greater communal sense than in the West. But due to more globohomo this is also dying out.

>>21677790
Cioran was just depressed lol, he lived most of his life abroad and he was always depressed. He just wanted to blame something. It's quite pathetic.

>>21677615
recommended authors from Poland
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Joseph Conrad
Czesław Miłosz
Witold Gombrowicz
Stanislaw Lem
recommended book from Poland
Limes inferior by Janusz Zajdel
recommended author from Czechia
Franz Kafka
recommended author from Romania
Emil Cioran

Drndić
Gombrowicz
Kiš

>>21677615
Czech lit
Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Hrabal: Closely Watched Trains

Ukraine lit to check:
Valerian Pidmohylny - The City
Ivan Bagriany - Tiger Trappers
Mykola Khvylovy - Mother
Serhiy Zhadan - Voroshilovgrad (highly recommended)

>>21677827
Then why doesn't /lit/ talk about it?

The Good Soldier Švejk is always used as a reference by boomers in Eastern Euro politics.

You can also not go wrong with anything from Mirca Eliade and his fiction work. They are mostly proto-magical realism for man. Sadly I cannot recc anything from Bulgaria, as poetry(which I don't read) is the best of our national literature and poetry is just non-translatable. Our modernist novels are way too nation-specific for a wider audience.

>>21678016
You mean you miss the daily Dosto, Gogol and Tolstoy threads? Its like overrepresented if anything.

>>21677615
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51294/waiting-for-the-barbarians
This is the poem that inspired Buzzati's Tartar Steppe and Coetzee's book.
Not sure if this is the best english translation but it's good enough.

From my country, this.

>>21677790
This nigga never been to Dalmatia

>>21678289
Interesting poem.

>>21678016
How new are you?

>>21678289
> Those people were a kind of solution.
Very weak ending lol

>>21677615
If you want to read about pre-WWI provincial aristocrats and how Hungary fucked itself in the ass, Transylvania Trilogy by Bánffy Miklós.

https://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/bestyu.html
https://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/bestro.html
https://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/bestbk.html
https://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/besthu.html
https://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/bestck.html

I do not know if you find the translation but it is worth to understand how orthodox live

>>21677615
Right, so some anon recommended Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb a few days ago, I picked it up from the library and about halfway through, and it's really good. Hungarian author.

>>21678506
>Number one is one of Kundera's weakest novels.

This guy is such a goon.

Feels like more of a central European thread.

Immortality/lightness of being - Kundera
Temptation - Szekely
The captive mind - milosz
The road to the open - Schnitzler
Darkness at noon - Koestler

>>21678542
Sounds like a clickbait title

get yourself some slavoj žižek shit.
or kiš

>>21679187
>kiš
Where should I start?

Anybody read Palace of Dreams? It's by Ismail Kadare and was basically the most promising book I found written by an Albanian.

>>21679410
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich

>>21679555
don't trust the goat fuckers

>>21678500
Eh, Bánffy is just a lib with a huge chip on his shoulder. If you want to read a lib take on the fall of the monarchy you'd do better to read, I don't know, Jászi Oszkár. Or Szekfű's Three Generations for the other side's take on the matter.

>>21678289
Good stuff

real chad stuff

Anything from the Baltics in particular?

>>21681055
Maybe the three books from Dejan Tiago Stankovic. Man lived in Lisbon and Belgrade. He died but was he wrote some good stuff before death.

>>21677615
Spalovac Mrtvol by Ladislav Fuks

The film is considered one of Czechia's greatest mostly for the visuals and humor but the short story is good too.

>>21681069
But if you want older stuff, id read Ivo Andric, Miroslav Krleža and Borislav Pekić.

>>21677615
Ranko Marinković

>>21681069
I said Baltic not Balkan lol

>>21681069
>>21681093
But I do appreciate the recs

>>21681093
yeah im blind

Andric is a Nobel laureate from Bosnia, and all of his books are really bood. My recommendation is The Bridge on the river Drina

>>21681243
my favorite is The Damned Yard

>>21677913
>>21677932
>Kafka
>Kundera
Damn are Czechs generally uber fags?

>>21681055
The Kalevipoeg, Kristijonas Donelaitis, Andrejs Pumpurs

The best ones from my country were never translated to English

>>21677615
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Solaris

>>21677615
Recommend me some Romanian literature, please.

>>21682010
What kind? Nonfiction, fiction, poetry?

>>21682031
All that is known to you.

>>21682085
If you have no criteria, just look up romanian literature on the internet and pick whatever.

>>21677790
>woe is me i am become sneed
he sounds like a fag

Lover of the Great Bear is a great book, probably my favorite novel from my country (maybe due to the polish nation wide nostalgia for Kresy). Anyway it's worth your time. I don't know how common the translations are, but if you manage to get your hands on it READ IT. Forgotten classic

Others from Poland
- Undivine Comedy
- anything from Witkacy (also check out his paintings) and Tadeusz Miciński

>>21677913
>cioran
lmfao you fucking incel