[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 92 KB, 640x480, loggin.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
2489449 No.2489449 [Reply] [Original]

Hey /lit/, I just realized I have spent far too much time on English and American literature. If you guys could throw some recommendations my way from other countries/cultures, that'd be kick-ass. I really liked Siddhartha and Steppenwolf by Hesse; I just finished reading The Norse Myths and enjoy French philosophy, if that's any help.

pic related, it's me and my bros sitting on a log.

>> No.2489482

>>2489449
Your body structure makes you look like a girl.

>> No.2489483

Borges!

>> No.2489485

are you 12 years old?

>> No.2489487

Russian lit, OP?

>> No.2489492

>>2489487
>>2489487
Absolutely. Carry on.

>>2489483
Where to start? googlan'

>> No.2489499

>>2489492
In terms of russian lit the wiki is as good a place to start as any. I would suggest working through Dostoevsky as a pretty popular starting place.

>> No.2489501

>>2489492
The general consensus is Ficciones. Admittedly I haven't read it, but I've read Labyrinths, which contains many of the same stories as well as some other stuff. I found Labyrinths to be a fine introduction. The only problem was that now I don't have a lot of incentive to buy Ficciones or The Aleph, because so much of their material is in a book I already have. At the same time, there are stories in both of those that aren't in Labyrinths...
Start with Ficciones, then. If you're going to. His writing style is pretty different from any of the American and English writers I've read.

>> No.2489515

>>2489501
>>2489501
That's exactly what I wanted to hear. Thanks man, I'll definitely pick it up. The deepest I've ever gone with any Latin-American literature is Pablo Neruda's work - which is excellent.

>> No.2489520

French to-read list:
Les fleurs du mal ( Beaudelaire )
A la recherche du temps perdu ( Proust )
Les fourberies de scapin ( Molière )
Antigone ( jean anhouil )
Le procès verbal ( Le clézio )
La nausée ( Sartre )

>> No.2489530

>>2489515
Have fun with it. I know Neruda greatly respected Borges as an author, although the two of them disagreed about pretty much everything, especially politics.
The thing with Borges is that his fiction has pretty much no conflict, violence, drama, sex or relationships, and as such might bore a lot of people. At the same time, his use of language is spectacular, and he's incredibly efficient; in 6 pages he'll create a more thought provoking, believable world than most writers can make in 300. He's really good if you have just a few minutes in which to read and want a quick mental exercise. His nonfiction is worth checking out, too, and probably some of his poetry, although I haven't read any.

>> No.2489538

>>2489530
I'm so fucking high dude and reading that was mindblowing. Thanks.

>>2489520
>>2489520
wiki'n ; thanks mang.