/lit/ - Literature

Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky

>>3116057
I'll match recommendation for recommendation as long as I can

Vathek

couple of Plato's dialogues

The Physicists - Dürrenmatt
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
Reigen - Schnitzler

>>3116062
How difficult a read is this?

Also:

A Madman's Diary by Luxun

The Death of Ivan Ilych

Candide, Voltaire.

The Kreutzer Sonata, Tolstoy.

The Great God Pan, Machen (classic horror).

The social contract is bullshit and Rousseau is a tool. He literally was a useless tool.

>>3116079
Reading Candide in one day is hard work though ... I couldn't do it (maybe also because I didn't like the book ...)

The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
"Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
"The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy

>>3116062
In a day? Really? Isn't it pretty dense though?

>>3116079
Never see The Great God Pan brought up here, loved it.

Know any other great classic horror? Other than Dracula etc.

Carmilla - Fanu (classic horror)

>>3116093
most classical political theory is bull-shit.... its fun to read

>>3116093
Rousseau really was a cunt.

>>3116062
Yeah guy, how dense a read is this?

>>3116136
But still, why not just read it because it's so short and was quite influential

>>3116137
>>3116128
>>3116065
I finished it in 3 days because i'm a scrub. Probably don't understand more than 20% of it, but I figure those with the requisite math and philosophy background could get through it in one sitting.

It's still an interesting read even if you don't understand what he's talking about, though. Wittgenstein has great flow.

>>3116138
Oh, I'm not arguing against reading it at all. By all means. I was just giving my two cents about Rousseau's character.

>>3116148
I'm sold. Cheers guy who read the book.

Got more recommendations?

Eeeee eee eeee

The Old Man and the Sea
The Death of Grass
Down and Out in Paris and London

The Soul of Man Under Socialism - Oscar Wilde

Pretty good mix of fiction and non-fic in this thread. Keep it up guys

No Animal Farm yet? Huh.

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

lord of the flies

Focault's Pendulum

The Tunnel by Sabato
Chess by Zweig
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Mishima
The Dead by Joyce

itt: the usual novella thread with a few pamphlets in between

The Sun Also Rises
Casino Royale

Songs of Innocence and Experience - Blake

The Great Gatsby

The sorrows of young werther - Goethe

>>3116247
And yet you suggest nothing else?

Complaining faggots that do nothing to help what they're complaining about are the worst.

>>3116056
Veblen. On Engineers

>>3116056

Demian - Hermann Hesse

>>3117354
Good recommendation. Read it today. Bit gay though.