/lit/ - Literature

>>4560089
The book of Ecclesiastes is short and it's a perfect transition from nihilism to life worth living.

>>4560095
>The book of Ecclesiastes

too preachy and too nihilistic.

>hurr durr everything is empty without some conscious entity judging us and giving things value

>>4560089
so like you've already read nietzsche right?

>>4560115

I never liked Ecclesiastes either.

>>4560120
>so like you've already read nietzsche right?

Yes, I'm done with him, and I don't like his whole "aristocratic" fetish.

>>4560123
lol good i was just making sure

emerson?

>>4560089
I'm lookin' for that book too, OP.

Le Guin's books are turing out to kinda like that so far.

I'm interested as well, bump

If you like Whitman, you may like the beats.
Read Howl, On the Road, and such.

>>4560123

>not aspiring to an aristocratic mode of life
>basically admitting you're a pleb

Anything by William Saroyan
start with the Extraordinary Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

>>4560123

i'm guessing you've read one or two of his books tops

it's retards like you who dabble in philosophy and then run around talking out of your ass about it

why don't you just stay the hell out of philosophy altogether? try one of the hard sciences or something. much more your speed, i assure you

>>4560212
"In ancient Rome, the plebs was the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census. Shopkeepers, crafts people, and skilled or unskilled workers might be plebeian. From the 4th century BC or earlier, some of the most prominent and wealthy Roman families, as identified by their gens name, were of plebeian status"
-wikipedia
I do not know why people keep using that term. We are all plebs here without exception.

>>4560229

Speak for yourself, slave

My heredity can be traced all the way back to the earliest Florentine noblemen of the 12th century.

Just because your race has been breeding without discretion for over a 1000 years does not mean every genealogy has gone to the devil.

>>4560214
>i'm guessing you've read one or two of his books tops

I have a degree in philo

I've been reading him for over 12 years...read most of his works multiple times.

>hurr durr its impossible for someone not to like Nietzsche's philosophy!!! You must be stupid or ill-informed!!!

your fedora is tipping

Well done, OP. You've reached a stage of maturity that, unfortunately, only a small minority of 4channers will ever attain. The quality of your life is about to improve greatly.

>>4561357

>mfw

>>4560089
Hesse is great. Read Siddartha, Narcissus and Goldmund, and Steppenwolf.

I have a somewhat related request, OP. Sorry for trying to take over your thread.

I, too, would like something that would sooth me, something joyous, beautiful, tranquil. I would like something that would resonate with

>"Tales" by Goethe
>most of Hayao Miyazaki's movies
>Some of Astrid Lindgren's books ("The Brothers Lionheart", "Seacrow Island")
>"Zen in the Art of Archery" by Eugen Herrigel
>Epicurean philosophy
>Remeber Bombadil from LOTR? He is joyous and tranquil.
>Fernando Pessoa
>Selma Lagerlöf, "Gösta Berlings saga"

I understand this list makes little sense, but what's in common to these works is the feeling of fresh air, wonder, lightness. I want that, I want lightness and joy. Although I would like that not in a form of children literature.

>>4561443
> but what's in common to these works is the feeling of fresh air, wonder, lightness.


i want this

>>4561443
As much as I love Pessoa, he doesn't seem to be what OP is looking for.

>>4561443

Crow with no Mouth, by Ikkyu

check it out. It's kind of weird but it has that Zen + Happy go lucky sort of feeling to it

>>4561450
Perhaps so. Well, anyway, that list was not exactly for OP.

But at least one book from the list, Selma Lagerlöf's "Gösta Berlings saga", I would recommend to him. I am not sure that OP would like it, but it's definitely worth a try.

There is plenty of wonder in Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I can especially recommend the essays by Borges called 'Seven Nights' which shows an imaginative mind, and gives great inspiration for further reading.

You could also try reading Arabian Nights - which has some stories that will definitely meet your requirements.

Or read some of the contemporaries of Walt Whitman.

>>4560089

King Kong by Edgar Wallace

Bump

A personal favourite.