/lit/ - Literature

>>5485604
How to Win Friends and Influence People

books, newspapers, letters

>>5485604
The Sorrows of Young Werther was Goethe's first major success, turning him from an unknown into a celebrated author practically overnight. Napoleon Bonaparte considered it one of the great works of European literature. He thought so highly of it that he wrote a soliloquy in Goethe's style in his youth and carried Werther with him on his campaigning to Egypt.

the sorrows of young werther, supposedly

>>5485604
Karl marx.

/thread

The God Delusion

Parallel Lives

L'heritage du totalitarisme dans une toundra

The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar when he was eleven.

>>5485626
>>5485629
This is incredibly strange, Werther's personality seems like the antithesis of Napoleon's

>>5485604
>dat hidden hand masonic gesture

>>5485604
How To Overcompensate, and Eventually Be a Big Loser

>>5485604
Frederick the Great and Turenne

>>5486156
infantile.

>>5485604
Whatever Napoleon read, it caused Hegel to suck his dick.

>>5485617
/thread

>>5486044
napoleon was a complete beta when it came to his beloved josephine and he wrote romantic nonsense himself as well

Napoleon may have won some battles and shit, but I'm 6'5", so in the end, I'm more successful than him.

>>5486378

enjoy working a dead-end job until the day you drop dead of coronary disease

>>5486386
Don't worry, bro. I'm NEET.

>>5485626
>>5485629
So Napoleon was a complete pleb, then? Werther is shit; Goethe himself eventually regretted writing it.

I bet he thought Faust was too boring.

>>5486296
>napoleon
>beta

No lol he fucked tons of women while he was out campaigning he just wrote sappy love letters to try to convince Josephine that he wasn't doing this.

le bump

>>5486756

No he wrote the love letters at the beginning of their relationship, then he found out she was fucking around on him back in Paris, and his letters became cold.

The most powerful man in the world, still being cheated on.

>>5486756
>mfw people feel the need to defend dead people

ossian

>>5486969
It's not as if he cared or if it had something to do with what made him powerful.

the book of the dead

>"banned"

This would be hilarious if it wasn't so god damned sad. We are now banning on 4chan for pointing out the -incredibly obvious fact- that niggers a shit. Priceless. What the fuck do you morons even pretend to gain by excusing the atrocity that is africa and black culture? The stupidity you broadcast 24/7 by denying reality is absolutely unreal. You are totally unthinking little drone people. Congratulations on being offended by everything ever, on behalf of people who don't care one iota for you. You make me disgusted to even call myself the same species as you

>>5487058
go to literally any other board on this shithole website to be racist

I can't be the only one happy that someone is removing the trash from this board finally

>>5487058

3/10

Reminder that Napoleon also aspired to be a great writer and was pretty much a loner in his academy days.

You could be the next military genius, /lit/.

>>5487108
^

The Prince

>>5487108
Is he fucking his horse?

>>5488623
baka
they are simply dancing together

also young napoleon was cute, before he gained weight

>>5488633
Yes (no homo). I like his clothes, damn this shitty plebeian century.

>>5485604
he started with the greeks

>>5486398
> I bet he thought Faust was too boring.
But Faust was completed after his death...

>>5486969
>The most powerful man in the world, still being cheated on.

Will they ever learn?

Essential books on Napoleon?

>>5485617
lol, nice one.

>>5488754
Most likely, yeah.

>>5489107
phenomenology of mind

>>5486398
he regretted writing wert her after the buff waistcoat became the fedora of it time. for trial. all in all, it's well written and tells you "don't be that guy" all his retreats were due to public misinterpretation.

>>5486998
is it just me or does the fact that that turned out to be total bullshit make it so much more fascinating and worth reading
i mean, it's like some pomo meta shit

Of course he read mein kampf

>>5489183
>That part in Werther were he starts reading Ossian to Lotte and it's just a consecution of love triangles.

The anonymous mixtape of its time, I swear I lost my shit while reading it.

Minds and spirits.

>>5486998
this, he took it everywhere

it's known that he liked corneille, especially his "el cid" play.
plutarch's lives
montesquieu's book about romans (Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline)
voltaire's charles XII
roman history by rollin and crevier
andromache by euripides
jomini's art of war
frederick the great, turenne and caesar

disliked: germaine de stael, benjamin constant, diderot, tacitus

he must have read a bunch of stuff during exile, always asking for new material in letters to europe or from ships in the harbour.
he ordered polybius while on st helena, but when the volumes finally arrived he was already dying. not sure if he ever read polybius. he probably read every ancient historian and also every known military historian

>>5489227
thank you
kisses you and strokes your hard cock
<3

>>5486969
>No he wrote the love letters at the beginning of their relationship
>The most powerful man in the world, still being cheated on

He was also cheating on her, this is documented fact. Napoleon was quite the ladies man.

>>5489227
>disliked:tacitus

What's wrong Napoleon? 2anti-imperialist4u?

>>5489597
it carried over from rococo anyway, that you were encouraged to have affairs (and get weird looks if you didnt). such was upper crust life.

>>5489611
i googled and thank god somebody wrote that trivia online already, so i dont have to type anything myself:
>Napoleon, on the other hand, attacked his works furiously, both for style and contents. This would-be founder of an Imperial dynasty, praised by amongst others Goethe for his insight in literature, knew the danger that Tacitus's histories might pose to one who wished to go around grabbing for power. François de Chateaubriand, for one, had already compared the new Emperor of the French to the worst emperors of Rome, warning that a new Tacitus would someday do for Napoleon what Tacitus had done for Nero. The Emperor's reaction was vicious: to Goethe and Wieland he complained that "Tacitus finds criminal intention in the simplest acts; he makes complete scoundrels out of all the emperors to make us admire his genius in exposing them". To others he swore that Tacitus, ce pamphlétaire, had "slandered the emperors" whom, he averred, the Roman people had loved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitean_studies#Enlightenment_and_revolutions

Not the weather report

>>5489645
That man in the picture is trying to murder me with his eyes.
Scary.

>>5489645

>>5489645
owned

>>5487108

>Such power
>Such majesty
>Such fury

>>5489645
ayy

>>5490000

>0000

The look of fear of death in the eyes of his enemies.

>>5491174
binoculars weren't that advanced back then

Infinite jest

>>5491185
the look of fear of death in the eyes of the civilians he gunned down

>>5490007
aaaaaaayyyy

>>5486969
> women

>>5489597
Most of his cheating occurred after learned Josephine was a whore. As soon as he learned in Egypt, he took a mistress in retaliation.

>>5485630
k