/lit/ - Literature

What a snoozepile

Why would you ever want to read that shite?

what is a stack and why does it deserve its own thread separate from the other two materialism generals we have in bookshelf and recent buys threads

>>8226566
ya know, sideways bookcases are alright cause then it's like you're reading a stack, but when you post a sideways pic of a stack, AND it's not even in the standard bookcase orientation

well, idk what but it's disgusting

Stack this!

>>8226566
Books look brand fucking new. You're never going to read these, yo.

>>8226566
I swear to god, those books are utter garbage.

>>8226586
What an idiotic thing to say.

>>8226586
The Gass book at the top might be OK lol

>>8226566
>he fell for the philosophy and critical theory meme

lmfao

>>8226601
Those books aren't critical theory.

>>8226582
>>8226601
These desu.

>>8226582

only ones i haven't read are Ahmad, and the Lacan and deconstruction volumes, from which I've read a handful of essays. nice try though

>>8226586
have you read any of them? what made you dislike them?

>>8226601
no critical theory here, friendo, and only the bottom 3 could be classed philosophy

/lit/ fails once again

>>8226665
>only the bottom 3 could be classed philosophy

also ricouer and flax, my b

>>8226665
>no critical theory here

Acts like Freudo-Marxism isn't a real thing.

>Stack
Rate, hate, consolidate.

>>8226709

critical theory is not the same thing as Freudo-Marxism, and you're still wrong with that "label."

god you people are real faggots

>>8226665
>>8226729
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory#Language_and_construction

>>8226738

you could have at least read the page you linked.

>Critical theory is a school of thought that stresses the reflective assessments and critique of society and culture by applying knowledge from the social sciences and the humanities.

>>8226729
>acts like he's not reading Freud to rationalize and attempt a non-repressive society
>acts like Marcuse's Eros and Civilization is not on his plebby bookshelf
>acts like there's no synthesis in camps in such a broad continental approach

>>8226757

i'm specifically interested in the psychoanalytic concept of the transference, and the appearance of transference-like dialectics in literature. to address your broader "critical theory" paranoia, though, i would add that i tend to be think that literary studies which try to "break out" onto the historical or political plateau at the conclusion of their readings are merely "transferring" the contents of the first analysis to a different problem—meaning that strictly speaking a "sociology of literature" is theoretically impossible within any degree of what could be called "knowledge." so my research is almost polemically oriented against the critical theory boogieman you've idiotically conjured in the apparition of marcuse.

i'm approaching 10,000 volumes at this point

documenting and posting seems like an overwhelming chore

but they are there, and look cool, so imagine that

>>8227219
*Tips

Stack coming through.

My stack has a bit of a backstory.
My uncle's house burned down 2 weeks ago, with him inside it. I was never close with him, but in his will he left me his books.
These were the only ones that weren't damaged.

Pretty good taste.

>>8228316
>pretty good taste
>steinbeck
>heller
>vonnegut
>herbert
>danielewski
naw

my condolences though

>>8228345
Nothing wrong with Heller, Vonnegut, or Steinbeck.
They're not top-tier, but not bad. Vonnegut is easily the best of them that you mentioned.
Agree on Herbert and Danielewski though.

He also has John Hawkes, Tolstoy, Faulkner, and Woolf though.

>>8226566
For a board that's supposed to be well read, the anons here seems to be technologically inept... Is posting upside down shelf and stack pictures a meme or something?

Okay, I'll bite. It's a repost though.

>>8226566
That's some good shit, OP

>>8229024
who is your favorite author

>>8229131
John Green.

>>8228316

more like the fire has bad taste

>>8229024
jealous of those teal penguins. they're my favorite of their imprints.

>>8229131
Samuel Beckett.

>>8229143
DELET THIS

i just put together a stack that makes me seem like an interesting person

>>8229187
housewife tier

>>8229187
It didn't work. Try harder next time.

>>8229193
>>8229196
bet you niggers havent heard of half of those books

>>8229187
>mister cobblestein
tity boyg

>>8229208
>projecting

they're not obscure retard. half are /lit/ memes and the other half are NYT best sellers

is anyone else a poorfag and just photocopies books borrowed from the public library instead of buying them?
i have a few of them which I bought, but the rest are all copies

>>8229228
fuck off fgagot

>>8229220
delineate each

>>8229228
>unironically photocopies shit

>>8229187
Have you read Dara? Nathan N. R. Gaddis and hearusfalling highly recommend him, but I get the feeling he'll be too similar to Field and Place for my taste.

>>8229236
>>8229246
are you being serious? why does it matter?

>>8229252
I have read his first two
-The Lost Scrapbook
-Easy Chain (the one pictured)
The Lost Scrapbook is in my top books I've ever read. It is mainly about alienation and forced separation. Told in many voices it hits on most points of modern life, pre internet.

>>8226566
tit

>>8229297
ass

>>8229315
dick

>>8229297
Dos Passos' USA trilogy. I've been thinking about copping this lately. Also, nice Dashill Hammitt collection.

>>8228316
bullshit

>>8229131
kek

I've got a few new additions lately, but I'm still proud to have the best stack on /lit/ - even if it isn't stacked.

the perfect stack

>>8226581
wow pleb taste over here

>>8229450
weeaboo

>>8229517
n-no y-you

pls no h8

>>8229595
that's a nice table

>>8229595
I also recommend log from the sea of Cortez. It's non fiction

>>8229425
m80, no point getting Plato's works separate when you could just get Completed Works and save yourself some space, time, and maybe money

>>8229143
I don't know why but I was laughing at this like a retard for a good minute. Have a repost of some shit I saw in another thread that's not even mine.

>>8229143
Anon with the dead uncle,

Made me chuckle, 8/10

>>8226566
I like your style OP
What can I do to prepare myself for Anti-Oedipus? I've read bits and pieces from Mille Plateaux and Cinema 1&2 already

Here's my tbr stack

>>8230792
I'm not even going to bother looking at the rest, but if your uncle had The Beetle Leg, he's cool in my book.

>>8230577
>pretending to like Hegel
boi

>>8230961
Hegel isn't even the weirdest or most questionable part of that pic.

a small collection of books that are special to me in some way

>>8229595
love that cover of cannery row

>>8230995
you seem like a cool person

>>8230990
No, it isn't, but it shows his pleb indefinitely.

>>8230547
Not him but complete works are usually pretty poor quality and only really seem to be bought by people who have no intention of actually reading them anyway.

be gentle /lit/, im tender

>>8230995
you seem like a poseur

Just made the books onto my floor into a pile, sorry for the poor image quality.

>>8231042
Sometimes complete works are cheaper, at least for public domain authors. Also, for non-insanely-prolific writers who also didn't write 50% garbage it can be fun trying to read through everything someone ever wrote, but you have to know you really like them first.

>>8231288
not so much a poseur so much 'have come to terms with my dubious taste and i like what i like'
>>8231006
wanna take coffee with me

>>8228316
Just bought Anna Karenina, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and House of Leaves yesterday. Which should I read first?

>>8228345
>Being this contradictory

>>8231497
Not Anna Karenina, even with it being one of my favorite novels its still quite a slog at points.

I'd say House of Leaves, if you can get into it its incredibly entertaining.

>>8230868
>Russian
>German
>English

I'm jealous

>>8231223
That Howard Bloom anthology is the tits, yo.

>>8229228
I read on my cellphone with moon reader. Só we are on the same boat, friendo.

>>8230868
nice oldschool oblomow

>>8229425
oxford faust is comparatively thick; how good are oxford's introductions to german/foreign literature?

>>8232353

I haven't got around to Part II yet, but Part I was fantastic. You can definitely tell what Goethe was trying to do, and I think in credit, he did a good job of putting Germany on the cultural/literary world stage - in a time when most Germans of high standing merely LARP'd as Frenchies for the most part.

The introductions are by David Luke, who does a great job. He won the European poetry translation prize for good reason.

Nonetheless, I have it on good authority that Kaufmann is better - were it not for the fact that he heavily abridged Part II.