/lit/ - Literature

>>9995827
Sez who?

>>9995837
sez me

>>9995827
What's the deal with this book? Can you only read it at night?

>>9995846

>>9995846
This is the motto of our lives. Fuck days. Only night!

today.

>>9995900
You got memed better than me, lel
t. op

>>9995914
I've asctually read 4 out of those books from my e-reader already

the New History and Mindfulness are what I have not read

Against the Day is a marvel of a book - just brilliant.

>>9995827
yeah, fucking memester buys his cans of beans and his ships models out of the money he gets from us.

>>9995852
chuckled

>>9995978
And we are all happy.

Nice choice anon

>>9995900
I've heard that Kershaw is the best book on Hitler, but that it still sucks ass.

>>9996419
Kershaw and Irving are as good as it gets wrt Hitler.

>>9996429
Have you read Kubizek or some other "first hand" sources?

>Against the day
>The worst sex scene award
where is it?

>>9995827
>>9995842

nice where's wally editions OP, I like it

already had GR, V just came in this week

>>9996472
t. OP.
I have ordered also pic rel (used, unfortunately, but very cheap)

>>9996472
doesn't look like you've read any.

>>9996479
are you from the US? I'm from south america, this edition is the only one I could find in a national store, and only 1 store at that. if I was to buy any other edition it would be twice the price, and this one wasn't even that cheap too

>>9996489
no, I am from Poland
it's not that hard to get cheap, not translated version of Pynchon. Even the prices of new books are ok, especially when you don't have to pay for shipping etc.

There was also cheaper edition but I dont trust it
http://allegro.pl/thomas-pynchon-gravity-s-rainbow-i6951573719.html
http://allegro.pl/thomas-pynchon-gravity-s-rainbow-i6938104764.html
(26 zl = about 7 USD)

>>9996481
I haven't. GR I actually got last christmas, which was a stupid move because I wanted to read V first, and I just got V. But I was kind of waiting to read pynchon, during christmas and new year's eve I was immersed in joyce, first time reading ulysses. After that I got into the greek plays, national literature and moby dick. Currently reading IJ, when I finish it I will take a break from long-ass modernist books and then will read pinecone

>>9996800
well, IJ is kind of a waste of time, but you only realise finishing it. GR is great, as is M&D. AD is trash, V is passable.

>>9996800
I recommended my father to buy Gravity's Rainbow.

I can't wait to hear his reaction.

>>9996824
*sucks on a turd*

>>9996800
>national literature
what country?

>>9997073
brazil.

mostly assis, euclides da cunha, guimarães rosa and some other modernists

>>9997371
I like Machado de Assis because he wrote a poem or ode about polish fight for independance

>guimarães rosa
isn't he Joyce brasileiro?

>>9997431
yup.

see
>>>9995104
my post in the other thread.

>>9997463
who is Brazilian Pynchon though?

>>9997556
dalton trevisan, no doubt. he is a guy that lives in my city, Curitiba, and he has a lot of similarities with pinecone actually.

he is very old, like pinecone he is very reclusive, there are almost 0 recent pictures of him, he gave 1 interview in his lifetime and in his wanderings through the streets of curitiba, going to his favorite vegetarian restaurant or the classic bookstore, if someone stops to ask him if he is dalton trevisan, he will deny it and walk away.

I am actually very privileged of having such writer in my city, because basically all of his books take place in this city, so if I am reading one of his books, in 30min I can go to some place he mentioned in the book, this is very comfy.

>pic related

>>9997816
I have found some short stories translated in polish, pic rel. Random chosen translated stories:

- "Desastres do Amor"
- "A Faca no Coração"
- "O Pássaro de Cinco Asas"
- "Novelas Nada Exemplares"
- "O Rei de Terra"
- "O Vampiro de Curitiba"
- "A Guerra Conjugal"
- "Abisimo de Rosas"
- "Cemitério de Elefantes"
- "Crimes de Paixão"

>>9997885
O vampiro de Curitiba is a classic. It translates to the Vampire of Curitiba, which, along with his reclusive 'behaviour', made dalton himself be known as the vampire of curitiba. probably his most iconic work

>>9997998
I purchased this book, we'll see in few days. Thanks for recommendation

>>9998012
good reading. really hope you enjoy it

>>9998012
and just out of curiosity, how much did you pay for it (an estimate value in U$?)

>>9998032
1 $ for book
0,5 $ for shipping
it's used book, no way I could find a new edition for such a rare author

>>9998103
nice man. enjoy.

well, I got to suggest you something, you got any recommendations from poland?

>>9998116
I would have a recommendation but I don't know if it's translated already:
Joanna Bator, she's also from my town (Wałbrzych), she wrote a book called "Dark, almost night", very strange and psychodelic thriller with a lot of town folklore and sociopolitical analysis. Great novel, check it out:
http://www.bookinstitute.pl/ksiazki-detal,literatura-polska,8929,dark--almost-night.html

and I don't usually read polish literature, I always look for the authors who live nearby (local patriot here). Check out also
>Marek Krajewski (from Wrocław) and his Inspector Eberhard Mock trilogy: Death in Breslau, The End of the World in Breslau and The Phantoms of Breslau
also
>Olga Tokarczuk, chose whatever you like. She's a silent nobel prize candidate every year

>>9996457
Probably the one with Reef, Cyprian and Yashmeen

>>9998130
will check it, thanks

Tommy P will have some extra money for candies now

>>9998168
Check out also Bruno Schulz, our undisputed number one

>>9998345
will do. nigga looks like a schizophrenic serial killer, but from what I've read there is a fat chance I will enjoy it any specific work?

Bumping handsomely

>>9995900
I read the same edition of Moby Dick.

Best book i've read in my life and possibly will ever read. Grateful to /lit/ for that.

>>9999874
I tried reading it in english but too many specialist words about ships and nacigation. I dropped. But i was stupid and less educated.

>>9998130
Thanks for these, anon.

>>9996824
Oh, so you don't want his money when he dies? 'Tis a pity to tear a family apart this way

>>9998687
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the school in Drohobych, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret expositions on art, and I have over 30 confirmed short stories. I am trained in writing and drawing and I’m the top author in the entire history of polish and world literature. You are nothing to me but just another reader. I will enchant you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, reader.

>>10000589

>>10000805
what's your problem, exactly

>>9996429
>not Stolfi

>>9998130
>silent nobel prize candidate every year
no nie przesadzaj, nikt w akademii nie uznaje jej za zbyt dobrą autorkę.

>>10001211
Za to na uniwersytetach mówi się otwarcie, że ostatnia jej powiesc,
"Księgi jakubowe", została specjalnie napisana pod Nobla, bo tematyka żydowska i pokaźna paginacja etc
Also Adam Zagajewski is even more serious candidate every year

>>9995900
>>9999874
>wordsworth classics

>>10001315
is this for real or ironic?
>>9999999
>>10000000
just checking

>>10001368
Too real

>>10001397
>show these covers to a fellow student of literature, collegue from university
>she actually likes wordsworth editions
fuck my life

>>9999874
Just finished it today, and it's fucking incredible. One of my favourites was chapter XXIII The Lee Shore;

>SOME chapters back, one Bulkington was spoken of, a tall, new-landed mariner, encountered in New Bedford at the inn.
>When on that shivering whinter's night, the Pequod thrust her vindictive bows into the cold malicious waves, who should I see standing at her helm but Bulkington! I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness upon the man, who in midwinter just landed from a four years' dangerous voyagae, could so unresetingly push off again for stilčl another tempestuous term. The land seemed schorching to his feet. Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yiel no epitaphs; this six-inch chapter is the stoneless grave of Bulkington...

His preaching, undulating sing-song prose is something like the waves flying the ship up and down the sea, in rhythm with his punctuations, that go on and on forever.