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okay /lit/. important [READ: GOD TIER] contributions to the world of literature that can be read within a day or a week.

pic: related.

>> No.1046429

CAPSGUY APPROVES OF THIS THREAD

>> No.1046433

Check the novellas section here: 4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading

>> No.1046437

There's nothing you can't read within a week if you apply yourself. As for a day: Hadji Murat.

>> No.1046438

>>1046433
NO. everyone knows there, hard to collate small short novels/ novellas based on their GODTIER criteria.

addition: Metamorphoses by kafka.

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>> No.1046441

>>1046437
herp derp PROUST or DOSTOEVSKY.
suggestion: aleph collection of short stories.

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>>1046438
I'm not sure I understand the sentence you just made. It seems like a good list to me.

>> No.1046444

this lit /fag/ is willing to create an image such as one on
4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading if this thread gets off the ground.

>> No.1046445

A Clockwork orange - read in like 6 hours.

>> No.1046446

>>1046438

Metamorphoses is by Ovid.

>> No.1046447

>>1046444
Go for it man. But /lit/ is a bit dead around this time. You might be waiting a few hours.

>> No.1046449

>>1046442
I dont think too highly of it. It has a few good selections, but I'm not a fan of the rest of it.

>> No.1046452

>>1046449
It's wonderful for Japanese lit.

>> No.1046457

Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Jr

>> No.1046458

>>1046446
no one gives a shit, faggot.

>> No.1046462

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn.
It's on that image and it deserves to be. Amazing story, short and simple, not a word wasted.

>> No.1046543

>>1046427
Read this in about an hour a few days ago.
Possibly one of the dumbest things I've read in a long time.

Meursault isn't and outsider who "refuses to play the game". He's an idiot who refuses to recognises that humans are social creatures and have expectations about emotional reactions in certain circumstances. Instead of giving a short and simple explanation of his feelings (or lack of) and freeing himself he chooses to simply sit back and let his life be taken over.

>> No.1046545

>>1046543
huh, OP wishes to convey surprise. interesting view, thoroughly & logically explained. will read 2nd time. in the meanwhile, give your suggestion then.

>> No.1046546

>>1046543
You understood the point while completely missing the point.
Doing nothing and sitting around waiting for others to provide the meaning is an absurdist critique of common behavior. Merrsault eventually discovers this, far too late, and tries to provide his own meaning with recollections of his home, endearing attempts at romanticizing his lover (forget her name) and something else I forget now, all of which is entirely futile, a very serious case of "too little, too late."
I also see no reason why the character was hailed as an existentialist hero either. It's still not a very good book. The Plague is better.

>> No.1046548

>>1046543
IT IS A STORY OF FICTION. YOU DO KNOW THAT, RIGHT?

>> No.1046549

>>1046545
Yeah, I didn't like it lol.
I agree with
>>1046457
about Wasp Factory although I'm not sure it anything hugely special. I just found it enjoyable to read. 1984 would probably be another short favourite of mine.

>> No.1046555

I'll add As I Lay Dying by Faulkner to this. I loved and loathed that book, just read it a few days ago, only about 150 pages.

>> No.1046558

>>1046546
Yeah I got the point and at the same time I felt a little cheated. Still, for an hour of reading it's not like it's a waste of my life or anything and I thought it was quite nicely written. Just not particularly astounding intellectually.
>>1046548
The fact it was a book in my hand written by an author and not based on anyone in particular did give that impression yes.

>> No.1046559

The Hobbit ofc

>> No.1046563

slaughterhouse 5
any goosebumps book

>> No.1046578

>>1046559
>important contribution to world literature
>the hobbit

I don't think so, Tim.

>> No.1046602

We're talking collections of short stories, small novels and novellas, not the fucking works of Tolkien or Dostoevsky. Fuck.

Worth reading Lolita by Nabokov ? Tell me /lit/. In the meanwhile, keep posting suggestions.

>> No.1046615

>>1046602
NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, THE DOUBLE, THE GAMBLER, WHITE NIGHTS, A GENTLE CREATURE, AND MANY MORE.

YOU SILLY BILLY!

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>>1046615
WOULD'VE BEEN BETTER IF I ADDED THIS.

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.

>> No.1046620

>Worth reading Lolita by Nabokov ? Tell me /lit/.
YESSSSSSSSS

>> No.1046634

>>1046615
yes, yes, dostevsky was a prolific writer. im just REMINDING people not to post crime and punishment or the brothers K. agree though.

>> No.1046649

Bumping this before I go to sleep, to improve changes of survival when I wake up

>> No.1046659

The Outsider by Camus
Metamorphosis by Kafka
Mrs. Dalloway by Woolf
A Clockwork Orange by Burgess
Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
The Wasp Factory by Banks
Lord of the Flies by Golding
Heart of Darkness by Conrad
The Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn
As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut
Lolita by Nabokov
Collected Short Works of Dostoevsky

Continue working, fuckers. goodnight /lit/. dont die. I promise to make img if we get at least 30 more additions.

>> No.1046672

>>1046578

Whilst in isolation The Hobbit (or LoTR and the surrounding books in general) has little literary merit, I would argue that given the undeniable influence that it has had on the entire fantasy genre, as well as upon culture at large, certainly makes it note-worthy.

>> No.1046692

Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
Animal Farm, Orwell
The Moon and Sixpence, Maugham (debatable, but then it's W.S. Maugham, gotta give him some credit)
The Crying of Lot 49, Pynchon

will whack my brain for more later

btw, Ian Banks in the same category as Kafka?

>> No.1046693

After Dark by Huruki Murakami is a great read, and should only take you a few hours.

>> No.1046708

under 200 pages:

The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker
Factotum - Charles Bukowski
Flatland - Abbott
Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
The Enormous Room - EE Cummings
On the Heights of Despair - Emil Cioran
Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky (HA)
Blindness - Henry Green
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
If on a Winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino

>> No.1046715

Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Disgrace - J M Coetzee
Nekrassov (Play) - Jean Paul Sartre
The Lovers (Play) - Harold Pinter
Any non-fiction by V S Naipaul

>> No.1046716

>>1046715

and I forgot

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids - Kenzaburō Ōe
No Exit - Sartre

ok... but how in the world could I forget

SEIZE THE DAY- Saul Bellow (deserves caps)

>> No.1046718

>>1046716

and

In Dubious Battle - John Steinbeck

>> No.1046719

>>1046715
>>1046716

people, if we're gonna do plays, may as well put every single Beckett and Shakespeare (the short ones) down.

Random, does poetry count?

>> No.1046744

OP is still up working on his dissertation., guys, please GOD TIER ONLY. most beckett, sartre, stoppard is god tier. I'll try to make a poll so that you fags can decide amongst yourselves. in the meantime, please continue.

>> No.1046760

>>1046719

If we're doing poetry, Howl, Kaddish and other poems by Ginsberg.

>> No.1046774

Some classic Japanese literature (just a few off the top of my head):

KOKORO by Natsume Soseki
THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES by Kobo Abe
THE WILD GEESE by Mori Ogai
THE TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION by Yukio Mishima
THE MAKIOKA SISTERS by Junichiro Tanizaki
THE DOCTOR'S WIFE by Sawako Ariyoshi

>> No.1046822

>>1046446
I translated that this summer. Some really good stories. Worth a read if you're into mythology at all.

>> No.1047632

bump for mutualwant.

>> No.1047906

WOKE UP AN HOUR AND A HALF AGO, AND JUST FINISHED CANDIDE.

WILL START A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

THIS IS A BUMP FOR MORE.

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1047949

>mfw I work, go to school full-time, have a social life, still find time to read at least one (if not 2-3) full-size novel a week simply by reading before going to sleep and taking shits.

>> No.1047952

>>HAVE A SOCIAL LIFE.

OH GOD, DID YOU JUST SAY THAT?

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>>1047949

>mfw you're not the only one

>> No.1047967

>mfw I have friends in the suburbs, a couple people from study groups go out to shoot pool and/or drink with me, and also hang out with my dad who is one cool-ass dirty old man with a masters in physics but also loves fiction and philosophy.
>also mfw I'm using this mfw bullshit way too long.

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>>1047967
>mfw I fuck up because of bad captcha

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>>1047967

>mfw you didn't put a face

>> No.1047984

No Exit by Sartre. Fucking god tier.

>> No.1047987

The Myth of Sisyphus, the edition I have at least, is pretty short, even if you leave in the hefty portion of meaningless waffle that Camus, living up to his occupation as a fucking "writer", feels he has to pad the book out with.

>> No.1048037

>>1047987
>>1047984

HAVEN'T READ EITHER OF THEM. WOULD YOU RECOMMEND THESE FOR POOR OLD CAPSGUY?

>> No.1048073

>>1048037
Depends on whether you think suicide is the only serious philosophical question. Sisyphus is not going to be anything new to you if you've had an authentic existential crisis and have reconciled yourself with the absurd "nature" of the universe. It's a pretty shitty book apart from its value in serving as a springboard for the nurturing of existentialist thought .

>> No.1048090

>>1048073
PERHAPS I SHOULD FOCUS ON SOME MORE OF THE LIGHTER STUFF BEFORE I MOVE ONTO THESE....

>> No.1048324

Bump

>> No.1048414

There can never be enough bumps

>> No.1048908

And so I bump on.

>> No.1049339
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1049339

C'mon you fuckers.

The Outsider by Camus
Metamorphosis by Kafka
Mrs. Dalloway by Woolf
A Clockwork Orange by Burgess
Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
The Wasp Factory by Banks
Lord of the Flies by Golding
Heart of Darkness by Conrad
The Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn
As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
Slaughterhouse 5 by Vonnegut
Lolita by Nabokov
Collected Short Works of Dostoevsky
Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Crying Lot of 49 by Pynchon
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
Factotum by Charles Bukowski
Flatland by Abbott
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
The Enormous Room by EE Cummings
On the Heights of Despair by Emil Cioran
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Blindness by Henry Green
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
If on a Winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Disgrace by J M Coetzee
Nekrassov by Jean Paul Sartre
The Lovers by Harold Pinter
No Exit by Sartre
The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus

>> No.1049350

>>1049339
I took this thread for dead, but you saved it!

MORE.

>> No.1049371

Maybe not GOD TIER, but High Tier and a quick read: Tortilla Flat by Steinbeck, likewise the plays of Tennessee Williams.

>> No.1049381

>>1049339

ITT: Anon with short attention span

>> No.1049390

>>1049339
Lord of the Flies repeated

Anthem by Ayn Rand (not sure how you guys feel bout this)
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Royal Game (aka Chess Story I think) by Stefan Zweig
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Being Dead by Jim Crace (again, not sure if its e/lit/e enough)

>> No.1049399

I think that The Decay of Lying written by Oscar Wilde is pretty good..

>> No.1049408

>>1049381
maybe some of us arent total faggots wanking at home. let's not get into that, eh ? fuck you. [true to an extent I guess]. dont have too much free time on me.

>> No.1049438

I GET PAID TO SIT AT A DESK WITH A COMPUTER THAT HAS ACCESS TO THE INTERNET. OF COURSE I'LL BE ON FUCKING 4CHAN.

I AM ALSO A FULL-TIME STUDENT, OF COURSE I'LL READ BOOKS WHILST IN TRANSIT, OR DURING LECTURES/TUTORIALS.

I ADMIT, I DO NOT GET THE MOST PUSSY, I DO NOT GO OUT THE MOST, I AM NOT THE MOST HANDSOME OF THE LOT. BUT I AM CAPSGUY, AND CAPSGUY IS BEAUTIFUL AND FREE.

>> No.1049464

>>1049438
this is a beautiful creature

>> No.1049475

No.1049438
Such elegance! Such awe inspiring beauty! I would surely follow him to hell and back!

>> No.1049852

i'd like to mention Kafkas Metamorphosis again.

often confused with Ovid's Metamorphoses on this board.