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Any recommendations from the NYRB classics?

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>>11164783

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>> No.11164818 [DELETED] 

>>11164783
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Uo9Vj6yk0
This one was pretty good.

>> No.11164945

Any ones that I should avoid?

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>> No.11165001

>>11164783
John Williams (all three books)
Stammering Century
Three Christ of Ypsilanti
Warlock
some Kingsley Amis esp. Lucky Jim
I'd rec more but that should do you well

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i saw amsterdam stories recommended and i read the description and i think it's probably a good book!

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>> No.11165039

Go to sleep.

>> No.11165090

>>11165039
>10:30am

>> No.11165094

>>11164945
I didn’t care for The Three Christs of Ypsilanti.
The psychiatrist’s idea was stupid and mental patients are more annoying than interesting

>> No.11165105

Guiz why we memeing this publishing house harder than Lolita? Please stop pushing these querulous hotbeds

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>>11165105
because they posted this thread

>> No.11165183

read more!
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thank u for the recs anons i will be investigating some of the books ITT.

>>11164783
OP anything by Zweig is simply amazing. Beware of Pity is what I would consider his opus, and it's about as close to a perfect novel as you can get. Their translation of Gogol's Dead Souls is also quite good, and the novel itself is fantastic.

>>11164811
I would also recommend his novel Butcher's Crossing.

>> No.11165185

>>11165090
u from bloody melborn cunt

>> No.11165187

new yorg revew of benis :-DDDD

>> No.11165188

>>11165185
How da fuck...

>> No.11165196

>>11165012
I saw the movie of this last week. It was alright.

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>>11165188
im a time clock wioazard (adelaide checkin in, also nice dubs check mine)

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>>11164783
fucking this

>> No.11165215

savage war of peace
berlin stories
berlin alexanderplatz

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Quick fun read. American girl abroad, vague Kerouac and Hemingway vibes but much more perky. Great look at the psychology of a female for you autists and incels out there who think being a girl is the easiest thing in the world

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One of my favorite NYRBs.

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The best Maupassant book that they publish, although I recommend all three.

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A great look at a fragile ego. I think it might be triggering to the losers on this board though.

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Pushkin puts 1000 pages of ~sweeping Russian drama~ into 150 pages.

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I'm only a third into this book and I already recommend it. Auerbach was a genius and he shows how Dante was also a genius very effectively.

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Too bad he didn't get to finish this before he died. The most polished chapters absolutely sparkle.

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A good political novel that argues against being political at all. Not laugh-out-loud funny but very wry. Also Cossery had a knack for putting women in their place if you're into that sort of thing.

Those are my recs hope u like them :)

>> No.11165257

>>11165255
recommend my cock next time

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>>11165257

I prefer to recommend meals instead of snacks :)

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>>11165261
gib betty gf

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This is great

>> No.11165284

>>11165240
what's this one about?

>> No.11165304

>Erich Auerbach’s Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of the world’s greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest of twentieth-century scholar-critics, makes the seemingly paradoxical claim that it is in the poetry of Dante, supreme among religious poets, and above all in the stanzas of his Divine Comedy, that the secular world of the modern novel first took imaginative form. Auerbach’s study of Dante, a precursor and necessary complement to Mimesis, his magisterial overview of realism in Western literature, illuminates both the overall structure and the individual detail of Dante’s work, showing it to be an extraordinary synthesis of the sensuous and the conceptual, the particular and the universal, that redefined notions of human character and fate and opened the way into modernity.


I. Historical Introduction; The Idea of Man in Literature
II. Dante's Early Poetry
III. The Subject of the Comedy
IV. The Structure of the Comedy
V. The Presentation
VI. The Survival and Transformation of Dante's Vision of Reality

Not far into it but I'm really gaining an appreciation of La Vita Nuova's place in the poetry of the day that I hadn't had when I read it initially. I'm excited to get into the chapters on the Commedia.

>> No.11165371

>>11165214
this

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>>11165141
there have been more threds about this crap than retweets

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>>11164783
Pretty good non-fiction.

>> No.11165407

>>11165234
Joyce loved this book and encouraged Svevo to keep writing. Svevo was also Joyce's secular Jew consultant when Joyce was trying to create Leopold Bloom.

>> No.11165413

>>11165407

There's a mention of this in the intro as well.

>> No.11165416

>>11165280
seconding this

>> No.11165422

>>11165416
whats it about?

>> No.11165425

>>11165422
idk havn't read it

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another favourite of mine

>> No.11165430

>>11165422
Not sure why this guy (>>11165425) bothered to reply--it's this really dark novel told from a child's perspective (think Night of the Hunter) about getting kidnapped by pirates and taken around the carribean. The writing is really pretty too and it's funny on top of that.

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How is this? Anyone read it?

>> No.11165455

>>11165436
Want to so bad, it's been in my amazon saved for later list for years

>> No.11165456

>>11165429

I've had my eye on this. What are your thoughts on it? Why's it one of your favorites?

>> No.11165458

>>11165436
I did read it. Heartbreakingly sad ending. I didn’t like the main character at the beginning but he actually did grow as a person.
Don’t read the introduction to the book. It gives away a major plot point needlessly.

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How is this?
How hard I am memeing myself? and how is the slynx anyway

>> No.11165484

>>11165458
>Don’t read the introduction to the book. It gives away a major plot point needlessly.
Do all NYBR books do this? The intro to Stoner spoiled some stuff as well

>> No.11165489

>>11165484

Not all but it's a huge problem.

I think this is a problem with intros in general though.

>> No.11165563

>>11165280
Hey that's a Darger

>> No.11165641

>>11165094

Seconding this. It was just so unbearably dry all the way through.

>> No.11165744

>>11165219
Definitely not reading it now. Being compared to Kerouac and Hemingway certainly doesn't help

>> No.11165753

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page. "Comfy" is not even sufficient to describe it, though it's wonderfully told anyway. Seems like the guy who always recommended it as his favorite book on /lit/ left, good on him

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How is this?

>> No.11167844

bump

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>> No.11168111

>>11167852
is that the John Williams who also wrote Stoner?

>> No.11168115

>>11168111
Yep.

>> No.11168134

>>11164783
"Caught" - Henry Green

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Skylark

>> No.11168553

>>11165009
>not reading Nescio in Dutch
pleb

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>>11164783
The Summer Book. Very comfy but also kinda sad.

>> No.11168713

>>11168167
This was comfy as fuck.
I wish I belonged to a Hungarian gentleman’s club in some provincial town. Even if most of the members did drink themselves to death before they were 60. Eating drinking and playing cards with your bros all night and no thots allowed in to complicate shit.
That ending got me right in the feels though.

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Haven't they published a new edition/translation of Berlin Alexanderplatz? I can definitely recommend that one. I've only read it in German so no idea how it translates, but it's one of the better urban novels of the early 20th century. I'd even go as far as calling it the German Ulysses. Really wish they'd translate his other stuff, like Amazonas or Murder of a Buttercup. Y'all niggas need Döblin

>> No.11168877

>>11168731
The problem with Doblin is that like most German-Jewish writers, he is too biased to acknowledge the positive aspects of national socialism.

>> No.11168895

>>11165183
i actually prefer butcher's crossing to stoner

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Kaputt is supposed to be really good from what I've heard. Ordered it last night.

>> No.11169061

hey guys, i like buying and collecting books but i'm not too big on reading them, did i come to the right place?

>> No.11169131

>>11169061
yeah you will fit right in

start a thread on whether or not to read Moby Dick

>> No.11169503

>>11164806
ey bb send moravagine

>> No.11169608

>>11165422
plantation houses, pirates and cunny

>> No.11169632

>>11165474
Its very devisive. Only way to know if you love it or hate it is to read it. I'd say its worth checking out for the price.

>> No.11169751

>>11165141
top jej

>> No.11169779

>>11164783
>NYRB
What's the big deal? Serious question.

>> No.11169813

>>11165436
I really enjoyed it

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>>11169779
They just print some lesser known and eclectic stuff with fancy covers. They have the reputation that hipsters buy their books just to look good on their shelves.

>> No.11169914

>>11168877
I think the negatives outweigh the postives there anon

>> No.11169925

>>11169831
fuck you the anatomy is GOAT

>> No.11169941

>>11169831
But a questionable audience aside, the books look pretty interesting

>> No.11170009

>>11169925
>>11169941
I agree. I never said the books were bad. I own a couple.

>> No.11170032

>>11169925
How hard is it to read? Did you read cover to cover or just jump around?

>> No.11170090

>>11168669
This is lovely, her other one The True Deceiver is also really good

>> No.11170119

GEORGES SIMENON

>> No.11170123

Anti-Education

>> No.11170173

>>11165141

Verso is a million times worse than this

>> No.11170229

>>11170173
I don't believe you

>> No.11170290

>>11170173
>>11170229
Ive ordered several books from Verso, each one Ive had a problem with. Either the pages are out of order, the glue withers and all the pages fall out and Ive flat out received the wrong books at times.

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>>11168895
me too, but don't tell the memers

>> No.11170593

>>11165436
Pretty forgettable, sorry to say.

>> No.11170597

>>11169052
Why would you post this before you've read it? This post is useless since you can't actually say if it was any good.

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>>11165141
https://twitter.com/nyrbclassics/status/989936687928274952
>it's real

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>>11165255
Is that a picture of Hafez al-assad?

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>> No.11171722

>>11169914
>I think the negatives outweigh the postives there anon

nice try Moishe

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>>11171722
>its another zit-faced suburban kid idolizes Hitler episode

>> No.11172878

>>11171275
Underrated

>> No.11173118

>>11165012
super meh

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>>11165280
This would have worked better as a 60s disney movie. the book was so fucking bland

>> No.11173551

>>11171513

The image credit on the back of the book reads: Abbas, presidential campaign poster, Damascus, Syria, 1991

>> No.11173614

>>11165563
based Darger