Post the best piece of lit from your ethnic country

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Anonymous Fri Jul 20 23:47:02 2018 No.11494581 [Reply] [Original]

Post the best piece of lit from your ethnic country

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 20 23:48:31 2018 No.11494591 File: 22 KB, 270x400, 9781784787301.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11494581

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 20 23:52:45 2018 No.11494610 File: 41 KB, 312x475, Bosnian literature.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ey

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 20 23:54:32 2018 No.11494618 >>11494581 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Peacock_Angel

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 00:23:51 2018 No.11494744 Fellow Persian bro. Idk about you, but I’d say Shamloo is the man.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 02:52:22 2018 No.11495164 >>11494581 i was born in greece who are some good writers from here that aren't ancient?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 02:54:07 2018 No.11495169 Moby Dick

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 03:32:32 2018 No.11495312 File: 3 KB, 772x764, australian literature.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 04:35:19 2018 No.11495465 File: 337 KB, 504x800, Gombrowicz_Ferdydurke-jubileusz_m_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11494581 this this this

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 04:41:05 2018 No.11495487 File: 735 KB, 1524x2339, 9781847496287.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Fug, what a difficult choice Probably pic related although it is very hard to pick just one of Gogol's masterpieces.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 05:01:34 2018 No.11495532 >>11495312 depressing reality

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 05:03:06 2018 No.11495536 >>11495312 >ethnic country are you aboriginal australian? I assume OP didn't simply mean from where you were born

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 05:15:39 2018 No.11495562 File: 5 KB, 194x259, download (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11494581 Shahnameh, masnavi, omar khayyam? Attar is very good though. Are persians familiar with Iqbal?

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 05:30:46 2018 No.11495592 >>11495562 Have you read Shahnameh in its entirety? I’m quite intrigued by it but fuck it’s long.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 05:30:59 2018 No.11495594 >>11495487 dirty khakhol

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 05:35:23 2018 No.11495599 >>11494610 Ivo Andrić is great, I wish more of his books were translated in my language. >>11495465 Oh, fellow Pole. But why so pleb...?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 05:45:26 2018 No.11495619 File: 24 KB, 271x390, forest of the hanged.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'll go with this since I don't want to be that faggot picking a "classic." >inb4 the /pol/ autists spamming for my legionaries

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 05:45:40 2018 No.11495620 >>11495536 whoops I didn't see the word ethnic in the OP post Australia has no decent literature nonetheless

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 05:48:00 2018 No.11495626 >>11495620 It will once it's conquered by China and people can suffer and rediscover themselves.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 05:50:21 2018 No.11495634 >>11495599 so, what would be your pick?

Anonymous Sat Jul 21 05:51:00 2018 No.11495636

>>11495599
>Oh, fellow Pole.
>But why so pleb...?

only good part of polish /lit/ are poets:
lesmian (untranslatable, but hey, he gets girls so wet)
pawlikowska-jasnorzewska (polish women can into poetry, and how!)
bialoszewski
herbert
szymborska
baczynski
galczynski
bursa (bursa is love, bursa is life)
tuwim
zagajewski
staff
iłłakowiczowna
slonimski
rozewicz

well, iwaszkiewicz prose is acceptable

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 05:55:20 2018 No.11495645 >>11495487 Dead Souls a good choice

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 05:57:44 2018 No.11495650 >>11495143 What is this?

Anonymous Sat Jul 21 06:00:04 2018 No.11495655

>>11495636
>well, iwaszkiewicz prose is acceptable
So gay.

>>11495634
>so, what would be your pick?
Bruno Schulz.

And Isaac Bashevis Singer, but he wrote in yiddish, unfortunately. But he was a Pole, and one of the best writers of XX century. So in my book he's a Polish writer.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 06:04:26 2018 No.11495663 >>11495650 Read it nigger, it's on libgen

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 06:19:51 2018 No.11495695 >>11495655 >So gay. so bisexual, you mean and don't tell me you wouldn't do edward stachura when he was still a young, pretty, wild, brilliant thing.

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Anonymous Sat Jul 21 06:23:25 2018 No.11495699

>>11495619
is literature our worst medium? I mean, every other medium has some sort of international recognition, but I don't think I've ever seen/heard anyone talk about romanian literature (Cioran is the only " famous" one and he lived in France for most of his life anyway)

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 06:40:30 2018 No.11495730 >>11495699 your worst medium? what's your best?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 06:49:05 2018 No.11495748 >>11495655 oh yeah, Bruno Schulz was great

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 06:55:58 2018 No.11495757 >>11495592 Yes, not completely and in an Urdu translation. It's very beautiful.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 07:12:38 2018 No.11495784 >>11495594 I'm Russian though. Gogol also considered himself to be one.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 07:54:23 2018 No.11495868 >>11494581 Well, I'm a quarter German, and I don't want to jump into the fight over best German author, so I'll just go with my quarter Dane side and ask for good Danish lot recs, because I don't know any

Anonymous Sat Jul 21 08:05:39 2018 No.11495891
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This was quite a hard choice but i chose this one because it encapsulates the Portuguese spirit the best. It looks at the past with awe, wishes it would still like that in the present and hopes it will be in the future. All that in a 44 poem book, the only released during the man's life and in moment where the country was redefining it's nationality. The only problem with it being that it the strength of the rhyme and language is lost in translation.

Other strong contenders are:
-The Lusiads for defining the portuguese language and making one of the few, if the not the only, true epic poem since the Romans.
-Padre António Vieira's Sermons are a worthy of mention for their argumentative and prose quality although i'm not sure there exists any translation
-The best play for me would be Frei Luís de Sousa for it's classical structure
-A bunch of poets that have no possible translation but i'll name drop -Cesário Verde, Alexandre O'Neil, Bocage

Anonymous Sat Jul 21 08:57:37 2018 No.11496039
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>>11495487
>>11495487
Gogol...? Hmph... A Reasonable choice I suppose.... I prefer the works of Dostojevskyi (the 'j' is silent, FYI).. Perhpas his magnum opus, Notes from the Punishment of The Karamazoff Brothers, Demons, is the finest Russian literature my eyes have yet feasted 'pon

But of course - (snort!) - Gogol is very much adequate... for a rookie...

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 09:05:34 2018 No.11496081 File: 68 KB, 371x560, ako-chuti.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] probably this

Anonymous Sat Jul 21 09:15:50 2018 No.11496123
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Finnish historical fiction, which highlights many important themes that define the finnish people as an independent one. The trilogy stays relatively politically neutral and isn't very romantical, yet it very much appeals to us finns who quite often fetishize over our history.

Anonymous Sat Jul 21 11:04:08 2018 No.11496510

>>11495695
Stachura is soooo overrated.

"Siekierezada" is ok, some of short stories are nice, and parts of "Missa pagana" are very touching, but he lacked maturity and focus.

And he was such a mess. He was terribly damaged and probably insane. Suicidal, too.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 11:09:57 2018 No.11496527 >>11494581 >Post the best piece of lit from your ethnic country from USA? The Bible

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 11:14:19 2018 No.11496539 I have mixed ethnical composition. Should I post one from the most relevant one?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 11:25:12 2018 No.11496586 >>11495619 Fair choice. >>11495730 poetry

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 11:27:43 2018 No.11496596 >>11494581 what does ethnic country even mean?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 11:53:38 2018 No.11496695 >>11496596 Persia isn’t a country but he wanted to post persian lit, I’m guessing. Just post lit from your country.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 11:57:19 2018 No.11496710 >>11494581 >Post the best piece of lit from your ethnic country You mean "your country of origin."

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 11:58:00 2018 No.11496715 >>11494610 Imas mozda pdf ili epub od ovog?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 12:12:13 2018 No.11496775 >>11495619 Tbw the best work of romanian literature( and universal literature for that matter) i've read is preda's the most beloved man on earth, it's a shame it hasn't gotten translated

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 12:33:51 2018 No.11496885 >>11496710 Yeah, I meant that

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 12:34:02 2018 No.11496886 >>11496841 ha ha oh wow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOR38552MJA

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 12:49:57 2018 No.11496974 File: 28 KB, 338x499, 517YrS5yXcL._SX336_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11494581 The posthumous memoirs of bras cubas Or any other work by Machado de Assis

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 13:33:17 2018 No.11497176 >>11497135 hot

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 13:40:58 2018 No.11497221 File: 21 KB, 301x489, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The peak of our only Nobel

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 13:55:01 2018 No.11497286 >>11495636 >>11495655 I haven't read much polish lit besides a few books by Stanislaw Lem, who I enjoy quite a bit

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 13:57:32 2018 No.11497292 The Bible. :^)

Anonymous Sat Jul 21 14:11:40 2018 No.11497351
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You all realize 30 generations is over 1 billion antecedents? 200,000 years ago, there's the Mitochondrial Eve which every living human descended from. All our atoms, everything we're made of, came from one spacetime singularity. Ethnicity is nonscientific, social. There's neither Greek nor Jew.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 15:21:59 2018 No.11497758 >>11497286 >I haven't read much polish lit besides a few books by Stanislaw Lem, who I enjoy quite a bit Lem is great, because he's very universal, most of Polish writers aren't (they tend to be very, very Polish, and in a bad way).

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 15:24:51 2018 No.11497768 >>11495312 what about nick cave

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 15:28:33 2018 No.11497788 >>11497740 That is just an expensive doorstoper.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 16:59:08 2018 No.11498323 File: 25 KB, 353x499, mannohneeigenschaften.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11495496 also a good pick

Anonymous Sat Jul 21 18:26:43 2018 No.11498813
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I'm Brazilian, but my ethnicity (my genetic backround) is Germanic.

If I were to say who is the best writer of the German language, I would say George Büchner, who passed away at the age of only 23. He seems to me to be a far more fertile and inventive poet than Goethe (certainly endowed with a far superior wealth of metaphorical creation, with a richer "verbal poetic texture", in the words of Nabokov).

This excerpt from his play, Danton's Death, was written when he was only 21 years old:

DANTON. Will the clock not be still? With every tick it slides the walls closer round me, till they’re as narrow as a coffin. I once read a story like that as a child. It made my hair stand on end. Yes, as a child. What a waste of time fattening me up and keeping me warm! Mere work for the grave-diggers. I feel as if I were rot- ten already. My dear carcass, I’ll hold my nose and make believe you’re a girl all smelly and sweating after a dance and pay you compliments. We used to have better times together. Tomorrow you’ll be a broken fiddle, with no tune left in you. Or an empty bottle—the wine’s drunk but I’m not; I have to go sober to bed. Lucky people who can still get drunk! Tomorrow you’ll be a worn-out pair of pants—you’ll be thrown in the wardrobe and the moths will eat you whether you’re stinking or not.—Ah, it’s no good. Dying is a wretched business. It apes birth. Dying, we’re as naked and helpless as new-born infants. We’re given a shroud as a napkin. But it’s no help. We can grizzle in the grave as well as in the cradle. Camille! He’s asleep. [Bending over him] There’s a dream playing between his eyelashes. I’ll not brush the golden dew of sleep from his eyes. [Stands up and walks to the window.] I shan’t go alone. Thank you for that, Julie. Yet I’d have liked to die differently, effortlessly, like a falling star, like a note fading away, kissing itself to death with its own lips, like a ray of light burying itself in clear water. The stars are sprayed across the night like shimmering tears; there must be great grief in the eye that shed them.

If he had survived and continued to devote himself to literature I believe he would have become one of the greatest writers of all time.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 18:54:27 2018 No.11498925 “Fuck off back home if you like your ethnic country” is a good one imo

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 22:10:10 2018 No.11499686 >>11498323 sell me on Musil

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 21 22:27:29 2018 No.11499740 File: 30 KB, 255x396, 974154.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] CanLit is just unfortunate.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 09:02:42 2018 No.11501540 >>11497351 >le social constructs aren't real maymay

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>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 10:41:59 2018 No.11501881 any burmese /lit/erature i should know of?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 10:45:46 2018 No.11501899 >>11501540 You sound brainwashed by society. You can't even speak properly, resorting to unoriginal memes that requires 0 critical thinking.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 10:54:53 2018 No.11501929 >>11501899 This is a thread about appreciating literature from different cultures, some more obscure than others. Nobody cares about your gay ass science.

Anonymous Sun Jul 22 10:55:15 2018 No.11501933

>>11495636
>mentions Iwaszkiewicz
>doesn't mention Prus
Lalka all day erry day

>seducing with Lesmian
I'd feel like a giant dork desu, but hey, if it works it works
>szymborska
overrated
>zagajewski
>muh nobel candidate
if Zagajewski gets a Nobel prize while Herbert didn't it will be greatest literary injustice in last 50 years
>bursa
He's not that great. Good, but died too soon.

Also
>there are people on this board who call Ferdydurke posters pleb
the absolute state

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 10:57:58 2018 No.11501941 >>11495164 Cavafy for poetry.

Anonymous Sun Jul 22 11:01:37 2018 No.11501955

>>11501933
Oh, and I forgot - Zbigniew Herbert is the bestest Polish poet and if you don't agree then you're probably a dirty unethical commie who hates greco-roman tradition, loves Miłosz and who should be hanged for greater good as Rymkiewicz undeniably, totally proved.

Btw, that list lacks Rymkiewicz, Miłosz and Wat.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 11:02:28 2018 No.11501962 >>11494581 I don't know what you mean by "ethnic country" but Die Dreigroschenroman is my favorite German novel.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 11:03:40 2018 No.11501969 >>11495164 The guy that wrote Zorba.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 11:25:02 2018 No.11502052 File: 136 KB, 350x360, 1013955-350x360.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11494581 t. brazil

Anonymous Sun Jul 22 11:31:02 2018 No.11502080

>>11501933

> Lalka all day erry day
ah, forgot about prus
i prefer "faraon" and "emancypantki", though
but "lalka" is good, too

>bursa
>He's not that great.
d'oh

Dwaj rzeźnicy grają w karty
O koronę króla
O mieczyk waleta
O uciechę z damą

W kojcach rząd baranów swojskich
Śpiewa w płaszczach apostolskich

Kto wygra koronę
Kto miecz brylantowy
A kto białogłowę

Komu skarb
Komu zawieja
Komu miecz
A komu róża

Diamentowy kwiat nadziei
Rozjaśnia ściany szlachtuza

>>11501955
>that list lacks Rymkiewicz
because he's a very bad poet
very, very bad
he's a disgrace to his horse and he should commit sudoku
i mean, really, rymkiewicz???
even his name sucks

but miłosz is fine, i think
if you are into that kind of thing
morality and stuff
i am not
i prefer my poets with more raw feelings and less stick in the ass

Anonymous Sun Jul 22 11:46:21 2018 No.11502123

>>11501933
ah forgot

>if Zagajewski gets a Nobel prize while Herbert didn't it will be greatest literary injustice in last 50 years
yeah, zagajewski is completely out of herbert's league
herbert was GOOD
like, seriously
his poetry is so elegant and precise
and he had actually something meaningful to say, which is rare

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Anonymous Sun Jul 22 12:10:45 2018 No.11502239

>>11502080
Didn't read Emancypantki, but agree, Faraon is great, maybe even better than Lalka.

>hating on Rymkiewicz
What, you only read his Kaczynski poem? Older Rymkiewicz is great, unless romantic diction makes you puke I see no reason to denigrate him like that.

Kiedy się obudziłem, Polski już nie było
Na skwerze przed Teatrem, jak za Paskiewicza,

Małe włochate konie kozackich szwadronów
Szczypały suchą trawę, krzyczeli setnicy

I słychać było żpiew w nieznanej mowie
I zgrzyt harmonii, a słowa piosenki

Mówiły, że się, stało co się miało stać.
I dym z porannych ognisk, przy których się grzali,

Szedł nisko, nad grobami, które wykopano
Przed Wizytkami, przed Bristolem, wszędzie.

I jak przed wielu laty, Lwowska, Nowowiejską
Wychodziliżmy z miasta długimi kolumnami

Pchając dziecinne wózki, dźwigając walizki,
Jak na zdjęciach z Powstania, ci którzy przegrali,

I wzdłuż Politechniki, gdzie przy barykadzie
Czekali na nas użmiechnięci Niemcy

Dzieląc nas na tych, którzy pójdą do obozu
I na tych, którzy będą rozstrzelani.

Zgrzytając obracała się wieżyczka z działem.
I pomyżlałem, ze nie warto dłużej żyć.

Bo Polski już nie było, więc niech mnie zabiją.
A kiedy znów się obudziłem, mój syn szedł do szkoły.

Huczało poranne miasto, więc jeszcze nie czas.

I don't like Miłosz much, he was too rhetorical and pretentious for me, but it's undeniable he knew how to write.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 12:10:48 2018 No.11502240 File: 49 KB, 300x450, 9780143108245.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The letters to Nora are a close second

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>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 12:18:16 2018 No.11502285 >>11502007 Based

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 12:21:39 2018 No.11502306 File: 356 KB, 531x526, mobydick.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just the best piece of Literature from the best Country in the world.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 12:23:49 2018 No.11502321 >>11499740 is she a decent writer, or is her work praised for appealing to current sensibilities and the fact that she is a woman? i thought alice munro was the epynomous canadian writer.

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Anonymous Sun Jul 22 12:29:02 2018 No.11502356
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>>11494581
Most people might disagree, and write some pleb shit like doña barbara, but just because it’s popular does not make it better. Also no other book has better hindsight into our current situation.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 12:59:16 2018 No.11502511 >>11502167 what's some other good igbo/nigerian lit?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 13:03:54 2018 No.11502537 File: 35 KB, 360x500, veredas.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11496974 pic related is the actual objectively right answer >dom casmurro and brás cubas are tied for 2nd best tho

Anonymous Sun Jul 22 13:06:14 2018 No.11502551

>>11495655
>>11495465
Tell me, as someone who speaks and understands polish since childhood but didn't read a lot in it, where do I start with polish literature?
I thought starting with Sławomir Mrożek.
Gombrowski and Schulz seem really interesting but the language might be too hard.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 13:09:47 2018 No.11502571 >>11502551 Reading romantic poetry is kind of essential to understanding a lot of polish literature, and the language is pretty hard even for native speakers

Anonymous Sun Jul 22 13:11:32 2018 No.11502586

>>11502239
>What, you only read his Kaczynski poem? Older Rymkiewicz is great, unless romantic diction makes you puke I see no reason to denigrate him like that.
i don't know his kaczynski poem, i don't read this kind of poetry, because propaganda always sucks no matter how talented the author is (well, broniewski was an exception, he could make even propaganda sound mighty good, that fucking goddamn commie)

i've read rymkiewicz long before senility and politics hit him so hard
i had even one of his poem on my exams years and years ago (shudder, shudder)
i don't like him
i don't like patriotic porn in poems
and he sounds to me like a poet who thinks baroque was pretty (so we don't really connect style-wise)

and yeah, miłosz is a bit pretentious :(

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 13:16:09 2018 No.11502614 >>11494581 >ethnic country an american made this post

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 13:21:49 2018 No.11502652 >>11495511 seconded

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Anonymous Sun Jul 22 13:31:02 2018 No.11502707

>>11502551
If you want Polish "Greeks" (start with them btw), it would be Kochanowski, Mikołaj Rej and Sęp Szarzyński, but they're difficult, except for Kochanowski.

If you want something more relevant, then Prus is your best bet, try not to note how Russian novelists from that time are much more superior
Read some secondary literature about Polish romanticism to understand what's happening later on.
Inter-war period in poetry is great (Tuwim, early Wat, Wierzyński, Słonimski, Leśmian, Pzyboś), my man Gombrowicz for prose (but be wary - you need to know about Polish literary tradition a bit).
Mrożek is not a bad idea. Lem would be "the easiest", since he's not stepped in tradition as much.

Oh, and Zbigniew Herbert is absolutely essential for post-war poets.

>>11502586
Fair enough

>baroque was pretty
Baroque is GOAT, maybe not exactly pretty

Now that I think about it that list also lacks Barańczak.

Anonymous Sun Jul 22 13:39:11 2018 No.11502764

>>11502551
i think mrozek is a good idea

the best entry-level stuff is sienkiewicz, prus and reymont, because they are immensely readable and they knew how to tell an engaging story

modern writers don't know how to do this, unfortunately (i'm not speaking about genre novels, we have some nice modern genre writers, for example cherezinska or dukaj)

honestly, best part of modern polish literature is non-fiction

>>11502707
>Now that I think about it that list also lacks Barańczak.
ah, how could i forget him
sorry
and he was such a gifted translator!
he will be sorely missed :(

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 13:42:54 2018 No.11502790 >>11496039 nigga what would you know about anything

Anonymous Sun Jul 22 13:43:15 2018 No.11502793

>>11502764
>Dukaj
Oh yes. For all anons ITT who liked Lem - check out Jacek Dukaj, as a person who has no idea what he's talking about he seems to me as his spiritual successor.

>he will be sorely missed :(
Seems weird that you like him if you're anti-baroque. I mean he's basically linguism mixed with baroque literature influence.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 13:54:18 2018 No.11502861 >>11502240 Great cover.

Anonymous Sun Jul 22 13:54:35 2018 No.11502865

>>11502335
*inhales for an hour straight*
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 13:55:52 2018 No.11502871 >>11502865 Pleb detected

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 13:56:32 2018 No.11502874 >>11502871 and that is you

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 14:00:17 2018 No.11502892 >>11502871 Kordian>Dziady II>Dziady IV>>>>>shit>>>>>>Dziady III

Anonymous Sun Jul 22 14:08:33 2018 No.11502932

>>11502793
>Seems weird that you like him if you're anti-baroque. I mean he's basically linguism mixed with baroque literature influence.
he was good, that's all

good poets are good poets, they can touch you where no-one touches you even if you don't agree with their style or ideology

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 14:16:06 2018 No.11502960 >>11502892 >Putting Dziady II over III because it was an easier read in gimnazjum

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 14:18:08 2018 No.11502969 >>11495699 What about Gellu Naum? I though Zenobia was really good.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 14:26:31 2018 No.11503018 >>11502306 Amen, bruuuthur t. actually american and mean this unironically

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 14:27:49 2018 No.11503025 >>11502892 >Kordian If anything it should be Nie-Boska Komedia >>11502932 Fair enough.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 14:29:11 2018 No.11503033 >>11503025 Nie-boska komedia is just straight up trash mate. Krasiński was a talentless cuck

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 14:36:50 2018 No.11503074 File: 18 KB, 363x547, Cyprian_Kamil_Norwid_-_Daguerrotype.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Our Lady of Częstochowa, so Polish in here! Me, I'm team Norwid.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 14:42:40 2018 No.11503105 >>11503033 Nie-boska is the only piece of romantic Polish literature that tackles relevant topics of its time and arguably is still relevant in our secular age. Krasiński was based and you're cringe >>11503074 Good taste

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 14:46:50 2018 No.11503134 >>11503105 >secular Also, the struggle between revolutionaries and the szlachta really is a relevant topic today

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 14:58:35 2018 No.11503189 File: 43 KB, 289x425, 651934.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Probably this play.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 15:38:44 2018 No.11503442 >>11502511 not really sure, although you could check out the works of Basedinka or Buchi Emecheta

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 15:57:15 2018 No.11503566 >>11502671 underrated

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Anonymous Sun Jul 22 18:24:13 2018 No.11504433

>>11502321
She's okay...she's not appealing to current sensibilities, because she wrote Handmaid's in 1970s so who knew the wave of feminism would still be in vogue today. Other than HT, her books Alias Grace and Onyx and Crane are pretty good. She's not the greatest writer from Canada but she's good at what she does.

The best Canadian writer is Pierre Berton and I'll fight anyone who disagrees

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 18:25:23 2018 No.11504442 >>11502511 Amos Tutula

Anonymous Sun Jul 22 18:44:21 2018 No.11504532

>>11503134
>he doesn't see that it's about old order vs revolutionaries
>he doesn't appreciate the honesty of Krasiński, who does admit that revolutionaries have a point
>he doesn't see the relevance of the description of the revolutionaries' camp for our age
never gonna make it desu

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 18:44:58 2018 No.11504537 File: 15 KB, 183x239, 183px-Parmenides.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11494581 shut the fuck up

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 18:46:17 2018 No.11504542 >>11496039 Dovsto is the pleb choice, your ignorance is showing

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 23:12:06 2018 No.11505569 File: 19 KB, 318x466, 631463.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11494581

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 04:08:48 2018 No.11506396 File: 26 KB, 400x576, book_4030_book_image_1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11494581

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 04:28:14 2018 No.11506447
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>>11495699
Well, I just think that most well-known Romanians are nonfiction writers. I was surprised to find out (from Kotkin) that Iorga's work is famous and one of the must-reads for a lot of people that do Eurasian politics and/or study Byzantines/Ottomans.
Also, to be completely fair, Romanian translated into English sounds like absolute garbage. Like there are so many Romanian works that would probably work best translated in a rough style that sounds similar to McCarthy's, but instead they're done in this outrageous purple prose straight out of the Victorian era, lol.
So, yeah. We can blame our own brainlets for being absolute shit tier translators that make Romanian lit read like some antiquated crap you find posted in a post your writing thread.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 04:31:47 2018 No.11506464 File: 18 KB, 257x387, TortillaCurtain.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:21:29 2018 No.11506749 File: 18 KB, 416x588, Linna.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Under the North Star.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:23:24 2018 No.11506752 File: 198 KB, 480x377, lakupekka.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11496123 Miun neekeri!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:36:32 2018 No.11506785 File: 58 KB, 296x500, covers_314692.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I havn't read enough Swedish lit

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:51:29 2018 No.11506820 >>11506785 read doktor glas

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:56:58 2018 No.11506840 File: 84 KB, 383x600, book_1703_book_image_1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11506396 kατσε φρόνιμα μωρη λούγkρα

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 07:08:20 2018 No.11506887 >>11506820 you're like the 4th person to tell me that

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 07:11:40 2018 No.11506901 >>11495697 I completely forgot this existed, I mean I've been looking for it but couldn't remember what it was called. thank you for posting it

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Anonymous Mon Jul 23 08:01:29 2018 No.11507063

I hope the you guys can help me.
I'm looking for books from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, UAE, Qatar and Bahrein. Any suggestions? Old and new, it's doesn't matter.
I'm looking for books from the region but the only one I found is from Iraq (The Lion and The Diving Jackal).

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 08:11:33 2018 No.11507084 File: 46 KB, 287x450, cities.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11507063 This is really good, though it is banned in SA

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 08:23:31 2018 No.11507121 >>11507084 Thank you. Do you know more books from the countries I posted? I'm looking for 10 or 15 books from these countries.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 08:25:21 2018 No.11507125 >>11507084 nigger shitholes banning books? too funny.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 09:00:30 2018 No.11507233 >>11494581 Saw this in used book store and passed it up. I still regret it. I went back to the same store and it was gone.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 13:58:37 2018 No.11508345 File: 23 KB, 300x400, {F6ED9633-DFFB-4997-9F3A-F6DC7DFB1658}Img400.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 16:01:59 2018 No.11508843 >>11496715 http://cetvrtagimnazija.edu.rs/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Ivo-Andric-Na-Drini-cuprija.pdf

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 19:10:14 2018 No.11509715 >>11506840 λμαο, contrarian edge i strong in this one

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 19:43:28 2018 No.11509874 waltzin matilda waltzin matilda lyin on the grass with a finger up her ass

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 19:46:00 2018 No.11509884 >>11495620 uncultured swine

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 20:32:58 2018 No.11510053 File: 101 KB, 348x500, 42858828.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] simply put

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 21:25:07 2018 No.11510248 File: 36 KB, 500x500, SVEJK.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] mine

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 21:28:58 2018 No.11510257 >>11495777 UM AL DUNYAAAA HAGA HAGA

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