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Say something nice about the book you're currently reading

Seelig and Walser's companionship gives me comfy feels. I wish I had a literary friend to chat with and go for walks/drink beer with.

>> No.11504038

Restarting with the Greeks, I finished Αγαμέμνων yesterday, will start Χοηφόροι today or tomorrow. Right now I'm skimming through a big ass Companion to Homer, so I learned the Greek alphabet. (Now I can be a pretentious faggot in three different scripts, hue hue.)
It's annoying, though, only a small part of the book seems to be about the actual content of the epics, a lot of it is about the historical context and shit. But I've just read a chapter about the formulaic phrases, their purpose and effect and how the text was meant to be received, which was definitely very interesting, and makes me reconsider my own approach to the texts..

>> No.11504051

Ἰλιάς is fucking wild. Loving it.

>> No.11504262

Reading about the history of corruption in Peru. What i have learned so far is that corruption is a cultural constant and all the attemps to erradicate it are doomed to fail

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Currently reading Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia. It came out in 1990.

I’ve been made aware that ‘’pornography’’ is everywhere in major art, from Donatello too Edmund Spenser. My previous puritanical and traditional views about western art have been shattered, turns out we have always been pervs lol. Amorality, aggression, sadism, voyeurism, and pornography in great art have been ignored or glossed over by most academic critics because it either wasn’t P.C from the lefts standpoint, or un-Christian from the right. (Le radical centrism am I right guys?)

Also I need to read more of the classics, she’s referencing works left and right, in the middle of the book she inspired me to buy The Iliad and The Odyssey, about fucking time.

Thank you Paglia.

>> No.11504376

>>11504362
Paglia is a beacon of hope for all of us. She couldn't get that damn thing published for 20 years. It was her PhD thesis. Never give up.

>> No.11504559

>>11502954
What's your favorite thing by Walser OP? I enjoy his works as well but I've only read a small handful from him.

>> No.11504600

>>11504362
Inspired by the movie Persona by Bergman. Bretty good and worth the watch if you are reading the book. Contains one of the most arousing scenes in all of cinema imo.

>> No.11505763

>>11504559
I'll confess that I have never read any of his works - I stumbled upon this book completely randomly. I will surely read some of them now though. What have you read?

>> No.11505770

Lincoln in the Bardo is pleasant and comfy

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>>11505763
I started with this edition of The Walk, which is probably the best place to start with him. The Assistant is a cozy novel of his, not necessarily great as a translation, a lot of the charm of The Walk's dialogue is lost, but steeping in a sweet small town for a slow read is lovely. I've started A Schoolboy's Diary more than once but I hadn't passed through more than a few essays. I'm planning on starting it again.

>> No.11507065

>>11502954
That book is wonderful. Walser had such a good heart.

>> No.11507086

>>11504362
I finished this today, almost uncanny to see it on here. I really liked it, but I feel like she rambles on too much, with too many digressions and brazen claims that have little foundation. She's a very erudite writer though, and there are many interesting and original insights in the book

>> No.11507088

>>11504600
What does the scene involve?

>> No.11507091

Reading Don Quixota
The writting is basicly the 16th centuary version of a sit com (so far), but the world seems very comfortable to imagine and its kinda fun to read

>> No.11507094

>>11504559
I've read Jakob van Gunten.

It's alright, his thing is to write from the perspective of a naive innocent confronted with a vastly different world. In this case, a school for butlers etc.

>> No.11507174

>>11504559
I’ve read his Selected Short Prose, Jakob von Gunten, and Berlin Stories. Jakob von Gunten is excellent and so fun to read. The Selected Stories are great, Nervous and Knocking are two standouts for me. He’s funny and eccentric. Berlin Stories was just okay.