Meaning

[Anonymous No.12051090]

Any tips on getting the hidden meanings from books you've read? I've read a bunch of books and didn't know the meaning.

[Anonymous No.12051137]

You're going to get a lot of ">meaning" responses. I like to immediately re-read esoteric books after I've finished them, or at least to think about them for a few days before re-reading.

[Anonymous No.12051211]

I read Gogol's Nose and was told later the Nose is a metaphor for a penis, I didn't really realize that.

[Anonymous No.12051283]

>>12051090
You find the meaning yourself. Stop and think about what the author is trying to tell you both directly and indirectly after reading. It may be that you interpret the book in a completely different vein to the author's intention, but that is the power of language. Often there will be layers of implication which reveal inner truths about life or the author's background which even he never considered.

[Anonymous No.12051807]

not only is the author dead, he was never real in the first place

[Anonymous No.12052739]

>>12051211
But everything's a metaphor for a penis, anon

[Anonymous No.12052788]

>>12051090
>Wut is simile
>Wut is metaphor
>Wut is analogy
>Wut is allegory
Anon, I...

[Anonymous No.12052802]

Usually being knowledgeable about the author and the society he moved in can help. A lot of authors kept diaries or wrote letters that detail their writing process during a certain novel too, which is an obvious help.

Basically it's important to keep in mind that the author was (usually) not writing for a 2018 audience

[Anonymous No.12052840]

>>12051090
Read the book again and again in till you get it or don't care.
Also having a broad amount of life experience in different fields would gives you more knowledge to be able to make connection authors make.
Good common sense helps since most of them are based of that.

[Anonymous No.12052999]

>>12051090
>"hidden"
Save great poetry, the vast majority of meaning manifests itself to any reader with even a vague understanding of rhetoric and critical examination. Comprehend, analyze, synthesize. Have you never written a literary analysis before? Start reading theses on great books that you've read, but didn't ponder for long after finishing.

[Anonymous No.12053008]

>>12051137
>>12052802
>>12052999
Genuinely good advice

[Anonymous No.12053054]

>>12051211
>>12052739
Freud pls go

[Anonymous No.12054459]

>>12051090
Try Evola's Mystery of the Grail, Guenon's Esoterism of Dante, and Lings' Secret of Shakespeare and you'll be deciphering all sort of hidden messages in great literature and art in no time at all.