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What's your favorite little-known, little-read book that you'd like /lit/ to know about?

>> No.14919315

>>14919272
I don’t see it mentioned much on here, The Kingdom of This World, a magic realism novella about the revolution in Haiti. The English translation reads amazingly.

>> No.14919316

This one on its own can make you enlightened

>> No.14919748

>>14919315
You mean the massacre of the naive french?

>> No.14919780

>>14919316
Woops

https://realization.org/p/ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita.html

>> No.14920110

>>14919272
You could land a plane on that forehead

>> No.14920127
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>>14920110
And alone you will remain

>> No.14920131

>>14920110
I’ve never understood why people think a large forehead is unattractive

>> No.14920138
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>>14919272
Unironically A Walking Aphrodisiac. It got posted here a little while ago as a pdf and me and my bros read it and it's the most unique, most contemporary, most relevant novel I've read in a long time. Some snooty intellectual is gonna come up with the same idea 5 years down the road and get lauded to shit, while the actual guy who did this first is gonna be forgotten. I hate normies and academia

>> No.14920142

>>14920131
No one said that haha
I LOVE BIG ASS FORHEADS pleas BEVELE MEEEEEE

>> No.14920144

>>14920131
It's boring and distorts the other facial features. Also it looks too much like a skull

>> No.14920148

>>14920131
Cute girls always have big Foreheads, babies have big forheads it makes you look baby baby xoxo

>> No.14920192
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>>14919272
The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

>>14920138
I heard about that one on Encyclopedia Dramatica. They deleted the article, though. Seemed right up their alley, too.

>> No.14920411

Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley. Great bit of 19th century historical fiction and unashamedly patriotic.

>> No.14920891

>>14919272
You know Kim Petras is transsexual, right?

>> No.14920896

>>14920144
>The human face looks too much like a skull
Holy shit my sides

>> No.14920920

>>14919272
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain

A little-known work by a well-known author.

>> No.14920930

>>14920138
holy shit thank you so much, laughter in spades over here
>>14919780
checkin this out, already enlightened but wondering if this guy caught it too

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>> No.14920956

>>14919272
peru and zimzum by gordon lish

both have very alien takes on language. one tells a sincere and disturbing but nostalgic story with it. the other starts out the same way but evolves into a kleidescope of autism.

>> No.14921483
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>>14919272
Of Love and Other Demons ; no fluff plus
rabid peasant lolli. I'm not sure why ggm gets no praise on lit. This book is medicine

>> No.14921488

>>14920896
You laugh but the idea of human sexual attraction relies on the suspension of belief that there is a skeleton beneath the skin.

>> No.14921512

>>14919272
my diary desu

>> No.14921549

Alejandro Zambra is a brilliant writer who writes short novels

>> No.14921650
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>>14919272
anything by Gabrielle Wittkop

and strongly pic related, very well-written, comfy, and has hints of "If..." movie atmosphere

>> No.14921670

>>14921488
>checked, Hitler agrees
What if I'm into that though?

>> No.14921675
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>>14919272
Gog.

>> No.14921771

>>14921483
I loved this book, I was convinced just by reading his description of the prepubescent girl with hair like a wedding gown. One of my favorite ggm books

>> No.14922001

Liber 333, The Book of Lies
by Crowley

>> No.14922074
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>>14921675
Based Papiniposter

>>14919272
I'll go for pic related

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>>14919272
Kiyohira Miura's "He's leaving home". Got the Akutagawa price in the 80s. Never found it on the net though.

>> No.14922330

Relentless Evolution by Ken Thompson.

>> No.14922354

>>14920138
author? cant fin it

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>>14919272
I'd encourage you to read the whole series, but if you just read this one that'd be enough.

>> No.14922471

>>14920192
encyclopedia dramatica got taken down a while ago and all the articles were lost. It's been put back up and they're rebuilding now.

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>>14919272
Hedyphagetica

>> No.14923301
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14923301

I will shill Bruno Schulz at any possible opportunity. A Polish surrealist whose only novel was lost after he got shot in the head. All that survives him are two collections of short stories, this one being from The Street of Crocodiles.

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those two are relatively unknown outside of russia. Sorokin and Pelevin (only early works, they're brilliant but latest ones are repetetive, masturbatory pretentious incel tier shite) are GOAT if you enjoy postmodernism

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>>14920956
>>14921675
>>14922074
>>14923360
These sound interesting, thanks.
>>14923301
Seconding Schulz. He's a sort of Kafka on shrooms or something (I've never taken drugs in my life so I don't know what that's like though).
And here is my humble proposal.

>> No.14923981

>>14919272
Borges other works besides Ficciones. Literally everything he writes is amazing even nonfiction, other short stories, poems, lectures, old interview videos where he is blind and recites pages of finnegans wake from pure memory, every single thing this man does is godly

>> No.14924940

>>14919272
The Fall by Camus
:D