/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16208043]

>NYRB

[Anonymous No.16208056]

Is there any publisher this board likes?

[Anonymous No.16208084]

>>16208043
They publish shit not available in other publishers, yes. Why would I care about how it's perceived rather than their contents?

[Anonymous No.16208092]

>>16208056
Wordsworth is the Chad's choice.

[Anonymous No.16208098]

>>16208084
>They publish shit
You said it best, anon

[Anonymous No.16208114]

>>16208043
unironically the best publisher right now.

[Anonymous No.16208116]

>>16208056
There are a few retards who like to derail NYRB threads as midwit core or calling them a fake western canon. Or they just shit on translations in general.
Disregard their opinions. They don't actually read and have nothing substantial to discuss (e.g. OP)

[Anonymous No.16208125]

>>16208116
I don't read translations of obscure garbage literature that went out of print for a reason
>>16208114
R*dditors are not allowed here

[Anonymous No.16208126]

>Verso
>Urbanomic
>Semiotext(e)
>Zero Books

[Anonymous No.16208135]

>Norton Critical Edition

[Anonymous No.16208136]

pleb
>NYRB Classics
>Dalkey ARchive
>Oxford World Classics
>Norton Critical Editions
>Library of America

Normie
>Penguin Classics
>Everyman

Patrician
>Wordsworth

[Anonymous No.16208137]

>>16208056
Wordsworth

[Anonymous No.16208145]

>>16208056
Signet Classics

[Anonymous No.16208150]

>>16208125
>I don't read translations of obscure garbage literature that went out of print for a reason
Word for word the same utter nonsense you or some other faggots always repeat.
This is your brain on the worse /lit/ memes.

[Anonymous No.16208156]

>>16208092
>>16208136
>>16208137
based

[Anonymous No.16208160]

>>16208056
In English I like Oxfords, but I mostly read in French and just pick up whatever Gallimard puts out

[Anonymous No.16208168]

>>16208056
Telos, Arktos, Antaios, occasionally Countercurrents, Inner Traditions sometimes

[Anonymous No.16208172]

>>16208125
>I don't read translations of obscure garbage literature that went out of print for a reason
Then what do you complain about a product you don't even interact with? LMAO zoomers are offended by the weirdest shit, I swear.

[Anonymous No.16208182]

>>16208145
I like this one.

[Anonymous No.16208189]

>>16208150
Your taste in literature is plebeian and garbage for several reasons
1. hipster publisher that only pseuds like better than food like because they publish obscure stuff and you lot get off on reading unknown books
2. translation, how fucking hard is it to learn french and spanish you stupid fucking pleb?
3. mediocre books, pretty everything that NYRB has published is mediocre literature, stuff you shouldn't fucking waste time with, their most popular books are on the same fucking level as shit like catcher in the rye

you're a fucking pleb and a r*ddit refugee, go the fuck back

[Anonymous No.16208202]

>>16208172
i've bought a couple books from NYRB, both of them sucked and ended up in the trash, they weren't translations tho

[Anonymous No.16208250]

>>16208136
wordsworth covers are so bland

[Anonymous No.16208256]

Caring about publishers is pretty pseud-tier. Some are of course better and some are worse, but to be fanboying or dismissing one altogether is stupid. So, to be a consoomer of NYRB classics is silly of course, but it's highly possible there are some good books among them (e.g., Moravagine; a recently translated Henri Bosco; forthcoming Gide's Marshlands).

[Anonymous No.16208267]

>>16208189
I'm such an oldfag I remember the old sharethreads from 8 years ago where people uploaded a lot of NYRB ebooks.
>french / spanish
They publish translations from many other languages. The shitposting flowchart suggests you'll say something like "other languages are useless".
>hipster
Finding new writers and obscure works is fun. You wrongly assume that's all I read.
>mediocre books
You mean like every other single publisher ever? You mean out of the thousand books they have on catalog, every single one is a mediocre one? How the fuck would you know if apparently you don't read them.

The fact you'd stoop so low as to go around calling people redditors and posting a soijack is pathetic and proves you're just a braindead shitposter. Please use a name or a trip so I can filter your daily incursions.

[Anonymous No.16208268]

>>16208202
What did you read from them?

[Anonymous No.16208287]

Where my new directions chads at

[Anonymous No.16208288]

>>16208267
>NYRB ebooks.
>NYRB
>ebook
Geez, just when I thought you couldn't be more retarded, you're an ebook fag too
>>16208268
stoner and peregrine, really hated them both, couldn't finish either of the, tossed them in the trash about halfway through both and vowed to never buy NYRB again

[Anonymous No.16208304]

>>16208043
>>16208098
>>16208125
>>16208136
>>16208137
>>16208156
>>16208189
>>16208202
>>16208288
>when knee-jerk contrarianism becomes a lifestyle choice

[Anonymous No.16208306]

>>16208145
can confirm esp their shakespeare, very good

[Anonymous No.16208311]

>>16208288
You didn't like Stoner? LMAO I thought you meant like some obscure shit from Africa or whatever. I think you're a pleb, son. That was a good book.

[Anonymous No.16208312]

>>16208288
Well, if you read Anglos what do you expect?

[Anonymous No.16208320]

>>16208304
>implying NYRB isn't a faggot publisher for hipster contrarians

[Anonymous No.16208326]

>>16208136
Ascended
>Illustrated Platinum Edition

[Anonymous No.16208327]

>>16208311
>You didn't like Stoner?
No, and it's very difficult for me to go from reading Hugo or Gautier to reading some bumpkin from america writing about some mediocre professor with a shit life lmao

[Anonymous No.16208335]

>>16208043
Thanks to these guys I could read Gautier and Manchette. They're based in my book. Couldn't give a shit if /lit/fags like them or not.

[Anonymous No.16208359]

>>16208327
>pleb is a plotfag
lmao just stop replying, mate. every new reply makes you seem plebier and plebier.

[Anonymous No.16208374]

>>16208137
>>16208136
>>16208092
Wordsworth is a fucking meme right? The covers are horrible.

[Anonymous No.16208386]

>>16208374
Their Thomas Hardy ones are nice.

[Anonymous No.16208388]

>>16208320
Publishers like NYRB conserve the work of great writers that had gone out of print because mainstream publishers are now run by 'woke' Karen types and university syllabi now exclude most white male writers to make room for genderqueer fruitcakes who write about Beyonce and 'black bodies'.

[Anonymous No.16208394]

>>16208335
>Thanks to these guys I could read Gautier
learn french you stupid faggot
>>16208359
it's not about plot, the whole book sucks, the ideas suck, the prose sucks, the plot sucks. it's mediocre american literature. it's literally entry level literature

[Anonymous No.16208405]

>>16208388
>because mainstream publishers are now run by 'woke' Karen types and university syllabi now exclude most white male writers to make room for genderqueer fruitcakes who write about Beyonce and 'black bodies'
not true, go back to /pol/ you brainwashed retard. oxford is a very serious publisher in english and they publish all the classics. NYRB literally is about diversity shilling, they publish all sorts of minorities and women lmao

[Anonymous No.16208409]

>>16208394
>it's mediocre american literature
Pleonasm. It's just American literature, then. Par for the course.

[Anonymous No.16208417]

>>16208409
hmmm kinda based anon

[Anonymous No.16208427]

These are all good books published by NYRB:

Tove Jansson - The Summer Book
Richard Hughes - A High Wind in Jamaica
Adolfo Bioy Casares - The Invention of Morel
Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
Vasily Grossman - Life and Fate
Patrick Leigh Fermor - A Time of Gifts
J.G. Farrell - The Siege of Krishnapur
J.L. Carr - A Month in the Country
Leonardo Sciascia - The Day of the Owl
L.P. Hartley - The Go-Between
Renata Adler - Speedboat
Frans G. Bengtsson - The Long Ships
John Wyndham - The Chrysalids
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky - Memories of the Future
G.B. Edwards - The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
Max Beerbohm - Seven Men

There are hundreds more.

[Anonymous No.16208429]

>>16208427

All those books are bad though.

[Anonymous No.16208433]

>>16208394
>learn french you stupid faggot
I know basic French but French books are even harder to acquire here. We're talking about Gautier and Manchette, not Hugo and Flaubert.

[Anonymous No.16208435]

>>16208405
Wow. Nice job outing yourself as a clueless moron.

[Anonymous No.16208442]

>>16208429
You've never read a book in your life, though.

[Anonymous No.16208443]

>>16208056
Urbanomic

[Anonymous No.16208446]

>>16208335
>Thanks to these guys I could read Gautier
There really isn't any point of reading Gautier in translation. That defeats the purpose of his worldview in the first place, and he known as a master of the French language. Honestly translating his stuff in the first place is sacrilege. He was so tied to the French language, you can only mar and destroy his works that way. There isn't any point in reading his stuff in English, he didn't write books about ideas. He tried to write beautiful works using his own tool: French. Fuck NYRB for even daring. Bunch of faggots.

LEARN FRENCH, ANON.

[Anonymous No.16208455]

>>16208429
>Life and Fate is bad
yea, confirmed pleb.

[Anonymous No.16208458]

>>16208443
Gay as fuck.

[Anonymous No.16208460]

>>16208433
All of Gautier's book are available for cheap online. He is an incredibly famous author in France. He isn't considered obscure except maybe for Americans. He is literally on the same level of popularity as Rimbaud and Baudelaire.

As for Manchette, I don't know much about him to be honest.

[Anonymous No.16208465]

>>16208427
literally a bunch of who's. only name there worth reading is probably casares, but you should know spanish anon, stop being a fucking pleb. it's one of the easiest languages to learn.

[Anonymous No.16208468]

>>16208465
>>>/b/

[Anonymous No.16208477]

>>16208460
>All of Gautier's book are available for cheap online.
Like from actual reputable publishers or from IndepententlyPublished Amazon crap nobody likes? Would like to get his comple fiction if that's available.

[Anonymous No.16208478]

>>16208468
>>>/b/

[Anonymous No.16208483]

>>16208465
Vasily Grossman is a way better writer than Bioy Casares. Bioy Casares is vastly overrated even in the Latin American canon, hell ,even in the Argentine canon.

[Anonymous No.16208485]

>>16208465
seething illiterate dimwit

[Anonymous No.16208502]

>>16208043
Do you know a different publisher that has a complete English translation of Shalamov's Kolyma Tales?

[Anonymous No.16208509]

>>16208477
Yeah, Folio has a lot his books out in print for cheap, check them out. And as far as I know NYRB just published seven of his short stories. Gautier wrote drama, poetry, short stories, and novels. You can't rely on NYRB for that. You have to find French editions of his stuff. Also, he never published anything under the title My Fantoms, they just got seven of his stories and put them together. Kinda cringe.

[Anonymous No.16208524]

>>16208483
>Vasily Grossman
I'll look into him. I've never delved too deeply into Russian literature. Never been a big fan. I see this Vasily guy is Jewish though and not Russian-Russian, so maybe there's hope.
>>16208485
I'm literate in 5 languages, cope harder, loser.

[Anonymous No.16208544]

>books

[Anonymous No.16208546]

>>16208446
literally looks like Alan Moore.

[Anonymous No.16208555]

>>16208509
Alright, will check them out, pal. And yes, the title is cringe. Are you French btw?

[Anonymous No.16208581]

>>16208524
>I'll look into him.
This is your problem. You are shitting on a publisher for publishing books you haven't even read. Next time shut up and listen instead of posting like a retard.

[Anonymous No.16208588]

>>16208427
Soseki - The Gate
Moravia - Contempt
Gogol - Dead Souls
Platonov - Foundation Pit
Döblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz
Shalamov - Kolyma Tales
JG Farrell - Troubles
Szerb - Journey by Moonlight
Saki - Short stories
Arlt - Seven Madmen
Bernanos - Mouchette
di Benedetto - Zama
Turgenev - Virgin Soil
Pirandello - The Late Maria Pascal
Bengtsson - The Long Ships
Lazarillo de Tormes
Walser - Jakob Von Gunten
Olesha - Envy

[Anonymous No.16208692]

>>16208326
this can't be real

[Anonymous No.16208695]

>>16208588
>Moravia - Contempt
>Bernanos - Mouchette
>Pirandello - The Late Maria Pascal
>Lazarillo de Tormes
Good writers, but if you knew French, Italian and Spanish like you should instead of being a pleb, then you wouldn't need NYRB.
>>16208581
Yeah, sorry, I don't really care for Russian literature. It's not very good, among the worst of Asia, and Asian literature is already bad.

[Anonymous No.16208700]

>>16208695
wrong again

[Anonymous No.16208703]

>>16208700
wrong again

[Anonymous No.16208725]

>>16208168

[Anonymous No.16208730]

>>16208695
>something I haven't read is bad

[Anonymous No.16208733]

>>16208695
>I don't really care for Russian literature.
I never even mentioned Russian literature, you illiterate pleb.

[Anonymous No.16208743]

>>16208730
Yes, exactly. That's how I feel about the Koran, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Russian literature, Slavic literature generally, Twilight, any manga, White Fragility, etc.

[Anonymous No.16208750]

>>16208733
Different anon. That was for the other anon. You newfag r*dditors don't even know how this site works. Lurk more.

[Anonymous No.16208755]

KEK this ur publisher anon?

[Anonymous No.16208766]

>>16208750
Learn to read, pleb. You're embarrassing yourself.

[Anonymous No.16208772]

>>16208755
>>>/b/

[Anonymous No.16208785]

>>16208766
Vasily Grossman is Russian.

[Anonymous No.16208850]

>>16208692
sorry you can't handle the greats of literature getting covers they deserve, fag

[Anonymous No.16208852]

>>16208287
based!

[Anonymous No.16209030]

>>16208136
Mega CHAD
>New Directions

[Anonymous No.16209172]

>>16208304
have sex

[Anonymous No.16209622]

>>16208056

Dalkey Archive
Hackett
NYRB
Vintage
Farrar Strauss and Giroux

[Anonymous No.16210187]

>columbia
>Minnesota

[Anonymous No.16210848]

>>16208427
You know you all want to buy this book. Read it.