/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1706087]

ITT: Classics you've read that you'd recommend but think next to no one on /lit/ has read.

Picture kind of related (I'm sure a small handful have read it)

[Anonymous No.1706223]

I'LL GO WITH THE GOOD SOLDIER SVEJK. IT WAS RECOMMENDED BY ANON HERE ON /LIT/, BUT I'D LIKE IT TO BE DISCUSSED MORE HERE. AND SORRY I NEVER GOT AROUND TO DOING THE COMEDY CHART GUYS, TOTALLY FORGOT :(

[Anonymous No.1706228]

Nobody ever mentions The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, so I'm guessing not many have read that.

It's OK, if you like that sort of thing. I don't.

[Anonymous No.1706238]

>>1706228
Sitting on my shelf... one day..

>>1706087
Never read Huysman, but I want to read Against Nature badly.

There are a bunch of classics /lit/ never talks about. I never see any talk about Maugham. I have no clue why because he is awesome.

For my input I will say Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg Ohio. I have never seen it discussed.

[Anonymous No.1706247]

>>1706238

You should get it off the shelf and read it. It's a bit of a mindfuck, but it's been knocking around for centuries, so it must have something going for it.

[Anonymous No.1706253]

I'D ALSO LIKE TO RECOMMEND SOME PLATONOV, HERE'S SOMETHING INTERESTING ABOUT HIM (WIKI SOURCE)

Stalin held deeply ambivalent views regarding Platonov's worth. According to archival evidence Stalin called Platonov "fool, idiot, scoundrel", then later in the same meeting said Platonov was "a prophet, a genius."

I'VE ONLY READ THE SHORT STORY/NOVELLA COLLECTION THE FIERCE AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD. WHERE NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT, IT APPEARS AS IF HE IS PRO-COMMUNISM IN HIS WORKS BUT THERE IS SUBTLE CRITICISM OF COLLECTIVIZATION ETC. IN THE STORIES I READ.

[Anonymous No.1706260]

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - Hogg.

It's partly in Scots and deals with a very Calvinist view of religion, but the Penguin Classics version of this, with pic linked, is accessible.

[Anonymous No.1706261]

Never heard of Huysmans, but I wikipedia'd that book and it sounds fucking awesome. This is a good thread. Let's keep it up

[Anonymous No.1706277]

CAPSGUY CAN'T LET A THREAD LIKE THIS GO WITHOUT RECOMMENDING LIFE AND FATE BY GROSSMAN.

[Anonymous No.1706290]

>>1706277
CAPSGUY - my copy just arrived today. i didn't realize how big it is hahaha

[Anonymous No.1706368]

>>1706290
CAPSGUY LOVES THEM DOOR-STOPPERS. ACTUALLY READING THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO AT THE MOMENT, BUT IT'S NOT REALLY A 'CLASSIC' I SUPPOSE.

ANOTHER RECOMMENDATION THAT'S NEVER MENTIONED HERE (BOTH GULAG AND PIC)

THE RED LAUGH - ANDREYEV

[Anonymous No.1706375]

MY NAME'S CAPSGUY AND IM AGAINST BEING NON-ANONYMOUS BUT I STILL LIKE TO IDENTIFY MYSELF AND TALK ABOUT MYSELF IN THE 3RD PERSON

[Anonymous No.1706381]

Underage sex, Russian anarchists, grinding poverty, cocks being sliced off and flown from flagpoles, miners, the French.

This has it all.

[Anonymous No.1706383]

>>1706238
I think Maugham is a /lit/ favorite waiting to happen, I've seen more posts about him here and there than I would have expected from a board that is permanently stuck on tenth-grade assigned reading.

[Anonymous No.1706387]

>>1706381

i got nana the otehr day on a whim not really knowing anything about zola is nana any good?

[Anonymous No.1706393]

Andre Gide - The Counterfeiters.

I think Lafcadio Wlouki is pretty cool guy eh throw people from tranes and doesn't scared of anything

captcha: chutney tityride WTF?

[Anonymous No.1706408]

Colonel Chabert

[Anonymous No.1706560]

>>1706381
ARE WE SUPPOSED TO READ ALL OF THESE IN ORDER?

[Anonymous No.1706595]

BUMPING WITH ANOTHER RECOMMENDATION THAT'S HARDLY BROUGHT UP ON /LIT/

[Anonymous No.1707061]

>>1706595

And yet you give no indication of what it is, who it's by or any other identification.

Fuck this. I'm already bored.

[Anonymous No.1707208]

>>1707061
SORRY.

PETERSBURG BY BELY.

[Anonymous No.1707218]

>>1707208

Yeah, like this really hasn't been posted on /lit/ a tonne of times, has it.

[Anonymous No.1707230]

>>1707218
OTHER THAN BY ME, NOT ALL THAT MUCH, NO. BUT YOU MUST FACTOR IN THAT I AM HERE DURING OFF-PEAK, I SLEEP WHEN /LIT/'S AT ITS BUSIEST.

[Anonymous No.1707247]

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa

[Plans !YtEoORGvq6 No.1707249]

>>1706223
Last time anon brought this up I believe I mentioned how in love with this book I was?
It still stands

[Anonymous No.1707292]

The Bible - Jesus Christ

[Anonymous No.1707308]

>>1707249
SUCH A PITY HE WAS NEVER ABLE TO FINISH IT :(

[Anonymous No.1707317]

Not too obscure, and some anons have read it, but I think this book is amazing.

[Anonymous No.1707333]

The Manuscript Found In Saragossa.

It's an amazing book, similar to he Decameron, but with an over arching plot. It's set in a very oriental 18th century Spain and involves so many cultures in its composition. The author ( a fascinating man well worth reading about himself) never managed to finish it (and it shows, some parts are rushed and shoddy) before he killed himself, but its still extremely good.

[Anonymous No.1707350]

Giambattista Vico's "New Science."

Farid ud-Din 'Attar's "Conference of the Birds"

>Implying /lit/ reads anything that isn't Western, Russian, or Jap.

[Anonymous No.1707358]

>>1707317
Read that, was pretty good.

Recommending "Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller

[Anonymous No.1707362]

>>1707292

Bitch half of that book came out before Jesus was even born.

[Anonymous No.1707363]

I salute anyone who finishes this.

[scout !!1wBNr3mLJL+ No.1707370]

I don't hear Rabelais mentioned much Gargantua and Pantagruel

[Anonymous No.1707376]

>>1707363
anybody who finished that book is automatically promoted to god-tier. not because it's so hard or so difficult, but because it's just so punishing in its length. it's interminable.