ITT: Books /lit/ never talks about

[Anonymous No.17742445]

Post great books you have never seen posted on this board.

For me it's The Good Soldier Švejk, the pinnacle of Czech literature. A review I read beforehand described it as "man survives WWI through sheer idiocy" and that's very apt, think Mister Bean but much more talkative. It's actually several books (~700 pages) but was never finished because Hašek died. I miss coming home from work and reading another chapter about the based retard.

[Anonymous No.17742467]

dude, we all heard the professor in the great courses history of eastern europe class highly recommend that, it's on /lit/ all the time since those lectures dropped, find something more obscure

[Anonymous No.17742476]

Here I am, ruining your board, again
- Thomas Pynchon, 0 days left

[Anonymous No.17742487]

>>17742467
well sorry bro i saw those ads but i don't pay for faggy shit shilled by e-celebs so i didn't know Švejk became a thing recently. post a book.

[Anonymous No.17742493]

>>17742487
Stop posting around my replies you sad, sad cunts

[Anonymous No.17742501]

17742493
I can't even afford a (You) at the moment.

[Anonymous No.17742502]

>>17742445
Is this different than the three volume version I see on Amazon?

[Anonymous No.17742517]

>>17742445
Jules verne, fight me.

[Anonymous No.17742522]

[Anonymous No.17742553]

>>17742517
Balloon warfare must necessarily distance itself from laser warfare in the interest of honour and chivalry

[Anonymous No.17742557]

>>17742502

This is the Parrott translation from the 70s, there is the 2000 Sadlon translation that "updates" it a bit and is generally well received but I looked up the translator and they seemed like neolib fags with the usual dogshit sensibilities and revisionist tendencies so I went with Parrott. YMMV.

[Anonymous No.17742561]

>>17742487
>he only heard of great courses via "e-celebs" not seeing on them on audiobook torrent sites a decade ago

i've never watched an "e-celeb" in my fucking life, but apparently you have.

[Anonymous No.17742572]

>>17742445

[Anonymous No.17742576]

>>17742557
Cool. For some reason I had both versions saved on my Amazon wishlist.

[Anonymous No.17742577]

>>17742561
>being an audiobook pleb in the first place

i watch history autists channels while i'm eating dinner you massive smoothy faggot who listens to audiobooks and pays for e-garbage. you should follow their advice tho and read it.

[Anonymous No.17742582]

>>17742553
Me

[Anonymous No.17742592]

>>17742572
also this one

[Anonymous No.17742619]

this shit is funny, easy to read, and short. it's 200 pages but formatted like a script so probably more like 125 pages of content. if you're in a rut and can't get into anything, it's a good warm up to get back on track.

[Anonymous No.17742618]

>>17742572
>>17742592
i like blackwood. give QRDs with your posts lads, what is this jap one about.

[Anonymous No.17742647]

>>17742618
technically it's two books, but they're bound together in the Penguin edition. Hojoki is a memoir about living alone in a hut in the mountains, having withdrawn from medical Japanese society. essays in idleness can best be described as a series of anecdotes about day-to-day living from a medical Japanese Buddhist monk. both very comfy and worth the read.

[Anonymous No.17742665]

>>17742647
You are too serious. Also, who the hell pays for a 4chan Pass?

[Anonymous No.17742678]

Too literate for horrorfags. The author didn't have any other great hits besides this and generally had a pretty sad life, and consequently, it's shot through with bitter irony and black humor (not to mention incest and necrophilia). For true connoisseurs.

[Anonymous No.17742680]

>>17742665
>Also, who the hell pays for a 4chan Pass?
I don't

[Anonymous No.17742700]

>weirdly turns into a schizo thread

>>17742592
good rec, i will read this.

>>17742619
>>17742678
>genre authors

I'm not being hostile but you better sell this harder

[Anonymous No.17742704]

>>17742680
Well memed!

[Anonymous No.17742729]

>>17742700
>genre author
charles yu's shit is a play on genres not really genre, i didnt read the sci-fi one, but interior chinatown is a spoof of cop shows and kung fu movies etc. by like idk 20 pages it's clear the script is not really a script or it's an unreliable script, idk how to describe it, it's all _literary_ n' shit (would have used italics there if it were available)

[Anonymous No.17742823]

>>17742729
Disvirtuous

[Anonymous No.17742832]

>>17742493
>>17742561
Cope more reddit transplants

[Anonymous No.17742836]

>>17742561
>audiobook
why would you think your opinion means anything to anyone after this?

[Anonymous No.17742875]

>>17742832
>>17742836
It's true (;))

[Anonymous No.17742899]

>>17742665
i have a 4chan pass so i can shitpost from the comfort of my VPN, knowing full well nobody who lives with me will ever get to see what posts i was banned for (this is a fairly frequent occurrence)

[Anonymous No.17742909]

>>17742836
>guy who watches "e-celebs" calls others reddit
funny

[Anonymous No.17742920]

>>17742899
Legendary grass type, ancient type

[Anonymous No.17743043]

>>17742920
Reyquaza is legendary flying + dragon type

[Anonymous No.17743102]

>>17743043
Dwarfed by

[Anonymous No.17743249]

>>17742678
I have this one.

[Anonymous No.17743290]

>>17743249
As of yet unextracted, sorry!

[Anonymous No.17743378]

Frank Stanford's the battlefield where the moon says i love you

[Anonymous No.17743498]

MMMPHHMPH MMHPPH

[Anonymous No.17743638]

Our specialist is over here

[Anonymous No.17743659]

>>17742445
Johan Huizinga's stuff like Homo Ludens and Shadow of Tomorrow
I saw Homo Ludens mentioned a few times years ago, and that was that

[Anonymous No.17743769]

i don't know how to make webm sorry
https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/the-palm-beach-story/

[Anonymous No.17743860]

Boss, get down! The enemy sniper!

[Anonymous No.17743912]

>>17742445
Humbly report sir, that tailor you sent me to turned out to be an orang-outane. But he did manage to sell me a shirt for 20 crowns. There was a barber in Pankrác who was so hairy he was often mistaken for...

[Anonymous No.17743945]

>>17743912
Oh no no

[Anonymous No.17743967]

>>17743945
>mfw when searching svejk hats to make this stupid shitpost and there are actually a bunch of austro-hungarian army replica hats all over amazon, ebay and etsy for purchase

lmao what the fuck

[Anonymous No.17744029]

>>17743967
Tilted or cantered?

[Anonymous No.17744561]

>>17743912
YOU'RE AN IDIOT KARL, PLAY A RECORD
alri

[Anonymous No.17744624]

>>17742445
comfy /out/core

[Anonymous No.17744658]

>>17742445
He's not a retard, he's a genius. He tricked the faggot commander who was hardballing him drink from a cesspit by pretending the bottle of cognac that he shouldnt-have-had for Lukacs was actually just a bottle of water that leeched copper and other mineral coloring from the ground, and to prove it quaffed it all in a single gulp. Pay respects to absolute madlads. They are literally only pretending to be retarded

[Anonymous No.17744669]

>>17742445
Chesterton gets posted every so often, but his books are never really discussed in detail, which is disappointing.

[Anonymous No.17744685]

Judgèd

[Anonymous No.17744850]

>>17744669
Sell me on this book

[Anonymous No.17744889]

>>17744850
It's a metaphysical thriller detective novel. Filled with contradictions at every corner it's quite a fun read, and the various reflections that Chesterton makes on things such as poetry and philosophy are interesting to reflect on. Chesterton was the master of paradox and contradiction, and you'll find all kinds of very obvious plot twists coming unexpectedly around the corner. It's short too, so you can easily get through it in a day or two. That's about all I have to say, but there's probably better descriptions out there.

[Anonymous No.17744896]

>>17742445
Svejk is one of the greatest works of the 20th century, an absolute masterpiece. I would recommend Hermann Broch's The Sleepwalkers, another modernist masterpiece that is sadly not that known in American circles. It can be seen as almost a companion to Musil's The Man Without Qualities.

[Anonymous No.17744908]

>>17742445
>The Good Soldier Švejk, the pinnacle of Czech literature

Pinnacle doesn't seem right. I think something like Máj by Karel Hynek Mácha holds that distinction.

[Anonymous No.17745144]

[Anonymous No.17745831]

>>17744889
Sounds interesting, thank you.

[Anonymous No.17746466]

>>17742467
>Czechs
>Eastern Europe

[Anonymous No.17747583]

>>17746466
czech'd

[Anonymous No.17747609]

>>17742576
>Amazon wishlist
are you an instagram thot or something?

[Anonymous No.17747624]

>>17745144
>this

I need to get some Leon Bloy. Ernst Junger read a lot of him during WWII.

[Anonymous No.17747629]

>>17742445
Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee
(I rec if you like Invisible Man & Gatsby)

[S10241875 No.17747852]

>>17742445
Charles De Coster (1867) - La légende et les aventures héroiques, joyeuses et glorieuses d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak au pays de Flandres et ailleurs
The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak

It seems that the book is almost unknown in English, in Flanders it is also almost forgotten (? Maybe I'm wrong). I have never seen it discussed in English.
We, then in the USSR, she was quite famous. The 1976 film was shot. When I was still in school, I got to see one play "The Legend of Till", very cool, only now I got around to reading it.

>The Good Soldier Švejk
I remember about 5 threads here when Schweik was mentioned.
Perhaps the experience of the "small peoples" of Eastern Europe is not very close to the English-speaking countries. It is necessary to be a member of a small but cheerful small people living in a rotten totalitarian multinational empire ruled by another nation. Hmm, though maybe an Irishman could write something similar about the decline of the British Empire? I do not know.

Schweik is quite well known in Russia. The author was considered a "communist" (although he was an anarchist type, any ideology meant less to him than a glass of beer), so he was published a lot. Well, the very feeling of a rotten multinational totalitarian empire is very close to us.

[Anonymous No.17747930]

Need bush STAT
Sten fitted

[Anonymous No.17749315]

i hate jews