/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17778842]

What the heck are you reading this weekend my dear i/lit/erati

[Anonymous No.17778865]

>>17778842
Was thinking of reading some v-tuber blogs.

[Anonymous No.17778872]

>>17778842
Elémire Zolla

[Anonymous No.17778995]

Notes from the House of the Dead and the Bible

[Anonymous No.17779007]

>>17778842
I recently bought a copy of Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. I want to read more surrealist /lit/erature to supplement a novel I am writing. Next book on my list to read is Naked Lunch

[Anonymous No.17779010]

>>17778842
The collected stories of Faulkner and also Hemingway. The latter being quite the disappointment as of now.

[Anonymous No.17779015]

A novel called Provinces of Night. Pretty good so far

[Anonymous No.17779018]

Just finished As I Lay Dying. Should I continue CoL49 or go on to more Faulkner? I haven't read The Sound and the Fury yet.

[Anonymous No.17779049]

>>17778842
Finishing fromm's to have or to be. dunno what to pick next.

[Anonymous No.17779076]

>>17778842
Apparently this is another prominent work of his, hope it surpasses Goodnight Punpun and Girl at The Shore.

[Anonymous No.17779084]

>>17779076
>en before don't go into it with expectations

[Anonymous No.17779092]

Infinite jest lol

[Anonymous No.17779211]

>>17778842
Alchemy of Happiness and The Denial of Death.
And you?

[Anonymous No.17779216]

>>17779010
What are Faulkner’s short stories like? Are they as experimentally written as The Sound and the Fury and the like?

[Anonymous No.17779222]

>>17778865
Simp.

[Anonymous No.17779224]

>>17779007
Is it good so far?

[Anonymous No.17779229]

started reading pic rel on a whim yesterday, very funny so far. idk what it's called but this kind of stark realism is my favorite style of writing

[Anonymous No.17779231]

>>17778842
pic related. The Ardor was probably the best Calasso, but this had a very inspired start. Also, the more you read of him, the more it starts to weirdly make sense and connect inside your head. Maybe it's just his style, but the images he talks about really have this tendency to overlap. Overall, cool book.

[Anonymous No.17779403]

>>17779216
>The Sound and the Fury
I got filtered by it so bad. It doesnt help that i read a translation of it.

[Anonymous No.17779422]

Gaddis’ The Recognitions.
Also reading &amp Mag which came in the mail finally.
Also reading F Gardner if you can believe it.

[Anonymous No.17779494]

>>17779422
Well you read &amp Mag so I can easily believe you fall for every other /lit/ meme, yes

[Anonymous No.17779514]

>>17778842
I'm going to read a short story one of the vtubers written.

[Anonymous No.17779613]

>>17779222
Beats simping over dead men.

[Anonymous No.17779621]

>>17778842
I will be re-reading "Call of the Crocodile"
"Call of the Crocodile" is the first installation in Gardner's breakout series of horror novels. The story follows its protagonist, a young boy named Faggot Gardner (no relation to F. Gardner, the author), as he searches the grimy streets of Chicago for "the Crocodile", a local leather daddy notorious for putting bad little boys like Gardner in their place.
Young Faggot Gardner searches high and low for the fabled dominant: in dilapidated crack dens, in public restrooms, in subterranean glory holes. Yet no matter how assiduously he searches, how quickly he moves from clue to clue, how many dirty men's toes he sucks (an activity constantly referred to in the novel as "pussing the boots"), Gardner seems always to be one step behind the object of his obsessive desire.
The twist comes near the end of the novel, during a scene reminiscent of Polanski's "Repulsion", where the beautiful Carole, played by a young Catherine Deneuve, finally descends into madness, and hallucinates human arms reaching out of the walls of her apartment and grabbing her, thereby externalizing her fear not only of sexual assault, but of any form of intimate contact whatsoever. F. Gardner (the author) parodies this scene, effectively turning its tone and implications upside down, by having his protagonist, the now cock-starved and desperate Faggot Gardner (again, no relation) crawl on his knees through a dark apartment, groping along the walls to find his way, only to feel, poking firmly out of the holes in the walls, not scary arms with grabby hands, but dozens of diamond-hard dicks. They poke him in the eyes. They shoot gobs of bitter gravy into his nose and ears. They wag reproachfully at him, like the index fingers of the stern private school teachers who buggered him in his earliest childhood memories, as he slowly makes his way to the end of the hall. The twist is this: when he finally reaches the end of the hall, and opens the door there, he finds himself staring into a blinding white light. He believes that when his eyes finally adjust to the glare, he will see there, waiting for him, horse-whip in hand, croc-skin chaps pulled snugly against his obese thighs, the man he has been seeking for so many days, seeking, in a way, for all of his life. But instead what he sees is a hospital room. He is lying in a hospital bed. The bright light is coming from the naked bulb above him. There is a nurse at his side, changing his IV fluids.
"Where am I?" he asks.
"Loretto Hospital," the nurse replies.
"I was eaten by a crocodile, wasn't I?" he asks.
"No," she says. "You were violently assaulted by hundreds of corpulent and diseased men, with disgusting rotten teeth and putrid breath. That's why you smell like corpses and semen."
"No," he says firmly. "I was eaten by a crocodile. It caused my family to go insane. I'm going to write a novel about it, and force people to read it."
"Whatever you say, Faggot," the nurse replies.

[Anonymous No.17779633]

>>17778842
Malazan and Small places Large Issues!

[Anonymous No.17779648]

>>17779613
Simping over dead men >>> Simping over w*men larping as anime girls

[Anonymous No.17779651]

The Sellout, pretty funny

[Anonymous No.17779708]

Dom casmurro and the poetry pf hart crane. My man hart crane gets better with every reading and dom casmurro os great as well.

[Anonymous No.17779713]

>>17778842
my "chill out" weekend plan:
Re-watching part of SAO s1 in bluray.
Reading some of the "Persian Letters" (young Montesquieu is a bro)
Browsing 4chan
A quick fap with an eroge (probably Prison Battleship 3)

[Anonymous No.17779726]

>>17778842
American Psycho

[Anonymous No.17779764]

>>17778842
/based/ coming through

[Anonymous No.17779774]

>>17779648
Rather simp for women.

[Anonymous No.17779778]

>>17779726
Is it good tho?

[Anonymous No.17779787]

>>17779778
it's very good

[Anonymous No.17779791]

>>17779774
Because you're a coomer retard and a disgrace to your family.

[Anonymous No.17779794]

>>17779787
Cool

[Anonymous No.17779798]

>>17779018
Have you read other Pynchon books? Col49 is considerably shorter than most of Pynchon's novels and rather easy to follow.
It also has a comedic edge to it. So it might offer a bit of a respite in-between Faulkner. I would probably feel burnout trying to read so many post modern/modern novels in a row but if your up for it...

[Anonymous No.17779806]

this

[Anonymous No.17779817]

50 shades of grey

It feels like it was written by a middle schooler

[Anonymous No.17779822]

>>17779791
>>17779774
incels

[Anonymous No.17779831]

>>17779817
i meant the novel btw

[Anonymous No.17779863]

>>17779216
They are more straight forward

[Anonymous No.17779913]

the prose is so mediocre that makes you confident you could do better, but the story is good so far

[Anonymous No.17779942]

>>17779913
i have my own novel, did you just assume i don't write books

[Anonymous No.17779943]

Man you guys really read shit lit

[Anonymous No.17779953]

>>17779942
sunnyblood.neocities.org

thi is my book read it you anons

[Anonymous No.17779963]

53
masterpiece

[Anonymous No.17779982]

i'm currently reading 'blood of the ancient star'

its a true masterpiece i must say it's prose is beautiful, plot so deep, plus its open sorse

[Anonymous No.17779987]

>>17778842
voice of the fire by Alan moore

[Anonymous No.17780009]

reading plato in the related order and I just finished phaedrus. I had started with the greeks and read homer + tragedians + aristophanes and decided I wanted to move on to virgil (and read his eclogues, georgics and the aeneid) but after finishing virgil I felt like I didn't have enough context for him and decided to go back and read plato. I was planning to read him and then move on to ovid but now im developing too many disparate literary interests and have no idea what to choose from. I kinda would like to read some history about the beginnings of classical greece, alexander's conquest and rome.

[Anonymous No.17780029]

>>17779943
>>17779708
Except for this nigga. Talk about a poetry chad

[Anonymous No.17780192]

>>17778842
The Bible
Aristotle's Metaphysics
Gargantua and Pantagruel

[Anonymous No.17780212]

Started with The Idiot yesterday, good book so far.

[Anonymous No.17780458]

>>17780029
>>17779708
Better be good

[Anonymous No.17780505]

You guys DID buy Borzoi-sama's book right?

[Anonymous No.17780528]

>>17779049
>dunno what to pick next
Art of Loving ~ Fromm
Or skip back to Freud and Jung.

>>17778842
Sexual Personae ~ Paglia

[Anonymous No.17780628]

>>17780528
Why do you read garbage? Is it because something made you think it was somehow a famous and important work?

[Anonymous No.17780636]

spent some time with gf. today I'll read and write or maybe even do something productive with my life.

[Anonymous No.17780720]

>>17780628
On a 1-10 scale, how miserable are you?
I'm guessing at least a 6, with 10 being maximum misery.

[Anonymous No.17780737]

>>17780720
2. Funny that you didn't answer my question. I deduce that you disagree with me and consider Paglia's book something of value. You're entitled to have your opinion. Be well, anon.

[Anonymous No.17780748]

>>17780737
Have you read it?
If you have specific critique, that is worth hearing.
Otherwise, there is no reason to respond.

[Anonymous No.17780767]

>>17780528
>Sexual Personae ~ Paglia
Sounds based I'll read it too

[Anonymous No.17780777]

Shogun

>>17779806
Nice, how is it?

[Anonymous No.17780823]

>>17780748
Yes. I had to read it for university.

There's no need to make specific critique, you know, there's not always need to talk about nothingness. That is such a british thing, isn't it? It's academia that wants you to "elaborate", that is a cornerstone of indoctrination.

Seriously, is there anything more british than the question "Please, elaborate"? When you elaborate like a nice little toy soldier you create more entropy, and more entropy leads you to death.

However, here's my two cents: Paglia is embarassingly americanocentric, she wrote a book about an extremely wide and unoriginal subject thinking she would know everything about European literature, whereas she lacks knowledge in every literary genre. The message itself is dumb, granted, predictable. Was she the first to say what she said? No she wasn't, and even the first who said what she said appeared dumb and obvious. Sex isn't the centre of life, my dude.

Don't even reply.

[Anonymous No.17780837]

>>17780823
Didn't read.

[Anonymous No.17781122]

>>17780528
Read it. Also i read freud and jung. Maybe jungs black book.

[Anonymous No.17781163]

>>17781122
Wish I could find a pdf online.
From what I understand, you're gonna have to pay big to get that one.

[Anonymous No.17781173]

>>17781163
I have the epub, but having the actual big book with art would be completely different experience.

[Anonymous No.17781184]

>>17779018
Crying of Lot 49 is short but a very dense read. Nevertheless, it is very funny and enjoyable in the end, and not so hard to understand, it's just that Pynchon makes all the way through deliberately confusing.

[Anonymous No.17781190]

>>17778842
I'm going to finish Crime & Punishment today, or maybe tomorrow. I have just 30% left.

[Anonymous No.17781214]

>>17778842
I started today: One, No One and One Hundred Thousand by Pirandello; half through it, and this is freaking good, gonna advise this one to everybody I speak to

[Anonymous No.17781234]

>>17781214
Looks like a good suggestion...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One,_No_One_and_One_Hundred_Thousand

[Anonymous No.17781273]

Too busy having sex. In fact, I'm thrusting my penis into a nubile female just as I am typing these very words.

[Anonymous No.17781348]

>>17778842
The Iliad and French Suite by Nemirovsky
>>17779231
Tell me more about Calasso, where should I start?

[Anonymous No.17781364]

I read The Tempest and Coriolanus

[Anonymous No.17781385]

The Enneads and the fourth book in the Second Apocalypse series, The Judging Eye.

The Enneads feels like scripture, it's pretty amazing.

[Anonymous No.17781425]

>>17778842
Charterhouse of Parma

[Anonymous No.17781580]

>>17779231
Calasso has explicitly revealed he's working on a unitary magnum opus that encompasses all of his single books. He said that the books he has published thus far should be considered as chapters of a unique tale. That's why there are a lot of connections between them. It's truly a net of themes and meanings.

[Anonymous No.17781595]

>>17778842
never realized how much i didnt know about ancient greece

[Anonymous No.17781618]

I read pic related. Absolutely fantastic book. It's a psychology book, but it presents a historiography, an epistemology, an analysis of the unconscious, a cycle of empires, discussion on rhetoric... Gustave was a beast.

[Anonymous No.17781668]

I'm still getting through On the Road. I mostly enjoy it, but there are parts where my interest wains.

I'm half way through part 2 so I'm set on finishing it. Can't say it's resonated with me the way the back print said it would, but its enjoyable enough.

[Anonymous No.17781687]

>>17780212
Right on anon. I finished the first part some months ago but haven't gotten back into it. No fault of the book, just ended up reading other stuff. I'm looking forward to getting back into it soon.

What do you like about it the most so far?

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[Anonymous No.17781941]

Just finished reading The wind-up bird chronicle

[Anonymous No.17781985]

>>17779229

[Anonymous No.17782005]

>>17780505
btfo by yarvin

[Anonymous No.17782949]

>>17781618
based

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[Anonymous No.17783026]

>>17782970
what's that?

[Anonymous No.17783049]

>>17783026
Fragebogen

[Anonymous No.17783102]

>>17783026
After World War 2 some Germans were required to answer a Questionnaire sent to them by the conquering Allies (mainly just the eternal Anglos and Amerifats. Russians usually shot anybody suspicious). Von Salomon turned his answers into a 500 page book

[Anonymous No.17783119]

>>17778842
Been reading the Diary of a Young Girl: Definitive Edition. I could probably finish it today but it gets pretty damn repetitive so I'll finish it up tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.17783128]

In order to become and intelectual and have a wider view of the universe and human nature, I compiled these set of books you could read:

- Schopenhauer collection
- Nietzsche collection
- Kierkegaard collection
- EM Cioran collection
- Noam Chomsky collection
- Divine Comedy
- Don Quijote
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
- Thinking fast and slow
- 1984
- God delusion

These books are enough to widen your mind in every respect of human nature.

[Anonymous No.17783137]

>>17778842
Crime and Punishment

[Anonymous No.17784834]

>>17783137
me too

[Anonymous No.17785944]

>>17778842

[Anonymous No.17785968]

>>17783128
fag

[Anonymous No.17785974]

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon. I have read both V. and Crying of Lot 49 so far. I really enjoyed CoL49 but was more lukewarm with V. I enjoyed many of the individual parts of V. but felt like it just didnt work as one whole book. Maybe it could’ve been two separate books but idk. Anyways I’m enjoying Inherent Vice so far and after I finish I will probably keep going with Ulysses.