/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18213316]

ITT share a favorite book you've never/rarely heard anyone discuss on /lit/
For me it's pic related. I'm not well-versed enough in the period's history to verify that his thesis is correct, but it contains the most lifelike depictions of the Middle Ages I've ever read

[Anonymous No.18213327]

>>18213316
I love A Tale of Two Cities. The author, Charles Dickens, is pretty obscure, so /lit/ never discusses him.

[Anonymous No.18213328]

Call of the Crocodile.

[Anonymous No.18213348]

>>18213316
Mantak Chia will change your life

[Anonymous No.18213357]

>>18213328
I’d rather talk about Call of the Kappa for once. Why is Crocodile the only one of those books /lit ever talks about?

[Anonymous No.18213358]

>>18213328
>inb4 The Bible
>inb4 Call of the Crocodile
>inb4 Mein Kampf
>inb4 Marx
>inb4 Ted K
>inb4 Infinite Jest
>inb4 Gravity's Rainbow
>inb4 Joyce
>inb4 Harassment Architecture
>inb4 Bronze Age Mindset
>inb4 The Greeks
>inb4 Junger

[Anonymous No.18213375]

>>18213358

[Anonymous No.18213376]

my diary, desu.

[Anonymous No.18213441]

And whenever it is talked about, most anons who know it seethe like there's no tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.18213468]

>>18213441
Don't know what that is but I like the snail.

[Anonymous No.18213476]

>>18213441
What's the appeal of this if you're not hispanic?

[Anonymous No.18213481]

>>18213441
It's not that good

[Anonymous No.18213518]

>>18213468
It's about the creation of a future race through mestization.

>>18213476
If you've read it, you'd know.
It talks about the four main races of the world: caucasian, amerindian, black and mongoloid.
Now, that's millions of people around the globe.

[Anonymous No.18213522]

>>18213441
Quick run down? Is this like the Spanish Call of the Crocodile?

[Anonymous No.18213523]

[Anonymous No.18213526]

>>18213518
The creation and continuation*

[Anonymous No.18213546]

>>18213522
>>18213518
I actually wrote a very short summary of it; here it is:


The 5th and last race will constitute universality, in which the four main races of the world — the white man, the red man, the black man, and the yellow man — will go through a mestization process in Iberoamerica.

This process had already started, but due to the Napoleonic stupidity, hispanoamerica became independent.
Thusly, this operation came to an end, which is to be continued in the future.

Their more beautiful features, aspects, intelligence: their eugenics will create the final, and true human, cosmic race.

[Anonymous No.18213575]

>>18213546
Latin America is a dysgenic shithole though

[Anonymous No.18213767]

>>18213523
Based and submissionpilled

[Anonymous No.18215265]

>>18213441
Mestizo cope lmao

[Anonymous No.18215361]

I find Huizinga's arguments convincing, to the extent that he's talking about French and Flemish court culture.
He barely discusses Italy and the Holy Roman Empire, where the situation was quite different.
Interesting book though, it's hard to imagine the paradoxal mindset of the aristocracy back then.

[Anonymous No.18215374]

>>18213481
>>18215265
Seethe.

[Anonymous No.18215893]

>>18213441
Mexico is not a country, it’s a collection of independent states. Fuck your rewrite of the Revolution propaganda. Ulises criollo was pretty good, though.

[Anonymous No.18215934]

>>18213546
>>18213441
But even mestizos are implicit white supremacists.

[Anonymous No.18216184]

>>18213441
literally "we wuz corn n sheit". Ulises Criollo is a much better work than that. But of course it would be shilled here, it checks all the boxes.

[Anonymous No.18216234]

>>18213316
This book is amazing for any one who is competent in Latin. Although most English scholars call the 11th ce to the 14th ce a dark age in English literature, this book argues that this time period was actually flourishing in belles lettres. The only problem is that the literature was written in Latin, not in English. As a consequence, most English scholars, who do lack Latin, since they focus on Old English, and try to displace the importance of the Anglo-Latin tradition for a purely English cannon, skip over this and concentrate on either Old English or Chaucer, Langland, the poet of Sir Gawain, i.e. middle English writers.

[Anonymous No.18216406]

>>18213518
>race mixing
burn it

[Anonymous No.18216638]

>>18213327
To be fair I never see Dickens brought up on /lit/ either.

[Anonymous No.18218405]

Really liked this one

[Anonymous No.18218412]

>>18213348
Is this shit for real?

[Anonymous No.18218441]

>>18218412
Yeah but it involves sticking things up your butt.

[Anonymous No.18219885]

>>18213316
>J. Bazinga