/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19211577]

What is the most life-affirming book you've read, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.19211586]

[Anonymous No.19211587]

I avoid such books. Why would I invest into life lol

[Anonymous No.19211590]

Klages

[Anonymous No.19211595]

>>19211577
Dracula, unironically

[Anonymous No.19211765]

[Anonymous No.19212043]

vump

[Anonymous No.19212051]

>>19211577
Harry Potter, is that what you need in your life, anon?

[Anonymous No.19212056]

>>19211586
Tbh

[Anonymous No.19212057]

>>19211577
the alchemist
plato's symposium
watership down

[Anonymous No.19212074]

>>19211577
Just started reading this one and it's great. It's about a man who's getting on in the years making a series of toasts to the people who've mattered the most to him. It's very cozy. Best enjoyed with a pint of Guinness.

[Anonymous No.19212079]

>>19211595
dracula was also excellent

DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
7 September.
(...)
"Right, my friend," he said. "Quite right! Better he not know as
yet. Perhaps he will never know. I pray so, but if it be needed,
then he shall know all. And, my good friend John, let me caution you.
You deal with the madmen. All men are mad in some way or the other,
and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with
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God's madmen too, the rest of the world. You tell not your madmen
what you do nor why you do it. You tell them not what you think. So
you shall keep knowledge in its place, where it may rest, where it may
gather its kind around it and breed. You and I shall keep as yet what
we know here, and here." He touched me on the heart and on the
forehead, and then touched himself the same way. "I have for myself
thoughts at the present. Later I shall unfold to you."
"Why not now?" I asked. "It may do some good. We may arrive at some
decision." He looked at me and said, "My friend John, when the corn is
grown, even before it has ripened, while the milk of its mother earth
is in him, and the sunshine has not yet begun to paint him with his
gold, the husbandman he pull the ear and rub him between his rough
hands, and blow away the green chaff, and say to you, 'Look! He's
good corn, he will make a good crop when the time comes.'"
I did not see the application and told him so. For reply he reached
over and took my ear in his hand and pulled it playfully, as he used
long ago to do at lectures, and said, "The good husbandman tell you so
then because he knows, but not till then. But you do not find the
good husbandman dig up his planted corn to see if he grow. That is
for the children who play at husbandry, and not for those who take it
as of the work of their life. See you now, friend John? I have sown
my corn, and Nature has her work to do in making it sprout, if he
sprout at all, there's some promise, and I wait till the ear begins to
swell." He broke off, for he evidently saw that I understood. Then he
went on gravely, "You were always a careful student, and your case
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book was ever more full than the rest. And I trust that good habit
have not fail. Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than
memory, and we should not trust the weaker. Even if you have not kept
the good practice, let me tell you that this case of our dear miss is
one that may be, mind, I say may be, of such interest to us and others
that all the rest may not make him kick the beam, as your people say.
Take then good note of it. Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put
down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of
interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not
from success!"

[Anonymous No.19212083]

solzhenitsyn's cancer ward
gogol's the tale of how ivan ivanovich quarreled with ivan nikiforovich

[Anonymous No.19212163]

>>19211577
Andre Gide Fruits of the Earth

[Anonymous No.19212222]

>>19211765
sounds pretty cool from the little ive heard about it.anything its comparable to? anything in particular that you loved about it?

[Anonymous No.19212253]

>>19211577
Life affirmation philosophies lead you to vulnerability and away from tranquility. The balanced ship stays afloat where others sink.

[Anonymous No.19212257]

>>19211586
This, only mentally weak faggots find Cioran depressing

[Anonymous No.19212279]

>>19211577
Spinoza Practical Philosophy and the Confessions

[Anonymous No.19212298]

Thus Spake Zarathustra

[Anonymous No.19212645]

>>19211577

[Anonymous No.19212818]

The Fountainhead, of course.

[Anonymous No.19212837]

>>19212818

[Anonymous No.19212850]

unironically stoner

[Anonymous No.19212853]

homer and nietzsche.

[Anonymous No.19212864]

Life "affirming" means affirming that life will never be good or ideal

[Anonymous No.19213008]

>>19211577
The Prophet

[Anonymous No.19213303]

Moby-Dick

[Anonymous No.19213358]

>>19211577
Browning C (1993) Ordinary Men

[Anonymous No.19213364]

>>19211577
It might be Siddhartha

[Anonymous No.19213454]

>>19211577
Pickwick Papers

[Anonymous No.19213462]

>>19212818
Based and randpilled

[Anonymous No.19213503]

>>19212818
kys

[Anonymous No.19213515]

>>19211577
I haven't read many books like that. The only one I can think of is der steppenwolf tbqh.

[Anonymous No.19213520]

>>19212818
fascist

[Anonymous No.19213607]

>>19213520
bro...

[Anonymous No.19213630]

>>19213520
I am shocked to learn that Ayn Rand was in fact a collectivist. You learn something new every day.

[Anonymous No.19213647]

>>19211577

[Anonymous No.19213702]

Master & Margarita

[Anonymous No.19213722]

Life of Don Quixote and Sancho, by Miguel de Unamuno. Made me want to become a follower of the Knight of La Mancha in a sense, just going on the pursuit of a noble goal, no matter how simple or ridiculous it is.

[werther No.19214191]

i love cioran but he makes me want to kill myself sometimes

[werther No.19214202]

>>19212257
so true.. someone must be such a pussy to think that his works might shed even a bit of ironic sorrow..

[Anonymous No.19214208]

Either Siddhartha or Steppenwolf.