/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21271302]

Any good books about the cold? It used to snow so much more when I was a kid and it makes me sad. I can only imagine what nature was like before industrialization

[Anonymous No.21271732]

>>21271302
as an artlet, what makes this painting so good?
I've seen it praised as one of the greatest of all time, referenced in other media etc etc

but I just don't see it desu senpai. There's some other work of Bruegel I think is great like the Tower of Babel
but other Dutch and Flemish painters like Rubens or Vermeer are just so much better

[Anonymous No.21271739]

>>21271732
bottom left corner

[Anonymous No.21272062]

>used to have a full foot of snow by Halloween every year
>haven't had any by then for years now
It hurts.

Mason & Dixon had really great descriptions of the snow though.

[Anonymous No.21272086]

>>21271302
The Terror

[Anonymous No.21272169]

>>21271732
It's definitely not one of the greatest ever but the colors and horizon are appealing.

[Anonymous No.21272184]

>>21271302
>when you see it

[Anonymous No.21272186]

>>21272086
S1 of the show was pretty good.

[Anonymous No.21272665]

>>21271302
Comfy/spooky story by Jack London
https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/to-build-a-fire.pdf

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[Anonymous No.21272975]

>>21271302
>he doesn't live in a country that regularly has 50+ cm depth of snow cover during winter

[Anonymous No.21273194]

Where ya from? I have never seen snow. And I never will. You're much luckier

[Anonymous No.21273592]

>>21271739
he do be shittin tho

[Anonymous No.21273649]

>>21271302
tarjej vesaas - ice palace

[Anonymous No.21273824]

Your eyes were closer to the ground. Take the nostalgia glasses off

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[Anonymous No.21273945]

>>21271732
>what makes this painting so good?
its authentic

theres a lot of reasons you can find something good or bad its entirely subjective. thats my reason

[Anonymous No.21274204]

>>21272169
Of course it is.

[Anonymous No.21274240]

This probably doesn't really count but I just finished Mccarthys The Road and there were parts when the characters are cold and wet or exposed that kind of made me feel a bit of a chill

[Anonymous No.21274280]

vesaas the ice palace
quick read, kinda pedo, well written
surprised people dont talk about it more here

[Anonymous No.21274346]

This might be retarded bc the book is in Dutch, but this was such a damn good read.

The MC goes to work on a Finnish farm for a year and it's cold as fuck. Most of the time he is chopping trees and riding a tractor. One point he almost dies.

Felt hella cold.

Also, the trees on the cover are embossed or whatever so the cover is bumpy like bark.

[Anonymous No.21274455]

>>21272062
Thanks.

[Anonymous No.21274577]

>>21271302
When it comes to cold nothing beats that russian gulag cold.

[Anonymous No.21274710]

>>21272086
kino

[Anonymous No.21274745]

>>21271302
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
A theme of the book is the coldness between and disconnection of the characters.
The short story Master and Man by Tolstoy is also good. A landowner and peasant set out on a day's journey and find themselves caught in a blizzard.

[Anonymous No.21276058]

>>21272062
>>used to have a full foot of snow by Halloween every year
>>haven't had any by then for years now
>It hurts.
Same, I really hate climate change.

[Anonymous No.21276066]

The book 1812 by Adam Zamoyski contains some very vivid accounts of what the cold did to Napoleon's troops. The most notable of which is that soldier's would have their penis freeze when they went to take a piss.

[N E M O . !!GgBWHLRiayD No.21276385]

Few things are more refreshing & invigorating than cold showers —both: literal, and figurative, ones—; they aid in rendering distance, and in building resistance, without unnecessarily damaging the body; in enhancing breathwork, and hence in ae(the)ropressurization; in tempering impulse, and in improving prudence; the colder the water the closer it is in inverse intensity to fire.

Cold straightens, as silence vastens: excellence in silence, consecration in cold.

[Anonymous No.21276919]

>>21274577
checked

[Anonymous No.21277028]

>>21271302
New Grub Street is a very cold novel.

[Anonymous No.21277123]

>>21271302
"To Build a Fire" is completely and totally essential.
https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/to-build-a-fire.pdf

[Anonymous No.21277157]

>>21272062
why in hell would you want snow on halloween?
i always had to cover my costume in winter clothes and it was not appreciated

[Anonymous No.21277749]

>>21271732
Vermeer and Rubens were the better draftsmen for sure. But Rubens only truly succeeded in portraiture and Vermeer only did extremely rigidly constructed, austere interiors.
Bruegel on the other hand
>has a massive sense of scope
>has a command over not only the human figure, but natural landmarks, entire villages
>his ability to pose simplistic figures is more in line with a modern animator or cartoonist
>genuinely funny. The paintings are filled with culturally understood memes and shitposts from the time
>can fill a giant composition with figures without them competing for space or crowding each other. Each pose is easily readable
>that atmospheric perspective in the background
>that balancing of positive and negative space so the eye doesn't get overwhelmed
>look how much dimensionality he gives the tree branches with so few values I mean holy shit

[Anonymous No.21277755]

>>21277749
Actually I take back what I said about Rubens, I was just talking shit.

[Anonymous No.21277784]

>>21276385
cold showers lose their effect after a week. always annoying to go back to warm showers for a month just to lower your tolerance enough to feel something. those first couple days are great. better than anything else for waking you up and clearing your mind.

[Anonymous No.21278969]

I know it's been mentioned a couple times already but The Ice Palace is great. You could probably finish it in a day

I also recommend Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

[Anonymous No.21278990]

>>21274745
Seconding this.

[Anonymous No.21279137]

>>21271732
Good colors, good content, good lines that allow the viewer's focus to flow across the painting. These things are easy to notice in a good picture, but hard to re-create in an original one.

[N E M O . !!GgBWHLRiayD No.21279206]

>>21277784
>cold showers lose their effect after a week.

Not really; if you get used to them that means that they become a part of your rational texture —so long as you maintain your regimen—; beside, you can always lower the temperature, or stay longer, if you you want to excel.


>better than anything else for waking you up and clearing your mind.

If you took them before going to sleep you would wake up with a clearer mind.

[Anonymous No.21280246]

the pedersen kid by vesaas

[Anonymous No.21280248]

>>21280246
my brain is broken, i mean pedersen kid by gass, or ice palace by vesaas

[Anonymous No.21280699]

>>21277749
Rubens' portraits are goated though

[Anonymous No.21280770]

>>21271302
Franz Kafka Das Schloss is set in a snowy setting.

[Anonymous No.21280896]

A quintessential book for lovers of the cold and Russian literature is "The Blizzard" by Vladimir Sorokin.
It has good characters, mystery and an excess of snow.

[Anonymous No.21280921]

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>>21272665
based