/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.23500995]

What is the greatest book ever written?

[sage No.23501005]

Fuck you phoneposter.

[Anonymous No.23501022]

>>23500995
>Juden Peterstein
Clearly not Brothers Karamazoz
Captcha: D0TND

[Anonymous No.23501033]

>>23500995
The Divine Comedy

[Anonymous No.23501035]

>>23500995
It certainly is not. “Dosteovsky is the greatest” is the opinion of people who have only read dostoevsky

[Anonymous No.23501041]

>>23500995
Genealogy of Morals

[Anonymous No.23501042]

Nothing by King of Midwits, Dostoyevsky himself.

[Anonymous No.23501044]

>>23500995
The King James Bible

[Anonymous No.23501222]

Les Chants De Maldoror

[Anonymous No.23501381]

>>23500995
Don Quixote.

Note: I don't consider poems or plays books.

[Anonymous No.23501411]

>>23501222
Dimwit

[Anonymous No.23501417]

>>23501044
This

[Anonymous No.23501430]

>>23501044
*Lutherbibel

[Anonymous No.23501540]

Infinite Jest

[Anonymous No.23501748]

>>23501540
DFW was unironically a bad writer

[Anonymous No.23502323]

>>23501044
Seventh post best post.

[Anonymous No.23503040]

>>23500995
If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity – all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of ”sinning their way to Jesus” or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, ”spilling Jesus all over the place." Crime and Punishment’s plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked—placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway. Dostoyevsky seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.

[Anonymous No.23503044]

>>23500995
No books were ever written

[Anonymous No.23503058]

>>23500995
Other than the Holy Bible, if I were stranded on an island and I could bring three books, the other two would be Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy and Montaigne's Essays.

[Anonymous No.23503113]

Why are pseuds and redditors so obsessed with dostoevsky?

[Anonymous No.23503135]

>>23501044
>Greatest book ever written
>ever written
>written
The Bible was not written.

[Anonymous No.23503146]

>>23500995
>INFJ praises INFJ
>thinks he's objective
Jung really just preemptively wrecked the living shit out of most critics.

[Anonymous No.23503161]

Moby Dick. As always, Americans do it better and everyone else seethes.

[Anonymous No.23503170]

>>23503135
...Yes. It was.

[Anonymous No.23503188]

>>23503161
Everything about american felt artificial to me

[Anonymous No.23503197]

>>23500995
the one jordan peterson wont read apparently. ive not read it, myself yet. however i did enjoy that irvine welsh book about a dodgy scottish cop and the worm inside him. the worm bit annoyed me though cause it covered the words on the pages and i couldnt work i all out. glad it was only brief when it did appear. forget the name of the book, i read it 25 years ago. everyone then started gushing about it though cause they made a film about it which ive not seen. if i recall the book ill read it again.

[Anonymous No.23503200]

>>23501005
shit the fuck up, book poster. didnt even make a book recommendation. i have one for you

[Anonymous No.23503208]

>>23503135
Were jews printing even back then?
Or did the demiurge do it?

[Anonymous No.23503224]

>>23501748
>>23501540
anons, wtf? why is Int Arch not letting anyone “Borrow” this book? not like they are limited to one copy. there are numerous uploads but all say the same shit at the top. also, isnt that the book that has the smallest font ever? i did have it downloaded but i cant see it in my collection

[Anonymous No.23503226]

>>23503113
They want literature to be homework, and Dosto is the poster boy for "meaningful" books that are tailor-made for dissection, full of Big Obvious Ideas to pin and mount. Style and language guaranteed to not get in the way. Just pure, loveless reading. Gold star for robot boy.

[Anonymous No.23504296]

>>23503197
The book is called Filth

[Anonymous No.23505330]

>>23500995
Book? Idk, the Bible? Novel, just by technical pioneerism it is Madame Bovary — no buts, it perfectly represents the marian woman under the iluminist manure; whereas narrative poem is either The Illiad or The Divine Comedy — the Illiad contains the entire struggle of the classical man of becoming a myth himself, a legendary demi-god, remembered for all eternity for his deeds, which indeed happened with the Apotheosis of the Ceasars. The Divine Comedy too has all the dramas of western man; a christian apocaliptic vision in point of view of a staunch and erudite political figure on the proper way to reach Heaven, representing the dialetical fight the between Temporal and Spiritual, gnosis and catholicism, our adoration of the ideal edenic past and the casualties to reconquer it, with all examples of spiritual failure, expiation, sucess, doctrines and veiled messages.

[Anonymous No.23505344]

>>23503040
Nabokov is so fucking based, I can't

[Anonymous No.23505356]

>>23501042
Nobody thought Dostoevsky was the king of midwits until Jordan Peterson started talking about him. If anything, you’re the midwit for dismissing an author because some guy you don’t like likes the author. Than actual midwit sentiment. You see it all the time. Smart people don’t do that.

[Anonymous No.23505379]

>>23505356
Nabokov was right, cope

[Anonymous No.23505382]

>>23505379
Nabokov was the king of midwits lmao. He’s ever mediocre girl in a graduate English program’s favorite novelist.

[Anonymous No.23505412]

>>23505382
Calm down Lex

[Anonymous No.23505418]

>>23503135
God sure kept his promise when he promised to destroy the wisdom of people like you.

[Anonymous No.23505420]

>>23503113
>Nietzsche was a pseud
True

[Anonymous No.23505467]

>>23500995
Ecclesiastes

[Anonymous No.23505471]

If another nigger says le bible again... You only get to say the bible if you count it as fiction not holy book you insufferable fag.

[Anonymous No.23505482]

The Bible, the non-fiction holy book

[Anonymous No.23505752]

>>23500995
Brothers Karamazov

[Anonymous No.23505925]

>>23503113
Novel: Ulysses
Novella: Heart of Darkness
Short stories: Borges
Play: Faust
Poem: Honestly hard to say. Beowulf, Dante, Milton, Pound, Blake are definitely contenders

[Anonymous No.23506006]

>>23505471
> the holy book is not a book because I said so ok

[Anonymous No.23506343]

>>23505471
Seethe more, the Bible.

[Anonymous No.23506356]

>>23501381
Yeah, we noted that, and that's why we find you uncultured.

[Anonymous No.23506597]

>>23505752
which translation tho

[Anonymous No.23506616]

>>23506597
Stan Blennberger

[Anonymous No.23506801]

>>23500995
Ulysses

At least if I am guessing correctly whatever you mean by "greatest book."

[Anonymous No.23506807]

Other than the Bible? Anything written by Melville

[Anonymous No.23506813]

>>23506801
And why's that