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ITT: WE POST/RECOMMEND/DISCUSS LITERATURE THAT IS ALMOST NEVER BROUGHT UP IN /LIT/ IN THE HOPE TO FURTHER STIMULATE ALL HERE IN THE DIVERSITY OF THEIR READING

PICTURE VERY RELATED

>> No.2354882
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WHAT I DO NOT GET IS HOW PROLIFIC AN AUTHOR CUMMINGS IS, AND YET SOMETHING LIKE THIS GETS HARDLY ANY MENTION ON /LIT/

EVEN ON THE THOUSANDS OF 'READ CATCH-22 OR SOME OTHER FUNNY BOOK AND WANT MORE', THIS ALMOST NEVER COMES UP.

PRETTY MUCH BASED ON HIS OWN EXPERIENCES OF BEING ARRESTED AND CONTAINED BY FRENCH AUTHORITIES FOR NO REASON AT ALL, DURING WW I IN WHICH HE VOLUNTEERED.

HUMOROUS SHIT, EVEN THOUGH IT IS FICTIONALISED TO A DEGREE. THE ONLY SET-BACK IS THE IMMENSE AMOUNT OF FRENCH THROUGHOUT THE NOVEL THAT IS NOT TRANSLATED.

AMAZING CAST OF CHARACTERS AND UNFORGETTABLE HUMOUR AND PLOT, HIS PROSE IS SOMETHING SPECIAL TOO.

PICTURE RELATED, MORE ABOUT THE SENSELESS BUREAUCRACY BEHIND WAR AND ITS FUTILITY, ALSO BASED ON WW I AND VERY FUNNY

IF CANNOT READ TITLE IN PICTURE, IT IS THE GOOD SOLDIER SVEJK. BOOK HAS NICE LITTLE PICTURES THAT REALLY ADD TO THE ATMOSPHERE, SCENES, AND HUMOUR IN THE BOOK

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J.-K. Huysmans's gaudy, shocking, and largely autobiographical novel, The Damned (L&agrave-Bas) was quickly condemned and just as quickly achieved cult status. It follows Durtal, a shy, censorious man, who is writing a biography of Gilles de Rais, the fifteenth-century nobleman, child-murderer, and supposed model for "Bluebeard." Bored and disgusted by the vulgarity of everyday life, Durtal seeks spiritual solace by immersing himself in another age. But when he meets the exquisitely evil Madame Chantelouve, he is drawn inextricably into the twilight world of black magic and erotic devilry in fin-de-si&egravecle Paris


MAY OR MAY NOT DUMP OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS UNTIL I GO TO SLEEP, IT IS 3:30AM. WOULD LIKE IF OTHERS FOLLOWED SUIT

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First published in 1686, this collection of five novellas was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world that was Genroku Japan, and the book's popularity has increased with age, making it today a literary classic like Boccaccio's Decameron, or the works of Rabelais.

PRETTY MUCH PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WOMEN GETTING FUCKED OVER BECAUSE OF INDULGING IN FORBIDDEN LOVE

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You should really read it if you like Camus or Kafka.

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SEE MY THOUGHTS ON THE BOOK HERE

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/252073120

>> No.2354914
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Not sure if you guys have heard of it, it's really good.

>> No.2354911

>>2354900
Was it any good? Thought about checking it out later on.

>> No.2354915
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>>2354911
ONLY POSTING BOOKS IF I WOULD RECOMMEND THEM

CHECK IT OUT

THIS IS A PRETTY INTENSE BOOK, BUT THE NUANCED CHRISTIANITY MESSAGE WAS A BIT SKETCHY

>> No.2354916

>>2354915
This haunting novel explores the complete degradation and isolation of a man by war. Set on a Philippine island during World War II where the Japanese army is disintegrating under the blows of the American forces landings, Private Tamura's own private battles cost him first his hope and then his sanity as he loses his own tenuous ties with human society.


FORGOT TO POST

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>> No.2354923

>>2354909
BEEN MEANING TO CHECK THIS OUT FOR SOME TIME, BUT CANNOT FIND ONLINE VERSION. MAY HAVE TO BUY IT WHEN I GET HOME

>> No.2354927

>>2354920
A PRETTY GRIPPING TALE. I TEND TO LOVE READING BOOKS WHERE THERE IS A DIVISION BETWEEN CHARACTERS, ESPECIALLY OVER SUCH A TOPICAL SUBJECT THAT IS EVIDENT IN THIS NOVELLA

MORE OFTEN THAN NOT I FIND MYSELF IMMERSED IN CONRAD'S SEA-FARING STORIES

>> No.2354932

>>2354920

I'm guessing this isn't on any US high school reading lists.

Is it even available for sale in bookshops?

>> No.2354934

>>2354932
WELL GUTENBERG HAS IT

>> No.2354961

Keep it rolling, faggots

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>>2354961
POST SOME YOURSELF

THIS WILL BE LAST ONE BY ME UNTIL I WAKE UP TODAY


Though banned three weeks after its publication in 1909, Vita Sexualis is far more than a prurient erotic novel. The narrator, a professor of philosophy, wrestles with issues of sexual desire, sex education, and the proper place of sensuality. He tells the story of his own journey into sexual awareness, spanning fifteen years, from his first exposure to erotic woodcuts at the age of six, to his first physical response to a woman, and his eventual encounter with a professional courtesan. Beyond being a poignant account of one boy's coming of age, Vita Sexualis is also an important record of Japan's moral struggles during the cultural upheaval of the last years of the Meiji era.
In response to the publication of Vita Sexualis, Ogai Mori was reprimanded by Japan's vice-minister of war.

>> No.2354979

James Thurber is never mentioned here. One of the few authors who has made me lol. "What Do You Mean It Was Brillig?", "The Curb In The Sky" and "The Night The Ghost Got in" are classics.

Get "The Thurber Carnival" collection of short stories. They aren't all tops but many are excellent.

>> No.2354982

>>2354979
I just recommended Secret Life of Walter Mitty, yesterday, in a short stories thread. I love that guy.

>> No.2354986

>>2354978
will this book explain why japs make weird porn and have panty vending machines?

>> No.2354989

>>2354982
Thank you! Glad to hear. Really one of the under-appreciated writers, I think. My dad would read me these stories aloud when I was a kid and we all would crack up.

>> No.2354997

>>2354845
>>2354882

Learn to turn of the caps lock faggot

>> No.2355000

>>2354997
Bitch, capslock is cruise control for cool.

>> No.2355036

You guys hear of that one book called 1984? It's very deep

>> No.2355043

>>2355000
so is them dubstrips

>> No.2355041

>>2355036
You are clever and cool and have contributed to this discussion.

>> No.2355069

>>2355041
thx

XD

>> No.2355089

>>2354986
NO HAKAS

I AM SORRY...

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I LIED

ONE MORE

G'NIGHT

A young man staying in a Paris boarding house finds a hole in the wall above his bed. Alternately voyeur and seer, he obsessively studies the private moments and secret activities of his neighbors: childbirth, first love, marriage, betrayal, illness and death all present themselves to him through this spy hole. Decades ahead of its time, "Hell" shocked and scandalized the reviewing public when first released in English in 1966. Even so, the New Republic praised "the beauty of the book's nervous yet fluid rhythms... The book sweeps, away life's illusions

>> No.2355121

Good night Capsguy

>> No.2355171

>>2355104
That sounds very interesting

>> No.2355175

>>2355121
Capsguy is actually just Coolguy having a chill day on the internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4txVqr1eNwc

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Haven't been on /lit/ for a few months ,but I am pretty sure I rarely ever see any threads talking about White Noise by Don Delilo. Labeled as post-modernsim by most critics, White Noise is about a man and is fear of death and his conquest to search for the cure to his ailment. The way the book is structured it is like one vignette after another all with some type of dry humor or some weird mention of the human condition really was a fun read.

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Ismail Kadare is a pretty good writer from Albania who has one the Booker Prize and may well win the Nobel Prize soon if rumors are true. This is my favorite book by him, but unfortunately does not fit Cappy's pre - 1950 criteria. The General of the Dead Army.

>> No.2355356

>>2355043

Dubstrips is like

WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB wobwobwob WOOOB wooob WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUBWUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUBWUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB wobwobwob WOOOB wobwobwob WOOOB wobwobwob WOOOB wobwobwob WOOOB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUBWUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUBWUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB

I love me some dubstrips

>> No.2355393

>>2355356
That's actually a really good textual representation of the music. Kudos.

>> No.2355452

>>2354882
Great book, and you've just reminded me that I lent it to someone well over a year ago and they've not returned it. Thanks CAPSGUY.

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if you haven't read this yet, go buy it now.

>> No.2355514

>>2355393

Wauw. Maybe I'm the Jack Kerouac of dubsteb.

>> No.2355522

>>2355514

Dubstep needs a Jack Kerouac. A Dharma Hipster for the new millenium.

>> No.2355559

>>2355193
I should read more from this author. "The palace of dreams" was very good, dark, and weird.
This is the only book I read from him, but it seems like every book he wrote is centered around Albania and its history. I wonder if it doesn't end to be boring.

>> No.2355609

>>2355193

>if rumors are true.

they're not. they never are.

>> No.2355626

Why aren't there book sharethreads like there are on mu but for e-books?

Didn't they used to exist when people embedded them in .jpgs... I vote that we bring them back.

>> No.2355665
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Hey hey hey hey hey!

Op! Op!

The illustration on the cover of that book. It's from London: A Pilgrimage by the artist Gustave Dore. In fact I have a copy of it sitting out on my desk right now. How strange!

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>>2354882
>>2354845

Wow... Just wow.
My version of Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol has the same cover.

>> No.2356086
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It's sort of like Barthelme, except it's spread over the course of a novella; it's more goofy than strange, and more laid-back than most of Barthelme's work.
I really haven't read anything quite like it.

>> No.2356100

Finnegans wake. Shld be talking about it all the time.

Wilhelm meister's lehrejahre by Goethe. Reading it and loving it right now.

parades end ford Maddox ford epic win

insatiablity stanislaw ignacy witkiewicz

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>>2356100
>ford Maddox ford
The Good Soldier was pretty good if you like Victorian lit.
All the characters are cunts, though.

>> No.2356293

>>2355665
>>2355687
YEAH GUYS, I HAVE SEEN THIS HAPPEN BEFORE, ESPECIALLY WITH PENGUIN EDITIONS.

STRANGE, ISN'T IT?

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WOW, DID NOT KNOW HEARN DID THE TRANSLATION. HE WAS THE GUY THAT ENDED UP LIVING IN JAPAN, HEAD OF LITERATURE AT TOKYO IMPERIAL BEFORE SOSEKI I BELIEVE. I LOVED HIS SPOOKY STORIES AND RETELLINGS OF JAPANESE FOLK TALES AS WELL

A book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptation of Saint Anthony was Flaubert’s lifelong work, thirty years in the making. Based on the story of the third-century saint who lived on an isolated mountaintop in the Egyptian desert, it is a fantastical rendering of one night during which Anthony is besieged by carnal temptations and philosophical doubt.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic reproduces the distinguished Lafcadio Hearn translation, which translator Richard Sieburth calls “a splendid period piece from one of America’s premier translators of nineteenth-century French prose. In Lafcadio Hearn’s Latinate rendering, Flaubert’s experimental drama of the modern consciousness reads as weirdly as its oneiric original.”

>> No.2356316

>>2356312
THIS DOES COME UP RELATIVELY REGULARLY, FOR /LIT/ STANDARDS THAT IS.

>> No.2356322

>>2356316
I browse /lit/ way more than I would like to admit, and I've only seen this book come up maybe....once?

>> No.2356325

>>2356322
WELL, IT DOES OCCASIONALLY RECEIVE ITS OWN THREAD AND MENTION IN GENERAL NOVELLA/GERMAN LITERATURE THREADS

>> No.2356331

>>2356322
It's been mentioned hundreds of times. It's like lit's version of An Hero.

>> No.2356332

>>2355665
>>2355687
>>2356293
Holy fuck, is /lit/ really this uneducated? That's a Van Gogh painting.

>> No.2356341

>>2356332
It's clearly a Monet, anon.

>> No.2356346

>>2356341
No, it's obviously Picasso, tripfag.

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>>2356332
>lit
>educated

>> No.2356358

>>2356313
>>2356313
I can't read Faluabert after reading Madame Bovary.

I've never hated women so much in my life.

>> No.2356363

>>2356353

I'd like to fuck her mouth and then take her knickers off, and then shove them in her mouth when I come, so that when I'm walking out of the room, she has to pull her spunkstained, shitriddled underwear out of her mouth while looking at my back as I walk our liek a baws.

I love facefucking zippers.


>chinks
>humans

pick one.

>> No.2356367

>>2356358

I thought Emma was boss, until she caught teh emo.

8/10, would smash the fuck out of.

>> No.2356385

Can anyone here recommend a book for me?
Something along the lines of the author describing his views on life (anywhere from politics/government, weather, people, space, or just life in general)?

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>>2356367

>first image search for Emma Bovary on google images
>very fucking do-able


9.2/10 would rape and/or fuck in a carriage.

>> No.2356395

>>2356358
THEN YOU ARE SILLY IF YOU ARE GOING TO IGNORE ONE OF THE BEST AUTHORS EVER, SIMPLY DUE TO DISLIKING ONE CHARACTER IN ONE OF HIS BOOKS

>> No.2356465

>>2356395

So would you fuck her, you yelling mentalist?

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>>2356465

>> No.2356495
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>>2356482

>> No.2356503

>>2356465
PERHAPS.

RECOMMEND BOOKS

>> No.2356504 [DELETED] 

Pic. Fucking. Related.

Honestly, with all the discussion of 'Lolita' on /lit/, I've almost never seen this one brought up. And it's seriously some crazy fucking shit that will knock you off your ass.

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Pic. Fucking. Related.

Honestly, with all the discussion of 'Lolita' on /lit/, I've almost never seen this one brought up. And it's seriously some crazy fucking shit that will knock you off your ass.

>> No.2356523

>>2356509
I haven't gotten around to that one, but I love Nabokov. I've read Lolita and Pale Fire, and Pnin is the next one I'm gonna go for. I'll see if I can find a copy of Ada too.

>> No.2356536

>>2356509
In literally every single Nabokov or Lolita thread I have ever seen, the "I prefer Ada or Ardour" comments outweigh the Lolita ones.

Where have you been?

>> No.2356555

>>2356536
NOT IN /LIT/ I GUESS?

LOLITA AND LAUGHTER IN THE DARK BOTH DISAPPOINTED ME, BUT I AM WILLING TO GIVE NABOKOV ONE MORE TRY WITH BEND SINISTER

>> No.2356558

>>2356503

Well, since you're shouting at me, I'll recommend A Simple Life, also by Flaubert. Mostly because I wouldn't fuck her (2/10 - loves parrots too much, would not smash).

And if it's something that never fucking ever gets recommended on /lit/ because /lit/ is full of spastics and high schoolers, then I recommend Quarantine, by Jim Crace.

If you read it, you won't read a better book this year, I guarantee it.

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>>2356558
WELL, I HIGHLY DOUBT THAT, ESPECIALLY SINCE IT IS A RETELLING OF A CHRISTIAN STORY

BUT I WILL NEVER KNOW, SINCE IT IS WAY AFTER 1950. SORRY

I AGREE WITH THE THOUGHTS ON A SIMPLE LIFE, CERTAINLY NOT HIS BEST


SINCE WE ARE ON THE TOPIC OF FRENCH BOOKS/AUTHORS, CHECK THIS SHIT GUYS

APPARENTLY IT IS IN TOP 100 BOOKS EVER WRITTEN, BUT I GUESS NO TOP 100 BOOKS ARE DEFINITIVE

>> No.2356624

>>2356586

>IT IS WAY AFTER 1950. SORRY

Oh yeah, I forgot you were some kind of retarded aspergers guy. Or more accurately, I didn't relaise you were capsguy, I just thought it was some mong shouting.

>RETELLING OF A CHRISTIAN STORY

Yeah sure, whatever you think. As you say, you'll never read it because of your fucked up rules, but that gives you an opinion anyway.

>you
>fucking idiot.

pick one.

>> No.2356744

>>2356624
DON'T BE LIKE THAT.

MY RULES ARE FUCKED UP, BUT NOT THAT FUCKED UP

READING ONLY POST 1950 WORKS WOULD BE MORE FUCKED UP IN MY OPINION

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Nobody ever mentions Racine. Unfortunate but understandable since english translations of the past have generally sucked, though there's a new one from 2010 that won some prize so that's probably worth looking into for anyone interested. Esther, Berenice, Phedre, and Athalie are my favorites. Andromaque is possibly the most popular and Britannicus is widely read as well. Alexandre le Grand, Thebaide, and Les Plaideurs (his one comedy, based on Aristophanes' Wasps) are less important. His tragedy is more strictly in line with Aristotle's definition - so no onstage killing, etc - but I'd pit its intensity against Shakespeare any day, especially if you read the french and learn to appreciate the miracle of what he achieves with a self-limited vocab of like 800 words.

>> No.2356783

>>2356744
only because it's an absurdly small timeframe

otherwise it's as arbitrary and ridiculous as your current set of restrictions

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>>2354845
>>2355665
>>2355687
I think we should let Private Eye's Books and Bookmen know about this.
>whoamikidding.msi

>> No.2356844

>>2355493

this

>> No.2358399

BUMPING BECAUSE BUMP AND 2 HOURS SLEEP AND I AM FUCKED

>> No.2358403

>>2356771
I love Bérénice. But you're right, I read it in French.