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What is the most beautiful piece of literature you have read /lit/?

>> No.2712887

bump

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Please respond.

>> No.2712894

Oh you, /lit/ doesn't read.

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>> No.2712897

under the volcano or moby-dick. although both are also tragic.

>> No.2712899

>>2712894
this is not /v/

>>2712885

The Old Man And The Sea
Siddhartha

simply beautiful

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>> No.2712901

Catcher In the Rye. It was the first book where I felt such a deep connection with the protag.

>> No.2712903

Patrick White - The Vivisector

>> No.2712904

btw OP

no need to bump the thread every 5 minutes. this is one of the slowest boards on 4chan.

>> No.2712906

Maybe Zarathustra?

>> No.2712907

The Bible.

>> No.2712908

>>2712904

Good point.

>> No.2712917

The Sound and the Fury
Infinite Jest
Gravity's Rainbow
Mason & Dixon
The Brothers Karamazov

>> No.2712918

>>2712906
What? Zathustra was essentialy a failure. He failed at clarifying and setting forth examples of his philosophy, and he ends up going back and forth between a man of science, and a prophet.

His prose is not worth speaking of, as he never was any good at it. Actually, he was pretty fucking bad.

>> No.2712922

Portrait of The Artist as a young man. Or at least parts of it.

>> No.2712930

>>2712918

How so?

>> No.2712937

>>2712917

Holy fuck, I'm /lit/core

I need to read more books

>> No.2712946

Maupassant - Bel-Ami
Gogol - Dead Souls

>> No.2712948

Invisible Man
Not to be confused with The Invisible Man

>> No.2712949

The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew It Was None of His Business

>> No.2712957

Please post more classics

>> No.2712959

The book "Island" by Aldous Huxley

>> No.2712967

>>2712959
Read it.

More

xox

>> No.2712969

The Brothers Karamazov.

>> No.2712971

>>2712969
Read it

More

xoxox

>> No.2712989

There is something hauntingly beautiful to be found in Blood Meridian.

>> No.2712990

>>2712989
trying too hard bro

>> No.2712991

hero of our time by lermontov

almost anything by pushkin

>> No.2712996

>>2712991
Please keep posting

I`ve read the Russians, even Pushkin`s incomplete stories :(

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>>2712967

well i was drawn to island because i was using psychedelics at the time and i knew they were in the book but in the end i loved it as a book even though the drugs were a small part of it

although if you are interested in the subject of psychs i would strongly recommend

"The Psychedelic Experience" by Timothy Leary
"Food of the Gods" by Terence McKenna
"Breaking Open the Head" by Daniel Pinchbeck
"Acid Dreams" Martin Lee

all quality pieces of literature

>> No.2713015

La Chartreuse de Parme, Stendhal

Emma, Austen

Le Génie du christianisme, Chateaubriand

La Nouvelle Héloïse, Rousseau

Paradise Lost, Milton

Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare

La Gerusalemme liberata, Tasso

Aeneis, Vergilius

Heauton Timorumenos, Terentius

À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, Proust

Aurélie, Nerval

>> No.2713018

The very cliche Nabokovian "Lolita"

>> No.2713019

Paradise Lost.

It is beautiful like the Alps.

>> No.2713023

>>2713015
>Aeneis, Vergilius

That's painfully pretentious. Just call it 'Aeneid'. By 'Virgil'/'Vergil'. You're not a Roman.

>> No.2713028

My favorite novel is either The Bell Jar or The Things They Carried. I'm an English major, but I haven't read too many books that I really enjoyed.

>> No.2713045

>>2712922
The first half was amazing, especially at the beach.
Joyce should've ended it there in my opinion.

>> No.2713046

>>2712918
I read it mostly as a hortatory book and it was inspirational as fuck. To me, it's more an experiment in unorthodox philosophical rumination (?) than an actual system? Like Nietzsche is inserting his philosophy (or his perspective of it) into his stream of consciousness and feeding the results into a book.

I can't speak for the prose since I can't read German, and I don't really care if it was a commercial failure. It made me feel feels I'd never felt before and it made me read an absolute ton of other shit.

And yes I'm aware this whole post is pretentious as fuck but I am having trouble toning it down and still getting my point across.

>> No.2713051

>>2713023

You don't know me. You're pretentious.

>> No.2713146

The book of disquiet

>> No.2713154

Winesburg, Ohio
The Sound and The Fury
The Mill on the Floss
To the Lighthouse

>> No.2713156

>>2713045

obviouslydidntunderstandthebook.gif

>> No.2713178

Who Will Run The Frog Hosptial? by Lorrie Moore

>> No.2713258

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
particularly the middle section, Swann in Love.

The Black Pearl [by Scott O'Dell] I read in ISS in like... 6th or 8th grade. I was particularly taken with it then... whether it's still good, I'm not sure.

Also, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

>> No.2713315

>>2712918
>Neitzsche
>Clarify

His made the point in "Beyond Good and Evil" that he worked hard for his opinions and other people are not entitled to them without hard work, thus he had no interest in dumbing them down for you

>Can't understand
>Therefore bad

>> No.2713330

Am a pleb if I say that the most beautiful piece of lit I've ever read is The Road by Cormac McCarthy?

I know it's only a few years old and it was basically just a post apocalyptic novel. But... fuck. The aesthetic beauty of that book reached deep, deep into me. It's haunting, that book.

>> No.2713335

the Holy Bible

>> No.2713341

Fight Club

>> No.2713345

Norweigan Wood.

I can't listen to that song anymore without thinking of Naoko, Reiko, Brosagawa or Midori.

>> No.2713414

Stories of your life and others by Ted Chiang

>> No.2713422

Eeee eeee EEEeeeeeaeeee

>> No.2713488

>>2712918
>blames nietzsche for not being rigorous enough
>2012

must be summertiem

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Classics:
Faust, siddhartha, Animal farm, brave new world, alison in wonderland

Other:
The Name of the Wind, the maze runner, (Forgotten Realms)

>> No.2713492

>>2712918
the one thing nietzsche could do, that he was exceptional at, was prose. he wasn't a scientist and he was a pretty shitty philosopher even as continentals go but goddamnit he was a good fucking writer

>> No.2713508

"you´re not the father"

lab test

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>>2713492
>he was a pretty shitty philosopher

>> No.2713533

>>2713004
I'm surprised you didn't mention Huxley's "The Doors of Perception" and "Heaven & Hell". Only stuff I've read on psychedelics; they were pretty good.

As for my "most beautiful piece of literature you have read", I can't really pick a single one. Stuff by Shakespeare, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Hardy, and Nabokov would be my top 5 though.

>> No.2713535

Song of Myself