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Recommend me a book, where the author treats the world as an arena. Something akin to Might is Right is what I'm looking for

>> No.4273479

Levianthan

>> No.4273501

>>4273479
/thread

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Stirner reposted.

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>>4273479
>>4273567

>> No.4273650

>>4273576
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renzo_Novatore
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/authors/renzo-novatore

>> No.4273695

>Might is Right

I recently read Arthur Desmond is speculated to be Ragnar Redbeard. Check out Desmond's other (assuming the rumor is true) book Rival Caesars (link me when you find it too).

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>>4273695
>Rival Caesars

I've been trying to find this book for hours now to no avail.

>> No.4274055

neechee edge 2000

>> No.4274091

>>4273449
Blindness - Jose Saramago

>> No.4274094

Hunger Games

>> No.4274112

>>4274091
How was it?

>> No.4274116

>>4274112
I don't know "might is Right" but the asylum setting the majority of the book is set in was like an arena. Like a panopticon thing for the action to take place.

>> No.4274121

>>4274116
Is the protagonist blind throughout the book? Honestly, it puts me off a bit, but interests me at the same time.

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>>4274116
AUGH! Typing while watching tv is never a good idea.

>>4274121
Everyone goes blind, a white blindness, except for one character, none of which have any proper names. The sentences run together without quotation marks (a bit like Candide and other works I suppose) but it all makes perfect sense. Does the whole world go blind? (I think the lesser and very separate sequel, Seeing, goes into the details left out of Blindness) That's never answered. Its just that kind of book.

>> No.4275039 [DELETED] 

>>4274116
Might is Right is a sort of rambling philosophical or at least opinionated half poetry crazy shitheap of social darwinism and amoralism. It's a good contester for the most edgy thing ever written award and it's absolutely delicious. An excerpt:

>I gaze into the glassy eye of your fearsome Jehovah, and
pluck him by the beard — I uplift a broad-axe and split open his
worm-eaten skull.

>I blast out the ghastly contents of philosophic whited
sepulchres and laugh with sardonic wrath.

>Then reaching up the festering and varnished facades of
your haughtiest moral dogmas, I write thereon in letters of blazing
scorn: — "Lo and behold, all this is fraud!"

>> No.4275041

>>4274116
Might is Right is a sort of rambling philosophical or at least opinionated half poetry crazy shitheap of social darwinism and amoralism. It's a good contester for the most edgy thing ever written award and it's absolutely delicious. An excerpt:

>I gaze into the glassy eye of your fearsome Jehovah, and
>pluck him by the beard — I uplift a broad-axe and split open his
>worm-eaten skull.

>I blast out the ghastly contents of philosophic whited
>sepulchres and laugh with sardonic wrath.

>Then reaching up the festering and varnished facades of
>your haughtiest moral dogmas, I write thereon in letters of blazing
>scorn: — "Lo and behold, all this is fraud!"

>> No.4275061

>>4275041
It's edgy, but the man somewhat lived the life and that makes it less edgy. Even without knowing that, the genuineness shines through.
Edge is having similar sentiments divorced from life experience then writing about them super seriously as if you do.

>> No.4275112

>>4275041
>>4275061
Help me find Rival Caesars, please. ;_;

>> No.4275116

>>4275061
Isn't the identity of the author still disputed?

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>>4275041
Reminds me of this.

>> No.4275125

>>4275116
It was speculated to be either Jack London or Arthur Desmond. The book was published when Jack London was 14 years old, so unless he was some kind of prodigy, we'll give the credit to Arthur Desmond.

>> No.4275162

>>4275125
Or just some completely other guy who no one has heard of.

>> No.4275197

>>4275162
I unironically think it's some of the best writing Australia and New Zealand have made.

>> No.4275247

>>4275197
I didn't now AUS & NZ made literature at all.

>> No.4275331

>>4275041
This reads like black metal lyrics, but there, edginess is the name of the game.

>> No.4275338

>>4275331
He's merely brushing the surface in that post.