/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6236817]

http://www.nybooks.com/books/wintersale/

NYRB is having it's Winter Sale. Anyone have recommendations on what to buy?

[Anonymous No.6236840]

Amsterdam Stories and Hard Rain Falling are similar in "feels" to Stoner

Nightmare Alley left me pretty cold, others liked it

[Anonymous No.6236866]

>>6236840
Thanks mate, I'll pick these up.

[Anonymous No.6236953]

[Anonymous No.6237123]

35$ shipping overseas
;_;

[Anonymous No.6237133]

>>6236817
Seriously considering suicide
What should I read
>inb4 attention whore faggot m80

[Anonymous No.6237146]

>>6237133

The Myth of Sysphus

[Anonymous No.6237148]

Whats so special about Stoner? I see it posted here so often, I feel like its marketed. I never see John Williams listed on lists of "best classic authors" etc. Pretty sure the company that publishes his book markets on /lit/.

[Anonymous No.6237150]

>>6237146
Already read it

[Anonymous No.6237161]

>>6237148
I read Stoner because it got mentioned so often here, and it is now my favorite book of all time (barely above the Book of Disquiet). The prose is simple, but it covers a whole life of quiet indignities and sacrifice that resonated with me on a very emotional level. Also, the titular character is a literature professor, and many of his struggles in academia are relatable for those on this board.

[Anonymous No.6237166]

>winter sale
>it's still summer

[Anonymous No.6237169]

>>6237133
I'm in the same position. I am reading to the lighthouse. It's beautiful. I think you need something beautiful anon. You deserve that.

[Anonymous No.6237170]

>>6237148

It's hard to say what exactly is so great about Stoner. It's a very clinical straightforward depiction of an "intellectual" life that has sort of gone wrong but really hasn't entirely either.
I loved Stoner but it was also one of the books that helped me realize the literary life wasn't necessary paradise.

[Anonymous No.6237176]

Is Bernanos' Mouchette worth a read? Bresson's film adaptation is probably my favorite film ever.

[Anonymous No.6237177]

>>6237169
It seems interesting enough, if I gather the energy I'll buy it/read it. I've never tried Virginia Wolfe aside from some poems.
>You deserve that.
That's a stretch

[Anonymous No.6237179]

>>6237177
XOXO
-love /lit/

[Anonymous No.6237181]

>>6237177
Your dubs clearly say you do.

[Anonymous No.6237199]

>>6237177
>>6237177
We all deserve beauty anon, even the ugly souls. XOXO

[Anonymous No.6237226]

AMSTERDAM
STORIES

[Anonymous No.6237265]

Highly, highly recommend The Book of Ebenezer Le Page and Memoirs of a Revolutionary.

I personally like Beware of Pity and Stefan Zweig (whose writing influenced The Grand Budapest Hotel) but I wouldn't be as quick to suggest that because people seem to be really divided over Zweig.

[Anonymous No.6237287]

What I plan on getting:
>Amsterdam stories
>envy
>Hard Rain Falling
>Memoirs of a Revolutionary
>Growing up Absurd
Anyone got any other recs?

[Anonymous No.6237420]

Fucking hell $19 shipping and $5 more per book

Canadians always getting fucked by these things

[Anonymous No.6237515]

>>6237265
I've read Chess by Zweig and highly enjoyed it, thanks for the recs.

[Anonymous No.6237520]

>>6237166
>just_australian_feels.jpg

[John No.6237615]

>>6237133
go hiking.
seriously, it is a damn shame that so many people die without ever laying eyes on the true beauty of creation. it is a religious experience. do it.

[Anonymous No.6237630]

>>6237420
I know :(
I live in ottawa not fucking yellowknife how is 19$ even possible for shipping books.

[Anonymous No.6237641]

>>6237615
I've gone hiking before and it was something I wanted to do more but now I don't want to much of anything, heh

[Anonymous No.6237726]

>>6237226
I've been recommending this on here for a couple of years, and it seems to have catched on.
One of my all time favourites.

[Anonymous No.6237755]

I have epubs of most of NYRB, if anybody's interested. Post the titles you'd like.

[Anonymous No.6237760]

>>6237226
>>6237287

Did they sell out of those already? I didn't see any of them


Anyway, I'm definitely picking up Memories of the Future, maybe Love in a Fallen City as well.

[Anonymous No.6237767]

>>6237760

>tfw retarded

Never mind, found most of em on second look...

[Anonymous No.6237770]

cassandra at the wedding is good

[Anonymous No.6237780]

on that page happy moscow is fantastic. the queue is also good and very interesting.

[Anonymous No.6237783]

>>6237161
>the titular character is a literature professor, and many of his struggles in academia are relatable for those on this board
Heh, except that academia was waaaaaaay easier in his day. The idea of ending up a tenured professor simply because you were reasonably intelligent and gave a shit about your subject is a pretty distant dream for most now.

[Anonymous No.6237796]

>>6237615
>it is a religious experience
This calls for some Dylan Thomas.

It was my thirtieth year to heaven
Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood
And the mussel pooled and the heron
Priested shore
The morning beckon
With water praying and call of seagull and rook
And the knock of sailing boats on the webbed wall
Myself to set foot
That second
In the still sleeping town and set forth.

My birthday began with the water-
Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name
Above the farms and the white horses
And I rose
In a rainy autumn
And walked abroad in shower of all my days
High tide and the heron dived when I took the road
Over the border
And the gates
Of the town closed as the town awoke.

A springful of larks in a rolling
Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling
Blackbirds and the sun of October
Summery
On the hill's shoulder,
Here were fond climates and sweet singers suddenly
Come in the morning where I wandered and listened
To the rain wringing
Wind blow cold
In the wood faraway under me.

Pale rain over the dwindling harbour
And over the sea wet church the size of a snail
With its horns through mist and the castle
Brown as owls
But all the gardens
Of spring and summer were blooming in the tall tales
Beyond the border and under the lark full cloud.
There could I marvel
My birthday
Away but the weather turned around.

[Anonymous No.6237800]

>>6237796
It turned away from the blithe country
And down the other air and the blue altered sky
Streamed again a wonder of summer
With apples
Pears and red currants
And I saw in the turning so clearly a child's
Forgotten mornings when he walked with his mother
Through the parables
Of sunlight
And the legends of the green chapels

And the twice told fields of infancy
That his tears burned my cheeks and his heart moved in mine.
These were the woods the river and the sea
Where a boy
In the listening
Summertime of the dead whispered the truth of his joy
To the trees and the stones and the fish in the tide.
And the mystery
Sang alive
Still in the water and singing birds.

And there could I marvel my birthday
Away but the weather turned around. And the true
Joy of the long dead child sang burning
In the sun.
It was my thirtieth
Year to heaven stood there then in the summer noon
Though the town below lay leaved with October blood.
O may my heart's truth
Still be sung
On this high hill in a year's turning.

[Anonymous No.6237827]

getting love in a fallen city and the bridge and beyond
might get Alien Hearts, Beware of Pity, Great Granny Webster or Corrigan, Last Words from Montmartre, or the Elizabeth Taylor book

the Civil War book looks really good as well
too many choices

[Anonymous No.6237845]

>>6237148
lit is just following the rest of the internet, which, among book people, went crazy over Stoner (and Speedboat<3) a couple years ago and haven't stopped, both were out of print previously so [[I sound like I'm writing shit copy]]

[Anonymous No.6237852]

>>6237755
do you have Last Words from Montmartre or either Caroline Blackwood? libgen is failing me

[Anonymous No.6237900]

>>6237755
All by Victor Serge
The Letter Killers Club and Memories of the Future by Krzhizhanovksy
In the heart of the heart of the country and other stories - william. h gass
Speedboat - Renata Adler
Happy Moscow - Andrey Platonov
The radiance of the king - Camara Laye
Chaos and Night - Henry de Montherlant
White Walls : Collected stories - Tatyana Tolstaya
The Slynx - Tatyana Tolstaya
Butcher's Crossing - John Williams
Love in a Fallen City - Eileen Chang
The late Mattia Pascal - Luigi Pirandello
Letty Fox: her Luck - Christina Stead

If you will share some or all of these, you will win a couple of internets.

[Anonymous No.6237918]

>>6237900
if you google speedboat mobi you'll find it in the first result, if that link still works

[Anonymous No.6237930]

>>6237515
No problem. If you liked Chess Story, definitely pick up Beware of Pity. You could also go with Journey Into the Past, but I don't think it's as strong as the former. Only get that if you consider yourself a Zweig fan.

[Anonymous No.6237938]

Anyone have any input of the poetry?

Poets in a landscape caught my eye.

[Anonymous No.6238029]

This is the NYRB pack going around from a while ago.

New York Review Books Classics.rar
a.pomf.se/zmpvje.rar

>>6237852
>>6237900
getting you some of your stuff, probably not all though.

[Anonymous No.6238139]

>>6238029
thanks! A couple of them (>>6237900) there.

[Anonymous No.6238237]

>>6238029
based, thanks

[Anonymous No.6238311]

>>6237852
>>6237900
Here you go. There's one more Serge and Caroline Blackwood coming up eventually, check back later.

>Hope you motherfuckers choke on this shit.rar
>a.pomf.se/jtgcez.rar

[Anonymous No.6238331]

>>6238311
you are a beautiful angel

[Anonymous No.6238348]

>>6238311
>>6238029
Dear diary: Today, /lit/ was actually good

[Anonymous No.6238371]

>>6238331
>>6238348

[Anonymous No.6238391]

>>6237169
>suicidal person asks for rec
>suggests a book written by someone who loaded her pockets with stones and walked into a river

Not saying its a bad rec, just found it funny

[Anonymous No.6238400]

>>6238311
A gentleman and a scholar!

[Anonymous No.6238412]

>>6238391
well she made it to 59

[Anonymous No.6238767]

>>6237900
>>6237852

>A Field Guide to Melancholy - Jacky Bowring.pdf
>a.pomf.se/aqvjix.pdf
>An Armenian Sketchbook - Vasily Grossman.epub
>a.pomf.se/cdytkb.epub
>Victor Serge - The Case of Comrade Tulayev.epub
>a.pomf.se/yjgsei.epub

The final Serge is here, still waiting on Blackwood to dl, Grossman and pic related are a present from me to you.

[Anonymous No.6238822]

>>6238391
Haha I did think that same thing. But I think the book itself has been helping me in my situation.

[Anonymous No.6238832]

>>6237900
Also, I checked, and except for that Christina Stead, whatever I couldn't deliver from your list simply does not exist as an ebook, there's only the paper book.

[Anonymous No.6238839]

>>6237169
>>6238822

As much as I liked To The Lighthouse, the book pales in comparison to The Waves. Do yourself a favor and check that one out.

[Anonymous No.6238846]

>>6237166
>dec jan feb = winter
>mar apr may = spring
>jun jul aug = summer
>sept oct nov = winter

[Anonymous No.6238849]

>>6238839
Thanks a lot anon, I will definitely pick it up this week. So far the bar is set very high. What can I expect from the waves and why do you hold it so highly?

[Anonymous No.6238889]

>>6238846
>winter from september through february

What kind of shitty climate do you live in?

[Anonymous No.6238944]

>>6238849
First of all, the language will blow your mind. It's Woolf at the top of her game prose-wise. Second, the structure of the novel, very different from most stuff out there. You get glimpses of the inner world of several narrators, their most intimate thoughts and desires, instead of a coherent narrative. It rivals Proust on the level of intimacy established between the reader and the 'narrators'.

[Anonymous No.6238966]

>>6237166
sudaca detected?

[Anonymous No.6238997]

>>6238944
Sounds exactly what I'm looking for anon

[Anonymous No.6239021]

>>6238997
You'll struggle at first because you're presented all five (it was five, right?) characters at once, and they're all friends, so they're constantly interacting with each other. It's confusing to follow each one separately. Just let go and enjoy the ride.

It'd be cool to hear how it went once you're done. Make a thread about it or something.

[Anonymous No.6239895]

>>6237852
Finally delivering.

>Great Granny Webster - Caroline Blackwood.epub
>a.pomf.se/zvzbzq.epub

[Anonymous No.6240259]

>>6239895
thanks you <33333333333333333

[Anonymous No.6241002]

Anyone else having problems registering for nybooks?