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>When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he had completed The Metamorphosis into a monstrous vermin.

Jesus Christ

>> No.8644764

>Sing, Muse, of the Odyssey

you gotta be kidding me

>> No.8644765

>>8644759
>Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheueren Ungeziefer verwandelt.

ftfy

>> No.8644836

>I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. I give you... The Sound and the Fury.

fucking ded

>> No.8644843

>Call me Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.

what the fuck, /lit/?

you didn't tell me this was some anthropomorphic furry shit.

>> No.8644852

>The first book proposes first, in brief, the whole subject, man's disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise
Couldn't resist, huh, John?

>> No.8644865

>I am a sick man. I am a Notes from Underground man

Dosto I am disappoint.

>> No.8644868

>>8644865
actually funny

>> No.8644913

>Stately, plump Ulysses arose from the stairhead

Joyce pls

>> No.8644949

>>8644765
I can't get over how disgusting the German language is

>> No.8644970

>>8644949
If you would like to date a german.

>> No.8644971

>And this will be my words unto my own people, written forever in on this Bible, for all their children to read

Fucking hell, Abraham

>> No.8644988

>Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins

wtf Nabokov?

>> No.8645415

Aujourd’hui, maman est morte.

Why would anyone read more after this shit sentence, fucking Camus.

>> No.8645421

>>8644949
I think I can help you with that:

it actually isn't.

>> No.8645423

>He loved Big Brother in the year Nineteen Eighty Four

What a shit ending.

>> No.8645431

>"Gentlemen, tonight is the beginning of our invasion of Europe Central!" cried Hitler

Vollmann you dyslexic, cross-dressing, mouth-breathing fuck.

>> No.8645439

>>8644949
The best course of action would be to:

realize you're a pleb.

>> No.8645449

riverrun

>> No.8645464

IT'S ONLY MEME IF IT'S THE LAST LINE YOU FUCKING NEWFAGS

>> No.8645465

>W-ow... t-t-that was a-amazing... and w-what do you c-call your act?
>The Brothers Karamazov!

oh my god dostoewsky

>> No.8646455

>>8645423
But a rather realistic one don't you think? If you don't count the whole torture thing

>> No.8646457

>>8644865
lol

>> No.8646466

>"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," said Anna Karenina

>> No.8646487

>>8644759

>If he be Mr Hyde, then I shall be...Mr Seek
Jesus Christ Stevenson

>> No.8646495

And then when Oedipa left her apartment with thoughts of the play she past lot 49 and it was crying

>> No.8646498

and then ""Pnin""™ tripped on a coffee table.

>> No.8646499

>>8645449
>Us then. Finn, again!
Holy shit Joyce I'm in actual pain

>> No.8646559

>>8644759
>Someone must have been telling lies about Gregor Samsa, he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was a monstrous vermin.

>> No.8646573

>>8644765
>verwandelt
Does that count as namedropping?

>> No.8646593

>And that was how Vanya and his gang grew out from their early moniker The Cherry Orchard and became known as The Best Short Stories of Anton Chekhov
wow Anton don't throw your shoulder out patting yourself on the back like that

>> No.8646605

>>8646593
I kek'd. Good job.

>> No.8646607

>>8646593
top kek

>> No.8646669

>And that's why I would be king of the Republic.
Seriously Plato?

>> No.8646717

>>8644759
>Paul, called [to be] an apostle by the will of God, [writing] 2 Corinthians
good gravy Paul drop the textspeak you're undermining the legitimacy of something important here

>> No.8646725

>And that, my dear reader, was The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
OMGGGGG LAURENCE STERNE WTF XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD SO DUM!!!!!1111ONEONEONEeleveneleveneleven FUNNY MAYMAY!!!!

>> No.8646729

>when Naoko touched me in a cold room, I truly was Norwegian Wood.

>> No.8646738

>>8644759

I prefer

> Gregor Samsa awoke to find he had been transformed into a giant cockroach

Way more comical

>> No.8646752

>It was a bright cold day in April, and the calendars were saying 1984
well whatever Orwell at least it wasn't a fake news headline I guess

>> No.8646761

>>8646593
NICE

>> No.8646765

>"At last," the Bishop said, "we have completed all 120 Days of Sodom."

>> No.8646767

>The Kid spat and gazed toward the sunset
>What's that over there?
>The Judge spoke around a mouthful of tortillas
>That there's either a blood meridian, or an evening redness in the west
cormac you fucking hack

>> No.8646771

>The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to Neuromancer
stop it Gibson no movie adaptation for you

>> No.8646834

>And as this war comes to an end, we must give A Farewell to Arms.
Hemingway you did it again

>> No.8646835

>It was a bright cold day in 1984 and Winston Smith loved Big Brother.

Orwell. Why.

>> No.8646857

>Entering the VIP area, I couldn't help but wonder; who was this mysterious, dashing gentleman surrounded by beautiful women, appearing to be at such ease in their presence while they stared at his inviting smile, begging to be the mother of his next child?
>"I'm Michel Houellebecq, the famous author," he said. "And these fine ladies are The Elementary Particles. They'll be performing at 10."

Houellebecq, I mean... what the fuck, man?

>> No.8646861

>So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
>So long lives this, this Sonnet Eighteen.
Godammit Willy

>> No.8646866
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>>8646593
my sides

>> No.8646887

>And then we calmly watered the roses at The Garden Of Branching Paths.
Borges you blind dummy

>> No.8646988

>And as Raskolnikov stood there, axe in hand, one thing he knew was that crime and punishment went together like peas and carrots
dropping you Ted

>> No.8646994

>There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Damn Camus

>> No.8647146

>And Esau smote his toe upon the bookcase; and behold, it was his little toe. And Esau swore out a curse, saying, 'Holy BIBLE but that smarts'
wtf I hate G-d now

>> No.8647164

>>8647146
Goris Drebenshikov?

>> No.8647170
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8647170

>Shhh, all quiet on the western front.
FUCKING DROPPED

>> No.8647191

>I am...The Stranger.

Unbelievable.

>> No.8647212

>>8647146
kek

>> No.8647255

>>8645415
I can't get over how much better this is in English.

>> No.8647295

>>8646495
Underrated post

>> No.8647298
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>>8645415
I always read maman like a cool Black guy

>> No.8647399
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8647399

>It was the best of times, it was the Jest of times.
>And in the end he truly came to know best, that life was nothing more than an Infinite Jest.

really, lit? really ??

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>>8646767

>> No.8647599

>The behavior of the detectives was savage. Some could even say that they were The Savage Detectives.

damnit bolano

>> No.8647606

>>8647191
This is the only one in the thread that didn't actually happen.

>> No.8647613

>Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris.

Hic nos rursus eunt, Virgle...

>> No.8647623

Yossarian then realized that whether he flew or not; it was a total Catch-22.

>Even worse than the cover art, Heller.

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8647631

>I found circles in the ruins, therefore, i shall call them, The Circular Ruins.
Damn Borges you crazy.

>> No.8647791

>Ride the Tiger, for you're the star of the masquerade.

julian....

>> No.8647816

>The ill lad over there, he's named Achilles.

I should've gotten a verse translation.

>> No.8647958

>>8646738
Congrats, first post in this thread that made me angry.

>> No.8648004

>I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all.

Seriously Salinger?

>> No.8648091

>>8644759
>I just wanted to tell everyone: it was a joke, I got carried away. I Apologize.

Wtf is this shit Plato?

>> No.8648148

>>8647791
>I am a Modern Man in Search of a Soul
For fuck's sake, Evola.

>> No.8649067

>>8647816
nice.

>> No.8649122

>>8646729
lmao

>> No.8649137

>>8644759
Shit tier translation

>> No.8649631

>>8644759
>he had completed The Metamorphosis
fucking lel

>> No.8649645

>>8648091
eke

>> No.8649662

>>8644759

> Many greek gods transformed into animals, like birds. One example is the Finch in Ovid's work Metamorphosis. The Bull Finch's Mythology is a long one, but

christ

>> No.8649679

>Good evening and welcome to the Globe Theater, so pleased you could come and enjoy the complete works of William Shakespeare

>> No.8649743

ive tried to read camus like 4 times and just cant do it. doesnt matter if its the trial or meta i stop after 2 pages.

its so dry i just cant do it, am i a pleb

>> No.8649745

>>8649743
*kafka fuck my bad

>> No.8649759

>>8649743
>>8649745
yeah, sure

>> No.8649766

>>8644759

>Lord Voldermort, I present to you, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

>> No.8649810

>In the second half of the 1960s I traveled repeatedly from England to Austerlitz, partly for study purposes, partly for other reasons which were never entirely clear to me.

Sebald, please. Please.

>> No.8649837

>>8647816
best in thread

>> No.8649922

>>8644759
Is that mode achievable natty?

>> No.8650000

>Snowballs flew their arcs, hitting the sides of the Buildings inhabited by the cousins, and some Sledding was done and strong Winds blew the Hats of Philadelphian Citizens into the River Delaware, when Dixon sat in his well-masoned Quarters, pondering densely about a Name for a new Recipe of a special bev'rage his Success he anticipated, exclaiming "Heureka!" and, almost sliding off his chair out of excitement, shouting "It shalt be called cherried Coke! Cherry-Coke. That shalt do! Hurrah."

Pynchon u hack

>> No.8650034

>I can't believe I've fallen in love in the time of cholera!

remind me again how this fucking hack won a Nobel?

>> No.8650648

>>8644765
>>8646738
op's translation confirmed for shit