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Why isn't there a /lit/ bar exam? You know, like an exam that /lit/ users have to go through to gain access to the site?

I only want to shitpost amongst the literary élite.

>> No.8837492

>>8837477
Because the best part of /lit/ is telling people how much smarter I am than them. Especially /pol/tards

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8837496

There you go

>> No.8837693

>>8837492
Just go insult people on /pol/ then.

>> No.8837697

>>8837496
>tfw too introspective and autistic to integrate into normie society
i don't understand their way of life so it's wrong

>> No.8837703

>>8837693
Here they are insects. On /pol/, they swarm you like locusts.

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>>8837496
>tfw this is what literature looks like to normies

>> No.8837728

>>8837703
haha

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>>8837697
Normie is actually a word they used to ridicule people like you, y'know. Anyway, don't need to worry about a thang bby, that shit is nigger talk.

>> No.8837971

>>8837477
There is. You need to have read at least 15 out of these, preferably 20+

Absolutely Required Works:
The Odyssey and the Iliad by Homer (~12th - ~8th century BCE)
Major Plays of Aeschylus (456 BCE)
Major Plays of Sophocles (406 BCE)
The Holy Bible (~8th century BCE - 1st century CE)
Genesis
Exodus
Daniel
Ecclesiastes
Job
Psalms
Romans
Gospels (Matthew, Mark, John, Luke)
Revelation
Apocrypha
The Aeneid by Virgil (19 BCE)
The Divine Comedy by Dante (1307)
Don Quixiote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1616)
Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)
Faust (Part I and II) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808, 1832)
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (1833)
The Major Tales of Nikolai Gogol (1840s)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodr Dostoevsky (1866)
Major Plays of Henrik Ibsen (1870s)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
Dubliners and Ulysses by James Joyce (1914, 1922)
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1926)
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges (1949)
The Recognitions by William Gaddis (1955)
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
Zettels Traum by Arno Schmidt (1970/2016)

*Some substitutions allowed. e.g. TBK for C&P, AK for W&P, other Flaubert, etc.
**This is just a BARE MINIMUM for peopel who profess to be interested in literature.

>> No.8838019

>>8837971
OP here. I got 21 (22 if you count Ibsen, but fuck Ibsen desu).

>> No.8838036

>>8838019
not bad senpai, now it's time to work on depth + expanding breadth. start here.

Lesser Known Works by Famous Authors

Unknown Masterpiece by Balzac (1831)
Demons/The Possessed/The Devils by Dostoevsky (1871)
The Forged Coupon and Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy (1910, 1912)
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1931)
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse (1931)
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov (1935)
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann (1947)
The Fall by Albert Camus (1956)
Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett (1958)
Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams (1960)
The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata (1962)
October Ferry to Gabriola by Malcolm Lowry (1970)
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy (1979)
Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago (1982)
Blow-up and Other Stories by Julio Cortazar (1985)
Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco (1988)
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro (1995)
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (1997)
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano (2000)
Seeing by Jose Saramago (2004)

>> No.8838061

>>8838036
6 kek. I've read different books by the same authors though.

>> No.8838456

>>8837703
Fair point.

>> No.8838463

>>8837971
That doesn't account for people who are Eastern literature specialists. I don't do much with Western lit.

>> No.8838470

>>8837703
Brilliant

>> No.8838471

>>8838036
Why would you include Kawabata so randomly here, and no other Japanese author in the first list?

>> No.8838474

>>8837703
>Here they are insects. On /pol/, they swarm you like [a species of insects].

>> No.8838479

>>8838471
because japanese authors don't have any real influence on "The Canon"

this is a bare minimum foundational books list senpai, not a comprehensive/representative list of "good books"

>> No.8838482

>>8838470
You wouldn't pass the exam.

>> No.8838484

>>8838474
>Here they are insects. On /pol/, they swarm you like [a species of insects that swarm].

>> No.8838485

>>8838479
On Eastern canon, they do.

>> No.8838491

>>8837477
but litterature is so boring that only we self-masturbatory ego-faggots have the time to bother with it anyway. All the other morons are at /v/ and /tv/

>> No.8838493

>>8838482
Nigga, I wrote the exam

>> No.8838495

>>8837971
>The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1616)
That's impressive that he wrote all that shit in the same year

>> No.8838500

>>8838485
>>8838463

the eastern canon is irrelevant

>>8838485
if it was an eastern canon list it'd just be all chink books desu

>> No.8838502

>>8838493
You and I both know that you wouldn't pass the exam.

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>>8838502
Nigga I didn't just write the exam, I AM the exam

>> No.8838512

>>8838495
>shakespeare invented the human in a single year

the madman! is there anything billy shakes CAN'T do??

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>>8837971
>The Odyssey and the Iliad by Homer (~12th - ~8th century BCE)
>The Divine Comedy by Dante (1307)
>Don Quixiote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605)
>Faust (Part I and II) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808, 1832)
>Crime and Punishment by Fyodr Dostoevsky (1866)
>Major Plays of Henrik Ibsen (1870s) (read two I think, Dockhus and some other...)

I've read parts of the Bible and I'm dating a christian girlfriend right now...
Also read like 3-4 William Shakespeare plays and watch movie versions of them

*sniff* I guess I don't belong here. And I was about to start reading Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary too...

>> No.8838644

>>8838520
It takes decades of devoted reading to become part of the literati.

>> No.8838683

>>8837971
Why not Euripides?