/lit/ - Literature

>>23275766
Doctor Faustus by Marlowe is the absolutely most cursed thing I’ve ever read. The only book I’ve ever destroyed.

Evil dubs chek’d

Sage for low effort as Sage for bargains with the devil

Don't know about writing, but as far as visual art is concerned I stillfind Hindu temple sculpture pretty hot af.

Imagine being *this* triggered by non-Americans.

>>23256991
niggers

If you were actually winning there wouldn't be a need to spam....

>>23271372
Yeh great, it can be an allegory for whatever. The text is still clearly very sexual and horny.

Probably the Harris book because I automatically picture his conceited face.

>>23271818
This is not a literary question. I could give you an answer, but people like you piss me off. Stop posting this crap here. Jannies? Do something, please.

Is this bait?
If not, holy shit dude who fucking cares?

>>23268288
If you are alluding to Dostoevsky’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Brothers Karamazov and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigamarole. No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search. Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity – all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of ”sinning their way to Jesus” or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, ”spilling Jesus all over the place." Crime and Punishment’s plot did not seem as incredibly banal in 1866 when the book was written as it does now when noble prostitutes are apt to be received a little cynically by experienced readers. Dostoyevsky never really got over the influence which the European mystery novel and the sentimental novel made upon him. The sentimental influence implied that kind of conflict he liked—placing virtuous people in pathetic situations and then extracting from these situations the last ounce of pathos. Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoevsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist. He was a prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. I admit that some of his scenes, some of his tremendous farcical rows are extraordinarily amusing. But his sensitive murderers and soulful prostitutes are not to be endured for one moment—by this reader anyway. Dostoyevsky seems to have been chosen by the destiny of Russian letters to become Russia’s greatest playwright, but he took the wrong turning and wrote novels.

>>23268196
I just finished reading it for the first time and loved it, it has humor and emotion and everything you said, but it definitely could have used an edit. You don't need that many encyclopedia entries on whales, and if you do want to touch on the anatomy of a whale, do it briefly and poetically, not academically just because the narrator used to be a school teacher.

>>23267513
CS Lewis was a hack so his opinion can be safely discarded

>>23268594
Cool. Blogpost elsewhere, nigger

>>23264546
>from whence
Kill thyself

>>23266614
>The book was honestly terrifying to read the first time around, because it seemed too coincidental to be an accident.
I identify a lot with his feelings, but not his actions. I never did anything illegal or dramatic, but I understand how he feels in terms of loneliness and relation to other people. I was still surprised by the similarity. I figured if he was born when I was, he'd end up like me and many people like us.

>>23266327
you generate nonsense just like AI

>>23265135
>Gathered from biographies, interviews and his personal journals
The link does not provide sources. It just gives you a list of books.

What's the source on these? I only heard of a few from Heavier Than Heaven.

Fingerprints is outdated, and was supplanted by Magicians of the Gods. Thread is troll thread.

>>23263612
There was a civilisation (or multiple) that was not hunter gatherers, they were more advanced than that. Then, flood happened ~10,000 years ago, wiped them out, reset humanity. Goes around to various archaological sites and demonstrates this.

>>23264693
qrd on Icelandic lit? Country looks comfy but do they have chuds like Knut Hamsun writing based books?

ఈ స్థలం ఇప్పుడు నా టాయిలెట్.

>>23257798
lol

>>23255136
I would rather be put to death by God

/his/