/lit/ - Literature

Life's a bitch and then you die,
that's why we get high,

cause you never know,
when your ho's gonna go

Life's a bitch and then you die,
that's why we do blow

You introduced that other kid from your narrator's school as Bryan and call him Ricky eight sentences later. Must be a really rough draft. And btw there's a movie with the title "Memories of Murder". It's a good movie.

Lenz - Georg Büchner.

From Wikipdia:
"Lenz" is a story written by Georg Büchner in Strasbourg in 1836. The story is based on the documentary evidence of Jean Frédéric Oberlin's diary. Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, once a friend of Goethe, is the subject of the story. In March 1776 he met Goethe in Weimar. Later he suffered from mental disorder and was sent to Oberlin's vicarage in the Steintal. The story is concerned with this last incident. Although left unfinished at the time of Büchner's death in 1837, it has been seen as a precursor to literary modernism, and its influence on later writers has been immense. The story has been adapted for the stage as Jacob Lenz, a 1978 chamber opera by Wolfgang Rihm.

It's my favourite of Büchner's works.

>>1442576
In case you're still lurking: Wow, what you wanted to send sounds way butthurt and resentful, basically making you sound like a whiney faggot, but what you did send is plain cowardice. Relax, they're just professors.

>>1442266
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>>1442325
Yeah, the movie is beautiful, but made me bawww when I was a child. The Plague Dogs is even more of a tear jerker.

>I was wondering how much you guys take lyrics into consideration

Greatly. I can not not pay attention to the lyrics. This can be pretty excruciating when someone has the radio turned on or I'm forcibly exposed to retarded music at stores, etc..Speaking of which, I recently heard this song for the first time, I was convinced that this was some US army propaganda song, disgusting cheesy shit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVM-hZb_xoA Why is the band called One Republic?

Some songwriters whose lyrics I enjoy(d) are Morrissey, Tom Waits, Frank Black, Billy Corgan, Chino Moreno...

>>1442050
Oblomovery all day, err'day. I got the recommendation for this on something similar to chatroulette actually.

And I just started reading the Decameron, book 1.

In no particular order:

Georg Büchner
Heinrich Mann (Thomas Mann can suck his dick)
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

>>1440055
He gets mentioned too often anyway.

My motherboard is /fa/. I enjoy fashion, but I mostly don't give a fuck what other people think about my fashion anyway.
>>1429966
I sort of agree with this post, though being a walking swearword is fine if you want to be one imo.

>>1431279
There's no graphic language, but an awkward description of consensual rape and there be other sex scenes and if there are, I bet they share the theme of submission to the epitome of an alpha male.
>>1431277
You seem to know a lot about her. She doesn't even look good, I guess she must have had a charming personality to attract younger men.

>>1431220
Judging from the half of Fountainhead I read, my impression is that rather than actually being one of those Übermenschen, she only wished to suck powerful men's dicks.

>>1431091
Oh well, I guess there's no better agitator than a commie hating, power-worshipping Russian
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>>1431150
I couldn't bother through more than approximately half of it, care to tell me how things concluded?

>>1431030
Most of Rand's fans seem to be Americans. Also considering the list of philosophers Germany has to offer, I'd be taken aback if people here bothered with her.

Switzerland - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, he's very well known in Germany at least, deserves to be internationally renowned though.
Kyrgyzstan - Chingiz Aitmatov (check out The White Steamboat)

Not up in my top 25, but Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov is definitely a recommandable love novel(la).

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Dubliners

>>1430282
That isn't short either :/ And also from 1988

>>1429979
That's not exactly short. But he could read The Confusions of Young Törless by the same author.

>>1429929
I liked Gattaca, disliked the Fountain though. Don't know the other two.

I just remembered another recent sci-fi movie (that I haven't watched myself yet), but The Clone Returns Home is supposed to be great.

>>1429943
But they're crushing your balls.

>>1429848
You mean Pi? Yeah, Sunshine wasn't exactly excellent, but I felt it was decent enough to recommend for the plot and special effects.

I'll recommend two recent ones:
Sunshine
Moon

and eXistenZ

Last three:
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oblomow, The Sound and the Fury

Current (or rather most recent):
The Jealous Husband, Netochka Nezvanova, The House of the Dead, all re-reads

Next:
Against the Grain, Notes from Underground, Light in August

German

>>1419751
I love that stuff.