/lit/ - Literature

Get that man a copy (you can get replicas) of Caxton's chess playing rules. First book published in English ever. If he's a proper biblophile, it'll be a real novelty!

The Child in Time - Ian McEwan

>>1265968

"The Darkness Shines Through the Curtain of Fear - A Contemporary Analysis of Decadence of Modern America, as Documented in Jazz Age Fiction, with Focus on the Pitfalls of Capitalism, and Collapse (or Rebirth?) of Hedonism"

Use that title if your essay's less than 1500 words...

>>1264985

Doing linguistics and literature here :) Means we do the stylistics big time...

>>1264523

A foreshadowing of downfall? Perhaps a foreboding...

There's a really good Old English word for just this moment. Means something like "unknowable but certain".

Get your eyes wrapped around the Odyssey (worth splashing out on a good translation) - that there's one hell of a tale.

Something tells me OP isn't coming back...

:(

Oops, just updating my email address... sorry...

Oh, or Nothing, if it's still going :P

I'm interested in the following:

Classics
Islam
Politics
Theology
The Koran
History
The Anglo-Saxon Age
Twentieth Century Britain
Logic
Intelligence
Russian Literature
Cryptography
Postmoderninsm
Art theory
The Celts
Linguistics
Atheism
Free Will
Heiroglyphics
Ancient Warfare
Modern Art
The History of Time

Says a lot about me, I suppose

>>1257723

Done Steinbeck, and Eliot scares me :D

>>1257714

Thanks :)

>>1257707

It's not for any real purpose of for want of boasting. I'm simply a guy who likes to take on projects and learn new skills. I find it hard to get much of a reading list together from around the world, so I thought this would be a good bet. It's biased, for sure, but it can't all be bad...

>>1257687

Surprisingly no :P

>>1257670

Y'think? I don't really have a plan just yet. I was just going to pick them up when and where I could. If it's chronological, though, do you have any idea where I could pick up the poetry of some of the more obscure early winners history forgot?

/lit/, I plan on reading at least one major work by every Nobel Prize for Literature winner. I'll do this by reading 3-4 every year, with the award of a new prize every year making this a lifelong project.

Where should I begin? What can I look forward to? I've already ticked a couple of the obvious ones (Hemingway, Sartre, Heaney, Russell...)

1. Do you read for leisure? Yes
2. Do you read on a daily basis? Yes
3. Do you watch television for leisure? Yes
4. Do you watch television daily? No
5. Do you look at the moon? Yes
6. Are you happy? Yes
7. Should books be censored if they are too controversial? Never
8. Would you give your life for the written word? It depends on the seriousness of the threat to it.
9. Does technology lead to less face-to face human interaction? Only in excess
10. Is “faster” a synonym for “better”? No
11. Does technology enhance your confidence in social settings? No
12. Does technology increase your awareness of global events? Yes
13. Does mass media reflect the intelligence of average American citizens? That's the only exposure to it I have
14. Is happiness more important than truth? Unsure
15. Is mass media entertaining? It's amusing (as in amoral...)

>>1250494

> Do they get more backstory?

Dohohoho

Brainbag?

How about Zamyatin's short story "Island"?

>>1176115

> "I remembered that he never spoke but to answer; that, though at intervals he had considerable time to himself, yet I had never seen him reading - no, not even a newspaper; that for long periods he would stand looking out, at his pale window behind the screen, upon the dead brick wall; I was quite sure he never visited any refectory or eating house; while his pale face clearly indicated that he never drank any beer like Turkey, or tea and coffee even, like other men; that he never went anywhere in particular that I could learn; never went out for a walk, unless, indeed, that was the case at present; that he had declined telling who he was, or whence he came, or whether he had any relatives in the world; that though so thin and pale, he never complained of ill health."

That's one sentence from that story. Great for character analysing, certainly, but a damn drag to actually read.

>>1176100

Oh, undoubtedly... if it had had a better writer...

>>1176085

Case in point.

That, OP, only you can decide.

Best get that book.

I read "Bartleby the Scrivener" today. It was my first Melville. Goddamn, I hate his style. Seriously, there were a billion clauses he could have cut out, and a million and one way he could have made the plot flow better.

Also, >>1176011 speaks the truth. Melville made so little money from his writing, he had to hold a day job (not that that really means anything, Trollope did too). He was only able to write full time after inheriting a lifetime's worth of wonga.

Pic ever so vaguely related.