/lit/ - Literature

>>3771112
it's not even fake,check fuuka,warosu if u don't believe i don't think you ever liked me anyway, i'm just surprised you still post here.

damn, you still post here

hello :) where are the serious discussion about literature? do you remember me?

>>3428656
nice. i still listen to titus andronicus every now and then, i rmeember u liked them

hello :)

hey lit, how are you. what reading you currently?

>>3100005
rangy :)))))) check ur interpals dude
>>3100007
hey timtim
>>3100008
it really is omg

>>3099998
rangy? cappy? d&e sometimes calls me haks

>>3099984
i only got that joke now, that was pretty good dude

>>3099986
how and who are you mein freund?

lol fucking /lit/

Leo Strauss' book on Political philosophy, seriously, good introductory essays on every major thinker in the history of political philosophy. He didn't write all of the essays, he wrote a couple and edited the book.

>>2784222
namefag =/= tripfag btw and because gee, I dunno, this is a literature board and maybe this thread would be better if it wasn't an "everybody posts, nobody reads" thread and had some discussion going on.

>>2784201
very nice. are you liking it so far?

Hear us o lord from heaven thy dwelling place - Malcolm Lowry.

>>2772480
Cool, my family are originally from Kerala, from a portuguese ex-colony r catholic part though.
I've been reading Nehru's discovery of India lately, it has taught me a lot, should also be included if it's made.

>>2772454
He probably read Coleman Barks translations lol!!!

>>2772455
Okay, I will try to find you if you make another thread about it. I made a recommendation chart before, mostly religious stuff, but not very much indian and islamic stuff, mostly japanese buddhist and christian stuff. There used to be a really cool Muslim poster here, I don't know if he still posts, but he was very knowledgeable about it, he recommended William Chittick's books on Ibn Arabi and Rumi, and warned about the "translations" of Daniel Bell and Coleman Barks.

>>2772423
I think you should separate things by themes, like your previous post would make a good "sufi lit chart" if you used the subdivisions that you provided. I think that would be better than having a persian lit chart that is subdivided into orthodox islamic, sufi, philosophy, etc.
Similarly with Indian I think it would be useful to separate religious texts (upanisads, sutras, etc.) from epics (ramayana, mahabharata) folk tales (panchatantra, jatakas, arabian nights (this could be put in pretty much any list you've mentioned in the OP)) and modern and contemporary stuff (Narayan, Rushdie, etc.)

I've never been able to finish books while reading them at the same time, except for university essays, which is mostly skim reading anyway.
The Idiot is excellent. I understand what you mean though, I couldn't finish C&P or TBK because of Dostoyevsky's style, I enjoyed every page of the Idiot though.

>>2772371
They were muslims

>>2772327
>Poetry
Attar
Rumi

>Philo/Religion
Ibn Arabi
Averroes

>Other
The travels of Ibn Battutah is the writing of a traveller from Morocco (or Algeria, one of those two) who travelled extensively throughout the muslim world, which meant his travel spanned north africa, almost all of asia including china and the maldives, and even parts of europe (ukraine).

I'm all for the inclusion of Narayan and 1001 nights. are you planning on collating all of these themes into one chart though? Are you open to recommendations?