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>> No.13915926 [View]

>>13913061
Heidegger & Hegel

>> No.9875880 [View]

>>9875877
>it's a booktubers episode

>> No.4409198 [View]

>>4408899
>Hemingway, and he was not that good anyway.

>> No.4406823 [View]

>>4406771
I'm just making sure people know.

>> No.4406763 [View]

>>4406748
I'm not suggesting one learns German just to read Kafka. The notion that one should learn any language to read any author is absurd, Regardless, English translations of Kafka aren't accurate.

>> No.4406744 [View]

>>4401575
Why do people still read Kafka in English? You're wasting your time reading English translations of Kafka.

>> No.4401084 [View]

>>4399845
>No, wait, that what's been happening for the past year.
Cause, y'know, people don't browse multiple boards, right? Heh eheh.

>> No.4398208 [View]

>>4391585
Are you okay? Try reading the Presocartics first.

>> No.4395994 [View]

>>4395987
Read more.

>> No.4394182 [View]

>>4392902
How was he "shitting" on Angelou? Why do you even believe Angelou is a great writer?

>>4394141
>the greats have always been decided upon by popularity.
Right.

>> No.4393852 [View]

>>4393799
Do you have no interest in reading at all? Do you read books that do not interest you?

>> No.4392124 [View]

>>4391679
Their eyes bother me.

>> No.4389555 [View]

>>4387562
The people on this board can learn from Hemingway.

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>>4385996
OP wants a "good" recommendation list.

>> No.4357336 [View]

>>4357300
Why did you expect from Meditations?

>> No.4340724 [View]

>>4340716
It sounds like that to me too. Perhaps rephrasing can help.

>> No.4340710 [View]

>>4340565
If you want to be taken seriously, or if you just seek to be a serious writer, don't use contractions outside of dialogue. I also suggest you never use exclamation marks. One should be able to write in such a way that strong emotion is conveyed with just word choice and sentence structure, and exclamation marks are often redundant.

>> No.4327955 [View]

>>4327890
I have "The Man in the High Castle" laying on bed right now. I'm contemplating reading more of it, but the prose disturbs me.

>> No.4326368 [View]

>>4326345
I wouldn't recommend any English translation of Kafka's works.

>> No.4323080 [View]

>>4323070
You may read Kafka in English, but I guarantee you it is not even remotely as enjoyable as it is in German. What Kafka does with German language in his literature cannot be accurately reproduced in English, nor will it have the same affect; German also has very particular words one cannot find in English.

>> No.4323066 [View]

>>4322912
Don't listen to most of the posts in this thread, OP. Unless your fourteen-year-old son knows German, don't give him anything by Kafka. Ignore Camus and Pynchon for now, and leave Dostoevsky, Hesse, Steinbeck, and Vonnegut for later. If your son is interested in philosophy, acquire introductory literature about the Presocratics for him.

>> No.4322104 [View]

>>4321509
If I am not mistaken, in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" Hemingway writes English in a particular way and uses the word "thou" to imitate the structure of the Spanish language. Perhaps this also occurs in "The Old Man and the Sea."

>> No.4309663 [View]

>>4309614
Sometimes I'm led to believe that there are people who post on /lit/ solely with the intention to attack Nietzsche and Hemingway.

>> No.4309591 [View]

>>4309570
It's hard not to admire Hemingway.

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