/lit/ - Literature

Reading Crime and Punishment ignited a deep love for classic novels, and easily is one of my favorite three books now.

Decided to take a spin with pic related for my second journey into a Dostoevsky full length (read the double, winter nights, and a few others I cannot name by memory) and a few months later I am still currently slogging through it. Part I was decent, but now starting Part IV it is like the story resets itself every time and characters seem to be brought into the story mindlessly and just give you more to keep track of. Perhaps I am feeble-minded but I created an entire character map to identify and follow along with the characters two to four names they are called by… I never have before but I also find myself looking up chapter summaries to recap before I start reading again just to know where the plot has been going as it seems like the entire value of the book could be obtained from reading the seemingly randomly brought up rants (although they are usually fairly profound/decent rants) that Dosteovsky will get into every few chapters. The plot should be shortened to 100 or less pages, and he should have taken these rants and made short stories out of them instead of a work with seemingly no real direction.

>>14371

READ NIGGA READ!

>Best book where the character is a god.T

That would be the Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony.

>>15998

read this and realize that people only don't accept it because he's not white

I agree with reading, analyzing styles, and doing. Wasting money on literature courses is dumb to some extent.

Although reasonably well-read and wanting to write the "great novel" of our times, I was given the book The Western Canon by a friend. Yeah, I know Harold Bloom may not be particularly loved by some, but through reading the book I gained enormous respect for his views.

The chapters of this book start with Chaucer and work their way through the iconic authors of Western literature and with each Bloom discusses why the works form part of the canon of great literature. His analysis is structured around his theory of imagination: why characters live in a reader's mind, how an author's expression creates an imaginary world, the historical significance of writings (ie zeitgeist), etc.

It took me three years to read this book as I read dozens of the works he was discussing along the way, and in all it gave me in my opinion, an infinitely richer understanding and appreciation of literature beyond what I could possibly have gained from any undergrad course.

>>16199

blow me dbag, the frog is here to stay and he demands to know about submitting manuscripts.

>>16203

I trust infinitychan more than sponsored results on googsy

are there any writers here? helloooo??

rare shroomtrip pepe

ummm as I understand it, Lawrence only wrote two books of his own, Seven Pillars and The Mint. I've read both, the former three or four times over the years. It's a masterpiece of English literature and also a fascinating historical narrative. The movie, Lawrence of Arabia, based on this book is an excellent flick, too.

Oddly, I hadn't noticed the focus on the geology, but then I do have a considerable interest in this field. Seven Pillars describes a journey along the Arabian coast of the Red Sea through the Hejaz Mountains (pic related), among the grandest and rugged terrain on the planet and for an Englishman accustomed to the rolling green hills speckled with sheep, it's hardly surprising they caught his eye.

The Mint is a diary of his later years when he suffered PTS (I guess they'd call it nowadays) and enlisted in the airforce under a pseudonym to escape social pressures. It's a psychological study really of a state of mind within a regimented order. Interesting, but nothing great as is Seven Pillars.

>>16173

I believe this is the case. Weird how he's always presented as some fedorafag though.

>most of these are jpegs

Why.

>>15953

I havent read it yet- partly because I like reading paper books and my library is too cucked to have it in hand- but there is Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and I hear its really good;

Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust.

perhaps check it out, I am planning on just buying it because everyone is too scared to share or sell it around where I live

Interesting thread idea, OP

Lolita is an absolutely marvelous book which couldn't be more highly recommended as a novel, but I don't know that it explores the wherefore of unorthodox sexual attraction.

In my view the ultimate place to find your answer is in de Sade's Juliette or Vice Amply Rewarded. There's gazillions of translations but most are crappy hard/soft core porn and there's only one decent English translation readily available by Austryn Wainhouse Grove Press NY 1968.

Juliette is a tale of degradation - it starts of relatively mildly and then descends by degree to depths of depravity unsurpassed. It's a big volume, but perhaps one third is "eyes out on stalks" sex scenes interleaved with "philosophy", the why what's going on is happening. It's about the process of addiction and what it does to its host, and addictions require ever higher dose levels to achieve the needed satiation. No one having read this book will ever see the world the same again.

Freud - I haven't read much other than The Interpretation of Dreams when I was a highschool boy but my memory is that it was very dry and not really for the general reader. I consider his significance to be in the way his ideas influenced sociologists, like Bernays. And I've never read Bataille. Sorry.