/lit/ - Literature

Recent cops.
>Yu Hua - Brothers
His essay collection, "China in Ten Words" is really good. His writing is full of soul, so I decided to check his fiction too. "Brothers" was the book he named-ropped multiple times in the essay collection, so I thought that this is probably the work he is most proud of out of all his writings.
>Lao She - Cat Country
I like She's short stories I came across in different anthologies, so I hope his longer fiction is good too. "Teahouse" is good, if a bit heavy handed.
>Lu Xun - Selected Essays on Literature (More literally "Literature, Revolution, Society - Selected Literary-publicist writings)
Read it a few years back. I think I was sixteen-seventeen at the time, and I really felt brain_exansion.jpg happening while I was reading it. Though it did had the effect of making me see a lot of literary works in the light of class-conflict for a few weeks, a feeling which I'm ambivalent about.
>The Epic of Gilgamesh and other Assyrian Poems (More literally "Gilgamesh/The Message of the Clay Tablets")
I like epics, even though I haven't read the Greeks, since I was too busy fucking around with Eastern literature when it was a subject at school, and I'm too busy fucking around with Middle-High German epics and other irrelevant epics from the Medieval era and the Baroque and Renaissance eras now.
It seems promising. Basically all of the Assyrian and Sumerian poems archaeology uncovered until the 60s.
Already read the "Dialogue of Pessimism" from it. It's interesting to see how even thousands of years ago, people were capable of such thought. It's really human and close to us.
The red volume under it is Gilgamesh too, but translated by a different bloke. It's only a hundred pages, so reading different versions of it is no big deal. (In this regard, it's like the Daodejing. Speaking if which, there was this poem about how the king should follow his own laws, how he should treat the elites with respect, and how he should not upset the people, which reminded me of Confucianist and Daoist doctrines quite a bit.)
I just want to see an entertaining heroic tale infused with mythology, using a pleasant rhythm. I don't have high expectations.

Recent cops.
>Yu Hua - Brothers
His essay collection, "China in Ten Words" is really good. His writing is full of soul, so I decided to check his fiction too. "Brothers" was the book he named-ropped multiple times in the essay collection, so I thought that this is probably the work he is most proud of out of all his writings.
>Lao She - Cat Country
I like She's short stories I came across in different anthologies, so I hope his longer fiction is good too. "Teahouse" is good, if a bit heavy handed.
>Lu Xun - Selected Essays on Literature (More literally "Literature, Revolution, Society - Selected Literary-publicist writings)
Read it a few years back. I think I was sixteen-seventeen at the time, and I really felt brain_exansion.jpg happening while I was reading it. Though it did had the effect of making me see a lot of literary works in the light of class-conflict for a few weeks, a feeling which I'm ambivalent about.
>The Epic of Gilgamesh and other Assyrian Poems (More literally "Gilgamesh/The Message of the Clay Tablets")
I like epics, even though I haven't read the Greeks, since I was too busy fucking around with Eastern literature when it was a subject at school, and I'm too busy fucking around with Middle-High German epics and other irrelevant epics from the Medieval era and the Baroque and Renaissance eras now.
It seems promising. Basically all of the Assyrian and Sumerian poems archaeology uncovered until the 60s.
Already read the "Dialogue of Pessimism" from it. It's interesting to see how even thousands of years ago, people were capable of such thought. It's really human and close to us.
The red volume under it is Gilgamesh too, but translated by a different bloke. It's only a hundred pages, so reading different versions of it is no big deal. (In this regard, it's like the Daodejing. Speaking if which, there was this poem about how the king should follow his own laws, how he should treat the elites with respect, and how he should not upset the people, which reminded me of Confucianist and Daoist doctrines quite a bit.)
I just want to see an entertaining heroic tale infused with mythology, using a pleasant rhythm. I don't have high expectations.