/lit/ - Literature

>>22001804
I love it, anon. It's a fantastic book, and it's actually in print again (it wasn't back when I read it), so you can pick up a fresh new non-yellowed copy.

>>21875414
>but almost all of them had the eye rolling fancy pantsy french aristocracy stuff.
One of the great joys (and recurring themes) of Proust is him spending hundreds of pages fawning over groups or individuals only to deliver the most eviscerating criticism, completely deconstructing the idealised aristocrats or love interests he'd just spent half an eternity describing. If he did not take his time, the effect would not be as powerful. He builds these ridiculous people up only to utterly destroy them.

>>19339092

The Baburnama

>>18834161
>Rothfuss is good like Gaiman is good: they are not good,
I dunno why this made me laugh

>>18123269

>>17842375
Wonderful

>>17788943
Nice post

>>17653909
Good on you, Anon.

>>17396651

>>15968086
>reading Proust
>narrator says this or that character looks just like this or that painting by an old italian
>look up the painting online or in my visual companion by Eric Karpeles
Easy.

>>14877407
The Magic Mountain of course.

>>14838282
That bildung can be a goal in and of itself and genuinely made me a more clever and interesting person. It's an enrichment of the soul to read, both good fiction and non-fiction, such as philosophy and history. The more you know, the easier it is to make connections and see patterns; as you read books (of whatever sort, as long as they are good) you're not ticking off a finite list, but opening yourself up to even more interesting things that you might not have cared for, or even understood, before.