/lit/ - Literature

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>>19098141
stendhal wore a uniform but was just a civil administrator who was barely involved or interested in the military side of napoleonic era

>>19046313

Where the fuck is The Lusiads

What are the most valuable poetry the lusophone world can offer? Where do I start with it? In the case of brazilian poetry, I have never found any impactful figure. Gregorio de Matos has some two or three good pieces, from what I have read, and some of them are spurious, the rest are completely forgettable. Never found anything in Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Pessoa has good ones but nothing comes closer to the great poets.
Discuss, recommend and post lusophone poetry.

What is genre fiction? Obvious ESL

I would just like to understand how you categorize different genres and authors.

Like, what's the difference between fiction and fantasy?

How does one argue with retarded people?

Even after you dismantle their fallacies, they still think they've one the argument.

I should one act in such cases?

>>17334359
Step aside, incel.

>>17297270
A writer about whom Torquato Tasso, Hermann Melville, Elizabeth Browning, Roy Campbell, and Jorge Luis Borges wrote poems, and who Harold Bloom considered one of the 100 greatest geniuses of Western literature. One of the few writers mentioned with high praise in Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote.
Also known as the main foundational author of Portuguese literature. All Portuguese literature - Pessoa included - springs from Camões.

Camöens (Before)

Ever restless, restless, craving rest –
Forever must I fan this fire,
Forever in flame on flame aspire?
Yea, for the God demands thy best.
The world with endless beauty teems,
And thought evokes new worlds of dreams:
Hunt then the flying herds of themes!
And fan, yet fan thy fervid fire,
Until the crucible gold shall show
That fire can purge as well as glow.
In ordered ardor, nobly strong,
Flame to the height of epic song.

- MELVILLE

I'm looking for the best available English translations of Camões. The little that I've read has caused me to feel, and I want more.

>>9722668
You're a hack and a copycat.

What if I tell you that this mother fucker wrote a full epic Homeric style writing poem that rhymes the same way the whole book?

>>9052048
You have your whole life. And you won't pass on the opportunity to read them all.

I know I won't.

>>8920763
I'm new here and I'm honestly afraid to buy the "Mythology" book.

Mythology apart, can Is it easy to follow the Iliad poetry?
I've read epic poetry written in my native language, and even those are hard to follow.

Any fantasy book where a young (male) student and his mentor(female) fall in love?

>90% of the graduates in /sff/ majored in a STEM field.

How does this make you feel?

>>8794157
>>8794152
>unironically using the term "beige"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb55teb1gJ0

Leave my board

>>8774645
I'm lactose intolerant bimbo!

Is Portuguese literature any good?

>muh country is the best fuck the rest yea

Any decent book where the main character is an AI humanoid?

Portugal

>>6370422
Cessem do sábio Grego e do Troiano
As navegações grandes que fizeram;
Cale-se de Alexandro e de Trajano
A fama das vitórias que tiveram;
Que eu canto o peito ilustre Lusitano,
A quem Neptuno e Marte obedeceram.
Cesse tudo o que a Musa antiga canta,
Que outro valor mais alto se alevanta.

>tfw the song you sing is so incredible that you can make greeks and romans shut up