/lit/ - Literature

Someone I knew was getting rid of parts of their library and invited me to step in and take some off their shoulders. (On the grounds of "I don't need it, and you have your whole life ahead of you, so you'll get more use out of it".)
Taking all of them home was a pain in the ass, but completely worth it.
Some of the things I got:
>Baudelaire - Artificial Paradises
I despised symbolist poetry in class. It's the quintessential "gay French nonsense" form of art. But a quasi-drug diary from the late 19th century seems interesting enough.
>Selected Writings of Aesthetics from Ancient China
I've been after this booklet for some time on the grounds of being a sinoboo.
>Proust - In Search of Lost Time Vol. I. and II.
It's impossibly hard to get here. I've never seen anything above volume three in my life, despite the last few volumes being published less than a decade ago. (The first three were published in the 30s, but the countercultural intellectuals were reading it in French before that.)
>Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus
A primary-source on Greek mythology, always a good thing.
>Dostoevsky - Selected letters, studies and diaries
>Dostoevsky - The Double
I love Dostoevsky to death, so it was sort of a given to take these.
>Nikolai Gogol - The Nose, The Overcoat, The Carriage (Bilingual edition)
Never read Gogol, and I don't speak Russian (Turns out there is more to it than knowing the Cyril alphabet.), they seem like short enough pieces, and I'm interested in reading The Nose because Shostakovich composed music for an opera adaptation.
>Hoffman - The Golden Flowerpot
>Goethe - The Sorrows of the Young Werther
I really hate myself for missing out on German romanticism when we had to read works of it in school. Now is as good a time as any to catch up, and these are really short works.
>Nietzsche - The Birth of Tragedy
>Nietzsche - Selected Writings
Nietzsche is one of those subjects that fall into the category of "I'm sort of well acquainted with it" on the grounds of reading some of Zarathustra when I was 16 after someone gifted me a copy. Though I must say, it made me feel a lot better at the time. Will to power and all that wahoo. Time to actually engage with Nietzsche
>Eight volumes from the "-isms" series
They are basically books with an introduction and a selection of primary sources (Essays and other writings) by authors who wrote in that style. The volumes here are: The Rococo, Classicism, Romantics, Naturalism, Existentialism, Symbolism, Surrealism and The Postmodern. The postmodern volume seems the most interesting at first glance, because it has essays from all those whacky bloody postmodern neomarxist French thinkers that hardly got published here. Though I got them mainly because their introductory essays are supposedly good (Albeit not short, usually clocking in at 80-130 pages.)

Someone I knew was getting rid of parts of their library and invited me to step in and take some off their shoulders. (On the grounds of "I don't need it, and you have your whole life ahead of you, so you'll get more use out of it".)
Taking all of them home was a pain in the ass, but completely worth it.
Some of the things I got:
>Baudelaire - Artificial Paradises
I despised symbolist poetry in class. It's the quintessential "gay French nonsense" form of art. But a quasi-drug diary from the late 19th century seems interesting enough.
>Selected Writings of Aesthetics from Ancient China
I've been after this booklet for some time on the grounds of being a sinoboo.
>Proust - In Search of Lost Time Vol. I. and II.
It's impossibly hard to get here. I've never seen anything above volume three in my life, despite the last few volumes being published less than a decade ago. (The first three were published in the 30s, but the countercultural intellectuals were reading it in French before that.)
>Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus
A primary-source on Greek mythology, always a good thing.
>Dostoevsky - Selected letters, studies and diaries
>Dostoevsky - The Double
I love Dostoevsky to death, so it was sort of a given to take these.
>Nikolai Gogol - The Nose, The Overcoat, The Carriage (Bilingual edition)
Never read Gogol, and I don't speak Russian (Turns out there is more to it than knowing the Cyril alphabet.), they seem like short enough pieces, and I'm interested in reading The Nose because Shostakovich composed music for an opera adaptation.
>Hoffman - The Golden Flowerpot
>Goethe - The Sorrows of the Young Werther
I really hate myself for missing out on German romanticism when we had to read works of it in school. Now is as good a time as any to catch up, and these are really short works.
>Nietzsche - The Birth of Tragedy
>Nietzsche - Selected Writings
Nietzsche is one of those subjects that fall into the category of "I'm sort of well acquainted with it" on the grounds of reading some of Zarathustra when I was 16 after someone gifted me a copy. Though I must say, it made me feel a lot better at the time. Will to power and all that wahoo. Time to actually engage with Nietzsche
>Eight volumes from the "-isms" series
They are basically books with an introduction and a selection of primary sources (Essays and other writings) by authors who wrote in that style. The volumes here are: The Rococo, Classicism, Romantics, Naturalism, Existentialism, Symbolism, Surrealism and The Postmodern. The postmodern volume seems the most interesting at first glance, because it has essays from all those whacky bloody postmodern neomarxist French thinkers that hardly got published here. Though I got them mainly because their introductory essays are supposedly good (Albeit not short, usually clocking in at 80-130 pages.)