/lit/ - Literature

>>10282996
Quixote has much better pacing, more interesting characters, and much more depth (once you get to the second part). Cervantes more or less invented metafiction.

>>10284268
My Spanish-speaking world literature professor recommended us the translation by Tom Lathrop. It's the best for most readers, because it's non-literal, which means the poems fit the original meter and rhyme scheme, the jokes are rephrased so they'll make sense to a layperson, and there's a ton of useful footnotes.

>mfw I read that "Caraculiambro" is the Spanish equivalent of "McAssface"
Never would have caught the joke without the footnote, and I'm a spic.

>>10031713
>not cocaine and water

I'm pleb tier when it comes to philosophy. The only primary sources I have read are from Plato. So, what do you think about this reading list?

Metaphysics-Aristotle
Ethics-Aristotle
Meditations on First Philosophy-Descartes
Monadology-Leibniz
Discourse on Metaphysics-Leibniz
Enquiry on Human Understanding-Hume
Critique of Pure Reason-Kant

>>9289580
>Mad Men is written by women and it has both the best male and female characters.