/lit/ - Literature

I think most /lit/ posters would enjoy this book.

Its almost too joyful. It makes you angry that you can't just throw down your life and set out on foot.

>>17854119

Got this for my best friend’s wife

>>16273629
Go for a long walk anon

>walks into Vienna just as Dollfuss’s troops are shelling the Karl Marx housing project during a failed socialist coup
>asks the cops where he can find a bunk for the night

I’m thinking pretty based

I’ve read three of his books. This was the first I read and still my favorite of the bunch.

>>14957930

Either pic related or the Just So Stories. I'll be re-reading both this winter.

Read widely, be curious about everything, don't look down on others for living and thinking differently, pursue your passions, don't lie to yourself, don't ever be content with how you think, question yourself (productively), love other human beings, be kind to others, be genuinely interested in other lives and other ways of living, never think categorically, write often, think honestly, be open to new ideas and experiences, travel if you can, value life

This was excellent. Thank you to the anon who recommended it.
Tfw ywn hike through pre war Nazi Germany and drink vintage wines with a pair of 19 year old madchens in one of their absent parents’ homes.

Not contemporary but A Time of Gifts is incredible.