/lit/ - Literature

>>13824272
I'm always buying books, although I read them. These are among my recent acquisitions.

I have two parallel stacks (there were actually four, but I combined them for this thread). Here's one of two.

>>13825222
... and two of two.

pls no bully

>>13825222
>>13825227
Back to fucking reddit

>>13825233
hmmm

>>13825241
Joke fren

>>13825222
What's the book in poo runes?

>>13825260
'Par Ankhon Nahin Bhareen' / Suman

Some poetry shit I found in the library. Read a few pages last year, forgot to return it afterward.

>>13824272
Why, yes I only read french lit, how could you tell?

>>13825222
That book about Indian Maoists looks interesting.

8 Pound in a charity shop for 4 books?! Damn...what a bargain. I get all mah charity books for 1 Euro each or less...Ireland wins for sure. Or get wordsworth classics. They're at least worth their money. Fucking plebs. Ya know nothing, Jon. Even fucking Brother Karamazovs for 3.15 or... I dunno. I'm just laughing my arse off how OP tries to look cool and is just and know-nothing jackshit Raven of dusk born worms of discoloured franchised stupidity.

I'm not even sure if the last part makes sense...but who am I to care?

>>13826220
Half of them are about Indian Maoists. Which one?

>>13826471
huh I didn't notice, I was specifically drawn to Red and Green.

>>13826241
Drunk before noon again eh spudblood

>>13826478
Ah. If I remember correctly, 'Red and Green' is a decent reference but not particularly engaging.

If you're interested in learning about the modern Maoist movement in India, I would recommend "Hello, Bastar" by Rahul Pandita, "Nightmarch" by Alpa Shah and "The Burning Forest" by Nandini Sundar. All are well-written, informative, and lacking any overt bias.

>>13824292
How's the King in yellow? I was thinking of buying a edition, but the audiobook(on youtube) seems to be a lot comfier than reading it.

>>13824272
Two great slices of bread around a turd sandwich.

>>13824272
r8
Btw is northern lights for kids? It was cheap as fuck ($1) so I bought it.

>>13825227
The era of shashi by darkness tharoor looks cool.

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.)

>>13827323
>It's impossibly hard to get here
you dont have amazon in your country?

>>13827331
I'm not talking about an English version.

>>13827338
idk go to the publisher's site

>>13827363
You are right that *some* volumes are still for sale, but some are sold out, so you can't get a brand new set.

>>13826804
Thanks. I'll look into them.

>>13827323
Looks nice

>>13825876
Why are the spines of French books always white?

Most of them were stolen from my university's library

Somebody post it

>>13828154
Which?
The +100 image album of a public library that we aren't worthy of seeing, the one with the trump plant pot, or the one with the flip flop and the sunglasses?

>>13828161
The one made of barnes and nobles tacky hardcovers and the one made up of nothing but stephen king books.

>>13828046
Dejame adivinar: un sudaca de mierda.

Where do you get Folio Societies?
Everything that you would actually want on their site is out of stock

>>13828212
ebay
abebooks

a copy should show up one day if you wait long enough.

>>13824272
Based charity shopper.

Well done OP

I hope you enjoy Name of the Rose, anon, Eco's one of the greatest authors ever. Make sure to read his Foucalt's Pendulum as well, that one's his best

>>13827233
First good stack itt

>>13828324
For a board that tries so hard to be eclectic, it's amazing how you all jizz yourselves over the same half-dozen books.

>>13828431
That's because it's only you, who is trying so hard to be eclectic.
The rest of us are just having fun.

Ive posted this here before but i’ll post it again since i’m still working on the stack
+ Stoner which i started recently

>>13828627
Take a proper photo

>>13828180
Tus antepasados robaban oro y plata gallego hijo de puta. ¿Con que derecho te atreves a juzgar a tus descendientes?

Based or cringe?

>>13828627
Would you like to take a nice long walk, discussing literature, and then maybe drink a green tea together?

Stacks of books that i haven’t read 1/2

>>13824272
>gulag archipelago
yikes, get a book that hasn't been repudiated by every respectable historian.

>>13826241
based
>>13827156
nice
>>13828212
i just happened to find them in a thrift store. Im tempted to resell them for a decent amount but after ive read them of course.
>>13828316
i'll check it out too then, thanks anon

>>13829135
Lucky Jim is one of Kingsley's weaker novels, dunno why it's so popular

>>13829142
that sounds ideal

>>13825222
>Reading Manto in English
He's gonna come off as a dollar store Chekhov at best.

>>13828046
Los de la editorial debolsillo son muy fáciles de robar, yo me los robaba del colegio hace años.

>>13830512
It was an impulse buy from the Oxfoord Books in Kolkata--they didn't have Manto in Urdu. Nonetheless, he still comes across better than a 'dollar store Chekhov.' While I'm not fond of all the stories included in the collection, some of his Partition stories (which are what he's best known for) are jarring and incredibly memorable.

>>13827233

I just read Metamorphosis the other night. Something about Kafka's writing hits me hard.

I really need to buckle down and work on learning Latin once and for all, at the very least I'll have a better grasp of how languages work through a combination of autismo and breaking free from having fluency in ONLY English t. burger. Also Faulkner is comfy and First as Tragedy, Then as Farce seems to be the most approachable Zizek for me personally. I also have a KJV bible but that's pretty much a family heirloom and the one I have in the stack is for my personal study, the sidebars feature nothing but relevant quotes from theologians across denomination (although in burgerland it's slanted Protestant because the market itself sees the default Christian as Protestant). I have many more books I will get to eventually and a Kindle Paperwhite.

>>13824272
Charity book sale

>>13831164
Get the wheelock work book, then get langua latina.

Loving everything here.

>>13827511
because afrikaaner dont belong in parie u stupid unbaguette

>>13824292
spooky

>>13828046
>Actually bothers stealing something from hesse

>>13829135
Where do you read your pdfs?

>>13830876
Made me feel really bad, wanted to throw it away after finishing lol.

Nice stack, OP. Here's mine (sort of a repost). $6 at a navy thrift store.

>>13828848
Cállense los dos, putos

>>13828046
no tienes respeto, idiota

>>13832937
Just on my kindle.

>>13833536
ni dinero xD

>>13834158
ay-yayay¡

>>13831195
You already posted this once before. Still a nice stack.
Who translated that Three Kingdoms?

>>13836059
C.H. brewitt taylor