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>There are anons on this board that have not read a single word of Homer, Pindar, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Euripedes, Hesiod, Aristophones, Herodotus, Sappho, Plutarch, Ovid, Virgil, Lucretius, Arisoto, Horace, St. Augustine, Marcus Aurelius, Rabelais, Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Luther, Cervantes, Chaucer, the Beowulf poet, Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, Sterne, Burton, Browne, Wyatt, Sidney, Percy Shelley, Tennyson, Donne, Pope, Dryden, Bacon, Novalis, Schelling, Schlegal, Hegel, Pascal, Lichtenberg, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Dickens, Marlowe, Diderot, Jonson, Goethe, Bunyan, Gibbon, Addison, Smollett, Milton, Johnson, Boswell, Emerson, Quincey, Burke, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Mary Shelley, Wollstonecraft, Racine, Baudelaire, Valery, Rimbaud, Moliere, Montaigne, Browning, Gray, Holderlin, Schiller, Shaw, Voltaire, Hugo, Balzac, Zola, Dumas, Stendhal, Nerval, Flaubert, Mallarme, Malraux, Chateaubriand, Artaud, Poe, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Keats, Arnold, Pater, Walter Scott, Swinburne, Rossetti, Carroll, William James, Henry James, Hawthorne, Twain, Melville, Dewey, Bergson, Whitehead, Auerbach, George Eliot, Williams, Frost, Cummings, Crane, Stevens, Whitman, Plath, Trakl, Rilke, Celan, Montale, Neruda, Lorca, Tagore, Manzoni, Peake, Murdoch, Wharton, Wilde, Leopardi, Faulkner, O'Connor, Passos, Nietzsche, Marx, Adorno, Bloch, Lukacs, Bakhtin, Hamsun, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Andreyev, Bely, Bulgakov, Gonchorov, Camoes, Pessoa, Queiroz, Saramago, Paz, Borges, Bloy, Pirandello, Huysmans, Lautreamont, Schwob, Casares, Bolano, Cortazar, Lima, Donoso, de Assis, Carpentjier, Celine, Marquez, Unamuno, Gide, Jarry, Camus, Conrad, Wells, Hardy, Salinger, Lawrence, Forster, Hrabal, Swift, Bronte, Woolf, Bachelard, Roussel, Beckett, Proust, Nabokov, Joyce, O'Brien, Yeats, Waugh, Heaney, Auden, Hofmannsthal, Mann, Musil, Broch, Zweig, Bachmann. Jelinek, Lessing, Laxness, Simenon,Svevo, Levi, Buzzati, Quasimodo, Llosa, Walser, Kafka, Babel, Schulz, Transtromer, Kertesz, Pavic, Andric, Grossmann,Sillanpää, Linna, Mahfouz, Boll, Grass, Canetti, Pavese, Robbe-Grillet, Blanchot, Perec, Calvino, Bernhard, Gass, Barth, Gaddis, Vollmann, Vidal, Hawkes, DeLillo, Pynchon, McElroy, Soseki, Murasaki, Shonagon, Kawabata, Mishima, Akutagawa, Tanizaki, Dazai, Oe, Xinjiang, Yan, Kosztolanyi, Gombrowicz, Ishiguro, Eco, Coetzee, Benjamin, Barthes, Pasternak, Derrida, Deleuze, Bateson, Foucault, Lyotard, Mcluhan, Eichenbaum, Steiner, Munro, Carson, Handke, Theroux, Patrick White, Alfau, Marias, Enard, Claude Simon, Elizabeth Bishop, Markson, Lowry, Bellow, Dara

Explain yourselves

>> No.14285021

>>14285014
do you think im made of free time?

>> No.14285027
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14285027

>CTRL + F
>Spinoza
>0 results

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>>14285014
I read all of those already. What's your point?

>> No.14285037

>>14285027
Spinoza is on there. You didnt ctrl f you retard.

>> No.14285041

>>14285014

Like, not a word from each and all of them? That's a lot. Otherwise yeah you are right, kys if you haven't read a bit of William James.

>> No.14285980

>>14285014
If you didn't read these in the original language, than neither have you. You just read some random schmuck translator.

>> No.14286009

>>14285014
>Pindar, Euripedes, Aristophones, Herodotus, Plutarch, Horace, Marie de France, Burton, Browne, Wyatt, Sidney, Donne, Bacon, Novalis, Schlegal, Pascal, Lichtenberg, Ibsen, Marlowe, Diderot, Gibbon, Addison, Smollett, Johnson, Boswell, Quincey, Spinoza, Leibniz, Racine, Valery, Moliere, Gray, Holderlin, Schiller, Shaw, Hugo, Zola, Dumas, Stendhal, Nerval, Flaubert, Mallarme, Malraux, Chateaubriand, Pater, Walter Scott, Swinburne, Carroll, Dewey, Auerbach, George Eliot, Trakl, Rilke, Celan, Montale, Lorca, Tagore, Manzoni, Peake, Murdoch, Wharton, Leopardi, Passos, Bloch, Lukacs, Hamsun, Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, Andreyev, Bely, Bulgakov, Gonchorov, Camoes, Pessoa, Queiroz, Saramago, Paz, Borges, Bloy, Pirandello, Huysmans, Lautreamont, Schwob, Casares, Lima, Donoso, de Assis, Carpentjier, Marquez, Unamuno, Gide, Jarry, Forster, Hrabal, Bachelard, Roussel, Waugh, Heaney, Auden, Hofmannsthal, Mann, Musil, Broch, Bachmann. Jelinek, Lessing, Laxness, Simenon,Svevo, Levi, Buzzati, Quasimodo, Llosa, Walser, Babel, Schulz, Transtromer, Kertesz, Pavic, Andric, Grossmann,Sillanpää, Linna, Mahfouz, Boll, Grass, Canetti, Pavese,Blanchot,Bernhard, Gass, Vidal, Hawkes, McElroy, Soseki, Murasaki, Shonagon, Kawabata, Akutagawa, Tanizaki, Oe, Xinjiang, Yan, Kosztolanyi, Gombrowicz, Ishiguro, Coetzee, Benjamin, Barthes, Pasternak, Bateson, Lyotard, Mcluhan, Eichenbaum, Steiner, Munro, Handke, Theroux, Patrick White, Alfau, Marias, Enard, Claude Simon, Markson, Bellow, Dara
which of these worth reading then

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>>14285014

>> No.14286030

>No Rowling listed
Dropped.

>> No.14286060

>>14285014

> Nearly all white male authors

Yikes

>> No.14286440

Bump

>> No.14286452

>Wharton
nobody gives a fuck
>Ibsen
make it stop
>Eco
report to the lobotomotorium for reeducation

>> No.14286454

>>14285014
I’m certain they’ve all used “the” in one way or another in their writings, so in fact I passed

>> No.14286458

>no verlaine

>> No.14286493

>no Lao Tzu
>no Confucius
>no Sextus Empiricus
>no Catullus
>no Seneca
>no Cicero
>no Boethius
>no Rashi
>no Maeterlinck
>no Bonhoeffer
>no Chesterton
>no Kierkegaard
>no Brecht
>no Rios
this really is a good list though, very thorough and without many glaring omissions

>> No.14286496

>>14286493
oh and no Valéry

>> No.14286521

>>14286496
Valery is there

>> No.14286527

>>14286521
so he is
sorry about that

>> No.14286565

>>14285014
Hehe.. Cummings

>> No.14286576

>>14285014
>imagine wasting your time on 80% of these shitters

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>>14286060
>Borges
>white

>> No.14286737

chretien more like cretin lmao

>> No.14286757

>no Aquinas
>no St Francis
>no Tasso
>no Bruno
>no Ficino
>no Pico
>no Gramsci
>no D'Annunzio
>no Evola
>no Ungaretti
As an Italian, I'm pretty horrified.

>> No.14286837

>>14286757
>Evola (no discernible talent. don't talk as if he is some great thinker it is embarasing.)
>Gramsci
Oh no there arent retard reactionaries mentioned!
>Aquinas
He is there under "Aristotle." He made no accomplishments so he isnt worth mentioning. He was just a christcuck brand of Aristotle.

>> No.14286870

>>14286837
>Oh no there arent retard reactionaries mentioned!
What did he mean by this?

>> No.14286888

>>14286009
Start with Aristophanes

>> No.14287200

Bump

>> No.14287238

>>14285014
>no Epictetus
>no Houellebecq
Your list is incomplete

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>>14286888
Correct

>> No.14287667

Bump

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>>14285014
Which of these writers would have thought that more than 2/3 of the other writers were worth reading?

Eco and Barth?

>> No.14288224

>>14285014
this thread should be pinned and locked

>> No.14288241

>>14286888
>Aristophanes
ooooof, the original beta boy.

>> No.14288266

I can't read for I am a NIGGER (I use NIGGER here as an artistic expression I am infact not black or a nigger).

>> No.14288790

Bump

>> No.14288949

Bump