/lit/ - Literature

Half of that isn't /lit/ related. Fuck off.

>Favourite novel and novelist.
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
The Poetry of Rilke, Tr Snow by Rilke
>Favourite play and playwright.
Othello by Shakespeare
>Favourite philosopher.
Schopenhauer

>Favourite classical piece.
I'll go neoclassical: Vespers by Rachmaninoff
>Favourite popular music album.
1989 by Taylor Swift


>Favourite film.
Ran by Kurosawa
>Favourite director.
Kurosawa


>Favourite painter.
Dali
>Favourite painting.
Nocturne in Black and Gold by Whistler

>>6621525
If your interests are so narrow you can just answer the /lit/ related ones.

>>6621519
>Favourite novel and novelist.
Sorry, I can not answer this and feel comfortable
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
>Favourite play and playwright.
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar "The evil that men do lives after them."
>Favourite philosopher.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

>Favourite classical piece.
Vivaldi - Concerto for Mandolin in C Major
>Favourite popular music album.

>Favourite film.
The City of Lost Children
>Favourite director
Stanley Kubrick

>Favourite painter.
Charles White (Harlem Renaissance Artist)
>Favourite painting
Pic related

>novel
Less than Zero
>novelist
Pinecone

>playwright
Never read a play
>philosopher
Camus

>classical piece
Beethovens 9th, 4th movement
>album
Darkness on the Edge of Town. I would say Histoire de Melody Nelson though that's not very popular in my country.

>film
The Sacrifice or Amadeus. maybe boogie nights
>director
Lynch

>painter
Basquiat
>painting
Not sure

>>6621519
>Favourite novel and novelist.
"The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann. My favourite novelist is either Mann or Pynchon depending on my mood.
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
"Leaves of grass" by Whitman. He is my favourite poet too.
>Favourite play and playwright.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream". My favourite playwright is Lope de Vega though.
>Favourite philosopher.
Must be Heidegger.

>Favourite classical piece.
Schubert's String Quartet No. 15
>Favourite popular music album.
The complete recordings of Coltrane at the Village Vanguard.

>Favourite film.
"Amarcord" by Fellini or "Ugetsu Monogatari" by Mizoguchi.
>Favourite director.
Bergman.

>Favourite painter.
Goya.
>Favourite painting.
"Charles IV of Spain and His family"

>>6621519
>Favourite novel and novelist.
Les Misérables, Victor Hugo (but this always changes)
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
Cool Drink of Water, Maya Angelou (hasn't changed in years)
>Favourite play and playwright.
Doubt, John Patrick Shanley
>Favourite philosopher.
Plato (pretty new to philosophy, but starting with the Greeks)

>Favourite classical piece.
Chopin, Funeral March
>Favourite popular music album.
Madonna, Erotica

>Favourite film.
Game Change (I know it should be Un Chien Andalou or something classic, but I'm obsessed)
>Favourite director.
Alejandro Jodorowsky

>Favourite painter.
Henri Matisse
>Favourite painting.
Da Vinci's Last Supper

>>6621555
>The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran

>>6621593

Problem?

>All these clueless plebs thinking popular music = pop music.

>>6621519
>>Favourite novel and novelist.
The Corrections / Bukowski
>>Favourite poetry book and poet.
Phillip Larkin Collected / Me
>>Favourite play and playwright.
The Duchess Of Malfi / Strindberg
>>Favourite philosopher.
>Don't know many, Nietszche
>>Favourite classical piece.
Mahler Adagietto
>>Favourite popular music album.
>Arabesque Jane Birkin
>>Favourite film.
The Elephant Man
>>Favourite director.
>Kubrick but I like the guy / his bios not so much his films
>>Favourite painter.
Marc Rothko
>>Favourite painting.
Black Square Malevich

favourites are for dilettantes. the more you are exposed to a medium, the least likely you are to have favourites

>>6621519

>Favourite novel and novelist.
The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
Les Fleurs Du Mal, Baudelaire
>Favourite play and playwright.
Hamlet, Shakespeare
>Favourite philosopher.
Based Nietzsche

>Favourite classical piece.
The death of the Swan, tchaikovsky
>Favourite popular music album.
Deathconsciousness by Have a Nice Life

>Favourite film.
The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick
>Favourite director.
based Terrence Malick

>Favourite painter.
Kandinsky
>Favourite painting.
Maybe the Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh

>>6621567
>"Charles IV of Spain and His family"

interesting

>Moby Dick; or The Whale and Thomas Hardy
>The Cantos and William Shakespeare
>Julius Caesar and William Shakespeare
>Soren Kierkegaard

>Tannhauser Overture
>Pet Sounds

>The Leopard
>Howard Hawks

>Renoir
>Almond Blossoms by Vincent van Gogh

>>6621543
It's not about interests being narrow, it's about being off topic. If you see /lit/ as a gathering place for tasteful individuals like yourself instead of a place to discuss literature you're an idiot that needs to get a life.

>>6621630
Go ahead and discuss literature. Here you have people with very different taste, find anyone you can discuss literature with and do so.

>>6621635
Fuck you I reported the thread. Hope it gets deleted, as it should.

>>6621630

You really should just relax man. Obviously this thread has generated some interest (hence the number of posts already), so you should just relax.

OP just seems interested in how multi-dimensional interests possibly influence, or, make up our literary interests.

This thread is harmless and you need to relax

>>6621630
Are you being serious right now?

>>6621542
>1989 by Taylor Swift

Of all the albums you could have said

Your insomnia is getting the best of you.

>>6621630
I have not posted mine yet, fyi.

>>6621519
>Dostoyevsky
>Ode on a Grecian Urn, Keats
>dunno
>Freddy Nietzsche
>The Magic Flute
>dunno

>Orphee
>Cocteau

>Leonardo
>pic related

>inb4 pleb
;)

>>6621613
It is a great painting by an author of wicked genius.

>>6621659
Show me a straight man that doesn't like Taylor Swift and I'll show you a liar.

>>6621677
>>inb4 pleb
Sounds cool to me, and Magic Flute is badass.

The Book of Disquiet, Milan Kundera
Don't really read poetry, but would love recommendations based on other things I like
Don't watch plays, don't plan to
Wittgenstein

Schoenberg Op.4
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You

The Color of Pomegranates
Kurbick

Rothko (honestly)
none

>inb4 200 posts of shameless posturing

>Favourite novel and novelist.
don't have one, O'Brien or Beckett
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
Blake, Songs of Experience
>Favourite play and playwright.
Beckett, Endgame
>Favourite philosopher.
Nietzsche

>Favourite classical piece.
The Miraculous Mandarin
>Favourite popular music album.
Songs of Faith and Devotion

>Favourite film.
Russian Ark
>Favourite director.
Greenaway

>Favourite painter.
Turner
>Favourite painting.

>>6621766
>Rothko
Why do you say this?

>>6621519
>Novel and Novelist
Love in the Time of Cholera, By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Novelist would be Hemingway

>Play and playwright
Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw
Shaw

>philosopher
Nietszche

>film
The World's End, 2013

>painter and painting
Anything by Monet, Monet in general

>>6621593
>fucking faggot and his opinion which is different to mine
i smell anal pain

>>6621781
I'm autistic, so art tends to resonate with me on a highly intuitive level proceeding my brain's evaluation of context, technique, and similarly constructed measures of merit. Of course, while I could very have posted, say, Egon Schiele, I would be answering favorite on a basis of respect rather than love. (maybe he warrants a "why do you say this?" too, I'm really out of touch.) That being said, nothing evokes the same engrossment or intensity as Rothko, for me.

>>6621796
Holy shit a Toa Tahu pepe.
I never thought I would see this one day
>tfw new Bionicles never

>Favourite novel and novelist.
Jakob von Gunten; Maurice Blanchot
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
Things of This World; Guy Viarre
>Favourite play and playwright.
Honestly don't have any favourite play and will go with probably Beckett
>Favourite philosopher.
Deleuze

>Favourite classical piece.
I'll go with contemporary classic, Well-tuned piano by La Monte Young
>Favourite popular music album.
9-5 Physic club by HTRK

>Favourite film.
The Angelic Conversation
>Favourite director.
Béla Tarr

>Favourite painter.
Adriena Šimotová
>Favourite painting.
there isn't any particular all-time one

>>6621818
I wasn't being a dick, I was genuinely wondering. I went to a Rothko exhibition when I was in my mid teens and I genuinely felt nothing, and looking at his works on the internet similarly evokes no feelings for me.

I can see why someone would say Schiele, but not Rothko. Do you aesthetically value something like the seagram murals?

>>6621836
>Jakob von Gunten
mah nigga

>>6621818
Schiele is Klimt for teenagers, and not in a good way

He's like those pictures on tumblr that you see and think, hmm that's interesting, and then forget having ever seen 10 minutes later

Rothko is ok though

>Favourite novel and novelist.
Les mis. No favorite novelist

>Favourite poetry book and poet.
les murray. No favorite book
>Favourite play and playwright.
Fiddler on the roof. Shakespeare
>Favourite philosopher.
Girard

>Favourite classical piece.
cello suites
>Favourite popular music album.
Merriweather post pavilion
>Favourite film.
Probably Apocalypse Now. Tough one
>Favourite director.
Don't really have one

>Favourite painter. Dali
>Favourite painting. Christ of st john of the cross

>>6621519
New to literature so these first ones will be pleb

>>Favourite novel and novelist.
The Brothers Karamazov (currently reading) and Dostoevsky
>>Favourite poetry book and poet.
Don't have on
>>Favourite play and playwright.
Hamlet is good, so Shakespeare I guess
>>Favourite philosopher.
Marcus Aurelius
>>Favourite classical piece.
Don't listen to much classical, Chopin's Nocturnes are nice
>>Favourite popular music album.
The Money Store by Death Grips
>>Favourite film.
Zerkalo (The Mirror)
>>Favourite director.
Either Tarkovsky or Bunuel
>>Favourite painter.
Either David Lynch or Edward Hopper
>>Favourite painting.
Either Excursion into Philosophy or Impression Sunrise

>>6621836
>being this gay

Ulysses, Virginia Woolf
Cathay, Percy Bysshe Shelley
Richard II, Shakespeare
Marx

Dunno, I like Chopin's Mazurkas.
Uhhh Television, Marquee Moon?

Life of Brian
Godard

Rothko?
The City Rises by Boccioni

>>6621841
Yeah, I do like the Seagram Murals. The constitution or principles to his work don't really hold any value for me. I don't believe there's a manifest reason to why I like him. Very simple things elements of art, and the world, seem to fascinate me on a level below aesthetic appraisal.
>>6621845
Oh

>Favourite novel and novelist.
Moby-Dick (Melville) and Anthony Trollope
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
Paradise Lost (Milton) and A. E. Housman
>Favourite play and playwright.
Hamlet (Shakespeare) and William Shakespeare
>Favourite philosopher.
Michael Oakeshott

>Favourite classical piece.
Shostakovich's 9th symphony
>Favourite popular music album.
Actually (Pet Shop Boys)

>Favourite film.
The Tree of Life (Malick)
>Favourite director.
John Ford

>Favourite painter.
J. M. W. Turner
>Favourite painting.
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (Turner)

>Religion.
Christianity

>Political worldview.
Classical conservatism
>Political party affiliation.
UK Independence Party (paid member)

>Sexual orientation.
Homosexuality

>>6621845
fuck me, bougie had it way too good

>Favourite novel and novelist
Novel: To The Lighthouse; Novelist: Dickens
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
Hart Crane: The Bridge
>Favourite play and playwright.
Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra
>Favourite philosopher.
Kant

>Favourite classical piece.
Winterreise
>Favourite popular music album.
Tom Waits - Small Change

>Favourite film.
The Searchers
>Favourite director.
Tarkovsky

>Favourite painter.
Bruegel
>Favourite painting.
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

>>6621780
Currently reading "The third policeman" and really enjoying the experience. Damn fine comedy, some references to de Selby actually made me laugh out loud.

>>6621519
The Long Goodbye/Raymond Chandler
Florentine Nights/ Heinrich Heine
The Clouds/ Aristophanes OR The Physicists/Dürrenmatt
Plato
Piano Sonata No. 11/Mozart
Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton/Eazy-E
The Big Sleep
Fritz Lang
Kandinsky
Architectural Visions of Early Fancy in the Gay Morning of Youth and Dreams in the Evening of Life by Joseph Gandy

>>6621872
waht is so gay about it?

>>6621519
>Favourite novel and novelist.
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
Sylvia Plath's Ariel
>Favourite play and playwright.
Shakespeare's Othello
>Favourite philosopher.
Peter Singer

>Favourite classical piece.
Requiem Mass in D Minor - Mozart
>Favourite popular music album.
The Velvet Underground & Nico - S/T

>Favourite film.
Pulp Fiction
>Favourite director.
Linklater

>Favourite painter.
Jean Michel Basquiat
>Favourite painting.
Gentileschi - Judith Slaying Holofernes

bumping because this has been a decent rec list so far

>>6621519
>Favorite novel: "My Idea of Fun" by Will Self
>Favorite novelist: Dostoevsky

>Favourite poetry book: "The Man Suit"
>Favourite poet: Bukowski

>Favourite play: "Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead"
>Favourite playwright: Samuel Beckett

>Favourite classical piece: Mozart's Turkish March
>Favourite popular music album: Some of Michael Jackson's.

>Favourite film: "There Will be Blood"
>Favourite Director: Kubrick

>Favourite Painter: Salvador Dali
>Favourite Painting: La tentación de San Antonio

>>6624558
>Also, philosopher: Nietzsche

>Favourite novel and novelist.
At the moment, Knausgaard, Min Kamp.
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
Illuminations by Rimbaud or Voyages by Hart Crane
>Favourite play and playwright.
Duh, Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
>Favourite philosopher.
Hegel
>Favourite classical piece.
Tristan Und Isold
>Favourite popular music album.
Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan
>Favourite film.
The 400 Blows
>Favourite director.
Godard
>Favourite painter.
Van Gogh
>Favourite painting.
my self portrait

>Favourite novel and novelist.
The Great Gatsby, F.S.F.
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
Metamorphoses, Ovid
>Favourite play and playwright.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare
>Favourite philosopher.
Kierkegaard

>Favourite classical piece.
Claire de Lune, Claude Debussy
>Favourite popular music album.
Coldplay, 'A Rush of Blood to the Head'

>Favourite film.
Roman Holiday (1953)
>Favourite director.
Hitchcock

>Favourite painter.
Renoir
>Favourite painting.
Bal du moulin de la Galette by Renoir

love too post in the threads where everyone posts and no one responds

>Favourite novel and novelist.
Pale Fire (Nabokov) / Thomas Pynchon
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
Paradise Lost (Milton) / Wallace Stevens
>Favourite play and playwright.
God of Carnage (Reza) / Michael Frayn
>Favourite philosopher.
will take some shit for this but probably Karl Popper
>Favourite classical piece.
Stravinsky's Firebird
>Favourite popular music album.
London Calling or Let it Be (The Replacements)
>Favourite film.
Network
>Favourite director.
the Coen Brothers
>Favourite painter.
extremely uncool choice here too but Magritte

>>6624711
>my self portrait
go on then, show us your ugly mug

I find the idea of picking favorites and then posting them to a forum like /lit/ repulsive, but I enjoy reading you guys' responses and guessing about your personality.

>>6624844
why is it repulsive?

>>6624711
>Godard

>>6621519
>Favorite novel and novelist.
Pratchett, Welles,

>Favourite poetry book and poet.
Don't have one

>Favourite play and playwright.

>Favourite philosopher.
Neitsche

>Favourite classical piece.
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 6 in A minor

>Favourite popular music album.
Alan Parsons Project - Turn of a friendly card

>Favorite film.
Ghost in the Shell

>Favourite director.
Satoshi Kon

>Favorite painter.
Ilya Repin, Beksinski

>Favorite painting.
Don't have one,

>>6624884
I just think picking favorites in a field as broad as all novels or all films is a pointless exercise . no matter what I pick I will be able to think of at least two or three other equally valid candidates. And my favorites are subject to change. I have preferences but not favorites.

>Favourite philosopher.
Paul Ricoeur, John McDowell

>Favourite classical piece.
Maurice Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit
>Favourite popular music album.
Samiyam - Sam Baker's Album

>Favourite film.
Philippe Grandrieux - Un lac (I know)
>Favourite director.
Jean-Luc Godard

I feel I can judge myself this way.

>>6625345
Which work to start with for Ricoeur? I've made threads asking before but they never got responses so I had to bite on the opportunity seeing someone listing him as a favorite.

Also who are essential prerequisites?

>>6625283
most people who've posted (i hope) know that implicitly though - having a favourite anything just means that you haven't seen enough. its more a quick sketch of you as a person - doesnt have to be full def

>>6625363
I remember responding to one. I recommended Time and Narrative. On second thought I would recommend Rule of Metaphor, since it's studies are spread across disciplines, and the subject matter is readily graspable.

Prerequisites--
He often refers to past hermeneutics (Dilthey, Schleiermarcher), but I would at least recommend familiarity with Husserl, Heidegger, and Gadamer.

>>6625445
Thanks, anon. There's even a copy on abebooks for $12.68! Ordered.

>>6625462
Badass.

>>6621519
Recency bias is strong
>Siddhartha; Tolstoy
>¿¿?? Bukowski I guess
> Waiting for Godot; Aristophanes
> Schopenhauer (he's wrong though)
> Bach cello suite 1 in g or metamorphosis by philip glass
> Handwritten or Decoration Day
> Tucker and Dale vs Evil
> Christopher Nolan

>Novel
Crime and Punishment
>Novelist
Saramago
>Poetry book and poet
Collected Auden, probably
>Play
Godot
>Philosopher
Cioran or Foucault

>Classical piece
Mendelsohn - Violin Concerto E Minor OP. 64
>Popular music album
Very difficult, but I'm gonna go with In Rainbows

>Film
Almost Famous
>Director
Scorsese

>Painter
Velazquez
>Painting
Repin - Ivan the Terrible and his Son

>>6621519
>Favourite novel and novelist.
Kafka. Short stories

>Favourite play and playwright.
Henry V.

>Favourite philosopher.
Georges Bataille

>Favourite director.
David lynch

>Favourite painter.
Francis Bacon(1909-1992)

>>6625607
Your aesthetic is opaque

>>6625607
>>Favourite novel and novelist.
> Kafka. Short stories

>>6622436
Do you even understand -- let alone even capable of explicating your favoritism for -- Blanchot?

>Favorite novel and novelist
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Jack Kerouac
>Favorite poetry book and poet
Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman or Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Jim Morrison
>Favorite play and playwright
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Don't have a favorite playwright
>Favorite philosopher
Aldous Huxley

>Favorite classical piece
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair by Claude Debussy
>Favorite popular music album
Yellow House by Grizzly Bear

>Favorite film
Inside Llewyn Davis
>Favorite Director
Don't have one

>Favorite painter
Edward Hopper
>Favorite Painting
Gas by Edward Hopper

>>6625841
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>>6621519
>>Favourite novel and novelist. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
>>Favourite poetry book and poet. Divine Comedy, Dante
>>Favourite play and playwright. Hamlet, Shakespeare
>>Favourite philosopher. Montaigne
>>Favourite classical piece. Toss-up between Dvorak Czech Suite and Beethoven's Ninth
>>Favourite popular music album. Tossup between Beetles White Album, Help, and Sgt Pepper.
>>Favourite film. A Brighter Summer Day
>>Favourite director. Edward Yang
>>Favourite painter. Leonardo
>>Favourite painting. The Virgin on the Rocks, I guess

>>6625841
>>6625492
>>6624774
>>6624558
>>6622504
>>6621687
confirmed plebs.

>>6625262
>>6621780
>>6621677
>>6621602
>>6621611
>>6621791
>>6624572
>all these nietzsches
explains the daily catalog

>>6621836
Great classical music choice!

>Favourite novel and novelist.
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott. Twain.
>Favourite poetry book and poet.
The Auroras of Autumns. Wallace Stevens.
>Favourite play and playwright.
Antony and Cleopatra. Shakespeare
>Favourite philosopher.
Thomas Carlyle.

>Favourite classical piece.
The Cage by Charles Ives.
>Favourite popular music album.
Rose EP by The Front Bottoms
>Favourite film.
Mary Poppins
>Favourite director.
Hitchcock/Tarantino/Kubrick. Take your pick.

>Favourite painter.
Van Gogh
>Favourite painting.
The Persistence of Memory by Dali.