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Nietzsche called him "the most liberated spirit of all time". Laurence Sterne. I've read "A sentimental journey through France and Italy" and found it very good. Haven't read "The life and opinions of Tristam Shandy, gentleman". Have to get around to it.

Post authors that /lit/ never talks about.

>> No.10080939
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Marx
>inb4 we talk about all the time
not THIS Marx

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Arthur Schnitzler, I love his short stories and I never saw him discussed on lit. I'm not even sure I saw Zweig here, but Schnitzler is usually taken as a lesser Zweig. An austrian guy once told me that Schnitzler in Austria is more of a playwright than a storyteller, but its different here.

>> No.10080991

>>10080926
Conrad maybe, especially his works that aren't Heart of Darkness.

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>>10080926
Randolph Stow. Melancholy mid-century Australian modernist that no one really ever mentions

>> No.10081019

>>10081003
is a meme and has been discussed to death
>>10080926
Is also a meme and has been discussed to death

>> No.10081026

Slataper

>> No.10081031

>>10081019
> is a meme
Why is that so?

>> No.10081036

>>10081031
You just have to trust this Anon over Goethe and Nietzsche when it comes to assessing Sterne.

>> No.10081056

>>10080926
Peter Carey, Penelope Fitzgerald....

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>>10080939
It's been a while since I've seen a thread on Carl Mark

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where my /schelling/bros at?

>> No.10082507

>>10080926
Tristram Shandy is...interesting. Read it in March, and while the plot is very nonlinear, I found Sterne’s style humorus at times. Uncle Toby & the theory of obsession related to him were of particular interest to me. Good luck with it OP

>> No.10082544

I don't think I've ever seen a thread on Flaubert

>> No.10082633

>>10082507
To be honest I don't think my English is good enough for it. I clearly can understand it if I read it with a dictionary and check out every single archaic word I stumble upon. But I had no patience to do that yet.

>> No.10082714

>>10081003
David Lynch comes up more than you'd expect anon, Eraserhead especially so.

>> No.10082723

>>10080926
>Nietzsche called him
So what? Nietzsche did not know anything about literature. He thought Baudelaire, Poe, and Byron were great artists.

>> No.10082740

>>10082723
>He thought Baudelaire, Poe, and Byron were great artists.

Sure they are if you're no nigger.

>> No.10082765

>>10082714
Kek

>> No.10082935

>>10082428
Loud and proud Brother! Loud and Proud!

Haven't seen anyone talk much about Raymond Williams or Harold Cruse,

>> No.10083078

>>10080926
Tristram Shandy is great. The humor is very 4chan like. Its like if Hypersphere was written in the 1700s.

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Stanisław Witkiewicz

>> No.10083103

A couple months ago I was sterne posting. Tristram is easily one of my favorite books and I am excited to read A Sentimental Journey

>> No.10083108

>>10082544
He's name-dropped quite often but youre right, rarely a substantial thread. Most recently was an image of the cover of Salambo with the head-
>wtf was his problem?

>> No.10083109

>>10082428
I'm here. I surprised that there is so little discussion about him, I thought his Positive philosophy would interest more people.

Also,
A.N. Whitehead
Lev Shestov
Alasdair MacIntyre
Giacomo Leopardi
Giambattista Vico

>> No.10083130

>>10081036
it's not an assessment, i don't think. idk i'm not that anon. but he's probably referring to sterne used be memed here a lot more as used cioran (cioran more than sterne). /lit/ used have a cioran posters problem like dave posting or stirner.
a lot more people had read more of sterne on /lit/ and he's not that rare on /lit/ is what i took from anon's post.
he's old as shit if he remembers when they were hot memes tho. that's years ago.

>> No.10083250

>>10083109
pretty much any thread which mentions Italian literature will mention Leopardi

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>> No.10083494

Tristram Shandy is a top five English novel. I don't see Sterne threads very often, but he's mentioned quite a bit.

/lit/ doesn't talk enough about Patrick O'Brian—arguably the best writer of the latter half of the twentieth-century.

>> No.10083511

>>10083494

Tristram Sandy is my favorite book. I tried to read At Swim-Two-Birds and didn't even finish it.

>> No.10083521

Giordano Bruno

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>Sterne
Why does he use so many hyphens?

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Don't think anyone on /lit/ has read him.

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/lit/ never speak about the greatest of all time

>> No.10083663

>>10080926
Steven Millhauser, who is a genius and hybrid between the Brothers Grimm and Kafka.

>> No.10083666

>>10083262
Fuck yeah. Wineburg is a work of art

>> No.10085041

>>10083569
hes on here constantly

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>>10080926

>> No.10085057

>>10083109

There are MacIntyre threads weekly.

>> No.10085133

itt: newfags who need to lurk more

>> No.10085724

>>10082544
I just finished reading all of his novels and was thinking of starting a thread soon. He's remarkable.

>> No.10085794

>>10082507
I've always had trouble with Tristram Shandy, I'm too much of a pleb for his nonsense, something like Rabelais is more my speed. I do really need a rhythm and some sort of predictability to my books, even if it is about something unusual, or the author is messing with me a little, I can push through and laugh, but Sterne is in a class of his own. I've worked my way through Ulysses, just recently GR, and other somewhat difficult works, and still haven't experienced anything like the barrier that is Tristram Shandy

>> No.10085807

>>10080926
pretty much anyone who isn't super well known?
Novalis, ETA Hoffmann, Tieck, Adalbert Stifter, Keller, Eichendorff, Schiller etc.ad infinitum

>> No.10086343

>>10080926
>>10083078
>>10082507
>>10083103
>>10083494
>>10083511
I've read Tristram Shandy this summer and I really loved it, but I kind of feel terrible for loving the book so much when I feel certain things got over my head since I am not well-versed in philosophy (for example, the Locke allusions I didn't recognize almost completely). I want to say it's in my top 10 of all time because of so many genius sentences, how humorous it is, its language, the structure etc, but I feel dirty and like I'm a tryhard.

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Kazatzakis.

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>>10080926

Konrad Bayer

>> No.10089506

>>10081617
>le deep frenchman

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>> No.10090297

>>10089506
He was from Austria.

>> No.10090348

>>10082723
>Nietzsche did not know anything about literature.
Literally trained as a philologist.
>He thought Baudelaire, Poe, and Byron were great artists.
So he was right?

>> No.10091199

>>10090348
Philology doesn't train you to have an artistic, clown. And of course they're all three children's writers, which matches them up well with Nietzsche, who always remained a large child.

>> No.10091484

>>10082723
Source on him having read Poe?

>> No.10091572

I love sterne. Researching Shandy for the past year for my MA thesis has been like making a friend. I love that book. It's not, or shouldn't be a meme.

>> No.10091958

>>10091199
do you realize you sound like a fucking idiot?

>> No.10091980

>>10091199
2/10 you can do better than this

>> No.10091982

>>10086430

Seconding this guy. Also I rarely see Mailer discussed on here. Tom Wolfe’s journalism is rarely brought up (unless I do it)

>> No.10092050

>>10091980
>>10091958
Not an argument

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This baby-faced bastard

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>>10080926
Has anyone here ever heard of a Joseph Goebbels?

>> No.10093648

>>10093280
not funny

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>Arguably the greatest living writer with a contrarian, patrician worldview that /lit/ would love
> /lit/ keeps jerking off DFW and Faulkner

>> No.10094323

>>10092073
This is profoundly disturbing

>> No.10094339

>>10093268
fuck me that's an amazing photo. how would one get a photo like this?

>> No.10094343

>>10094339
Right-click, save as.

>> No.10094406

>>10083091
nie mówi się o nim nawet w Polsce, a oczekujesz, żeby był dyskutowany na anglojęzycznym image boardzie?

>> No.10094434

>>10091958
>>10091980
but why feed the troll? just ingnore them and they go away

>> No.10094460

>>10080926
the best 'discussion' here is usually on Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings. Theyre the only books anyone has really read. Everything else is just 'thats meme' or 'this is better than this is better than this' pissing contests.

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I actually bring him up whenever I can but most of the time no one replies.

He's on some of the /lit/core charts though, so I dunno.

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I'm so sorry for non-Frenchies