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So I've been going through all of the books in the above pic and loving every single one of them. Are there any other books that are similarly difficult to or"Exit-Level"?

>> No.11178565
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>>11178553

>> No.11178593

>>11178553
Exit level doesn't mean hard, it means depressing. Like after reading all of them you'll want to exit life.

>> No.11178605

>>11178593
Really? I thought it meant the opposite of entry-level.

>> No.11178611

>Manuscript Found in Saragozza
>The Leopard
>Stoner
>A Short History of Decay

What an awful chart, those aren't exit-level lit in the slightest. I've had to read The Leopard when I was like 15, it wasn't difficult to understand or read through given some context.
If you want some REAL exit-level lit, you should try Hilarotragoedia (which, unfortunately, doesn't exist in English, but oh well) or Gottfried Benn's writings.

>>11178593
It DOES mean the opposite of entry-level, matey

>> No.11178618

>>11178553
>Memórias póstumas de Brás cubas
Did u read that OP? It was exit level?

>> No.11178619

>>11178611
woah you're so smart

>> No.11178625

>>11178618
No, I haven't gotten to that one.

>> No.11178633

>>11178593
Entry level and exit level don't refer to the difficulty of the read. It's all about the popularity of the work.

>> No.11178634

>>11178553
>The collected poems of Hart Crane
>The collected poems of Wallace Stevens
>Four quartets by Eliot
>The experience of pain by Gadda
>The tunnel by Gass
>>11178593
Wrong
>>11178611
This tbqh. The leopard is high school reading material.

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>>11178611
>It DOES mean the opposite of entry-level, matey

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>>11178553
superior version

>> No.11178687

>>11178611
>>11178634
>The leopard is high school reading material.
as is Benn in Germany

>> No.11178701

>>11178687
Touché, I guess. Seems like you have the better deal out of the two. Did you study him as a poet? I only had the chance to read his short fiction and some of his essays, which I found brilliant, and I have no idea if it was due to the translator or to whatever other cause but his prose was beautifully complex, so I wonder how the poetry holds up.

>> No.11178723

>>11178701
sorry I am really not the a post war poetry guy. I just remembered my sister going on about how powerful, impressive and dark his poems are when they studied poetry through the ages in school

>> No.11178772

>>11178593
this is correct

>> No.11179103

>>11178565
None of that is exit level, It's just entry level edgy pulp trash.

>> No.11179135

>>11179103
There's some great books there.