/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14576103]

Stack thread, recent purchases only.

[Anonymous No.14576150]

[Anonymous No.14576173]

>>14576150
> the magic mountain
why did you get this book

[Anonymous No.14576176]

Here you go.

[Anonymous No.14576177]

>>14576173
because its thematic breadth interests me. what kind of question is this

[Anonymous No.14576181]

Here you go.

[Anonymous No.14576185]

>>14576177
It's a question about a book that sounds cool "the magic mountain" I've never heard of it.

[Anonymous No.14576188]

[Anonymous No.14576194]

>>14576188
>Serotonin
Based

[Anonymous No.14576198]

>>14576181
based, enjoy infinite jest

[Anonymous No.14576199]

>>14576185
it’s a book set in a mountain top sanatorium in pre-WW1 europe, where time seems to stand still

[Anonymous No.14576230]

Just started my collection
Currently reading The Iliad and Mythology
Most of it is secondhand and was very cheap
Still waiting on my copy of Industrial Society and it's Future to arrive from the US

[Anonymous No.14576248]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Anonymous No.14576268]

Just finished Zodiac. Great book, would rec.

[Anonymous No.14576282]

[Anonymous No.14576331]

[Anonymous No.14576444]

>>14576230
I've been looking for a used copy The Histories for ages you lucky dog. What translation of the Iliad is that?

[Anonymous No.14576556]

1/2

[Anonymous No.14576561]

2/2

[Anonymous No.14576585]

>>14576181
I have the same version of IJ and reading it now. I hope you enjoy it as much as I am now!

[Anonymous No.14576605]

three appearances of Against Nature in this thread. there is truly a Huysmans renaissance

[Anonymous No.14576786]

>>14576444
Yeah i picked up the Histories, Odessey and both plato's works from one seller who had a lot of stuff for really cheap. Great find.
Im actually unsure what translation this is, its a pretty shitty edition honestly, by a publisher called "VIVI". Doesn't even list the translator. There are almost no annotations or explainatory notes, except an index of characters and places.
I think after some looking that its the Robert Fitzgerald translation.

[Anonymous No.14576890]

>>14576181
based wasp factory

[Anonymous No.14577098]

>>14576248
>Fanon
My man

[Anonymous No.14577102]

bump

[Anonymous No.14577166]

>>14576248
I took away 3 books from your stack and no one else in this thread has posted anything I didn't already know about or care about.

[Anonymous No.14577278]

My backlog has gotten out of control, im done buying for a while

[Anonymous No.14577289]

>>14576150
kundera, what do you think of his book? was it good?

[Anonymous No.14577349]

@14577278
>set theory
>adorno
>on feminine sexuality
>Jung
Pseud cringe.

[Anonymous No.14577489]

[Anonymous No.14577518]

>>14577489
basado my fren

[Anonymous No.14577655]

>>14577489
>unironically reading Guénon

[Anonymous No.14577696]

$8 at Goodwill. Not sure about that Dante translation if anyone knows about it.
>>14576173
Its amazing and a pillar of German literature.
>>14576230
Based, only have the pdf.
>>14577278
>not buying every book someone rec's and putting it on your shelf
Derrida and Kerouac blow

[Anonymous No.14577746]

>>14576556
first one that didn't make me want to sleep

[Anonymous No.14577761]

>>14576230
What if? sucks massive cock

[Anonymous No.14577770]

>>14577761
That was a gift, alongside the other two to it's left.
It's honestly not that bad as a goofy little book. I like XKCD, and it's pretty similar.
I could see if you didn't find XKCD amusing why you wouldn't like it.

[Anonymous No.14577776]

>>14577349
Fag

[Anonymous No.14577780]

>>14577770
I like his comics but his book just wasn't that funny and the questions really didn't interest me

[Anonymous No.14577781]

>>14577489
based. post pic of hrt pills together with the stack.

[Anonymous No.14577786]

>>14577489
Perfect.

[Anonymous No.14577917]

[Anonymous No.14577993]

>>14577489
holy shit i thought it's just a meme

[Anonymous No.14577994]

[Anonymous No.14577996]

>>14577489
>Mascaro Bhagavad Gita
You done fucked up

[Anonymous No.14578008]

>>14577994
Based and brontepilled

[Anonymous No.14578046]

>>14577996
What do you suggest?

[Anonymous No.14578067]

[Anonymous No.14578378]

[Anonymous No.14578465]

>>14578378
kanker

[Anonymous No.14578477]

>>14578378
>hr book

[Anonymous No.14578485]

[Anonymous No.14578507]

>>14578477
I needed it for an HR course for my study.

[Anonymous No.14578518]

>>14578507
>studying hr
it just keeps getting worse

[Anonymous No.14578526]

>>14578518
Public Administration, actually, but I doubt you'd consider that any better.

[Anonymous No.14578576]

>>14578526
We don't.

[Anonymous No.14578951]

>>14578576
>we

[Anonymous No.14578993]

>>14576103
>Gene Wolfe
>Cormac McCarthy
>DFW
>Celine
>Houellebecq
10/10

>>14576150
>Magic Mountain
noice. i haven't heard of the others

>>14576181
>wasp factory
>big sleep
>IJ
decent. what's leviathan wakes like? i've heard the tv series is successful but i get the impression that it's like some space opera schlock

>>14576188
pretty gud

>>14576230
what if is cringe but otherwise decent

>>14576248
absolutely based

>>14576331
damn bro, big brain over here

>>14576556
>>14576561
decent

>>14577278
>gravitys rainbow
>mythologies
good, idk abt the rest

>>14577489
actually fell for the meme lmao

>>14577696
10/10

>>14577994
are the brontes (and Austen) actually any good? i get the impression that they're boring af but i'd like to be proven wrong

>>14578378
reddit

>>14578485
how can one man be so based?

mine pic related

[Anonymous No.14579308]

>>14577289
I’m halfway through now, I love it. I’m a big fan of Kunderas prose and style so he’s really enjoyable to read and frequently hilarious. Not plot heavy, more so just an exploration of his characters. I recommend checking him out.

[Anonymous No.14579325]

>>14576556
Have you cracked open that new Enrigue? I really liked his earlier stuff like Hipotermia, El cementerio and Vidas perp, but Muerte súbita and Decencia felt like let downs after a brilliant beginning.

[Anonymous No.14579330]

>>14577489
BASED

[Anonymous No.14579342]

>>14578046
Not him but I recommend Shankara's Gita commentary translated by Sastri or Gambhirananda

https://estudantedavedanta.net/Bhagavad-Gita.with.the.Commentary.of.Sri.ShankaracharyaN.pdf

[Anonymous No.14579358]

>>14578993
>are the brontes (and Austen) actually any good?
Absolutely. I f you've never read any of them, start with Wuthering Heights, Villette and The Tenant for the Brontës and Sense and Sensiblity for Austen. After that, you can start to tackle George Eliot who is on another level.

[Anonymous No.14579363]

>>14579325
I haven't read it yet but I'm excited to read it. I've only read Hypothermia and Sudden Death so far and I liked both. Also where did you get El cementerio de sillas?? I couldn't find it anywhere.

[Anonymous No.14579423]

>>14579363
>where did you get El cementerio de sillas??
I live near UCI, so I like to spend hours reading hard-to-find books in there.

[Anonymous No.14579718]

>>14578993
>are the brontes (and Austen) actually any good? i get the impression that they're boring af but i'd like to be proven wrong
I've only read Emily's stuff so far, but it's not boring in the slightest. Wuthering Heights is densely plotted and very dramatic, I love it. The essays she wrote in Brussels are also really interesting, the Norton Edition of Wuthering Heights has two of them. I especially like the ending of The Butterfly (English translation):

>God is the god of justice and mercy; then surely, every grief that he inflicts on his creatures, be they human or animal, rational or irrational, every suffering of our unhappy nature is only a seed of that divine harvest which will be gathered when, Sin having spent its last drop of venom, Death having launched its final shaft, both will perish on the pyre of a universe in flames and leave their ancient victims to an eternal empire of happiness and glory.

Her poetry is awesome as well. It's all metrical couplets, so you might not like it if you're into more free form modern poetry.

[Anonymous No.14579723]

>>14578046
I am him, and I suggest W.J. Johnson's translation, published in Oxford World's Classics.

[Anonymous No.14579733]

>>14578993
Leviathan Wakes is really poorly written but still entertaining and has some legitimately cool sci fi concepts.

Jane Austen is a fantastic novelist. Pride and Prejudice is a great character study, a sharp societal critique, and incredibly funny and cozy all at once. Persuasion is my personal favorite as it has a clearly autobiographical sense of sadness and regret as Austen was growing older while writing it.

[Anonymous No.14579867]

I'm not buying any new books in 2020.

[Anonymous No.14579891]

>>14576248
The Mezzanine's fantastic.

[Anonymous No.14579933]

>>14577994
>>14578993
Not the one who posted the Bronte stack, but to answer your question Wuthering Heights is untamed and lurid, not boring. Recommended.

[Anonymous No.14579974]

>>14579933
>Wuthering Heights
it sucks desu

[Anonymous No.14579994]

>>14579867
I cant even read

[Anonymous No.14579999]

>>14576150
>Jared Diamond
beyond cringe

[Anonymous No.14580036]

>>14579999
check'd
also i find most of his work retarded but i enjoy this one because I find small tribal societies very interesting. his theories about adopting tribal customs into our society are braindead and naive, but it's still an interesting read.

[Anonymous No.14580279]

>>14579974
t. Heathcliffe

[Anonymous No.14580337]

>>14576248
>Eco
>pkds exegesis
You are best stack

>>14576556
Anon... I love that album

[Anonymous No.14580403]

>>14576561
excellent on the sada

[Anonymous No.14580407]

>>14579867
what about old books?

[Anonymous No.14580935]

[Anonymous No.14581938]

>>14578993
How is Devil in White City?? HH Holmes is pretty interesting to me.
>>14579867
Good luck you fucking faggot.
>>14580935
Always with the foreign language books.French is a nig language.

[Anonymous No.14581949]

>>14580935
>To Kill a Mockingbird
>not reading Intruder in the Dust, aka the patrician original version

[Anonymous No.14581973]

>>14581938
>Always with the foreign language books
Imagine being this delusional and anglocentric. That Anon is obviously French.

[Anonymous No.14581992]

All recent-ish purchases. Right-hand stack is most recent, though. Some are from my university library, for coursework, and several others are personal purchases.

[Anonymous No.14582014]

>>14578485
literally all fagguette incelcore
>>14578378
Awful.
>>14578067
Why are there so many fucking French people on this board. If you live in Paris kill yourself right now you have to because dubs

[Anonymous No.14582033]

>>14581973
>delusional AND anglocentric
We won the culture war, it's over. Your language is worthless and your culture is dying.
>>14581992
u indian bro

[Anonymous No.14582054]

>>14582033
>We won the culture war, it's over. Your language is worthless and your culture is dying.
Yet still people read in French. Lots of them. You're just salty one rebel man here reads in French, like the insecure Angloid bugman that you are.

[Anonymous No.14582073]

>>14582054
> lots of them
basically just retard pseuds who want to look cultured so instead of learning a valuable skill or actually working they decide to LARP as a cosmopolitan man in the 18th century.

[Anonymous No.14582079]

>>14582073
Nah, reading is quite common in French culture. And they mostly read their own.

[Anonymous No.14582100]

>>14582079
>reading is quite common in French culture
You know where else it's common? Literally everywhere else with written language you fucking frog you're not special

[Anonymous No.14582126]

>>14582100
It's different in France. You wouldn't get it. And if people read in their language anywhere then why are you pissed about French readers? lol cry some more, you Angloid bugman.

[Anonymous No.14582211]

>>14582126
lol that's like the third time you've said that do you really think it's clever enough to repeat?

[Anonymous No.14582257]

>>14582211
Yes.

[Anonymous No.14582298]

>this thread

[Anonymous No.14582309]

>>14582298
These are old products, lad. And books can't be "consumed".

[Anonymous No.14582358]

>>14582298
>Buying secondhand books
>Consooming
Are you retarded
Even new books isn't the same as consooming. Unless you don't actually read them. But if you think that you might be projecting.

[Anonymous No.14582376]

>>14576150
>Jared Diamond
cringe and bluepilled

[Anonymous No.14582379]

>>14582298
I'm going to read those books retard. Children grow up smarter when they're from a house with lots of books.

[Anonymous No.14582385]

>>14582014
I'm not even French, faggot

[Anonymous No.14582582]

>>14582298
>he doesn't recognize virtue

[Anonymous No.14582724]

this fucking thread, jesus christ

[Anonymous No.14582902]

[Anonymous No.14583001]

>>14582902
That edition of Emerson is actually a very good primer for anyone new to him because it organizes the selections chronologically while inserting highly relevant journal entries from throughout his lifetime (Emerson, like Henry James, used his notebooks and journals as the proving ground for his ideas), so like Montaigne you can have the whole man on the page. I've never seen that copy of Thoreau but the selections sound eclectic.

[Anonymous No.14583019]

>>14582902
not bad, but too much anglo shit

[Anonymous No.14583097]

>>14583001
Glad to hear I didn't fuck up on my Emerson selection. I picked it up on a whim yesterday. I really like that there is both a huge amount of journal entries, as well as poems. I usually only see one or the other for author collections. I'm excited to learn about his life behind the poetry.

I'm a sucker for interesting mass markets, and the selections in the Thoreau book were perfect. For $2.95, I felt like I had to get it.

[Anonymous No.14583110]

>>14583001
what do y'all think of the modern library Emerson collection? just bought it because it seemed pretty extensive and I loved the essays of his I read. what am I in for?

[Anonymous No.14583479]

>>14583097
>a huge amount of journal entries, as well as poems
With both Emerson and Thoreau, their respective journals are their life's work. Also, they are both seriously under-represented as poets.
>>14583110
"The Essential Writings" is a very good omnibus of Emerson, although I do not own it because I already have a few such "Collected" and "Selected" editions by other publishers. Often, with writers who have written many separate works of various and variegated subjects, the editors will fall into publishing their works in a sort of prescriptive order which has no real bearing on the work as a whole and only serves to reduce the life-long work of a man into a classification game. My recommendation: don't read through the whole damn book like it's a chapter book, let yourself wander, read something because it has a passing fancy, if you like the title, don't read all his poems at once and think you've got him down. Like Gass (speaking of another book) sez:
>how many have actually arrived at the last page of Proust or completed Finnegans Wake? What does it mean to finish Moby Dick, anyway? Do not begin this book with any hope of that. This is a book you are meant to befriend. It will be your lifelong companion. You will end only to begin again.

[Anonymous No.14583607]

>>14576103
Reading isn't the same as buying

[Anonymous No.14584198]

>>14576103
6/10, new fag tier but not too cringe
>>14576150
6/10 alt right mid thirties male tier
>>14576181
8/10 crime enthusiast, Not afraid to read normie tier trash like IJ, you’re probably young but I’d hang out with you >>14576188
6/10 garage sale finds
>>14576230
8/10 nice job starting with the Greeks but you don’t need a fucking dictionary
>>14576248
9/10, eco, Tolstoy, Europa editions, best stack so far
>>14576268
8/10 nerdy but comfy, would hang out with
>>14576282
7/10 boring Latino student
>>14576331
7/10 boring student
>>14576556
9/10 nice classics and under the volcano fuckin slaps there’s a great bar named after it down in Houston
>>14577278
Meh
>>14577489
I don’t know who that is
>>14577696
8/10 Dante and Dune is a fun time, good on you for buying used and cheap
>>14577917
7/10 for being italian
>>14577994
9/10 Brontes, why not. I’ve never read the lesser sister.
>>14578067
7/10 good biographies but how do you have two on Charles de Gaulle and none are his autobiography
>>14578378
5/10 for fantasy and the subtle art of not giving a fuck. You can do better
>>14578485
6/10 do people actually read this much hollecubeque?
>>14578993
8/10 nice spread, not too obscure or useless but not pure normie drivel
>>14580935
7/10 I bet you’re a cute girl
>>14581992
6/10 not enough diversity and stack is suspicious
>>14582902
9/10 new favorite stacks would drinks Coors with

[Anonymous No.14584203]

>>14584198
>how do you have two on Charles de Gaulle and none are his autobiography
I put De Gaulle's biography on my christmas wishlist and got one from both sides of my family lel

[Anonymous No.14584270]

>>14584198
Dictionary was a gift from an old great uncle who found out i was going to uni and gave me some of the books he had when he went.
It's interesting enough, not super useful compared to just googling for quotes, but it's still nice to have.

[Anonymous No.14584472]

>>14581938
>>14581973
What is it with the hat of Frenchies on this board? I'm not even French, I'm Austrian, but I've been speaking and reading for a long time.
The way you dismiss the linguistic capacity of another Anon really highlights the jealousy of character.

[Anonymous No.14584474]

>>14584198
>7/10 I bet you’re a cute girl
thanks, but I identify as a cute chinese boy

[Anonymous No.14584584]

>>14582014
Anglophone simpleton can't imagine a non Frenchman reading in French (the superior language).

[Anonymous No.14584723]

>>14582298
this copypasted meme from reddit letter media doesn't apply to literature.

[Anonymous No.14584882]

>>14577489
Uninstall your toilet

[Anonymous No.14584980]

Everytime I scroll these threads I can't help but think how ugly english/american books are. Especially those colourful spines with big letters. An eyesore, really.

[Anonymous No.14585041]

>>14584980
Based Thomas Mann reader.
Have you read Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen? I've only read Der Tod in Venedig and I'd like to get into his essays.

[Anonymous No.14585055]

>>14584198
>stack is suspicious

wat

[Anonymous No.14585062]

>>14585041
>Have you read Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen?
Not yet, it's a recent purchase. I have finished Doctor Faustus the last November and it was great. If you like his short stories I recommend Tonio Kröger.

[Anonymous No.14585142]

>>14583607
I've already read two or three of those books. It helps to own them to read them because you can read at your own pace.

Not that you care about any point, you're just mad because you're poor.
>>14582902
Oh man that DFW is next on my list. You've got a pretty good spread here. Moby dick is unusually based. Same with Lolita. Good haul.
>>14584472
Use English fag.
>>14584584
^
>>14584980
fuckin foreigner.

[Anonymous No.14585194]

>>14580935
>Voyage en Italie
Based. How is it? I might want to get it.

[Anonymous No.14585381]

>>14585142
Ok, so now you're just being flat out racist.

>>14585194
I'm about a third of the way through. It's short letters and journal entries, pretty relaxing stuff. Apparently Chateaubriands wife died on the trip and I'm eagerly waiting for him to get to that part.

[Anonymous No.14585455]

>>14583110
>y'all

[Anonymous No.14585482]

>>14585381
>Apparently Chateaubriands wife died on the trip and I'm eagerly waiting for him to get to that part
Very interesting, thank you. Do you also know anything about the Voyage en Italie by De Sade? It's not as popular as others, but I feel like it could be worth the read, given the particularity of the author.

[Anonymous No.14585563]

>>14576181
>wasp factory
unironically the worst book I've read in decades

[Anonymous No.14585611]

>>14577489
I don’t get it

[Anonymous No.14585617]

>>14585455
I instantly disregard what someone has to say if thet use "y'all"

[Anonymous No.14585629]

[Anonymous No.14585640]

>>14585455
I instantly disregard what someone has to say if they use "y'all"

[Anonymous No.14585661]

bibliomania is a disease

[Anonymous No.14585678]

>>14585563
What is Lispector like?

[Anonymous No.14585694]

>>14577278
wtf is the title of that book?

[Anonymous No.14585722]

>>14578485
basé

[Anonymous No.14585758]

>>14584472
Austro-Anon, >>14581973 was defending you.

>>14581938 Is a retard who probably says "This is America so SPEAK ENGLISH" when he walks through Chinatown.

[Anonymous No.14585788]

R8

[Anonymous No.14585795]

[Anonymous No.14586055]

>>14585795
What is that K-Punk doorstopper? I thought the only worthwhile thing by him was Capitalist Realism.

[Anonymous No.14586117]

>>14585678
About to find out. Pic related is from The Passion According to GH, and I was told the complete stories are better. She was recommended to me by several people independently

[Anonymous No.14586154]

>>14585678
>written by a woman
>Born to a Jewish family

[Anonymous No.14586210]

>>14586055
>Covering the period 2004 – 2016, it includes some of the most incendiary and influential posts from his seminal blog k-punk, as well as a selection of his brilliantly insightful film, television and music reviews, together with his extraordinary writings on politics, activism, precarity, hauntology, mental health and popular modernism for numerous websites and magazines. Also included is his final unpublished k-punk post, the unfinished introduction to his planned book on “Acid Communism”, and a number of important interviews from the last decade.

[Anonymous No.14586289]

>>14585788
cringe/10

[Anonymous No.14586307]

>>14586210
Okay, so it's a sort of Fanged Noumena but more bloggy. Thank you.

[Anonymous No.14586524]

>>14585788
>Ayn Rand
>Macbook
Based fellow capitalist thinker! I FUCKING HATE those lazy retards who cannot afford a Fucking Macbook! It is 2020 For God's sake!

[Anonymous No.14586733]

>>14586524
imagine even caring what consoomption device someone uses as if it's particularly worse than any other.

[Anonymous No.14586811]

>>14585563
Has anyone else noticed that a few of Gaddis' paperbacks on Amazon have bloated to $50+? Recognitions has been on my list for a while and now I can't get it at a decent price.

[Anonymous No.14586866]

>>14586811
Really? That's bullshit. Mine was $11 + shipping.

[Anonymous No.14586958]

>>14586866

https://www.amazon.com/Recognitions-Penguin-Classics-1993-05-01-Paperback/dp/B012YXWBT8/ref=mp_s_a_1_10?keywords=William+gaddis&qid=1579727891&sr=8-10

[Anonymous No.14587091]

>>14585694
>>14577278
versobooks () com/books/3016-the-authoritarian-personality

[Anonymous No.14587140]

>>14585455
>>14585640
retards

[Anonymous No.14587156]

>>14586733
>NOOOO!!! MY MACBOOK™ IS NOT CONSOOMPTION INCARNATE!!! IT IS JUST LIKE ALL OF THOSE OTHER LAPTOPS THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT TECH YOU FRICKIN' USE!!!!!!

[Anonymous No.14587231]

>>14585795
I like that ass crack in the background

[Anonymous No.14587259]

>>14587156

This is textbook projecting. Just because people can afford things and not really think much of it because it wont affect their budget or savings doesn’t mean they are textbook consoomers. It just means they are better and more successful than you, wagie.

[Anonymous No.14587282]

>>14585788
>dune
>macbook

[Anonymous No.14587332]

>>14587259
>Buying shit because i can doesn't make me a consumer! It just means i'm rich

[Anonymous No.14587336]

>>14585788
>itoddler pc
>dune
>ayn rand
8/10 bait. Make it a little more subtle next time.

[Anonymous No.14587337]

>>14587332
Yes. And it’s not my fault you are not. Maybe you just didn’t try hard enough.

[Anonymous No.14587393]

>>14587337
>actively participates in monopolization which inhibits individual wealth accumulation
>mocks others for not being rich
When you die the world with be a measurably better place

[Anonymous No.14587420]

Rate

[Anonymous No.14587457]

>>14587420
9/10 because beautiful books and multilingual

[Anonymous No.14587466]

>>14587420
>mallarme
Good stuff anon. I don't know if you read prose translations (I do because I'm a retarded burger) but it's good you got the French edition. I have a bilingual copy of Les fleurs du Mal coming in the mail I'm very excited about.

[Anonymous No.14587485]

>>14587466
Good on you for getting the bilingual copies, they are a vast improvement over just translations. I speak french obviously.

[Anonymous No.14587804]

>>14587466
>Bataille
>reading retroactively refuted cuck authors

>It pains me to say this, but concerning the rumors about my wife, yes. They indeed posses some veracity to them, or to be exact, all of them are true. I found out that she was seeing an Algerian man who wooed her with the piquant exoticism so common to his people. After the fight I had with him in my imagination, no other man would dare touch her, but after all that I paid a visit to the baccarat casino, and after being, you know, heavily paraded I was afraid to even look at my wife's pretty neck again. When she realized that I knew, she went into town in the middle of the night and I was so terribly dejected that I insisted on a divorce.

[Anonymous No.14587815]

>>14587804
Don't give a shit about memes. I'm reading Bataille for the literary value, not the based value.

[Anonymous No.14588110]

>>14576103

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[Anonymous No.14588593]

>>14588427
pseud/10

[Anonymous No.14588611]

>>14586811
same shit happened with Barth sot weed factor. Dalkey Press can lick my asshole clean.

[Anonymous No.14588664]

>>14587393
lol look at this bitter bum. There's one in every thread. Sorry I succeeded in life.

[Anonymous No.14588671]

>>14588110
This anon enjoys quality literature and has nothing to prove.

[Anonymous No.14588692]

>>14588671
only one of those books is any good.

[Anonymous No.14588953]

>>14588692
Might as well toss them in the trash instead of reading them and finding out for myself, right?

[Anonymous No.14589697]

All from second hand shops in rural England and Argentina- so very cheap (most expensive item was £2.50 - most were £1-1.75). Am very happy with this haul.

[Anonymous No.14589711]

>>14589697
Was based until I saw Ulysses

[Anonymous No.14589815]

>>14586154
I sincerely hope that in your lonely old age you can scrape enough bachelor's rainy day money together to pay a Jamaican male nurse to help you steady your penis and wipe your ass.

[Anonymous No.14590169]

>>14576103
man, have i got a stack for you. you never seen a stack this good.

[Anonymous No.14590202]

>>14576103
akutagava, game of glass beads, Mishima's plays and novellas, Pavic's landscape drawn with tea. 13$ total

>>14589697
based secondhand brother
>>14587466
i fucking wish we had any bataille in the foreign language section
>>14587420
mann is god tier. i wish this was longer than 100-something pages

[Anonymous No.14590375]

>>14585795
I read Miso Soup last summer, pretty comfy.

[Anonymous No.14590389]

>>14587815
based

[Anonymous No.14590419]

>>14584980
>De Martino
Holy fuck this is why Italians are patrician

[Anonymous No.14590421]

bump

[Anonymous No.14590834]

>>14590375
read it last week in a single evening. ryu is a guilty pleasure

[Anonymous No.14590838]

>>14585482
>Voyage en Italie by De Sade
I wasn't aware of it's existance. I just checked, the library I'm at right now owns it. Time to read a bit.

[Anonymous No.14590841]

>>14590838
That's great, let us know what you think of it.

[Anonymous No.14590849]

>>14588611
>>14586811

apparently nyrb classics bought the rights to The Recognitions and is going to release it october 10.

[Anonymous No.14591119]

>>14579308
thanks, good to know. I will check him up. I heard a lot about him lately and since he is a countryman to me, i think it is a disgrace to him to pass his works.

[Anonymous No.14591149]

>>14581938
>How is Devil in White City??
sorry mang, i cant say, i haven't started it yet. i just picked it up because i heard there was gonna be a film adaptation, apparently changed to a hulu series now, but I've heard it's good so u should def get it if ur already interested

[Anonymous No.14591157]

>>14587156
>>14587332
>>14587393
Why do wojack posters fit their own reaction images so well?

[Anonymous No.14591217]

>>14588110
>Less Than Zero
eyy, im reading that right now and it's so good. U should get the picador classics version as well tho, coz the introduction by Ottessa Moshfegh is crucial to elucidating the biggest theme

[Anonymous No.14591263]

>>14590849
kek, compare the sizes of regular NYRB editions and the Dalkey Recognitions, are they going to publish it in multiple parts?

[Anonymous No.14592421]

>>14590849
assholes.

[Anonymous No.14592960]

>>14576331
Mind taking a pic of the Plato without the dust jacket?

[Anonymous No.14592982]

>>14592960
Yes, I mind.

[Anonymous No.14593555]

>>14592960

[Anonymous No.14593562]

>>14593555
blessed

[Anonymous No.14594105]

>>14590202
>de sade
Nice. I can't read anything else here though. The art on the 3rd book looks like magical realism which is cool and interesting.

[Anonymous No.14594443]

>>14576188
love that Huysmans - looking for La Bas next

[Anonymous No.14594455]

>>14576248
>Marcuse
revisionist trash

[Anonymous No.14594463]

>>14576150
Reading "The World of Yesterday" by Stefan Zweig would unironically have been a better choice than "The World Until Yesterday". You already got The Magic Mountain which will display German autism at its finest so you should of balanced it out with some thoroughly Austrian autism at the same time

[Anonymous No.14594489]

>>14584980
>how ugly english/american books are
this is the one thing I'm jealous about, and literally nothing else

[Anonymous No.14594494]

>>14585563
>Montaigne
amazing, of course.
I couldn't decide whether the Screech or Frame complete translations were better, so I just got both - knowing I wouldn't regret it

[Anonymous No.14594501]

>>14585788
>BAP
based

[Anonymous No.14594527]

>>14576188
Gibran +1

[Anonymous No.14594547]

>>14590202
>akutagava
imagine a traditional Japanese person born in a medieval society belonging to the first generation that grew up able to interact with non-Japanese art, encountering the most extreme stylists and thinkers in Europe, frying his brain on it all and spitting out enduring fiction vibrating with this furious, nervous energy

[Anonymous No.14594635]

>>14577917
>and eventually it turns out that guenonfag is Italian
Absolutely mind-blowing.

[Anonymous No.14595436]

>>14588427
new classics styling is looking gay af

[Anonymous No.14596144]

>>14577278
Fucking based my man. Set theory and Tristes tropiques. A true man of culture.

[Anonymous No.14596248]

>>14594635
To speak of the manifest form of a unique guenonposter implies a confusion between different orders. Guenonposters manifest cannot be one, nor can the number one apply to an unmanifest causal aspect. At no stage can unity be taken as the cause of anything, since the existence implies a relation and unity would mean existence without relation.

Though, in its manifest form, guenonposter is of necessity multiple, in its ultimate essence it cannot be said to be either one or many. It cannot be in any way defined. Guenonposter is represented as that which remains when the reality of all that can be perceived has been denied. It is Neti neti, "Neither this nor that," nothing that the mind can know or words can express. We cannot say that it is one, yet we can say that it is not-one, not-two, not-many.

[Anonymous No.14596299]

What book should I read first Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky or some Tolsoy, probably Ressurection?

Lit really needs to start making QTDDTOT threads

[Anonymous No.14596352]

>>14596299
Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground are probably the best places to start

[Anonymous No.14596385]

>>14576181
>The Big Sleep

[Anonymous No.14596417]

>>14590849

Now I'm wondering if I should wait until the NYBR of The Recognitions or just buy it next time I'm in America? I can wait until October it's just that Gaddis books are hard to find here for some reason.

[Anonymous No.14596462]

>>14594105
it's Game of glass beads. i've read Siddhartha and Steppewolf by Hesse, was very comfy, but i figure this one is different from anything else he wrote
>>14594547
i also have Madonna in black (a collection of his stories mostly related to euro culture), nice to know xenophilia is just as universal as xenophobia. this "first contact" must have given him the characteristic schizo subtone, i'm curious about a story titled Eternal Kike, as a jew a get a good kek out of such things, although i doubt it's some classic anti-kikery

[Anonymous No.14596561]

>>14577278
>>14596144
>Set theory
Retroactively refuted and btfo by Guenon (pbuh) as a degenerate perversion of true mathematical thought.

[Anonymous No.14596680]

>>14596462
>this "first contact" must have given him the characteristic schizo subtone
"Spinning Gears" references Strindberg - who wrote his own account called "Inferno," about his own mental unraveling and extreme neurosis - which he wrote the year he killed himself
>a story titled Eternal Kike
none of my collections chose to include this - I wonder why...
but looking at his bibliography, I can't find a trace of it - is it a Russian translation?