/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17273848]

What books do I have to read before being able to watch The Evangelion and fully understand it?
I heard the Meme Trilogy is required, but to read it, I have to read the entirety of the western canon. It means I will have to read 50 pages a day for the next 2 and a half years.
What do bros?

[Anonymous No.17273858]

>>17273848
>It means I will have to read 50 pages a day for the next 2 and a half years.
>What do bros?
No way that's enough to read the western canon

[Anonymous No.17273861]

Last movie in 11 days. Is /lit/ hyped?

[Anonymous No.17274055]

>>17273848
What a Faggot
Just watch it
Dont listen to lit everyone is a pseud here

[Anonymous No.17274085]

>>17273848
I never realized it until I read your wonderful bait, but the main reason the meme trilogy came to be is probably because they are all very impressive works which do not rely upon what came before. They can be read and understood by anyone willing to put in the effort.

This makes me think the meme trilogy deserves its place and perhaps that the adjective should be dropped. Fairly impressive.

[Anonymous No.17274117]

>>17273861
I'm hyped in the shazam cyberpunk way. I can't wait to see how bad it is, and I'll be mildly disappointed if it ends up being decent-ish (zero chance it will be good).
>/lit/ literature

[Anonymous No.17274121]

>>17273861
I sure am

>>17273848
Jung

[Anonymous No.17274123]

>>17273861
Holy fuck finally

[Anonymous No.17274456]

>>17273848
Sigmund Freud

[Anonymous No.17274797]

>>17273848
What's the meme trilogy?

[Anonymous No.17274809]

>>17273848
Nothing. There is no meaning. It is only product with cool artstyle to entertain you

[Anonymous No.17274815]

The meme trilogy isn't required for anything. It's an American circlejerk.

[Anonymous No.17274818]

>>17273848
There's nothing to read anon, you think a stinky otaku like Anno picked up any books before he made his cartoons? Nothing more cringe than using buzzwords like "hedgehog dilemma" to make your shit sound researched.
I have absolutely no respect for any work of fiction that name drops philosophy to seem deep.

[Anonymous No.17274819]

>>17274797
Giga-newfag

[Anonymous No.17274829]

>>17274797
the big fancy difficult 20th century books that college freshman read and never finish to impress their qt lit major crush

[Anonymous No.17274851]

>>17274829
Infinite meme, ulysses and what else?

[Anonymous No.17274898]

>>17274851
good job anon the other is Gravity's Rainbow

[Anonymous No.17274934]

>>17274898
Ofcourse. Has anyone in this thread actually read them? I watched a ted video about ulysses and it seems interesting. The chapter structure is definitely interesting anyway, but I would be filtered to within an inch of my life. I do actually own GR but have yet to start it.

[Anonymous No.17274946]

>>17273848
Evangelion, while heavily inspired by the western canon, is still an eastern work. Because of that, one needs to read the entire eastern canon as well.

[Anonymous No.17274976]

>>17273848
Start with the greeks, then chaldean oracles, then plotinus, then secreta secretorum, then Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, then joseph volotsky and maximus the greek, then mircilio ficino, then guenon, deleuze, lacan, bataille, land. Then siege and behead all satans.

[Anonymous No.17274989]

>>17273848
Absolutely none, just watch it

[Anonymous No.17275015]

it's just a show man

[Anonymous No.17275027]

The Phenomenology of the Spirit and Science of Logic

[Anonymous No.17275079]

>>17273848
>>17273848
>The Evangelion

[Anonymous No.17275107]

>>17273848
2001 a Space Odyssey & Childhood's End

[Anonymous No.17275126]

>>17273848
Freud,Jung,Schopenhauer,Kierkegaard

[Anonymous No.17275137]

And Hegel !

[Anonymous No.17275265]

>>17273848
its an anime that anime fans like so you don't need to read actual lit to get it