/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19140234]

Writers with the biggest collected works? I remember Lenin's oeuvre being rather big.

[Anonymous No.19140239]

Eco has a gargantuan one

[Anonymous No.19140243]

>>19140234
GE Morrison had some 20,000 books.

[Anonymous No.19140246]

>>19140239
Ah, thought you've meant libraries, not their works; didn't know Lenin wrote so much. And no one cares now lmao destroyed pussy

[Anonymous No.19140252]

>>19140246
Many people care about Lenin's work.

[Anonymous No.19140256]

>>19140234
pro-tip volumes 35-37 of the MECW are volumes 1-3 of capital respectively
you can read them in hardcover this way

[Anonymous No.19140265]

Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe comprises 102 volumes.

[Anonymous No.19140275]

>>19140252
nah most people only care about him as an historical figure, not a theorist

[Anonymous No.19140292]

>>19140234
Martin Luther

[Anonymous No.19140295]

>>19140292
Jesus Christ it's humongous

[Anonymous No.19140310]

>>19140295
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_edition_of_Martin_Luther's_works
>The editorial work on the [Weimar edition] began in 1883, on Luther's 400th birthday. The work was completed in 2009 in 121 volumes in quarto format with approximately 80,000 pages.

[Anonymous No.19140315]

>>19140234
Henry James wrote a lot

[Anonymous No.19140353]

Tolstoy's complete works has 90 volumes (including letters and diaries, edition from 1930s). They're currently working on a new critical edition, and it's going to have over a hundred volumes.

[Anonymous No.19140409]

Issac Asimov's bibliography is so large that they're still finding and cataloging everything he wrote
>In a writing career spanning 53 years (1939–1992), science fiction and popular science author Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) wrote and published 40 novels, 383 short stories, over 280 non-fiction books, and edited about 147 others.
from another site
>He was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and over 9,000 letters and postcards. His works have been published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System. (The sole exception being the 100s: philosophy and psychology, although he did write a foreword for The Humanist Way, which is published in the 100s).

[Anonymous No.19140778]

>>19140292
Blessed St. Martin.. I kneel..

[Anonymous No.19141087]

>>19140252
>Many """""people""""" care about Lenin's work.

[Anonymous No.19141551]

>>19140292
You expect me to read all that shit?

[Anonymous No.19141726]

>>19140409
>All that content and only two or three good books and a handful of good stories

[Anonymous No.19141866]

Georges Simenon

[Anonymous No.19141897]

>>19140234
>500,000 pages and 3,000 recorded lectures, totaling about 65 million words. He also produced a hundred films and 500 short stories and novels.

nobody fucks with hubbard in that regard

[Anonymous No.19141905]

>>19140234
Henry Darger will, assuming the owner ever gets off her ass and lets some university publish his works

[Anonymous No.19141938]

>>19141905
I bet his paintings are better than his actual writings though.

[Anonymous No.19141953]

>>19141938
Probably, but if Penguin Classics ever releases a highly condensed version of Realms of the Unreal I will buy that shit the second they release it.

I don't think it's an unreasonable goal to get 2-3 Ph. D students together and have them do that as their dissertation work.

[Anonymous No.19142040]

>>19141953
>Probably, but if Penguin Classics ever releases a highly condensed version of Realms of the Unreal I will buy that shit the second they release it.
I would buy it if it had some of his printed paintings Blake-esque.
Also, do you have some pages of his work?
I'm really curious now that you talk about it.

[Anonymous No.19142112]

>>19142040
The University of Illinois has scanned it in its entirety (sans the artwork), so that's a huge accomplishment at least.

http://www.idaillinois.org/digital/collection/intuit/search

[Anonymous No.19142285]

>>19140292
how big do you think they made the text

[Anonymous No.19142431]

>>19142285
It's normal size text.
https://archive.org/details/werkekritischege01luthuoft

[Anonymous No.19142519]

*mogs every other author*

[Anonymous No.19142570]

Imagine how jewy you need to be to write 50,000 pages of "Capitalism is le bad."

[Anonymous No.19142594]

>>19142570
Not as jewy as you need to be to write 50,000 pages of "Capitalism is le good"

[Anonymous No.19142639]

>>19140256
and if you can read german: http://telota.bbaw.de/mega/

[Anonymous No.19142681]

>>19140409
>He was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and over 9,000 letters and postcards. His works have been published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System. (The sole exception being the 100s: philosophy and psychology, although he did write a foreword for The Humanist Way, which is published in the 100s).
Did Asimov coin the term “Psychohistory”?
Supposedly the term was coined before Asimov used it in The Foundation books, but the first academic use is listed more than a decade after the Foundation stories started to be written.

[Anonymous No.19143850]

>>19140292
lutherbros... i kneel...

[Anonymous No.19144242]

>>19140234
Balzac is pretty big, iirc. Swollen, even.

[Anonymous No.19144252]

>>19140234
>>19140292
Who the hell actually reads all this stuff? I can't imagine you'd ever need/want to, not even if you were getting a PhD on that author's works

[v_v !!+e0M0fBMYzt No.19144261]

>>19144252
it helps make referencing easier

[Anonymous No.19144499]

>>19140234
Do I really need to read all this
I am writing a book, "Communism from a Conservative Perspective." My plan so far is to read
>The Communist Manifesto
>Das Kapital
>The Development of Capitalism in Russia
>What Is to Be Done?
>Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
>The State and Revolution
>Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung
And explain my thoughts and opinions regarding these works, and the philosophy which they expound. Can I get away with this list or do I need to read something else too

[Anonymous No.19144506]

>>19144499
That's actually a decent list, but Das Kapital is huge and full of granular detail that will bog you down - you could substitute that for "Wage Labour and Capital" + "Value, Price, and Profit" by Marx, and "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" by Engels. But keep in mind that if you actually read with an open mind and understand, you'll no longer be a conservative...

[Anonymous No.19144527]

>>19144506
>you could substitute that for "Wage Labour and Capital" + "Value, Price, and Profit" by Marx, and "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" by Engels.
Thanks anon, I will look into that first and see what new ground Kapital covers afterwards

>But keep in mind that if you actually read with an open mind and understand, you'll no longer be a conservative...
I consider myself a conservative because
1. I am religious and I believe in religious freedom/tolerance for all faiths
2. I am of the opinion that land ownership and the right to private property (aka a home you own, etc) are intrinsic parts of being truly free
Point 1 is something I am immovable on, but we will see what Mr. Marx and his friends will have to say when it comes to Point 2.

[Anonymous No.19144531]

>>19144527
don’t read marx if you’re religious (reactionary)

[Anonymous No.19144534]

>>19140234
Many of the ancients but their works are just lost to time. Sophocles and Euripides had like ninety plays each but only a handful survive.

[Anonymous No.19144541]

>>19144531
I must, in order to gain an understanding of Communism so I can write about it

[Anonymous No.19144563]

>>19140234
Wow that's a lot of jewish toilet paper.

[Anonymous No.19144611]

>>19144531
i know gay christian marxists. i called a trans one on discord a faggot and told them to join a union and they banned me.

[Anonymous No.19144632]

>>19144541
Also I am not reactionary, unless you consider liberals to be reactionary

[Anonymous No.19144640]

>>19144632
>liberal
>reading marx
you will now reach your final form

[Anonymous No.19144973]

>>19140292
Based Luther. He was right about papists and joos btw