/lit/ - Literature

>>8928756
>mfw masturbating for the big other

Yes. He was a revolutionary poet, who's greatest impact is yet to come. Revolutionary Poets are more dangerous than philosophers, they provide a mythic vision which allows the believer to overcome the moral barrier, as to do what is needed.

Once the social disparity will grow large enough in japan, radical students will rediscover his work and commit to his cause, and as such the traditional values of Japan, which he was able to synergize with modern japan in his novel "Runaway Horses".

Bonsaiiiiiiiiiii!

>>8868607
>Is psychoanalysis oogabooga pseud trash

end yourself senpai

>>8864622
Just like the proletariat will free the world from exploitation and repression by the ruling classes, the manlets will free the world from false morality, imposed by physically stronger big guys.

Right one is superior, but i used both when i kickstarted my venture into greek literature. It's not just worth it for Ulysses, but generally for all kinds of literature written up to the 50's of the last century. There are so many allusions, references, influences and so on that you will constantly, if your reading range goes beyond the US (meaning if you read european, especially german literature), encounter books that relate to the greeks. And of course it will help you immensely with your philosophical studies.

>>8862385
I really am Tao Lin. Taipei is maybe structurally more conventional than my other works, but i think that i pushed my prose really to the edge with this one. My prior works had their unique style of course, but on the level of prose were somewhat minimalistic. Here i went, even if at first glance it may seem differently, since my work mediates a sort of detachedness and autistic non-affection towards reality, here i went much further.

>>8861030
pure ideology

>>8859269
Nay, i've got it in my shelf though. May be a decent time to read it during the holidays. Really liked Romulus.

Why are memes so intoxicating, /lit/? I genuinely feel moved by their sound and shape on the internet. Am I autistic?

>>8857556
Blew me away. Runaway Horses is easily one of my favourite books of all time. Had a very heavy impact on me. Have a weird love-relationship with Mishima though, the novel that i'm planning out in my head, while working on my writing, relates directly to him and his writing.

>>8857439
This year starts with Der Wehrwolf.

Particular favourites (with the exception of books by the authors i already mentioned) were the following:
>Salammbo
>Illusiones perdu
>Le Rouge et le Noir
>Die Zerissenen Jahre
>A supposedly fun thing i'll never do again
>Libra
>Brief Interviews with hideous men
>Byung-Chul Han
>Schopenhauer
>Deutschland, Ein Wintermärchen
>Euripides in general

>>8857438

Year is almost over, so what have you read this year, what did you particularly like, what are you planning to read next year...?

My reading year was particularly shaped by Mishima and my introduction towards plays, which also served as an introduction towards Schiller, who has turned into quite a big guy for me. My time with mishima was just stunning, i felt as if i was getting lost in the aesthetized world of his images and words.

Next year i want to get rid of my backlog, so outside of intense studies of film theory, classical greek culture and all volumes of The Man without Qualities, there isn't much planned.

>>8847157
tao lin

seems people should read this e-book

https://iwillsitonthesidewalkiamnotjoking.com/

>>8550466
No, it's definitely impossible. Please never attempt to write again

>>8552316
It contains a story, just one that doesn't go as you like

>>8552297
Choose another author, this is how Huysmans rolls. It's not a matter of opinions but of stupid and childish expectations.

>>8543674

I would, but I'm Tao Lin so it would be awkward.

The internet, obvs.

>>7393167
I read arthouse as amorous.

Don't reply to this post.

>>7068431
>he hasn't read taipei

>>6940351
>>6940367
This. Tao Lin is not affiliated with this board nor does he browse in his leisure time--also, I am not Tao Lin--but you should be sure to purchase all of his books, brilliant contemporary artiste.

>"My brother and my parents also own my apartment, so I only need to pay $526 or something every month for maintenance"

"TAO LIN USED to deliver Domino's for rent money. Not anymore. With five books down and a few more on the way, the 23-year-old has given up the pizza industry for writing full-time, churning out novels, poems and short stories that have made him a ubiquitous darling of the indie and online publishing worlds."

"Moving out of New York has enabled Lin to write full-time. "I only work if I'm forced to work," he says. "There is nothing respectable, good, hard-working, or integrity-related about having a day-job." Lin says he doesn't understand why writers complain about not getting paid enough. "If you get a small apartment in a suburban area you can pay like $300 a month ... You don't need a TV, you don't need to eat dinner at restaurants. You don't need wine, beer, or a cell phone."

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/tao-lin-1/#_

http://hyphenmagazine.com/magazine/issue-11-faith/art-depression#sthash.hNvfHK8R.dpuf


>graduates with BA in Journalism
>lives briefly with parents in Florida, then his brother in New York, then his own apartment owned by his parents in New York, then in Pennsylvania near Ellen Kennedy
>publishes short stories throughout this period, settling for smaller magazines
>begins publishing with smaller presses (Bear Parade) before Melville House owner Denis Johnson emails him, having read his blog