/lit/ - Literature

>>19098921
>try to read a book
>your cat starts to hug you, wants cuddles
>can't focus on a book

>cannot read a book if you haven't read 100 other books by different authors

>reading women
>reading fantasy/scifi

I've recorded quite a lot for these kind of threads before, but most of them are in Spanish, my English sucks.
>La casa de Asterión by Borges
https://voca.ro/c7EByyayxij
>The Iliad (Alexander Pope's translation)
https://voca.ro/8pJE88eHmwy
>El suicida (Jorge Luis Borges)
https://voca.ro/3mSuTFbbnx3
>Los heraldos negros (César Vallejo)
https://voca.ro/2NmvZzKf592
>Es Olvido (Nicanor Parra)
https://voca.ro/fu4yuUoyKci
>El pozo (Luis Mateo Díez)
https://voca.ro/8E3IO4vSLn0
>The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Oscar Wilde)
https://voca.ro/1Y82VyTgPrY
>Sigismund's second monologue (La vida es sueño - Calderón de la Barca)
https://voca.ro/v2rh1wpeZnV
>Piedra negra sobre una piedra blanca (César Vallejo)
https://voca.ro/kE9tzfFxtSx
>This is my letter to the world (Emily Dickinson)
https://voca.ro/cbr0Dp4LQQr
>Vuelta de paseo (Federico García Lorca)
https://voca.ro/8Ruc9tZFB3D
>Paternidad responsable (Carlos Alfaro Gutiérrez)
https://voca.ro/nd7laeuzk8F
>The tiger (Nael, 6 years)
https://voca.ro/h3fD7fYNbBj
>Oda a Walt Whitman (Federico García Lorca)
https://voca.ro/mDo9U4FGh3B
>Ulrica (Borges)
https://voca.ro/1mNrJGTBOjZn
>Sigismund's first monologue (La Vida es Sueño - Calderón de la Barca)
https://voca.ro/nrDJJeBlYkL
>La gallina degollada - Horacio Quiroga
https://voca.ro/1kbosUQ9JC5A

>anon, your book reads like an old man's writing from 1800

>>17138069
>atheists are already nihilist
are they? there aren't other ways to surpass nihilism? Like art, for example.

Also, why do you say Nietzche "created" nihilism? He just take nihilism as a subject. He was a great vitalist, totally opposed to nihilism and the affirmation of >>17138271

Different kinds of intelligence.

The guy who cures cancer might have never touched a book in years. The guy who writes an era-defining epic might know nothing about science beyond the water cycle. And again, maybe someone knows a lot about philosophy but nothing about fiction.

What book(s) is /lit/ putting on their Christmas list?

Hey,

I want to further my understanding of japanese literature and poetry. Other than anthologies of haiku and else, what is a good introduction to the general theory, aesthetics and poetics of japanese literature and poetry?

>>16293552
>Romancero Gitano by García Lorca
>Women Poets of Japan, a beautiful anthology. Also re-reading Four Quartets. Might start reading some Mishima or Tsevateva today, who knows
>English and spanish, perfectly. Currently learning japanese and french

>>16293655
>pseud
>monolingual
Of course

>>16263388
There's this list by Harold Bloom. Also, I'll make a very, very, short list of some of the poets I deem essentials.

English:
>John Donne (all of it)
>Shakespeare (the Sonnets)
>John Keats (all of it)
>William Blake (Songs of Innocence & Experience)
>Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Kahn, mostly- Find a book of selected poems, maby. Most of his work is either great or just a miss)
>Emily Dickinson (all of it)
>William Butler Yeats (all of it)
>T. S. Eliot (all of it)
>Ezra Pound (if you have the time)
>Sylvia Plath (all of it, especially Ariel)
>Anne Sexton (all of it)
Check out Norton's Anthology of English Poetry

Spanish:
>Jorge Manrique (Coplas a la muerte de su padre)
>San Juan de la Cruz (Noche oscura)
>Garcilaso de la Vega (the sonnets)
>Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (all of her lyrical poetry, especially Primero sueño)
>Luis de Góngora (all of it)
>Francisco de Quevedo (the sonnets)
>Rubén Darío (Azul)
>José Juan Tablada (Misa negra and his haiku, but I don't know if there's even a translation)
>Federico García Lorca (all of it)
>Alejandra Pizarnik (all of it)
>Octavio Paz (Piedra de sol)

Japanese:
>Ono no Komachi (all of it)
>Bashô (all of it)
>Masaoka Shiki (all of it)
>Sôgi (renga)
>Izumi Shikibu (all of it)
>Empress Jitô (whatever you can find)
Check out the Penguin Book of Haiku and Women Poets of Japan (women make the vast, vast majority of classical poets anyways, plus, the translation is great).

Other languages:
>Paul Celan
>Wislawa Szymborska
>Giuseppe Ungaretti
>Charles Baudelaire
>Stephane Mallarmé
>Anna Akhmatova
>Marina Tsevateva
>+the classics like Dante, Sappho, Horatio, etc.

>>14736074
You are (I assume) reading fiction with the goal that philosophical works would yield you.
You completely are missing the point of aesthetic literature if you seek to enlargen your scientific knowledge in a Dostojevski book or Goethe Poem.
The enagaging in the ravelled fluff and seeing the unravelled core while reading the "excess bits" is what you need to learn to feel/appreciate.

Please read your non fiction and bad shallow fiction and once you are done making stupid threads like this return to the great works of fiction that you read with the wrong intent, since you quite frankly haven't actually read them.

>>11354590
Yes, reading is for gay nerds, like you, hahaha.

(and me)

>>11340290
Certainly, but you should learn the basics of the language first, otherwise you may get frustrated and give up.