/lit/ - Literature

Screwtape Letters - Lewis
Im Westen nichts Neues - Remarque

Ahhhh shit

Not limited to fiction. I initially planned on doing that but changed my mind. Apologies

The Communist Manifesto - Marx
On Liberty - Mills
Beawulf

Ten Nights' Dreams by Natsume Soseki
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
R.U.R. by Karel Capek (play)
Friends by Kobo Abe (play)
Madame de Sade by Yukio Mishima (play)
Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
Dancing Lessons For the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal
Hojoki by Kamo no Chomei
The House of the Star by Clarice Lispector
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

Balzac's novellas are really good, especially le Colonel Chabert and Gobseck. Maupassant's short stories are god-tier and very entertaining.

>>1999858
Woops, The Hour of the Star*, not House.

Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers

Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
The Horla by Guy de Maupassant
Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler

Nathanael West--Miss Lonelyhearts
Willem Ellschott--Villa des Roses
Robert Musil---Young Törless
Thomas Mann--Death in Venice
Lorrie Moore--Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
Saul Bellow---Seize the Day
Rachel Ingalls---Mrs Caliban
Muriel Spark--The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Kurt Vonnegut--Breakfast of Champions
Henry James--The Beast in the Jungle
Guy de Maupassant--The Horla
Edith Wharton---Ethan Frome
Vladimir Nabokov---Pnin
James Schuyler---Alfred and Guinevere
Jonathan Lethem---Wall of the Sky, Wall of the Eye

Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
The Hunting Gun by Yasushi Inoue
To Live by Yu Hua
Our Twisted Hero by Yi Munyol

The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Boll
A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov
Aura by Carlos Fuentes
Botchan by Natsume Soseki

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Patriotism by Yukio Mishima
First Love by Ivan Turgenev
House of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata

I THINK RAVEN'S HERE

The Black Cat & The Fall of The House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe.

Slaughter house five Vonnegut
The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald

Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara

anything by Nicholson Baker

I recently read Murakami's South of the Border West of the Sun and Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther in a handful of hours. Both were great.

>>2000000

GOD HAS SPOKEN

Heart of Darkness - Conrad
Agape Agape - Gaddis
Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe

>>2000000
worsethingshavehappenedinmylife.jpg

>>2000000
Fail get.

>>2000014
(all gets are fail gets)

>>1999976
I am! I'm trying to remember all the ones I actually did read in less than a day.

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
Stoner by John Williams
Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau

>>2000005

>>2000000

>GOD HAS SPOKEN

Gay has spoken. Amirite>

>>2000006
God, for years I seriously thought Heart of Darkness was about 800 pages because my lab partner in high school physics was such a crybaby about having to slog through it. No, he wasn't black.

>>2000025

It's one of those books that take fucking forever if you're not actually interested in it.

Cormac McCarthy - Child of God
Charles Portis - True Grit

contrabeetin!

>>2000029
yeah but it's good as fuck so

>>2000000
I guess this means we all have to read South of the Border West of the Sun now...

Hadji Murad - Tolstoy (might be his best)
Death of Ivan L. - Tolstoy
Crying of Lot 49 - Pynchykun
L'amant - Marguerite Duras

And seconding Casares' Invention of Morel.

>>1999979

Oh and The Tell-Tale Heart.

THE DOUBLE - DOSTOEVSKY
THE NOSE, THE OVERCOAT - GOGOL
NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND - DOSTOEVSKY

The machine stops - E M Forster

In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster
Skylark by Dezso Kosztolanyi
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki

>>2000102
Isn't Naomi nearly 500 pages?

>>2000112

You're probably thinking of the Makioka Sisters. Naomi's not that long.

>>2000130
Sorry, it's 400+ pages in Japanese print

>>2000112
>>2000135
The English translation is only about 250 pages, with pretty large spacing/font. I remember reading it all in one sitting because the characters were that damn frustrating and if I didn't finish it the story would be bothering me until I did. Its my favorite by Tanizaki that I've read so far.

Cock & Bull by Will Self
Candide by Voltaire
Post Office by Bukowski
Agape Agape by Gaddis

>>2000155
IS it available online for free?

>>2000102

Just looked Naomi's summary up on Wikipedia.

Fuck that sounds legitimately interesting.

>>2000174
Not that I know of, but The Makioka Sisters and The Key by him are.

>>2000177
Same here, that's pretty damn fascinating and even though I'm not a weeaboo the idea of reading Japanese satire is instantly appealing.

>>2000189
WHY YOU HAVE TO BE WEEABOO TO APPRECIATE JAPANESE LITERATURE?

>>2000203
capsguy: the cutest weaboo on 4chan

>>2000189
If you do get interested in it or want more works of Japanese satire around that same time period, there's also Natsume Soseki's I Am a Cat and Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Kappa.

>>2000203
Nice assumption there, but my point was that it had the same instantaneous appeal as if I were one, despite that I'm not one.

>>2000214
MOST WEEABOOS AREN'T INTERESTED IN SHIT LIKE THAT THOUGH

GO TO /A/, /JP/ ETC AND TELL ME I AM WRONG

>>2000222
This. I tried to make a Japanese literature thread on /jp/ after being run out of /lit/ once, and they pretty much shit everywhere. I didn't get one sane reply out of them, just people spamming anime porn.

>>2000222
Hear me out for a second, here's my argument in response to your points:
I don't give a shit. I said it cause I thought it. This is an absurdly inane thing to debate with someone.

>>2000189

What interests me primarily is that

1): it's a work from a very, very foreign culture (modern day America to 1920s Japan is a much larger gap than America to any western nation of the same period)

2): it deals with cross cultural matters.

If a Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Asian person were to come and live in America for a decade (i.e. really get to know the culture) and thereafter write a analysis/criticism/satire of American society, I'd want to read it for all the same reasons.

>>2000238
I WAS JUST TRYING TO EDUCATE YOU IF YOU THOUGHT THAT WEEABOOS ACTUALLY LIKED JAPAN OTHER THAN OTAKU CULTURE OR WOMEN.

IF I WAS WRONG, PLEASE FORGIVE ME, BUT I HAD BEST INTENTIONS FOR ALL

>>2000254
I'm not going to read any of their books now. But it's not because I'm racist, I just won't read any books written by a Japanese person.
SOUND FAMILIAR CAPSGUY?

BUMP FOR CROSS CULTURAL DISCUSSION

War and Peace.

>>2000177

Naomi is good and pretty funny if you think of her as "the West" and him (George) as Japan. My favorite of his is Some Prefer Nettles.

>>2000135

The first result on amazon.co.jp is more than 400 pages, but it's a much smaller book than an American trade paperback. The Vintage paperback of Naomi according to Amazon is 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches while the Japanese is 15 x 10.6 x 2 cm, or about 6 x 4 x 0.8 inches.

>>2000313

Japanese is not a very efficient language.

carson mccullers - the member of the wedding

it's the kind of book where you miss the characters after you finish, almost as if they're actual people

>>2000337
My brother (sister?)

Well shit. I can't find Naomi online anywhere for free legal or not.

It's also not in my library network.

>>2000356
If you give me a couple of days I can try to scan it. My copy is falling to pieces anyway.

>>2000362

That'd certainly be quite commendable of you.

Well, I read "The Dream Life of Balso Snell" by Nathanael West today.

This is the second time I've seen "The Art of War - Tzu" as though Tzu were the guy's last name. Must have been a pretty big family.

The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata
Selected Stories of Shen Congwen
Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov

>>2000363
About halfway finished with it now! I'm scanning, OCR-ing, and then proofreading, since I needed to re-read it anyway.

THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU - WELLS
THE LAKE OF THE BEES - STORM
THE JEW OF MALTA - MARLOWE
THE UNKNOWN MASTERPIECE - BALZAC
THE SECRET AGENT - CONRAD
THE IMAGINARY INVALID - MOLIERE
THE GIFT OF THE MAGI - HENRY
THE WALL - SARTRE
THE NECKLACE - MAUPASSANT
THE MONKEY'S PAW - JACOBS
THE DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE RITZ - FITZGERALD

>trying to finish books as quickly as possible

Why?

>>2000000

>>2000976
It's not really about finishing books as quickly as possible, it's about quick reads. There are books you can comfortably read in one sitting, animal farm for example, and books you can read uncomfortably in one sitting, which i experienced with the great gatsby.

>>2000363
>>2000932

Alright, finished! There may still be a few errors, but I tried to correct most of them:

http://www.mediafire.com/?hn1zwc9cg1u4gt0

Hopefully you enjoy it :D

>>2001504
>>2001504
>>2001504
You are a true bro.

Bumping for more

Patriotism - Yukio Mishima

>>2001504
Thanks a lot!

Just read The Metamorphosis for the first time today in attempt to get back into reading. I'm not quite sure I understood the theme behind it entirely, if one even exists, but it was enjoyable I guess.

you can read almost any book of fiction in a day if you have an open schedule.

Lets say fiction/nonfiction; under 3 hours or 200 pages.

>>2000956
>THE SECRET AGENT - CONRAD

Not for most people.

Die Kapuzinergruft (The Emperors Tomb) - Joseph Roth, 188 pages (in German)

I loved that book and I love the author...

>>2000000

mfw god has spoken and I've never heard of Murakami...

>>2001615
This is true, so I second the 200~ page limit. We're looking for bite-sized classics here.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5142765?shelf=read-in-a-single-afternoon

I made a shelf.

Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man.

seriously guys, it isn't that long of a book.

Hee(99)
The adventuring story never matters to seriously mirth writerz, only crafting the way of formatting y conjoin-in' those lovely phases:
Read from facil-est to schwierig-est in craft and ideas:
CitR
Ham on Rye
Notes from Underground
Candid(e) [only the reader has come of age]
The Stranger
Steppenwolf
>>2001791

>If you read 'em once, go bacH!
They're short as fuck, by le au revoir: the lot of you prolly haven't dissected all lots!

>>2001863
Post more

The Old Man and the Sea-Hemingway
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie-Muriel Spark

The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson.
Just read it this morning. Good even though there's no way to possibly be surprised by the ending, nowadays.

>>2002082
Labyrinths JLBorges
Perhaps one short story at a time, so one may write what all that one has interpreted and implicated.
Black Spring: Henry Miller
Got to go 'whit da short story collections of the first hippie
Tropic of Cancer: HMillz
Mainstream it 'foz's
Mother Night
Dat satire on trolls b4 trolls went public. "You are what You pretend to be," says a KV.
The Clouds by Aristophanes
Satirizing up 'dat Socrates, it can be enjoyed if you interpret Monsieur Aris as Troll, Grueling a SURFACE LV SATIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pal's Choke
Fuck 'dem Hater's Transgressional allows a'reey thing to be a quotable quote ie proto dirty realism proto-proto minimalism.
Sat-on-tire's The Golden ass: PETRONIUS
Gargantua and Pantagruel
I mixed wits 'whit CAPS GUY ON THAT ONE.
>Axiom to say one should attack one story at a time.
The Time Machine
'Cuzz yah just gotta.
Tender us the night by FSFitz
Preferring that to the Gatsby [read it awhile bacH though.]
Anthem 'By you know who -----'
Plato's The Symposium
>Some Damn hippie thinks he knows about amour.

Or did your post most definitely not mean this:
>>1998096
>>1998802
>>2001619
>>2001998
'scuse me while I kiss the sky:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHHuvrQF9TI

>>2002157
THIS SOME KIND OF CHALLENGE

I HAVE NO IDEA HOW GARGANTUA AND PENTAGRUEL CAN BE READ IN LESS THAN A DAY BUT I WILL PUT IT ON MY CURRENTLY READING LIST NOW

YOU POST MORE AS I NOW GO TO FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING ISSUES LECTURE

>>2000956
>CAPSGUY
>Island of Dr. Moreau
>I remember that thread from a few weeks ago and I was that guy who highly recommended it
>mfw

Also, thanks for this thread /lit/. Been looking for some shorter reads.

Shane by Jack Schaefer

>>2002226
AWESOME.

GOT MORE?

>>2002157

Dear God how fast do you read?

the stranger & the fall - albert camus

>>2002630
Faster than Capsguy

Hey guys, glad I found this thread. I highly recommend the book pictured. Can be read in two hours.

Animal Farm - George Orwell.

>>2002224 si!
Horey shit bruh! You're going into some real awesome shenanigans right 'darr mahnn,
The closest I came to that subject is Commercial financing y econ is the most I er'er dabbled with, avec moi self imposed solitary confinement known as autodidacticism 'fer 2 anyos,
I meant one story at a time though bros, on 'dat Gargantua and Pantagruel.
Remember kiddies: ya gotta construct and deconstruct ar'reey thang!
> Author's intentions, implications, psyche, sociology, rhetoric, ethic, patting those pathos [inane or not, it must have been necessary, yes?] etc. . .
Speaking of intentions, how about Monsieur Wilde's Intentions?
>Critic as Artist

>>2003207
NOT AUTHOR'S INTENTIONS THANK YOU

>>2003215
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Critic_as_Artist
http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/1305/
>No niggardly Negroids pickin' up and keeping libros at the biblioteca 'fer free.