/lit/ - Literature

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Rilke

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Kek

Joyce

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Van Gogh

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Gaddis

Kafka.
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Lovecraft

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Plato of course. He wrote seven of em!

St. Paul
Carlyle

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Johanna Schopenhauer

>>22098311
It wasn't a joke :(

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Lord Chesterfield

Keats

Robert E. Lee

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Tolkien

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I wanted to like his letters but they did little for me. They all seemed to involve financial trouble and drooling over Shakespeare. I plan to try them again though. Some of my favorite books I disliked at first

My mom and dad :)

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James McNeil Whistler

>>22099202
>drooling over Shakespeare
but that's the best part

Lovecraft and Kafka and Gogh had pretty interesting letters. Especially the one where Gogh explains when the art of painting clicked for him.

>I remember quite well, now that you write about it, that at the time when you spoke of my becoming a painter, I thought it very impractical and would not hear of it. What made me stop doubting was reading a clear book on perspective, Cassange's Guide to the ABC of Drawing; and a week later I drew the interior of a kitchen with stove, chair, table and window - in their places and on their legs - whereas before it had seemed to me that getting depth and the right perspective into a drawing was witchcraft or pure chance.

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Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust, Annibale Caro, Seneca, Giacomo Leopardi and Lord Byron

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Fr. Rolfe Baron Corvo

Anon

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>You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole.

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>your torn arsehole was squelching, darling, and finally after the agonising sting of expectation threatened to erase my cockstand, your violet arse-loam poured in a steady stream onto the white sheets and I devoured it with my ravenous mouth.

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>>22101282
while I don't agree with what Joyce's faggy son did when he burned all of Joyce's unpublished letters in a fit of autistic rage, after reading the ones that were published I can at least understand why he did it

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*grandson

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>>22098616
People keep referring to the fart letters, but the whole volume of collected letters is actually very good. Not only he was very witty most of the times, but it's also very nice to see how he was describing and feeling places around himself. There's a lot about the alleged "betrayal" of Nora, the relationship with Gogarty, and you also understand a lot of the economical struggles he had to face. Some of the letters to Nora are also extremely touching.

>>22098291
isn't it objectively byron?

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Seneca writing to Lucilius

St Paul

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>>22103506
based pauline epistles appreciators

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>>22103506
based

>>22098291
I don't know about the "best", but off the top of my head, the letters of Nikos Kazantzakis, Arthur Rimbaud, Rainer Maria Rilke, Herman Melville, Jacques Derrida, and Kahlil Gibran were all moving, formative, and important for me.

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based

Wilde’s De Profundis is great.

>>22101451
Are all of them collected somewhere? I can find "The Dirty Letters to Nora" on lib and I looked for a collection of his letters on Gutenberg but didn't find anything.