/lit/ - Literature

a book with no cover. If you keep them guessing then there is still the possibility of it being their favorite book. Kind of like Deleuzes body without organs.

I think its because its a more vast community in terms of what books they like. It would be like if /v/, /b/, /sci/ and /p/ all posted here and all the negative comments got pushed to the bottom. We just became more literature oriented over time

I wonder if we will ever see a revival.

I've been putting off reading Goethe for ages. I wish I could just watch the Faust play instead

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>>7032902
are there any books of his in particular you are talking about?

Always thought those meals from the Odyssey and Iliad sounded good. All that fat wrapped around meat and wine and honey

>>7031598
not even the Greeks cared about if their stories were literal or not. They used to love when the stories has slight variants .

The Quentin chapter of the Sound and the Fury
Shakespeare is an easy answer too

>>7004196
Either the Trial or the Penal Colony if you want something psychological

You might have to read the horror genre for imagery like you are looking for but Kafka works for me.

I personally like the Odyssey a bit more because I love Odysseus and the shenanigans he gets into.

He probably is talking about spooks again. Abstract causes like nationalism, religion alienate the individual and so he calls them worthless.

The smell of crushed sea shells

>>7000064
The stories and that are likely from before the 8th century. When was Homer first written down anyway?

>>6999972
there is no original spelling, it was oral poetry from before the Greek alphabet was even around.

>>6999972
thats still modern greek, it would have looked like that but capitalized

>>6999929
2 from Aeschylus, 5 from Sophocles,7 from Euripides

I haven't read any comedies yet but I probably will pick up some Aristophanes when I can. It will be fun to read something that doesn't end in anything horrible for a change.

>>6999824
I haven't read 48 plays but every one so far has been enjoyable. There are some cliches that get overused but most of the great playwrights will have their own twists that make them worth reading.

I don't know too much about translations. I mostly read copies from Oxford Worlds classics just taking the risk with whoever they choose.

>>6997017
the big Other that we all presuppose exists

I personally liked the Odyssey more. it felt like more of an adventure and had a more satisfying ending.

Medea is the best play after Oedipus Rex. I just love her story. What are your favorite tragedies?

>>6999767
says the white bread hetero, you lack an imagination

As long as they get a proper burial. all souls go to Hades

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Its best heard by oral narration on the street corners of your local city in bits and pieces.

I just let it trinkle down the line until I here someone mention it on 4chan