/lit/ - Literature and Writing

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Frans frum overtoobs:

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Pomf!

Coupla kike authors to subvert expectations
Satan in Goray
https://annas-archive.org/md5/7aab5e765f11f935473f70ee9c632377
The Magician of Lublin
https://annas-archive.org/md5/5d9db94b40755f44d371ef7b5b20372c

The Travels of Benjamin Zuskin
https://annas-archive.org/md5/a2eb7757f3f31a5bad1c9bc969be566c

OP here, it's good to see these replies, I'll read and reply your posts another day.
My reading list for this year so far is this (not counting audiobooks or manga);

January - 7 books

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - 8.5/10

Black Poems by Jorge de Lima - 2/10 (a wigger who had a fetish for black people, poetry collection)

The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers (reread) - 7/10

Under the Dome by Stephen King - 5.5/10

Capitães da Areia by Jorge Amado - 7/10 (Brazilian novel)

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Hello, please consider nominating some for the book club themes, as well as reading what we have going on there. Recently, Naked Sun you would like probably.
Age of Anxiety was absolutely great and maybe you would 9 out of 10 it depending on your literary level
Mein Kampf is nothing new but it's grassroots effect is inspirational
Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unnameable is another complete masterpiece work of art

>>6143
Late to the thread I absolutely love shokuhou, shes adorable and caring. One of my favorite fake-bitches in nippon-autism.

>>6143
finished NT vol 12, it was good
it has an interesting take on the historical figure of St. Germain, who isn't really talked about (it was my first time hearing bout him)
>>6187
indeed

>The Italian Wars 1494-1559
I got interested in this one, it's super rare to find any books on the topic. Maybe you should read about the Borgias to get something extra out of it.

>>3474
Yeah, the one I mentioned is the only book I know of in English that specifically covers the wars of that whole period in Italy. Francesco Guicciardini, a friend of Machiavelli who lived through the conflict, wrote a 20 volume book about the entire history of Italy from 1490 to 1534. It's been translated and is on archive.org but I haven't read it yet.
It's a subject that deserves a lot more attention. The clash of all the different approaches to warfare alone makes it fascinating. It's almost cuckime tier at points. And it was all going on at the same time Cortes and Pizarro were fighting the Aztecs and the Incas.

Orphans of Versailles: The Germans in Western Poland, 1918-1939. To my knowledge, this is the only book in the English language specifically devoted to the subject of how ethnic Germans were treated in Poland in the years leading up to World War 2. It's actually quite objective and makes no attempt to whitewash the Polish Government's persecutions of it's German minority. To give you an idea, these are some passage from the latter part of the book,
"It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Polish state was bent on the elimination of most of the German minority in western Poland-by forced assimilation where possible, but mainly by coerced emigration. Moreover, this goal was well on the way to being achieved in 1939; the Poznanian wojewode reportedly assured his supporters that within three years there would no longer be any Germans in Poland. A study of the minority's actual political, cultural, and economic situation merely reinforces the pessimistic assessments of contemporaries cited above. The fact that Hitler took up the minority's case several months before he launched World War II was perhaps the overriding consideration at the time, but it does not make the fact of the minority's plight less compelling."
"The "plight" of the German minority in Poland, in other words, was real; it was not merely alleged or fabricated in the interest of Nazi propaganda… Germans in Poland had ample justification for their complaints; their prospects for even medium-term survival were bleak; and no German government more principled than Hitler's would have been able to ignore their plight over the long run. Though it was not politic to make these points at the time, there is no reason why they cannot be accepted half a century later."

I'm not good at finishing books, but I started this recently after seeing it mentioned on Twitter and some interesting comments pertaining to it. I'd previously held the overly simplistic view that the Confederate leaders were basically class-obsessed anti-Catholic nativistic agrarianists who hated gubmint, but what I'd read indicated that Jefferson Davis was more broadly pro-white, pro-religious tolerance (and even downright sympathetic to Catholicism), pro-modernization, and desired a limited but authoritative state. He might have been hampered by many within the planter class, but that to me indicates there was a more sensible current of thought within the Confederacy if this guy was their leader. I've seen e-Confederates shitting on the non-Founding-Stock Catholic Germans and Irish men who got pushed into fighting for the Union, but it looks like Jefferson Davis himself correctly prioritized race above knee-jerk nativist snobbery (although I'm personally partial to Northwestern Europeans like Brits and Germans and have never liked Catholicism).

These thoughts are tentative, though. I'm only finishing up the third chapter right now. One thing that has become really evident is what a bunch of anti-white bastards the British government were. I'm not one of those people who are reflexively anti-"Anglo," but I now am beginning to understand why so many Americans in the past seemed to get their underwear in a knot about the British long after the Revolution and the War of 1812. I knew there were a lot of out-of-touch faggots in the Northeast who were soft on blacks and Indians, but I never made the connection with their Anglophilia before.

I'm just glad to find what looks like a satisfactory historical right-wing American political tradition. It seems like the Bonapartist Democrats who began with John C. Calhoun might be just that. To be honest, I've never been too inspired by the Founding Fathers outside of what they did to fight for independence. They may have been racially aware in some respects and a bit shitlordish by modern standards, but they all seem to have fallen short in terms of what they actually emphasized. The whole natural rights things comes across as silly to me too, although I definitely agree with them wanting to put the kibosh on hereditary monarchy. It seems like the guys who came along in the 19th century seem to have been closer to modern pro-white politics. I've read elsewhere that John C. Calhoun took little inspiratioPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>6184
>To be honest, I've never been too inspired by the Founding Fathers outside of what they did to fight for independence. They may have been racially aware in some respects and a bit shitlordish by modern standards, but they all seem to have fallen short in terms of what they actually emphasized.
Yeah I get they wanted to create their own project, the problem was that project was inherently corrupted by "enlightenment values" that led to the problems we have today.
>the whole natural rights things comes across as silly to me too
Yeah the idea of "rights" in general in the enlightment terms are just fucking stupid in the context of the current year and even back than.
>although I definitely agree with them wanting to put the kibosh on hereditary monarchy
If they were able to continually pump out caesars without their aftermath upon their death I'd be okay with it as well, personally I would prefer an immortal worm-king/god emperor.

Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Eddy, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Denflick the Evil Ant had a very medieval philosophy: that if the Denflick was a good ant, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it's not that simple. Eddy can say that Denflick imprisoned Jeffbrad and returned the world's food, and he was wise and good. But Eddy doesn't ask the question: What was Denflick's tax policy?

>>6098
Please recommend five of these books to me, considering I'm not a Christfag, and I don't hate capitalism.

>>6125
I doubt Albert Pike said that considering how people love to attribute false quotes to him.

>>6126
Reality cares not one subplanck what YOU feel.

Found this epic book
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76586
Excerpt:

DE KING, EH DARTER, BUH WOLF, AN BUH RABBIT.

One time er King hab er pooty Darter. Buh Wolf an Buh Rabbit all two bin a spark at um an a cote um. De sanfly bin berry bad. De King tell Buh Wolf an Buh Rabbit de one wuh kin stan de sanfly de longes bedout bresh um way, shill git de gal.

Buh Wolf yent bin so scheemy as Buh Rabbit. Wen dem all was a settin fuh de match, Buh Rabbit, him say: "Gentlemans, my fader had a black horse. Eh had a white spot yuh, and a red spot day; a white spot yuh, and a red spot day; a white spot yuh, and a red spot day." Ebry time eh pint out de place way de spot bin, eh dribe off de sanfly.

Wile dis duh guine on, de sanfly mose eat up Buh Wolf. Eh bleege fur cratch an slap. So Buh Rabbit gain de day, an de King gie um eh Darter.

Buh Wolf, him berry sad, an eh wunt talk. All de lady bin a set in de piazza long de King an eh Darter. Den Buh Rabbit say: "Come, Buh Wolf, leh we broke [19] up. Ef you lemme ride you ter de big gate me guine tun de King Darter ober ter you." Buh Wolf happy. Eh gree fuh leh Buh Rabbit ride um. Buh Rabbit light on eh back. Eh hab spur on. Buh Wolf dunno nuttne bout dis. Soon es Buh Rabbit git on Buh Wolf back, eh clamp eh leg onder Buh Wolf belly, an eh clap spur ter Buh Wolf. Buh Wolf rare up. Eh jump. Eh kick. Eh leddown. Eh try ebry way fuh trow Buh Rabbit. Buh Rabbit stick ter eh back, an wunt fall off. De mo Buh Wolf rare up an kick an pitch, de wus Buh Rabbit spur um. Wen eh fine eh cant trow Buh Rabbit, eh tek de big road an lean fuh de gate. Buh Rabbit stick de spur in um ebry jump. Buh Wolf run. Eh run. Eh holler. Eh holler. Buh Rabbit duh set on eh back an duh spur um, an duh look dess as happy an content as eh kin be. Wen dey guine tru de big gate, Buh Rabbit light off eh back an jump on top de gate pose. Buh Wolf cant stop run. Eh gone. Buh Rabbit shet de gate, an tun back, an jine de compny, an tek eh bride.

This thread just reinforces my hatred for Brits, especially those with the dark hair and dark eyes phenotype.

>>6120
Big Bengali Cock, SAAAAR.

Dumbing down American readers

By Harold Bloom, 9/24/2003

THE DECISION to give the National Book Foundation's annual award for "distinguished contribution" to Stephen King is extraordinary, another low in the shocking process of dumbing down our cultural life. I've described King in the past as a writer of penny dreadfuls, but perhaps even that is too kind. He shares nothing with Edgar Allan Poe. What he is is an immensely inadequate writer on a sentence-by-sentence, paragraph-by-paragraph, book-by-book basis. The publishing industry has stooped terribly low to bestow on King a lifetime award that has previously gone to the novelists Saul Bellow and Philip Roth and to playwright Arthur Miller. By awarding it to King they recognize nothing but the commercial value of his books, which sell in the millions but do little more for humanity than keep the publishing world afloat. If this is going to be the criterion in the future, then perhaps next year the committee should give its award for distinguished contribution to Danielle Steel, and surely the Nobel Prize for literature should go to J.K. Rowling.

What's happening is part of a phenomenon I wrote about a couple of years ago when I was asked to comment on Rowling. I went to the Yale University bookstore and bought and read a copy of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." I suffered a great deal in the process. The writing was dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs." I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing.

But when I wrote that in a newspaper, I was denounced. I was told that children would now read only J.K. Rowling, and I was asked whether that wasn't, after all, better than reading nothing at all? If Rowling was what it took to make them pick up a book, wasn't that a good thing?

It is not. "Harry Potter" will not lead our children on to Kipling's "Just So Stories" or his "Jungle Book." It will not lead them to Thurber's "Thirteen Clocks" or Kenneth Grahame's "Wind in the Willows" or Lewis Carroll's "Alice."

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Stop shilling your channel, child. You must be 18 years or older to be here.

>>6097
You know when an author is a hack and a midwit when they say they are both inspirations to them.

Where are the anons with sassy and based opinions about literature?

Tom Buchanan from The Great Gatsby is based and redpilled, a chad. Fitzgerald was also based and if he were alive today he would be a big racist and anti-Semite.
Seeing so many faggots nowadays crying over this character and even drawing parallels between him and "MAGA" only reinforces this.

>>6113
Is Tom Buchanan the ones who goes on about reading the Lothrop Stoddard stand-in? I never read the book. If so, he sounds pretty cool to me.

>>6118
Tom is what speaks about the brown masses and the future of the white race if they do nothing.
It's funny that Fitzgerald makes the protagonist of Tender Is the Night become a racist throughout the novel, I wonder if Fitzgerald was one of those self-hating guys, he seemed to hate rich people but deeply desired to be one and accepted by them too.