/lit/ - Xchan

/lit/

Anon·04/25/25 20:17·No.24337195

/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative writing, etc. If you want to discuss history, religion, or the humanities, go to /his/ [https://boards.4channel.org/his/]. If you want to discuss politics, go to /pol/ [https://boar...

/lit/

Anon·01/29/26 04:56·No.25052631

Cormac McCarthy

None of you white knight antifa cucks could've lived on the edge of society like the 'Mac. Instead, you live in your parents home and pretend to know literature. Nuff said.

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 10:54·No.25050890

for sale: flip-flops, never flopped.

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 22:34·No.25051950

Why do all authors seem to fall into one of these?

/lit/

Anon·01/26/26 06:50·No.25045793

People in 2026 still generally think Lolita is a weird book to read/own, isn't this stigma a little trite by now?

/lit/

Anon·01/29/26 04:59·No.25052635

Stop coping with the idea that we came from nothing or that life is some gift. The reality is that we are literally just the maggots feasting on the rotting corpse of a God that killed itself. The absolute unity didn't create the world out of love, it committed the only free act in history by decidi...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 11:49·No.25050922

/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General

Cover Art Edition >Old: >>25044072 [/lit/thread/25044072#p25044072] >Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs): https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb >Archive: https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg >Goodreads: https://...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 04:36·No.25050491

Why do feminist authors believe that women only fuck to get tenderness and commitment from men? Is it because women only fuck to get tenderness and commitment from men?

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 12:16·No.25050942

Books of Bible Tier List

Make yours: https://tiermaker.com/categories/books/books-of-the-bible-334792 >but it includes the deuterocanonical books If you have an issue simply don't rank them.

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 16:44·No.25051312

Write Your Thoughts

Chad Armor Edition prev: >>25046567 [/lit/thread/25046567#p25046567]

/lit/

Anon·01/29/26 04:06·No.25052552

Anna Karenina

This is the best portrayal of women I have ever read. How did Tolstoy do it?

/lit/

Anon·01/25/26 09:57·No.25043546

Is Christianity the answer? Or is Christianity a ploy to have those opt into the plans of the powerful? Please provide genuine evidence. Not just quotes from scripture I'm asking here as generally /x/ is full of fools

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 21:53·No.25049788

I genuinely don't get the appeal

/lit/

Anon·01/09/26 23:16·No.25006897

/clg/ - Classical Languages General

New year edition >τὸ πρότερον νῆμα· >>24956717 >Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί· https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw >Mέγα τὸ ANE· https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg >Work in progress FAQ https://rentry dot co/n8nrko All Classical languages are welcome.

/lit/

Anon·01/18/26 20:01·No.25028459

poetry general

Talk about poems/poets you like, post your own work, and critique others.

/lit/

Anon·01/25/26 15:20·No.25043971

How would you respond to Epicurus?

/lit/

Anon·01/26/26 00:42·No.25045122

Why did it take so long for western-made BL to go mainstream?

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 04:01·No.25050428

What's your worst memory of getting caught in the library?

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 07:34·No.25048446

Has any other nation contributed as much to world /lit/erature as England?

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 01:41·No.25047774

Was Wittgenstein the Aristotle of his time?

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 02:02·No.25050180

/wg/ - Writing General

"Subtext" Edition Previous: >>25038072 [/lit/thread/25038072#p25038072] /wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ RESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvC Please limit excerpts to one post. Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability. Disc...

/lit/

Anon·01/24/26 20:04·No.25042143

Improv Writing Game, one phrase at a time

In this one stop with faggotry, this shit isn't even funny, therefore it is no joke, you're just being retards

/lit/

Anon·01/25/26 04:38·No.25043193

Moby Dick, or the Whale

There should be a general for this book. It's the most insane creation produced from the 19th century. I cannot believe this is taught to children What was the primary audience for this book? It starts as a weird gay romance, continues as a weird gay romance, then becomes an encyclopedia about wha...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 14:28·No.25051085

>Mr. Coleridge placed Jeremy Taylor amongst the four great geniuses of old English literature. I think he used to reckon Shakespeare and Bacon, Milton and Taylor, four-square, each against each.

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 16:32·No.25049091

/wng/ — Web Novel General

Slopper Instruction Manual Edition Stubbed >>2504167 >What is /wng/ — Web Novel General? A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 00:10·No.25049997

>Went back to working on my translation of Les Sept Couleurs by Robert Brasillach >I have the first two chapters of part one translated (not edited) >I'm thinking of releasing it to /lit/ like a serial publication >maybe a chapter a week if I can If I can commit to that it would help me to translate...

/lit/

Anon·01/26/26 18:50·No.25046768

Just finishing the Philip Marlowe books

I loved them, read almost all of them in like a month. What are other noir private dick or detective novels from the 30s through 50s in the same vein that are also good?

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 00:50·No.25047640

Edith Hamilton greek mythology

What should I expect?

/lit/

Anon·01/26/26 13:11·No.25046182

Its over innit?

/lit/

Anon·01/26/26 02:06·No.25045308

Why are writers socially awkward dorks?

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 20:28·No.25051662

>see this >start skimming through pdfs of some of these >50 year olds talking about how they have a more pure form of love, they are in love with the soul, which just so happens to manifest itself in an unquenchable desire to put your penis between the thighs of a 13 year old >presented as a sonnet ...

/lit/

Anon·01/18/26 17:05·No.25028016

Top 25 /lit/ thread

Share your top 25 /lit/ anons. https://topsters.org/

/lit/

Anon·01/13/26 06:30·No.25015193

/history/

Share your favorite history books, what you're currently reading, etc.

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 03:23·No.25050343

Book of Mormon thread 4

>>24962299 >>25016974 [/lit/thread/25016974#p25016974] >>>/his/18296640 [//boards.4chan.org/his/thread/18296640#p18296640]

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 01:44·No.25050144

What are you numb nuts reading?

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 15:39·No.25051192

golem

the fuck is going on in this book? i don't understand shit

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 18:14·No.25051447

>Schopenhauer died for this

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 22:59·No.25052021

ANNA'S ARCHIVES GETTING SUED FOR 13 TRILLION DOLLARS

Say goodbye to book piracy. It's over.

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 05:43·No.25050593

>The Very Hungry Caterpillar is not on /lit/'s top 100 list This board is NGMI

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 01:41·No.25050135

Why did all major philosophers dislike women?

/lit/

Anon·01/29/26 03:06·No.25052458

Machado de Assis

"To the worm that first gnawed at the cold flesh of my cadaver I dedicate as a fond remembrance these posthumous memoirs." >he based

/lit/

Anon·01/29/26 03:57·No.25052536

What is /lit/'s consensus?

What are /lit/ top 5 fairy tales?

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 16:47·No.25051325

Redeemed chud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUi-i82wRnk Guys, this is the video that convinced me to start read Dostoevsky. What books of his do I read to become a redeemed Chud?

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 22:35·No.25049852

>gang rides through the desert >find a city >kill someone >repeat for 300 pages I don't get why this gets shilled here so much. It isn't bad, but it isn't that good either.

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 17:32·No.25049205

ereader thread

Have any of you used an Xteink? Are they any good?

/lit/

Anon·01/29/26 03:56·No.25052535

I've decided I'm going to become a great and famous writer in order to prove to everyone they were wrong to ignore me. They'll say, of course, in the blogs and the articles and the documentaries, that they always knew I was destined for greatness, and I won't bemoan them for it. But they'll always k...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 18:36·No.25051477

What's the worst book you ever finished?

/lit/

Anon·01/29/26 00:08·No.25052139

Wanted to show some love to authors who don't get any mention here. Lots of bellyaching about chick-lit, so why not give ole Nelson a try? Let's throw Terry Southern and Henry Green into the mix since they're all interrelated, yet distinct.

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 18:48·No.25051509

Alas, he who knows the heart finds out how poor, helpless, pretentious, and blundering even the best and deepest love is—he finds that it rather destroys than saves!—It is possible that under the holy fable and travesty of the life of Jesus there is hidden one of the most painful cases of the martyr...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 15:23·No.25051155

Marquis de Sade

Can anything of value be found in his writings?

/lit/

Anon·01/24/26 20:28·No.25042199

LINGVA LATINA

LOQVI TANTVM LINGVAM DEQVE LINGVA QVAM BARBARI NESCIVNT PROPOSITVM EST HVNC AD FILVM

/lit/

Anon·01/29/26 00:10·No.25052145

Is Nietzsche's philosophy Left Hand Path in nature?

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 00:08·No.25047536

I saw adverts about this for years. On the walk to the big supermarket near my house there was a poster about it that stayed up from at least 2022 to 2024. did anyone actually read it because of interest in the story and topic, instead of because of the incessant advertising campaign?

/lit/

Anon·01/19/26 22:03·No.25031063

/wbg/ - Worldbuilding General

Gods, Divinities, Religion, and Faith Edition 2: Beautiful Goddess Boogaloo FAQ: >What is worldbuilding? Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks ques...

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 20:34·No.25049607

/lit/ + /an/

Post photos of writers and animals.

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 02:44·No.25050262

Are there actually any good romance novels aimed at men, and I dont mean anime haremslop or anything along those lines

/lit/

Anon·01/07/26 15:44·No.25000719

What is /lit/ reading in 2026?

post and rate

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 14:14·No.25051055

Dickens in modern English

Is there an edition of Dickens's books in modern English? I can't stand his old ass English, sometimes I can't even understand what’s going on in a paragraph. And yes, I am an ESL, proudly so, but I'm pretty sure even some natives would agree with me on this one considering this article: https://kit...

/lit/

Anon·01/26/26 21:37·No.25047144

>physics prodigy who quits his degree to major in english >drops acid with famous folk musicians and their gfs >works for boeing, sees horrors beyond comprehension >indirectly helps develop ARPANET and knew about MKULTRA >realizes he's being groomed to become CIA >oboy, he sez >drops everything >den...

/lit/

Anon·01/22/26 06:20·No.25036816

They seething

r/classicliterature thinks all of us are heckin skinheads!! https://www.reddit.com/r/classicliterature/comments/1qj6498/the_lit_top_100_books_list_for_2025/

/lit/

Anon·01/29/26 00:18·No.25052157

Do you consider reading a hobby or is it just consumerism? Pic unrelated

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 20:18·No.25049571

St. Dionysius the Areopagite

Many people are dissatisfied with the edition from Classics of Western Spirituality but most of them aren't aware of this one which is by far the best one we have in print. https://stanthonysmonastery.org/ro/products/the-divine-names-and-the-mystical-theology?srsltid=AfmBOorxmrJNJ3UripUd_x-7pbAwr67...

/lit/

Anon·01/29/26 02:43·No.25052408

Nabokov

>Since the 1960-ies rumors about the possible nomination of Vladimir Vladimirovich for the Nobel Prize. In 1970, this prestigious prize in literature was awarded to Alexander Solzhenitsyn; two years later he wrote a letter to the Swedish Nobel Committee with a proposal to consider the candidacy of N...

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 19:14·No.25049432

Jordan Peterson is dying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpi1fHWHSRs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYHnyomGZ1c Do you have anything to say to him before he departs this world?

/lit/

Anon·01/26/26 07:09·No.25045818

>religious fruitcake who denounced Plato and the Olympic games as satanic, his opinion ultimately leading the Emperor to ban the Platonic Academy and the Olympic games >Proto Bolshevik who considered private property a sin and prohibited by Christ and got exiled for constantly attacking the wealthy ...

/lit/

Anon·01/26/26 22:32·No.25047331

Read Parenti

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 02:58·No.25050289

Let's have another shelf thread. Post your domicile.

/lit/

Anon·01/19/26 03:46·No.25029280

/grrm/ - George R. R. Martin General #103

dornish intrigue with varys edition ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page Blog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/ Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/ So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/ Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/ SSM searc...

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 04:04·No.25048146

>be George RR Martin >write A Song Of Ice And Fire >HBO contacts you about a TV show >the book series isn't done yet >you tell HBO how the series ends >surely you'll be able to finish the books before the show is over >be fat and lazy >show catches up to and goes beyond your books >show ends using t...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 05:47·No.25050598

Are there any works exploring the connexion between existentialist-Heideggerian philosophy and extreme political views? It's notable that Heidegger was seen (erroneously or not) as a philosopher of Nazism, and Sartre (who he trained) became a lifelong Stalinist and then Maoist. Is it because existe...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 19:36·No.25051592

>0 books completed >1 book behind schedule

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 12:30·No.25048817

Are these good? Any alternatives? /a/ and /jp/ nerds, assemble.

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 01:10·No.25047684

What am I in for?

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 12:33·No.25050956

>"I am Chani, daughter of Liet." >Paul swallowed. The figure in front of him turned ... and he saw an elfin face ...

/lit/

Anon·01/25/26 20:04·No.25044548

—Ulysses! that whole business again, well it's not true it's bullshit I did not read it I'm telling you I did not read the damn thing I did not . . . In that cramped interval between his fingers' faltering insistence and the floor's mute expectancy, the cylindrical burden already half‑forgotten as a...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 22:21·No.25051919

Lovecraft the GOAT

Will they ever surpass Lovecraft? Like, make good adaptations of this geniuss works? It seems like filmmakers hate Lovecraft, always adapting his work in the worst way on purpose... I honestly can vividly see good adaptations of his works for cinema (live action, animation, etc...) if you want to ta...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 22:11·No.25051903

How do you actually read philosophy? I read some Nietzsche's books and I feel like I forgot some stuff a week later. Should I take notes or this normal?

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 17:23·No.25049171

let's settle this beef

is everything changing, or nothing changes? maybe both? for those who ignored their pre-socratics quick tl;dr Parmenides >in his poem On Nature, presents a radical thesis: reality is singular, eternal, and immutable. He argues that change, plurality, and movement are illusions of human perception. ...

/lit/

Anon·01/17/26 21:09·No.25026247

/lit/ humor thread

Previous one hit image limit >>24989023 [/lit/thread/24989023#p24989023]

/lit/

Anon·01/25/26 23:28·No.25044959

THIS SHIT IS UNINTELLIGIBLE >inb4: muh skill issue kys. kys. kys.

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 07:35·No.25050701

"Turn the other cheek" was essentially Jesus moving the overton window away from endlessly repeated "eye for an eye" blood feuds and honor killings to a reasonably balanced system of fair justice. He basically did the Trump Art of the Deal: He laid out a shocking first offer (total permissiveness in...

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 17:35·No.25049209

Best books on the positivist versus anti-positivist argument in science? I already know Feyerabend and Lakatos.

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 06:30·No.25048382

>my English? Transatlantic, thoroughly rhotic >my French? Parisian >My Greek? Attic >My Hebrew? Biblical >My German? Viennese >My Spanish? Castilian >My Arabic? Fusḥa >My Italian? Florentine >My Latin? Republican When I introduce myself I always accent the last syllable of my name instead of the pe...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 02:28·No.25050235

Is Asshai the most mysterious place in all fiction?

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 15:22·No.25051152

>If someone in the street were entrusted with your body, you would be furious. Yet you entrust your mind to anyone around who happens to insult you, and allow it to be troubled and confused. Aren't you ashamed of that? Well?

/lit/

Anon·01/29/26 00:11·No.25052149

>Happiness runneth after me. That is because I do not run after women. Happiness, however, is a woman. How could neetch actually believe this when he himself died a lonely virgin?

/lit/

Anon·01/29/26 00:05·No.25052137

IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 17:19·No.25049164

What am I in for?

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 09:42·No.25048595

>read huge tome from popular philosopher >maybe 20 pages of actual wisdom, rest of 600 pages is just autistic yapping about definitions and other shit nobody cares about Why are philosophers like this?

/lit/

Anon·01/25/26 11:28·No.25043639

What are the biggest conspiracies related to literature?

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 06:44·No.25050664

The Satyricon

Lmao, this has to be the greatest work of western literature

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 21:43·No.25051862

>yfw kastrup is a brazillian

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 18:06·No.25051434

Hesiod said he was living in the Age of Iron, where man lied for profit and might made right. How would you name the age of man we're living in now? Age of Coal?

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 22:15·No.25049822

Was Samwell going to kill Frodo?

Had it not been for Sam sparing Gollum twice, in the Mt. Doom chapter, it is pretty clear that Samwell Gamgi was unwilling to follow Frodo's descent into darkness. We see Sam growing as his own character throughout the books, and the spirit of his time had taken hold of him. When Frodo refused to di...

/lit/

Anon·01/26/26 16:50·No.25046468

https://goodereader.com/blog/digital-publishing/mass-market-paperbacks-are-discontinued Well fuck, I used to work for a newsstand bookstore that sold almost nothing else. Granted, it was a money laundering operation for the Springfield MA mob but still.

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 02:54·No.25050283

The Guns of August good?

>finished reading Storm of Steel a while ago >just got Guns of August >reading the foreword, weirdly lots of mentions on how the author was pro-Israel >even the author's Wikipedia mentions how shes pro-Israeli and made several contributions to them is this an actual good book or is this just some mo...

/lit/

Anon·01/25/26 18:07·No.25044255

I want to immerse myself in the Napoleonic Era.

What books can you recommend me that would give good insights into the lives and thoughts and feelings of people from that time?

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 23:43·No.25049960

Axiom: evil does not occur in any version of heaven Axiom: freedom necessitates the possibility of evil Axiom: all humans have a possible desire for evil Axiom: the only way to ensure freedom does not result in evil is to remove the possibility of desire for evil in actors Conclusion: any version o...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 13:49·No.25051032

Hilarious

is it supposed to be funny?

/lit/

Anon·01/22/26 21:57·No.25038401

A chart thread was overdue.

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 12:41·No.25048829

If i read this instead of the book can i skip straight to the LOTR books? Legit question, not trolling.

/lit/

Anon·01/25/26 05:57·No.25043331

Virginia Woolf

Today is Virginia Woolf's birthday. In honor of her birth, discuss her work, impact, and legacy.

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 20:15·No.25051634

ITT: Books you gooned to

Ideally not erotica

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 22:39·No.25051969

I can't imagine saying you like philosophy and not being familiar with this book. Titanic achievement

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 09:07·No.25050811

Arabian Nights

You know a white French guy made most of the stories up and none of the core stories in the Arabian Nights came from the Middle East, and are instead from India? It's not an Arabian story cycle.

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 19:24·No.25049455

>It was my teacher’s genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me. She realized that a child’s mind is like a shallow brook which rippl...

/lit/

Anon·01/23/26 21:38·No.25040351

lmao, what ?

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 18:24·No.25051463

bought this in barnes and noble (lmao I know) and so far the only difference between the supposedly first edition i downloaded in pdf is that the jews removed the chapter where he includes The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. any other differences? there's some wild claims all over the internet of ...

/lit/

Anon·01/25/26 12:27·No.25043694

>The problem isn't the system, it’s you. >The problem isn't you, it's the system. Who's right?

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 19:45·No.25049494

What are some works of literature with a disturbingly beautiful aesthetic?

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 22:00·No.25051887

Why did all those poets and writers lie when they wrote of so called "love"?

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 19:03·No.25049409

anachronisms in fiction

smash or pass?

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 19:19·No.25051562

I was reading pic, and in the first chapter he deals with the changing conception of God from esse to an ens, which became particularly problematic when prots denied the presence of Christ in the Eucharist. But if divinity is purely esse, in what sense can we say that there is divinity specifically ...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 10:36·No.25050882

Mariology

>Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. Who has not heard such a tale? A turn of the card. The whole universe for such a player has labored clanking to this moment which will tell if he is to die at that man’s hand or that man at his. What more certain validation of a man’s...

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 02:04·No.25047829

Is there any actual argument against nihilism that isn't God? Whenever I see someone try to make a secular argument against nihilism it devolves into either >you're an edgy 13 year old or >im going to kill you and when you say "wait dont kill me" you'll be exposed as a hypocrite I don't find either...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 20:15·No.25051632

>reading books with no pictures Stop pretending. You don't actually enjoy this.

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 07:06·No.25050679

What makes Nietzsche the most relevant philosopher of our time?

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 14:18·No.25048925

At some point you stop needing the universe to tuck you in at night, and that's when you realize that admitting existence is pointless isn't depression, it's a glow-up for the intellect. The universe is mind-independent, indifferent, and doesn't give a single cosmic shit about our values. The more s...

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 19:44·No.25049493

/lit/ guide to big books

I've been working on this for a while now and I've taken into account some of your suggestions. Omnibus editions now are a different category (literary - genre) Since some books could fit in two or more categories, a criteria was used: contemporary > historical > omnibus > untranslated Also, omnibus...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 18:05·No.25051432

lets talk about metaphysics

not to much candy for you kid... its bad for your teeth... are you fucking dumb or what ? plato and aristotle both warned us with their texts about metaphysics... but you just ignored it... it was kant that actually opened our eyes... the irony of it is that he was using metaphysics too... but no...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 18:40·No.25051484

Questions

Platonists: does Reason collapse when Thymos and Appetite are overwhelming? Aristotle: does extreme Pain or misfortune cause *practical* reason to fail? Stoics and Epicureans: is rational dialectic still useful when the passions/desires are overwhelming and Pain exceeds tolerance to the point where ...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 03:23·No.25050342

Does anyone have the pdf for this book?

/lit/

Anon·01/26/26 14:04·No.25046238

Is grimdark fantasy the most "masculine" lit genre? Others could say its noir but i dont know about that...

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 21:10·No.25049698

Before i read any book i research the authors life and see if he has a wife or at least a kid. If not, its probably a faggot in the closet and nothing i read from him will benefit me in my life. Yall should do the same. This is golden advice.

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 19:15·No.25051552

I asked chatGPT to tell me what type of book does it think I'd write based on my conversation and it said Ottessa Moshfegh's "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" What does this mean? Is it good?

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 15:18·No.25051145

Fuck Dobby

I would have seduced Snape after missing the hogwarts express.

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 17:09·No.25051361

>Time to write a secular, rationalist retelling of the Book of Exodus >Chapter One: how the fall of Atlantis inspired the Flood narrative

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 15:47·No.25051205

Did anyone read this? I'm working through it and it is exhausting trying to finish it. The psychology of these people is so cringe inducing i stop every 5 or so pages. I've never read a life more lonely in my life, and the book's introductory quote, one about Kendrick Lamar speaking about having roy...

/lit/

Anon·01/26/26 08:37·No.25045930

Prove him wrong.

(you can't)

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 15:02·No.25051122

The Stranger

What was his fucking problem? You can't even say he was an incel since he bagged his coworker easy

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 16:19·No.25051269

That then being said, what Lolita captures is not necessarily pedophilia per se, but rather, the construction of femininity in Christian society vis a vis the roccoco taste of the European bourgeois - beginning in Europe, Humphrey spends his life disillusioned with women, searching, and more accurat...

/lit/

Anon·01/24/26 07:16·No.25041186

/lit/ learns Greek 101

Every week we will watch one lesson from the Great Courses course Greek 101: Learning an ancient language If you don't want to buy the course, you can watch them for free on Kanopy if you have a library card. If you don't, you can watch them for free on Bilibili (Chinese YouTube), and here is a lin...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 13:31·No.25051015

bros he's literally me in stavrogin's confession you can really feel his pain ToT

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 01:16·No.25047707

The Aeneid

What's the ultimate English translation of the Aeneid?

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 06:28·No.25050646

Dadcore

Post what your dad reads. I'll start.

/lit/

Anon·01/26/26 13:20·No.25046188

Women are unironic chakra vampires that need human semen (soul energy) to survive, diagram of uterus is the image of apostolic baphomet, look it up, complete with horns and all. When you have sex, part of your soul is being lost on ejaculation, think about it, you cum inside and the cum never comes...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 16:36·No.25051293

>Despite his new eyes, man was still rooted in matter, his soul spun into it and subordinated to its blind laws. And yet he could see matter as a stranger, compare himself to all phenomena, see through and locate his vital processes. He comes to nature as an unbidden guest, in vain extending his arm...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 15:42·No.25051196

>reading cool zombie book with smart and pack tactic using undead >author still feels the need to add le evil rape king and his rape army of suicide rapists with the sole goal of raping as many women as possible at any and all costs i get it we all want to be the rape king but he doesn't have to be ...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 16:08·No.25051253

In Memory of W. B. Yeats By W. H. Auden I He disappeared in the dead of winter: The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted, And snow disfigured the public statues; The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day. What instruments we have agree The day of his death was a dark cold day. ...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 09:03·No.25050807

Are all events decided by Gkd

I was reading about Hitler and Stalin and these guys had no chance of ending up on top. People who meticulously plan their life to reach the top get destroyed by just one mistake like picrel. Are there special forces that determine the courses of history?

/lit/

Anon·01/21/26 01:52·No.25034212

I'm reading the classics and some are fun. But often times the book is just about a literal who's love story and their experience with jobs and marriage and stuff I couldn't care less about. It's like I am reading a mexican telenovela. How come so many of these books became elevated to classic statu...

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 23:08·No.25049910

>try to read up on some philosophy or good literature >first 50-200 pages is some faggot scholar's long winded explanation nobody asked for >finally get to the start of the book >it's translated in the most formal academic English to the point where it's nearly impossible to understand, even if it's...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 11:41·No.25050914

I’ve started reading the Hannibal novels and, honestly, I’m very disappointed. They’re just modern pulps and disposable schlock. The book equivalent of the average crime show. Having watched the Fuller/Mads show I was expecting some dark gothic musings on life and death starring a larger than life p...

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 02:00·No.25047817

Does anyone want to talk anything even semi-religious? Take your time.

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 22:17·No.25049825

Henry Chadwick called the following Chapter of the Confessions High Art: Sero te amavi, pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova, Sero te amavi. Et ecce intus eras et ego foris, et ibi te quaerebam, et in ista formosa quae fecisti deformis inruebam. Mecum eras et tecum non eram. Ea me tenebant longe a...

/lit/

Anon·01/27/26 22:18·No.25049829

Any literature on how to hit some licks? I'm trying to hit some good licks

/lit/

Anon·01/26/26 16:29·No.25046434

What does /lit/ think of Marx's works ?

Imo, Marx's view of history and economics is either overgeneralized or mistaken. From my understanding, his philosophy amounts to dialectical materialism and alienation, which consist in : >change occurs in the world because its organization is built around conflicting force >in human history, socie...

/lit/

Anon·01/25/26 01:48·No.25042856

Why don’t westerners value Turgenev as highly as Dostoevsky? I just finished Torrents of Spring and was so impressed.

/lit/

Anon·01/26/26 10:14·No.25046030

>“Cormac considered contemporary fiction a waste of time,” said [Cormac's brother] Dennis, “because contemporary writers no longer have a legitimate culture to feed their souls.” Well, was he right?

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 11:21·No.25050904

Women Can't Do Philosophy

Just picked up Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman because I wanted to see what the first feminist actually argued. Turns out it's a masterclass in fallacies and cope. Let's dive into it: >"I have turned over various books written on the subject of education and patiently obser...

/lit/

Anon·01/28/26 11:45·No.25050921

Anti-Egalitarian Books

>Anti-egalitarian ideologies are for sensitive souls. Books for this feel? I want to understand how anyone could be anti-egalitarian, and I have a hunch it's about sensitivity and being special. People pretend like egalitarianism and democracy are kind and nice and pure, but they fail to realise it ...

Home - /lit/

Home - /lit/