In this thread you will discuss the life and works of Count Leo Tolstoy
>>24790487>He choked on what he desired. When our simple Rus' loved him with a simple and radiant love for War and Peace, he said: “Not enough. I want to be Buddha and Schopenhauer.” But instead of “Buddha and Schopenhauer,” all that came of it was 42 photographs, where he is captured in three-quarter view, half-profile, full face, in profile, and, it seems, “from the feet up,” sitting, standing, lying down, in a shirt, a kaftan, and something else, behind a plow and on horseback, in a cap, a hat, and “just so”… No, the devil knows how to laugh at those who sell their soul to him (to fame). “Which photograph should we choose?” say two female students and a male student. But they buy three, paying 15 kopecks for all of them. Sic transit gloria mundi.
>>24790905Russian Orthodoxy is the most vulgar and bastardised form of Christianity shy of those corporate megachurches in the southern USA. It's essentially just a vehicle for organised crime and state surveillance nowadays. If there were justice in the world the Patriarch of Moscow would be burned alive.
>>24797355I've been putting off Kurosawa's movies, but I'll have to check it out.I read that Mizoguchi also had a film based off one of Tolstoy's works. its called "The Straits of Love and Hate" and its supposed to be based off Resurrection. one of his earlier sound films. Mizoguchi seems like the guy to do a good Tolstoy adaptation. Ozu would too.
>>24798080Tolstoy got himself excommunicated from it
>>24790742this collection
Was he right?Is Liberal Democracy the ultimate Human System and will we never see something better?
>>24798388And the wide use of drones by both sides in Ukraine demonstrate that they are a politically neutral tech, used by both authoritarian and "democratic" sides. Its simply of matter of who has the wider production capacity, which goes to China.
>>24798324None of this contradicts what I posted.>>24798388>Democracy had nothing to do with an alliance of democratic nations + Stalin (whose help was not needed) winning WW2Retard.>LLM are excellent at parsing sentencesWhich is why they stumble when you ask them to analyze kindergarten-tier sentences, right?And then you proceed to unironically link a Palantir press release as evidence of real technology. Frighteningly gullible.
>>24798559Massively unserious response.
>>24795568Here's the thing -- even if people disagree that liberalism is the "end of history" does not mean that there is no end of history at all. What reason do we have to believe that this technocratic kleptocracy you speak of won't be the same thing in the end? No big wars, no revolutions, scarcity has been solved, the masses are feminized consumer units, etc. That is what it means to be at the end of history and Fukuyama correctly believes that liberalism creates the best conditions for this.
>>24798388The most insane thing is that nothing is safe if transhumanism ends up becoming as significant as we theorize. It will upend the past several thousand years of human history, creating a totally new epoch. No religion or even modern ideology is safe. Not only can liberalism not survive in a world where superhumans are bred and preferred over normal humans but even communism seems obsolete in the face of such a world considering any sense of equality will be refuted -- Communist China is on pace to become the leader bioengineering just to give you an idea of how worthless socialist ideology is becoming. People like Peter Thiel and Alex Karp keep talking about the antichrist or whatever to distract people from the fact that they're the closest living relatives to him. They are genuine world-ending demons.
Recommend me books like pic rel. I know Casanova is probably untoppable in terms of sheer quantity of unbelievably interesting stuff described in an autobiography but I'd like recommendations of anything close. Could be memoirs of military expeditions, love affairs, adventures, revolutions, criminal enterprises, anything. Just as long as it's ostensibly nonfiction, and incredibly interesting.
>>24796064Looks very interesting, descriptions online say he parrots court gossip throughout, does than include gossip of an explicit sexual nature? Sorry if this sounds like someone trying to get coomer kicks from historical autobiographies, but that's exactly what it is
>>24796023Chateaubriand's. He saw it all
>>24796460>FranklinBeen awhile since I read it but I found it amusing that suing people constantly has always been an American tradition
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Travels with Charley
How do I get into chud philosophy?
>>24797398 I've never met a chud, an interacial porn obsessed racist neetwho hates women I use this basket weaving forum to discuss /LIT because my friends and GF don't read and never knew such things were possible before 6 months ago.
Carlyle, De Maistre, Evola, Guenon, Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Plato, Aristotle, and pretty much every scholastic philosopher
>>24797689anyone skeptical of establishment narrative
Only get your information from /pol/ infographs Don't read anything else. Make a shitter account and larp as you please
>>24799049You would take a pile of Delhis finest shit and put it in a museum
Am i only one that is fan of this novel? It's so intimate with it's first-person narration, especially when it's in form of letter to a friend. Its full of wisdom that feels both and personal and deeply universal. Like main character struggle with sickness of his father, then his death and parallel with Sensei problems with his own father's inheritance - and i also got fucked out of my uncle inheritance and this theme felt very real almost prophetic while i was reading it. Novel gets pessimistic in it's view of interpersonal relationships in general. Personally i much prefer it to No Longer Human, i feel that Kokoro will remain long as one of my favourite novels, as i really dig this kind of "personal" style
>>24798225arent there a bunch of people on this board who take the view that translations are essentially worthless
>>24798225Soseki studied in London and was heavily indebted Quincey so that's weird opinion
>>24798213that guy from the great ace attorney was a real person??
>>24798213Kokoro translates culturally much better to other cultures than Botchan. The way that I tend to refer to Soseki is essentially that he's one of the first Modernist Japanese writers. Mid-century Japanese modernists are some of my personal favorites, because reading something that resonated the first time was special in a way that was hard to describe. "Bone Meat" by Taeko Kono was a short story that made me feel very similar to reading Kokoro the first time.>>24798216I've only read the McClellan translation. It was really enjoyable.
That book is the most popular among students in Japan, I'm almost sure. Is it even fair of a comparison? Dazai stands nowhere near Natsume Soseki
Did Guenon ever write a commentary on the Zutt hadith?
>>24798392Fucking incredible post
>>24798392GEM
>>24798458>Early Muslims obsessively wrote down everything Muhammad did>Muhammad was illiterate and couldn't edit all of the embarrassing shit they wrote down
>>24797591Just ask that one news reporter, she'll tell ya.
>>24797591It wasn't rape
They'd both still be alive if they were friends, right?
>>24797009Based knower
>>24797009>>24797023This. It is nigh on impossible to stab oneself in the chest twice through one's clothes. Unlike other methods of suicide it is one of the least common for the reason that the force and determination required to do something like that to yourself are not very common. It's like how your jaw posseses the power and your teeth the sharpness to bite your finger off, but no matter how angry you are you will never bite your finger off.
>>24796994Elliot Smith's music fucking sucks and I'm tired of pretending it doesn't. It's Gen X/Millenial I am so le sad with acoustic guitar and whispery vocals. all his songs sound the fucking exact same. It's dogshit. DFW on the other hand was a true artist despite his tendency to have some le quirky chungus stuff in his books.
>>24797523>le quirky chungus stuff in his booksLike what
>>24797009Dfw was murdered by his wife
When is she going to write a (hot) book about Gaza, October 7th, TKD in general?
>>24799218She's likely got a whole stack of such letters sitting on a desk somewhere - material for her next slop book.
>>24799203Her posturing about Palestine is insufferable. I'd nail her ugly 4/10 face though, no doubt about it. She is also mid as fuck as an author, how intermezzo got such rave reviews is beyond me
>>24799279I liked the part in Yellowface where the white author knows she's made it with the progressive crowd when people with #FreePalestine in their twitter bios start following her
>>24799279She supports Palestine because she is Irish. Her government has supported Palestine since the 80s.
>>24799279intermezzo is goated
Now that we've all had time to read it, what do we think of it?
>>24799130I'm halfway through Ulysses, something I've been wanting to do for a long time, and unless things change it honestly still feels like a chore. We get it, there's a bunch of Irish and life sucks except for Bloom I guess and stream of consciousness and so on. On a particularly confusing section atm. I get the Homeric references and some other stuff but I suspect that he really did disappear up his own asshole while writing the thing. Still plan to re-read it in the future. I remember doing Portrait as a kid and reading it the wrong way, flipping to the back for cultural reference footnotes every single time thus breaking up/ruining the reading. I like how the stories in Dubliners work together, have a note project going on that one to be finished later.
>>24799152>but the rest of his work is too stuck in a post WWII mindset, which has simply decoupled inexorably with the modern world. Pynchon is becoming a period writer, someone you read to get an idea of how people used to think.I think this has the right of it.
>>24799208>and life sucksBut it's a celebration of the beauty of (ordinary) life despite all the hardship and also a love letter to western intellectual culture. He imbues a single, ordinary day, with the wealth of all western culture up to that point in time, and that day is just like any other day, and that beauty is always there to be imbued by an Artist. At least this is what's being attempted. It's an utterly mundane day with an entirely ordinary hero, and yet every waking moment is imbued with symbols that link all of our races (broadly used) past to that mundane pressnt.
>>24797419the pinnacle of Wisconsin literature. far and above the rest of the canon and their third-rate settings.
Got this last Wednesday and I’m only 50 pages in.
Are women(females) really reading books about jacking off animals?
It got brought to my attention and I skimmed it a few months ago. It's nothing new.>furry setting where most people are anthros or stock supernatural creatures>relatable broke college grad self-insert takes on a job collecting bull sperm in a lab >falls in love with every female-targeted love interest ever, not even worth describing >but with horns>she jacks him off a few times for business and then they fuck and get married or whateverMore of the same. The only takeaway you should ever have from female erotica is the same one you should get from feminist literature. Every female's greatest fantasy is that circumstance forces her to be in service of a powerful man who dominates her. A healthy woman will also want him to eventually love her, but never at first. They want to be put in their place and then have their feminine worth validated by securing their love. Every action or opinion or retarded article to the contrary is just an unconscious shit test from a creature that cries about being catcalled and cries about not being catcalled. No, they are not aware of this. No, there are no other valid interpretations. Yes, it's just that simple and has been since the dawn of time.
>>24799129the sheer amount of sales from this sort of literature is really tellingeven straight up porn for men has a lot of different flavors but for women it's all the same shit
>>24799129But why is it always beastiality?
>>24798470There's a fundamental difference.One is a five minute fap.The other may take hours and months to complete.The neurological effect will be worse in the latter case.
>>24799054Least horny furfag
You should read Bataille because you feel the absolute emptiness of your life being postponed for some future "project" that will never arrive. Your entire existence is built on the slavish, decline morality of self-preservation, a pathetic attempt to accumulate strength for a tomorrow you sacrifice today for. Bataille offers the path of inner experience as the only way out. It's about embracing non-knowledge, pushing your reason until it collapses into the abyss and you face the anguish of your own limits. He shows that real communication isn't between two whole, intact people but requires a wound, a laceration. Sovereignty is found in the frivolous moments you refuse to justify like laughter, intoxication, eroticism that isn't about some pure union but about filth, about the wound, about the crime that opens you to nothingness. It's about taking Nietzsche's death of God to its final, terrifying conclusion and choosing to live by chance, to risk everything not for a goal but for the sake of the risk itself, to finally reach the end of the possible, even if that end is just an annihilating, yawning gap.
Am I living a Bataillen life by descending into substance abuse and continuing to "date" this really hot girl who cheats on me all the time just because the sex is incredible
>>24799282You don't actually believe any of the nonsense that you just wrote.
It's good.
It's a good book
>>24790863>two blonde twinksWhat state? When I look up pictures of Mormon Churches, they're all brown.
>>24794792This
>>24783718someone said something akin to "if the devil were to appear before you now you may mistake him for an angel" and I find that to be a perfect allegory for the mormon church.It's members appreciate the worldly aspect of the community moreso than the theology.
>>24798714>It's members appreciate the worldly aspect of the community moreso than the theology.It is a parable of God that it is as such. And, the Book of Mormon is a word of God in that vein, of wisdom, and of personal self-expression of the Lord to his chosen.
Will reading make me a better more intellectuel of a person?
>>24798758Whatever. Believe what you want
>>24795434ESL post
>>24796401>interracial propagandasubtle
>>24799071Based /pol/ schizo
The only real tangible benefit to reading literature beside enjoying the books themselves is that occasionally something will reference a book you've already read and you get to smirk knowingly and feel special.
Do you guys think we'll ever have another genuinely powerful artistic movement that includes lots of great writers and poets? The last one I can think of was Modernism and that kicked off over a century ago.
>>24799275not in our lifetime
The infinite jest of horror is what?
>>24795882What??????
>>24791233Infinite Jest. Stop being a plotfag.
>>24796196Yeah I read it alreadyIt's not horrorWhat's the infinite jest of horrorOr maybe Ulysses or Suttree of horrorJust tell me
>>24795805Ok but what about infinite jest
>>24793719OP asked for the IJ of horror
