Books only you have read, AKA a prove you're erudite thread. I'll start. I am one hundred percent sure no one on this board, including French anons, have read Le Livre du Coeur d'Amour Epris. Ok, /lit/, now it's your turn. Show us how erudite you are by posting a book you've read from one of the deep rabbit holes of literature you've fallen down.
this complete waste of time, god knows how it managed to be so popular as to survive more completely than so many better works
>>23807510Me sister read a book in Arabic about the occult, but dad burned it
>>23807510Not really /lit/ but I read picrel in order to read an even more obscure soviet manual on the sicilian defense. If we're talking novels only I've read Le Negrier de Zanzibar by Louis Garneray, which is untranslated and fairly obscure in the francophone world. Very fun though if you speak french.
>>23807795What is a Negrier? Is that some francophone word for nègre?
>>23807969https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/négrierAh, it's a slave ship or a slaver.
lu lol
>>23807979Yep, essentially the adventures of a slaver captain, which probably explains its obscurity today. Broadly a fairly solid sea-novel.
>>23808013Looking this up lead me to the Libretto edition, which then led me to browsing their catalogue by author (I own by their Roland Topor publications). There I found Marcel Schwob, a name I'd vaguely seen tossed around on /lit/ a long time ago. Now, Libretto seems to have published his complete works, and Schwob is supposed to have been extremely influential on writers like Borges and the Surrealists. This has got me excited lol. I'm probably going to buy this, it's like $20 to ship it from Amazon France.https://www.editionslibretto.fr/catalogue/oeuvres/
>he thinks books with modern editions are rare
>>23808183Have you read the OP book? Had you heard of it before this thread?No. Ok, thanks for proving my point in the OP.
>>23807510Sad for you OP that I already know of this book, but I can't for the life of me find a pdf copy of it (I want the same edition you posted).
>>23807510I highly doubt more than one person every few years reads this book. the only reason I could read it is because I read an in-depth look at Christian Occultism directly before it. Meyrink references highly obscure alchemic/Christian occult beliefs and practices frequently and with little to no explanation of what they mean
I know for a fact less than 1000 people ever have read this. hell you'd struggle to find 1000 that know it exists even though it's one of the most interesting and erudite works in the past 40 years
Nobody ever mentions Pobedonostsev anywhere, even in dissident right-wing circles so I'm sure I'm the only political junkie who got roped into reading this.It wasn't that bad.
I wish I wasn't the only one that knew this book. I found it here many years ago and post it fairly often but it's still completely unknown which sucks because it's hands down the best cultural analysis work of the 20th century and explains perfectly the downfall of academia, science, art and ultimately the entire Western world
>>23810126>dissident right-wingah, the buck broken
>>23810130>and ultimately the entire Western worldVGH...
this is one of the most beautifully written books ever and truly feels magical. as long as you can get past the pederasty >The idea precedes everything, the rest is only attentive patience, weaving, a game of shuttles; for it is the man of the night who invents, the man of the morning is nothing but a scribe>>23810130>>23810093>>23810088all me btw
>>23807510Kissing the Mask by Vollmann. It may be out of print now.
>>23807986wow, I've actually read My Tired Father by Gellu Naum, fascinating book. autobiography written by doing Burroughs style cut-ups of American magazines. at first it seems nonsensical but as you read more you start to see a live lived in the aphorisms.
this thread is really sad. there are seemingly less than 10 people on this board that have read unique book that no one else knows/they found on their own. I could post another 20 books after the first five I already did but there's basically no one left that even cares. if all you read is popular shit your grandma would probably recognize the author of the you're a rube, a midwit and worst of all - boring this thread would have had hundreds of replies in discussion 4 or years ago but in 2024 it almost died in less than 10 posts on the slowest major board there is. what a sad state of affairs this place is in. I'm so tired of everyone only caring about and consuming ultra popular things. 99% of the people who claim to care about art only doing it to look more cultured to others is the worst fucking thing ever
>>23810914hey pal, we're busy defending western civilization here
>>23810126Mr. Patriarch did thoughever.
>>23807510love just browsing through gallica and reading old history books. This one has a really interesting preface no matter how wrong the french indealistic moron turns out to be on the future of Turkish politics and the janisseries. Its also nice to know that russia always seemed as a horrible neigboor ready to invade and how we should avoid at any cost having them neighboring european soil https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k29365z
>>23810914i'm sorry i'm not good enough to meet your expectations, anon :(
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>>23813173that's a very cool hobby anon. I want to start too. I love reading books written before the 1930s for their luxurious use of language but I've never tried a classic history book
>>23810088I remember Borges wrote a brief review of this one. The German version is on my shelf, is it worth reading?
>>23813522it's Meyrink's magnum opus and culmination of all the research and thought he put into the occult for decades so if that interests you then absolutely read it. but you're gonna need to look up a lot of random stuff he mentions. one thing I remember is this ritual involving a dead cat that he offhandedly mentions once and if you don't know what it is the next few pages make no sense. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taghairm
>>23807510I’m quite fond of this series. Each volume covers some aspects of a composer’s work. You never know what exactly you’re going to get - some articles are hopelessly outdated, others are full of fascinating perspectives. The volumes published in the 70s/80s contain some of the most fun German academic writings I’ve come across.
It's like reading a transcript of the Fresh and Fit podcast. Really shows you how little the discourse around women has changed in the past 600 years.
We've got some people here who read Elizabethan plays, but how many of these niggas have read a Tudor interlude?
>>23814109is it cool? it looks potentially cool
>>23813896600 years of discourse on women staying virtually the same. That's not even including non-western countries where the discourse is also eerily similar. Across time, across all places, cultures and religions..it all stayed the same..hmmm...really makes you think...
>>23814252Early modern plays in general are a goldmine. Interludes are cool for sure, and have basically no prerequisites, but are mostly of interest to the specialist. For me the progression was Major Elizabethans (Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson), then the silver Elizabethans (Middleton, Fletcher, Webster, Kyd, etc.), then the earlier Elizabethan and late Medieval drama (Lyly etc., Everyman, Magnificence, Mystery plays), and only then the interludes as transitional works. I guess I'd class them with stuff like Jonson's masques--cool, but much cooler once you've read the best stuff.If you're gonna dive in, I'd say say read some comedies: Jack Juggler is quite funny.
>>23814252I realize now you were probably asking about four elements lol. It's fun, especially as an artifact in the history of science. Knowledge personified proves to Humanity personified that the earth is a sphere, but Ignorance personified gets Humanity drunk. The play is also the first time music notation was printed with movable type (in England?), which is kinda cool.
>>23807510I have read The Homestuck Epilogues (Both of them) and Digital Devil Story 2
>>23814354that does sound kinda cool. thanks for telling me about it
>>23807510yee boi
>>23815795Actual non-meme example>>23814380/lit/ definitely has at least a few more Homestuck enthusiasts (but they'd never admit it)
I doubt anybody has read this book in recent years
>>23816906Was it cute? It looks cute. Also you'd be surprised, L. Frank Baum still has a fanbase of people who read his other books beyond Wizard Of Oz, but they're more of a Tumblr thing, not so much /lit/
crazy old guy in a wizard hat is always chilling in this park near me and is begging ppl to read his novel. i think i'm one of the only people to ever indulge him
>>23819691But was it good, or readable?
Pretty sure I'm the only contemporary poetry reading anon, guessing nobody else has read Crisis Actor by Declan Ryan
>>23820740>Crisis ActorChuds are writing poetry? Is it good or is it new age "free verse" Rupi Kaur vomit. At least Amanda Gorman tries to impose meter and rhyme.
Has anyone read this? I liked it a lot
