The Indo-Pacific is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse regions on earth. Why does /lit/ ignore its literature?
>>24798402>>24798402>>24798402show me your favourites then.
>>24798443The Life of Pi
>>24798402diversity=/= interest.significance = interest.
>>24798402>Japan/lit/ is obsessed with Japanese literature so no need to go over it. For whatever reason Tanizaki goes mostly ignored here in favor his inferiors Dazai and Mishima.>KoreaI've only read Han Kang's Vegetarian, which is more of a premise than a book. I've been thinking of reading the Nine Cloud Dream sometime.>ChinaThe Chinese autistically compile lists of their canonical classics and they're all good.>Southeast Asia and IndonesiaI can't think of anything of note. Open to recommendations>Australia/lit/ shills Murnane so hard but overall nothing of note. Fake country.>IndiaSame as China, all of the canonical classics are worth reading, plus R.K. Narayan may be one of the best novelists of the 20th century. I've been meaning to read some Kalidasa sometime. >IranOne of the greatest literary traditions in the world.>Arabian PeninsulaQur'an I guess>Somalia
>>24798606in favor of*
>>24798402Australoids are the second least human species of the genus Homo and have contributed nothing of value to literature or much of anything else.
>>24798606>One of the greatest literary traditions in the world.like what? only thing specifically I hear good from them is poetry. Like there was one about a pheonix that was pretty good, but the rest Is nebulous hearsay.
>>24798461Life of goy
>>24798636Ferdowsi's Shahnameh rivals any other work in world literature. Add to that Rumi, Attar, Khayyam, Nizami, etc.
>>24798402The only ones worth talking about are religious/philosophical/mystical texts from 2500 years ago.
>>24798677Ill have to look into it thanks.This pic of it looks particularly east Asian inspired in terms of the art.
>>24798677Why are they all from around 1100s-1200s? was that a persian golden age? never quite Hear about it. Usually I think about the Baghdad 800s for Islamic shit.
One of my favourite authors is Sri Lankan tho
>>24798606>For whatever reason Tanizaki goes mostly ignored here in favor his inferiors Dazai and Mishima.And the best of them, Kawabata, is completely ignored.
Why would you waste your time reading anything written by jeets? I can get a clearer understanding of their philosophy by looking into my toilet bowl after a hangover shit
