TG posted:random rec, since its not german, but the good soldier svejk by jaroslav hasek is a good read, its czech and is a comedy/satire about world war i, somewhat akin to catch 22. it is a lighter read, although it is unfinished due to the authors death
aside from the pleasant childish illustrations and its beautiful lack of structure, my favorite thing about svejk is its relentless mentioning of different obscure types of balkan and eastern european tubed meats and hard liquors. like, pawlinka and zubrovka and slivovice, sure fine great, but after twenty chapters it's just a blur of "the other batman acquired dzhevoronikantinoi from the peasants, as was his wont, to accompany the vurozhmantikol he had acquired from peasants, as was his wont, to accompany the maštruvòzh'mániûdzhevańÿá which had blinded him the night before"
Scrree posted:i need to do a study on a poet for my intro to poetry class. my first instinct was baudelaire until i realized that was due to anime, which is just too autistic to do without shame. next i thought byron or pushkin but then i realized i was nuzzling the spectral dick of long dead men so now ive reached that void space that most americans have when they think poetry
help me! who's a cool poet???
george oppen is a cool poet fyi
babyhueypnewton posted:Hoew about instead of a bunch of high school lit books and bourgeois decadence you read Enver Hoxha's selected works I-VI, Mao's selected works I-IX, Lenin's works 1-45, and ofc Marx & Engels 1-50. All of which are online and free.
When you've gotten through that then you can read Proust or whatever nonsense you think matters to the wretched masses of the world. You have a lot of work to do as do I.
im reading hoxha's memoir on stalin right now. red salute
Scrree posted:i need to do a study on a poet for my intro to poetry class. my first instinct was baudelaire until i realized that was due to anime, which is just too autistic to do without shame. next i thought byron or pushkin but then i realized i was nuzzling the spectral dick of long dead men so now ive reached that void space that most americans have when they think poetry
help me! who's a cool poet???
mary jo bang is usually wry and good, plus has a great vernacular translation of the inferno. kay ryan is almost always wry and sometimes good, plus is an interesting example of a poet who uses rhyme and gentle mundane wit but with often disquieting results. tricia lockwood is really fun but kinda dumb sometimes, ariana reines is kinda fun for seeing the vestiges of language poetry in a context pretty removed from it, but sometimes has some really stupid stuff mixed in. ingeborg bachmann is kinda like a non-laconic celan, if that makes sense. anne carson has occasional clunky moments but is a frequently amazing poet, fascinating classicist, and just all around interesting thinker.
if you want some good good, the first full-length english study of the primary poet of medieval obscene arabic vernacular poetry, Ibn al-Hajjaj, is about to come out.
http://www.amazon.com/Poetics-Obscene-Pre-Modern-Arabic-Poetry/dp/1137301538
i'll scan it or post a link once it does. there's little bits and pieces of study of him all over the place. he's known for lovable lines, they really roll off the tongue, like "I am the cleaner of privies, and my song is nothing but a sewer" and "When I am silent, I am laden with fragrance like a perfumer's shop, but when I speak, the stench of the privy rises up towards you" and "Poetry from which the privy pours out, from the twin sources of my mind and my mouth. Its odor gives forth stinking meanings, just as if it were an involuntary emission from my anus"
Lysenko posted:aime cesaire
mayakovsky
I've read lots of books by women, like the works of Aime Cesaire and Maya Kovsky.
babyhueypnewton posted:Hoew about instead of a bunch of high school lit books and bourgeois decadence you read Enver Hoxha's selected works I-VI, Mao's selected works I-IX, Lenin's works 1-45, and ofc Marx & Engels 1-50. All of which are online and free.
When you've gotten through that then you can read Proust or whatever nonsense you think matters to the wretched masses of the world. You have a lot of work to do as do I.
i read capital last summer you fucker. so fuck off.
gyrofry posted:teach me about hoxha donald
there's not much to it. just marxism-leninism without all these weird "innovations" that people claim prove stalin wrong or something. just love between bros. not really gay, just a couple of guys talking about things they love.
NoFreeWill posted:i read capital last summer you fucker. so fuck off.
the whole thing or just vol.1?
daddyholes posted:im reading a book on lockpicking & picking old locks i bought on ebay
Listen son, if you want to become an ace yegg, it takes more than reading some dusty old tomes. Gotta learn from the greats, like Lyefish Joe, The Phlegmatic Kid, The Brass Sheik, Lars "Corky" Olafsson, Dan Mighty Wings, And the king of them all, Boss Stretchmark.
Makeshift_Swahili posted:.custom201854{}NoFreeWill posted:i read capital last summer you fucker. so fuck off.the whole thing or just vol.1?
fuck and damn. i bet none of you shiftless negroes have even read volume 1 and now you're making me go out and read volumes ii and iii that i had conveniently forgot existed. maybe after my thesis is done...
NoFreeWill posted:i read capital last summer you fucker. so fuck off.
catchphrase for most of this forum
getfiscal posted:mccaine has 833 "read" books on goodreads, which is more than i'll probably read in the next ten years lol
he said he commits himself to reading 50pp per night, or else…
elektrenai posted:getfiscal posted:
mccaine has 833 "read" books on goodreads, which is more than i'll probably read in the next ten years lol
he said he commits himself to reading 50pp per night, or else…
Stalin read 500 pages a day. Source: Stalin: Man of History
Balakrishnan's beliefs, niche even among the ultra-left groups of the time, styled his group as a direct component of Maoist China, calling on the Red army to come to south London to liberate working people. Members carried portraits of Mao.
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