/lit/ - Literature

How come my outer voice never sounds as good

>>23209124
What is a good book for aiding grammar

>>23137672
That's a dumb reason to move on

>>23118739
>studying genreshit

>>22347564
>not taking advantage of your ability to remember folks met in the past

>>21320477
how do you get illiterate people to fill out surveys like this?

What are some good books that contain critiques of modernity? I'm looking for writers more along the lines of Mishima and Houellebecq than Guenon and Evola.

Hiya /lit/izens, hope you're doing well. Recently finished Notes From Undergound, enjoyed it, obviously. But it's made me think; what about Pevear and Volokhonsky is so bad? I only know English (and a tiny bit of German, lol), so I don't quite understand how a translation can be so make or break. Please explain to me why we hate Larissa and Richard (or are they just hated for popularity/accessibility?). Thanks guys :)

Is there a spiritual or linguistic reason as to why certain poems are written in certain meters? Why did homer choose dactylic hexameter? Why did shakespeare choose iambic pentameter?

Any books that explain how the left came to dominate culture (mainstream media, academia, entertainment industry) in the western world?

Why do people play dumb and nitpick about terms like “cultural Marxism”? It’s obvious that critical theory was heavily inspired by Marxism (although diverted from it in some ways), and also that Marx’s class consciousness has been substituted with intersectionality, in which differences of ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender are obsessed over. Not everything has to exactly match past history. People like Zizek who go “*shniff shniff* it is obvioush that the sho-called ‘shoshal justish warriors’, as you call them, have gained a large role in modern shoshiety, but where is the proof that they are Marxishts?” Today we’re expected to imagine gender is a social construct and if a man takes hormones and tries to act like the stereotype of a woman, they’re women. I don’t see how this is different from Lysenkoism.

my brother who's in a third world mental asylum is asking for books to read while there, would it be wise to give him crime & punishment?

other books I have include:
catcher in the rye
kafka on the shore
blood meridian (havent read)
100 years of solitude (havent read)
lord of the flies (unread)
thinking fast and slow (unread)
he never read a novel before so I'm unsure what to give

he's either bipolar or schizoaffective and has been sent there after a psychosis ep