/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2939546]

Sharethread

The aim of this is that every poster shares at least one work

First:

The Red Laugh - Andreyev

The Red Laugh is an utterly harrowing and nightmarish depiction of a sort of apocalypse that springs from the chaos, blood, and misery of Russia's humiliating defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, in language that prophetically echoes the horrors to come during the First World War. Centered on two nameless characters, the first a soldier narrator and then later his civilian brother, The Red Laugh presents themes of violence, war, madness, ghosts, and even the quite literal return of the dead. From time to time, we meet the indescribably horrible Red Laugh itself

It is short, so you can read it online I guess

http://www.amalgamatedspooks.com/red.htm

[Anonymous No.2939567]

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE SHARE JUNG'S RED BOOK? OR ANYTHING BY JUNG PLEASE?

PLEASE PLEASE?

I only have uninteresting things to share I'm afraid.

[Anonymous No.2939586]

>>2939567
You want that bad

[Anonymous No.2939681]

Mkay, I bought a couple since I have nothing very new or exciting to share since the last thread. Someone let me know that they work - I'm using a different way of de-DRMing them than usual.

>Bob, or Man on Boat by Peter Markus

"With spare but magical language, Peter Markus weaves a tale with the currents of a river, a family saga that spins through both the depths and the shallows. In Bob, or Man on Boat, recollections rise from the muddy river bed to be illuminated by starshine on the surface, only to be lost once more in the river mists that mingle with the wind-scattered ashes of a dead man, and finally, to sink again to the bottom. Like the voice of the narrator, Markus uses words that skip across the surface like a stone , but take the reader to the depths of longing and loss, myth and memory."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?166mklnnusr4dq1

Might appeal to Brautigan fans (especially In Watermelon Sugar) - that's what drew me into getting it, at least.

[Anonymous No.2939693]

>The Maimed by Hermann Ungar

"Set in Prague, The Maimed relates the story of a highly neurotic, socially inept bank clerk who is eventually impelled by his widowed landlady into servicing her sexual appetites. At the same time he must witness the steady physical and mental deterioration of his lifelong friend who is suffering from an unnamed disease. Part psychological farce, Ungar tells a dark, ironic tale of chaos overtaking one's meticulously ordered life. One of only two novels Ungar wrote, The Maimed is a classic of Prague German literature."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?xdqexj3ne37uzjy

[Anonymous No.2939714]

Would you guys mind if I post the same things I usually post? I don't really read that much things off the radar.

[Anonymous No.2939729]

>>2939714
Forgot I am on 4chan and it doesn't matter
here we go

Shoplfting from American Apparel and Richard Yates by Tao Lin
At least read his work before insulting it.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?uqsyh8o26x53913

[Anonymous No.2939736]

>47 books by Philip K Dick

Everyone likes PKD. Some of the files are txt files so beware

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?im1g16jmcwyp7yb..

[Anonymous No.2939750]

John Hawkes never really gained too much fame in America, but he was loved in France
He is arguably the father of postmodernism and influenced Thomas Pynchon and William H. Gass


>The Cannibal by John Hawkes

No synopsis conveys the quality of this now famous novel about an hallucinated Germany in collapse after World War II. John Hawkes, in his search for a means to transcend outworn modes of fictional realism, has discovered a highly original technique for objectifying the perennial degradation of mankind within a context of fantasy… Nowhere has the nightmare of human terror and the deracinated sensibility been more concisely analyzed than in The Cannibal. Yet one is aware throughout that such analysis proceeds only in terms of a resolutely committed humanism.”
— Hayden Carruth on John Hawkes's The Cannibal

>Second Skin by John Hawkes

Skipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of "Second Skin," interweaves past and presentwhat he refers to as his "naked history"in a series of episodes that tell the story of a volatile life marked by pitiful losses, as well as a more elusive, overwhelming, joy. The past: the suicides of his father, wife and daughter, the murder of his son-in-law, a brutal rape, and subsequent mutiny at sea. The present: caring for his granddaughter on a "northern" island where he works as an artificial inseminator of cows, and attempts to reclaim the innocence with which he faced the tragedies of his earlier life. Combining unflinching descriptions of suffering with his sense of beauty, Hawkes is a master of nimble and sensuous prose who makes the awful and mundane fantastic, and occasionally makes the fantastic surreal.


>http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?csbbr9gycy0xbt9

[Anonymous No.2939755]

>>2939693

This sounds brilliant but my old Mac won't open the download. Actually none of these mediafire ones work. Help?

[Anonymous No.2939756]

>>2939750
john hawkes comes so close to being a great writer and then he sabotages himself by trying to be the american robbe-grillet every. fucking. time.

[Anonymous No.2939762]

I believe I still have How To Read A Book as a pdf on my desktop, I'll have to post that as soon as I can.

[Anonymous No.2939768]

>>2939729
Sure man. It might get others to share

[Anonymous No.2939769]

>>2939755
Do you have a program that opens .mobi files? Calibre or anything? Or are they opening but just show up blank?

[Anonymous No.2939770]

>>2939762

Much obliged.

[Anonymous No.2939771]

>The Sot-Weed Factor

or, Shit Jokes As Mock-Epic

http://www.archive.org/stream/sotweedfactor006326mbp#page/n5/mode/2up

[Anonymous No.2939773]

>>2939756
Can you elaborate?

[Anonymous No.2939774]

>>2939769
No, I don't. I'll try Calibre, thanks.

[Anonymous No.2939788]

>>2939586

YES I want that bad. I haven't found him anywhere.

[Anonymous No.2939793]

>>2939769
calibre works

[Anonymous No.2939794]

>>2939788
If you want it so bad, can't you purchase it yourself and share?

[Anonymous No.2939806]

>>2939773
no need for elaboration if you read la jalousie. admittedly i've only read two of his books, so maybe he is different and better elsewhere?

[Anonymous No.2939810]

hey,
this is the Burgin and O'Connor (apparently superior) translation of The Master and Margarita. It took me a while to find it so I guess it's an uncommon edition available on the net:

https://rapidshare.com/#!download|174p4|364552599|The_Master_and_Margarita__transl._by_D.Burgin_and_
_K.T.O___Connor_.pdf|6480|0|0

[Anonymous No.2939821]

>>2939810
Good job bro.

[Anonymous No.2939825]

>>2939693
you are a godsend

[Anonymous No.2939829]

>>2939825
Not the sharer of that item, but let us know how it is, may convince me to read it in the near future.

[Anonymous No.2939833]

>>2939825
mmkay will do,
watch out for the thread to come

[Anonymous No.2939840]

>>2939788
The Red Book is on Soulseek.
I'd suggest you download soulseek and use it to find books. People seem to forget about it.

If you really don't want to dl soulseek, I can up it for you.

[Anonymous No.2939887]

>>2939806
Which ones? Because The Cannibal was written before he even wrote anything

[Anonymous No.2939931]

>>2939840

never in my life had I heard of soulseek. I'll go and find out what it is and I'll let you know if I find it.

[Anonymous No.2939940]

>>2939931

I found the book and many Jung ones too. But it won't download. It says "remotely queued" on every book.

[Anonymous No.2939951]

>>2939940
You need to wait. It is a peer to peer thing brah. Chill

[Anonymous No.2939953]

>>2939951

Thanks man. Found another great books on it too. This thing is like kazaa.

[Anonymous No.2940000]

>>2939953
Dem police will get ya

[Anonymous No.2940006]

>>2939840
Ah shit, this is a pretty neat thing. We should make a /lit/ chat on it.

[Anonymous No.2940030]

>>2940006
Is it better than #bookz?

Because #bookz is pretty shit now

[Anonymous No.2940045]

>>2940030
I bet it definitely can be, if a few more /lit/izens join and add their ebook libraries to the mix. I'm trying to get all of mine situated and added now.

[Anonymous No.2940108]

>>2940045
So how does it work? P2P?

[Anonymous No.2940111]

>>2940108
Yeah, seems like you can do a general search of all files out there, plus browse various users' files. There's an ebooks chat channel with a dozen people in it, and everyone seems to have decent-sized ebook libraries to browse.

I'm trying to add in all the ebooks the one anon uploaded on /lit/ for the recommended reading images now.

[Anonymous No.2940369]

Bump for more novellas, anything is appreciated, short works are best.

[Anonymous No.2940373]

>>2940369
Wtf, you're not Capsguy

Josh?

[Anonymous No.2940380]

>>2940373
Is capsguy a thing now?

[Anonymous No.2940387]

>>2940380
No, it's just something I typically ask for, haha

[Anonymous No.2940472]

Doesn't hurt to repost this once more, I guess. Dog philosophy.

http://wtrns.fr/pOoRa1n7hG4lQE

[Anonymous No.2940581]

>>2940373
How did you know it was me haha, Raven or Starlon?

[Anonymous No.2940590]

>>2940581
also, nowhere in my post did I imply I was capsguy, unless I'm taking to capsguy, so you would know you didn't write it, because, you're caps guy and for some reason you're talking about yourself in the third sense haha

[Anonymous No.2940800]

mind = blown that people were/are unaware of soulseek. i feel old now.

all the l33t indie kids used it back in the day for shitty music and such. then mediafire came along and a bunch of people just forgot about it.

[Anonymous No.2941044]

>>2940800
Yeah, I was one of them, lol.

Thanks for reminding me of it. Perhaps I'll check if there are any interesting books. Any tips for searching books?

[Anonymous No.2941096]

>>2940800
Yeah, I was one of those, lol.

Thanks for reminding me of it. Perhaps I'll check it to see if there are any interesting books.
Any tips for searching ebooks on it?

[Anonymous No.2941281]

>>2940581
Capsguy

[Anonymous No.2941308]

>>2939736
ahh thank you, more shared please!
i have this one of life of pi, haven't read it yet.

[Anonymous No.2941312]

>>2941308
shares*

[Anonymous No.2941332]

>>2941308
Then share it bro

[Anonymous No.2941341]

>>2939567
I have a physical copy of Psychology and Alchemy.

I've been asking myself whether or not I should scan it for the past while.

[Anonymous No.2941409]

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?znp07c92g72jzfp

>The prose Anderson employs in telling these stories may seem at first glance to be simple: short sentences, a sparse vocabulary, uncomplicated syntax. In actuality, Anderson developed an artful style in which, following Mark Twain and preceding Ernest Hemingway, he tried to use American speech as the base of a tensed rhythmic prose that has an economy and a shapeliness seldom found in ordinary speech or even oral narration. What Anderson employs here is a stylized version of the American language, sometimes rising to quite formal rhetorical patterns and sometimes sinking to a self-conscious mannerism. But at its best, Anderson's prose style in Winesburg, Ohio is a supple instrument, yielding that "low fine music" which he admired so much in the stories of Turgenev.

[Anonymous No.2941414]

>>2941409
Sorry but, title?

[Anonymous No.2941425]

>>2941096
>Any tips for searching ebooks on it?

Search for file extensions as well as the title. Try the title alone first, but if you get too many music results, start adding in .pdf or .mobi or what have you.

[Anonymous No.2941435]

>>2941409
Winesburg, Ohio. Whoops.

[Anonymous No.2941460]

http://www.mediafire.com/?flbamd2i1f1l9te

The Black Riders and Other Lines

I really hate most free verse poetry because it tends to be prose with line breaks, but Stephen Crane does it really well, I think.

[Anonymous No.2941485]

Cosmic Banditos - A. C. Weisbecker

"This is quite simply a under-read masterpiece. Boasting equal measures of Hunter s. Thompson full blown Gonzo, and Stephen R Hawking dialects on quantum mechanics and chaos theory. While quantum mechanics may not usually qualify as light reading, throw in about a hundred gallons of tequila, a south-of-the-boarder band of drug running banditos and you get the wildest ride and perhaps the best exploration of just how strange and chaotic the quantum realm of sub-atomic particles really is!"

http://www.mediafire.com/?lgcpqll944dgz6y

[Anonymous No.2942872]

Hey, for those out there having to make do with a html version of 'journey into the Night" by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, I converted the text translated by Manheim into a pdf so enjoy, don't mind the file name:

http://fs06u.sendspace.com/upload?SPEED_LIMIT=0&MAX_FILE_SIZE=314572800&UPLOAD_IDENTIFIER=17
92376167.1346316927.5682A44B.17.0&DESTINATION_DIR=12

[Anonymous No.2943147]

Bump.

[Anonymous No.2943554]

Any one have a link to Huymans "Against Nature" or "Against the Grain"?

[Anonymous No.2943568]

>>2943554
>Against the Grain

Humans or Hymens? Who's it by?

[Anonymous No.2943577]

>>2943554
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12341

[Anonymous No.2943619]

"There But For The" Ali Smith

Imagine you give a dinner party and a friend of a friend brings a stranger to your house as his guest. He seems pleasant enough.
Imagine that this stranger goes upstairs halfway through the dinner party and locks himself in one of your bedrooms and won't come out.
Imagine you can't move him for days, weeks, months. If ever.
This is what Miles does, in a chichi house in the historic borough of Greenwich, in the year 2009-10, in There but for the. Who is Miles, then? And what does it mean, exactly, to live with other people?
Sharply satirical and sharply compassionate, with an eye to the meanings of the smallest of words and the slightest of resonances, There but for the fuses disparate perspectives in a crucially communal expression of identity and explores our very human attempts to navigate between despair and hope, enormity and intimacy, cliché and grace.
Ali Smith's dazzling new novel is a funny, moving book about time, memory, thought, presence, quietness in a noisy time, and the importance of hearing ourselves think.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&cad=rja&v
ed=0CFEQFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Febookee.org%2FThere-But-For-The-free-ebook-download_1435495.html&a
mp;ei=rrA_UOXpC8aV0QHnjoDADQ&usg=AFQjCNGErAIW4tTCk1swT-Y0amIKfrTtHg

[Anonymous No.2943838]

>>2943554
>>2943577
NO!! The Gutenberg ebook is incomplete.
Get it somewhere else and make sure it's a different version. Don't repeat the same mistake I did.

I got it from Gutenberg a couple of months ago. I finished reading it and found the book was not as good as I expected. Too much religious classic stuff which I couldn't relate to nor did care for much. In short, it was too snob/elitist for my taste.

Anyway, at the end of the book, I found some notes from the scanner. The fucker left out a whole chapter and some paragraphs from the book.

>(from Wiki) omits a chapter in which Des Esseintes tries to start a young man on a life of crime and a passage describing implied homosexuality

[Anonymous No.2943929]

How would you like, a bump?

[Anonymous No.2944255]

Some of the great old sharethreads:
https://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/thread/S2894238..
https://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/thread/S2823199

Also:
>Japanese Folder: http://www.mediafire.com/?rdsuyaq7g9mwrru
>American Great Short Story Authors and Collections: http://www.mediafire.com/?vysd8fvi6fwpxsi
>American Poets and Poetry Collections: http://www.mediafire.com/?k8iydr98vju8709
>American Plays and Playwrights: http://www.mediafire.com/?nfeb63ev35fl1nb
>American Others: http://www.mediafire.com/?wz53edoqw7ghco6
>African American /lit/erature: http://www.mediafire.com/?kj7f9k7epjq3d6c
>Australian /lit/erature: http://www.mediafire.com/?s1uipa8q46ag6n3
>British & Irish:nhttp://www.mediafire.com/?5z5cpif1woo9jn5
>Spanish literature: http://www.mediafire.com/?ja7w1f62jh4ah9o
>Mexican literature: http://www.mediafire.com/?h7m4ul7oci05c95
>Russian Literature :http://www.mediafire.com/?a5q2tk59ocxc5bw
>Italian Literature: http://www.mediafire.com/?7d9bn8k8vc1xwe2
>Novellas: http://www.mediafire.com/?kmlxagl734l2ksd
>French Literature: http://www.mediafire.com/?l3rd51suyslcy54
>German Literature: http://www.mediafire.com/?bto0iaedibcfxo0
Classics:
>http://www.mediafire.com/?8i3btyv9r0b9n9h
>http://www.mediafire.com/?a88dkz6um38311g
Theater/Drama:
>http://www.mediafire.com/?xhx1xw4002d6gx2
>http://www.mediafire.com/?476xdjbv9xpnba8
>http://www.mediafire.com/?t309i5kto77vbc1
>http://www.mediafire.com/?e4o6a6dcdshw32t
Introductory Literary Theory:
>http://www.mediafire.com/?y9z3iui2hc5wg78

[Anonymous No.2944259]

>>2944255
Female Writers:
>http://www.mediafire.com/?8v354d57fk8r4gv
>http://www.mediafire.com/?bwncggevg6i4dd8
Humor:
>http://www.mediafire.com/?cp35upfisdq4e4d
Depressing Literature:
>http://www.mediafire.com/?x2h3dpy5abbgd3e
>http://www.mediafire.com/?lno2bgextr02b67
Essential Doorstoppers:
>http://www.mediafire.com/?ua572f941fkln1b
Dystopia & Utopia:
>http://www.mediafire.com/?p1nfl5lb1bzvavr
Essential Poetry Guide:
>http://www.mediafire.com/?lv498tq6qv138w9
Drug Books:
>http://www.mediafire.com/?644c4dy7mc34scc
Short Story Collections:
>http://www.mediafire.com/?k7gw1iwp5p5irfc
Novellas:
>http://www.mediafire.com/?mw998oy7t3v489l
>http://www.mediafire.com/?d9lyxkztft6gwlz
>http://www.mediafire.com/?kmlxagl734l2ksd
Science Fiction
>http://www.mediafire.com/?bp7a1wdcywap1xz
>http://www.mediafire.com/?8nl7tthc1ko4pd5

[Anonymous No.2944296]

>>2944259
Holy shit. Thank you kind sir.

[Anonymous No.2944306]

>>2944259
>>2944255

thank you

[Anonymous No.2944316]

>>2944259
>>2944255

Thank you, you have made my day better. You are a gentleman.

[Anonymous No.2944328]

>>2943619
Good book, recommend it.

[Anonymous No.2944330]

>>2944255

Next time just link my threads on the archive bro.

>>https://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/thread/S2909094
>>http://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/thread/S2859983

[Anonymous No.2944343]

>>2944255

i know this proves me retarded, but how should i open these files?

[Anonymous No.2944353]

>>2944343
LOL

[Anonymous No.2944400]

>>2944330
Sorry bro, that was my plan but I couldn't find them on there. What do they come up on in fuuka's search bar, I typed sharethread.

Everyone saying thanks, I'm just passing it on, the guy that needs to be thanked is the guy I'm responding to, he did all the work, thank you bro, I/we really appreciate it. Are you planning on doing more?

[Anonymous No.2944407]

>>2944343
Download a program called WinRAR, it will extract the files to your comp. I got an extension on mozilla that reads epub files and if the files arn't in epub you can look up a epub converter that's free and uploads on the site.

happy reading to you.

[Anonymous No.2944409]

>>2944400
>>2944400
Ah, typing in recommended reading in the search bar does the trick

[Anonymous No.2944416]

>>2944259

I-I think there's one science fiction one missing. One says sfguide and the other is sfguide3... I-is there a number two?

T-thanks!

(I'm shy)

[Anonymous No.2944425]

>>2944400

Yeah I've just been busy and I only have the Dutch literature collection on hand.
I'll probably start another thread in a couple of weeks, hopefully, maybe.

[Anonymous No.2944430]

>>2944416

No, there's only two.
I was just going by the names of the recommendation pics on the wiki which is pretty retarded now that you mention it.

[Anonymous No.2944643]

>>2944425
They need to stickied, I'd hate to miss it because it's on the third page or something.

[Anonymous No.2945095]

>>2944643

I seriously doubt a sticky is going to happen.
According to the archive some hating ass buster keeps reporting the threads.

[Anonymous No.2945313]

>>2945095
Reporting a SHARETHREAD? WHAT!? I hope the guy/girl reports that numerous trashy non lit related threads.

It' s positive to the board, it's getting lots of us to read works we usually wouldn't read and I see it as good for the authors as well, we read these works we most likely would never buy to read and we may love the other author from that work and who knows what happens next.

[Anonymous No.2945955]

bump

>off tryHump

[Anonymous No.2947650]

>The Traveler's Tree by Patrick Leigh Fermor

"In this, his first book, Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts his tales of a personal odyssey to the lands of the Traveller's Tree - a tall, straight-trunked tree whose sheath-like leaves collect copious amounts of water. He made his way through the long island chain of the West Indies by steamer, aeroplane and sailing ship, noting in his records of the voyage the minute details of daily life, of the natural surroundings and of the idiosyncratic and distinct civilisations he encountered amongst the Caribbean Islands. From the ghostly Ciboneys and the dying Caribs to the religious eccentricities like the Kingston Pocomaniacs and the Poor Whites in the Islands of the Saints, Patrick Leigh Fermor recreates a vivid world, rich and vigorous with life."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?01cjisalzsdpzqt

[Anonymous No.2947652]

>Mani by Patrick Leigh Fermor

"The Mani, at the tip of Greece’s–and Europe’s–southernmost promontory, is one of the most isolated regions of the world. Cut off from the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygetus and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, it is a land where the past is still very much a part of its people’s daily lives.

Patrick Leigh Fermor, who has been described as “a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Graham Greene,” bridges the genres of adventure story, travel writing, and memoir to reveal an ancient world living alongside the twentieth century. Here, in the book that confirmed his reputation as one of the English language’s finest writers of prose, Patrick Leigh Fermor carries the reader with him on his journeys among the Greeks of the mountains, exploring their history and time-honored lore."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?6dhd6b744x4eqb5

[Anonymous No.2947654]

>A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor

"At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey—to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian and Balkan mountains. Acclaimed for its sweep and intelligence, Leigh Fermor's book explores a remarkable moment in time. Hitler has just come to power but war is still ahead, as he walks through a Europe soon to be forever changed—through the Lowlands to Mitteleuropa, to Teutonic and Slav heartlands, through the baroque remains of the Holy Roman Empire; up the Rhine, and down to the Danube.

At once a memoir of coming-of-age, an account of a journey, and a dazzling exposition of the English language, A Time of Gifts is also a portrait of a continent already showing ominous signs of the holocaust to come."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?50nkzw6a3ei7htq

[Anonymous No.2947655]

>Between the Woods and Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor

"The journey that Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on in 1933—to cross Europe on foot with an emergency allowance of one pound a day—proved so rich in experiences that when much later he sat down to describe them, they overflowed into more than one volume. Undertaken as the storms of war gathered, and providing a background for the events that were beginning to unfold in Central Europe, Leigh Fermor's still-unfinished account of his journey has established itself as a modern classic. Between the Woods and the Water, the second volume of a projected three, has garnered as many prizes as its celebrated predecessor, A Time of Gifts.

The opening of the book finds Leigh Fermor crossing the Danube—at the very moment where his first volume left off. A detour to the luminous splendors of Prague is followed bya trip downriver to Budapest, passage on horseback acrossthe Great Hungarian Plain, and a crossing of the Romanian border into Transylvania. Remote castles, mountain villages,monasteries and towering ranges that are the haunt of bears, wolves, eagles, gypsies, and a variety of sects are all savoredin the approach to the Iron Gates, the division between the Carpathian mountains and the Balkans, where, for now, the story ends."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?w2qquc40yqnq06x

[Anonymous No.2947668]

>Mr. Sampath: The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma (three novels) by R.K. Narayan

"Mr. Sampath–The Printer of Malgudi is the story of a businessman who adapts to the collapse of his weekly newspaper by shifting to screenplays, only to have the glamour of it all go to his head. In The Financial Expert, a man of many hopes but few resources spends his time under a banyan tree dispensing financial advice to those willing to pay for his knowledge. In Waiting for the Mahatma, a young drifter meets the most beautiful girl he has ever seen–an adherent of Mahatma Gandhi–and commits himself to Gandhi’s Quit India campaign, a decision that will test the integrity of his ideals against the strength of his passions."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?890q105aqx5h394

[Anonymous No.2947670]

>My Struggle: Book One by Karl Knausgaard

"To the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops. Sooner or later, one day or another, this thumping motion shuts down of its own accord. . . . The changes of these first hours happen so slowly and are performed with such an inevitability that there is almost a touch of ritual about them, as if life capitulates according to set rules, a kind of gentleman's agreement.

Almost ten years have passed since Karl O. Knausgaard's father drank himself to death. He is now embarking on his third novel while haunted by self-doubt. Knausgaard breaks his own life story down to its elementary particles, often recreating memories in real time, blending recollections of images and conversation with profound questions in a remarkable way. Knausgaard probes into his past, dissecting struggles—great and small—with great candor and vitality. Articulating universal dilemmas, this Proustian masterpiece opens a window into one of the most original minds writing today."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?wc225jn6c26ka22

[Anonymous No.2947672]

>>2939693
>>2939693
>>2939693
>>2939693
holy mother fucking tit dicks balls, ive been looking for this. thank you based anon.

Will repost some i've soted and try some new ones.

[Anonymous No.2947683]

>The Voice of Things by Francis Ponge

"First published in 1942 and considered the keystone of Francis Ponge's work, Le parti pris de choses appears here in its entirety. It reveals his preoccupation with nature and its metaphoric transformation through the creative ambiguity of language."

>http://www.mediafire.com/view/?kgcg5m2bb3v2ihi

[Anonymous No.2947684]

>Aurelia and Sylvie by Gerard de Nerval

"Aurelia is French poet and novelist Gérard de Nerval's account of his descent into madness--a condition provoked in part by his unrequited passion for an actress named Jenny Colon. One of the original self-styled "bohemians," Nerval was best known in his own day for parading a lobster on a pale blue ribbon through the gardens of the Palais-Royal, and was posthumously notorious for his suicide in 1855, hanging from an apron string he called the garter of the Queen of Sheba. This hallucinatory document of dreams, obsession and insanity has fascinated artists such as Joseph Cornell, who cited passages from it to explain his own work; Antonin Artaud, who saw his own madness mirrored by Nerval's; and André Breton, who placed Nerval in the highest echelon of Surrealist heroes."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?bhpncsxbxyv3dad

[Anonymous No.2947685]

>The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker

"When his twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to return from university life to take over his brother’s role on the small family farm, resigning himself to spending the rest of his days with his head under a cow. Thirty years later, Helmer moves his invalid father upstairs to have him out of the way. Soon after, Riet, once engaged to marry Helmer’s twin, appears and asks if she and her troubled eighteen-year-old son could come to live with them on the farm.

Ostensibly a novel about the canals, the green fields, and the unrelenting flatness of the Dutch countryside, The Twin ultimately opens itself to the possibility or impossibility of taking life into one’s own hands. It chronicles a way of life that has resisted modernity and is culturally apart, yet is riven with longing."

>http://www.mediafire.com/view/?wwrr4d6md8o4ddy

[Anonymous No.2947694]

>Night Soul and Other Stories by Joseph McElroy

"Best known for his complex and beautiful novels—regularly compared to those of Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, and Don DeLillo—Joseph McElroy is equally at home in the short story, having written numerous pieces over the course of his career that now, collected at last, serve as an ideal introduction to one of the most important contemporary American authors. Combining elements of classic McElroy with tantalizing stories pointing the way ahead (the spare and dangerous “No Man’s Land,” the lush and mischievous “The Campaign Trail”), Night Soul and Other Stories presents a wide range of work from a monumental artist."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?6agbj1j2asrzrxg

[Anonymous No.2947695]

>On the Road to Babadag by Andrzej Stasiuk

"Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveler. His journeys take him from his native Poland to Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Moldova, and Ukraine. By car, train, bus, ferry. To small towns and villages with unfamiliar-sounding yet strangely evocative names. “The heart of my Europe,” Stasiuk tells us, “beats in Sokolow, Podlaski, and in Husi, not in Vienna.”

Where did Moldova end and Transylvania begin, he wonders as he is being driven at breakneck speed in an ancient Audi—loose wires hanging from the dashboard—by a driver in shorts and bare feet, a cross swinging on his chest. In Comrat, a funeral procession moves slowly down the main street, the open coffin on a pickup truck, an old woman dressed in black brushing away the flies above the face of the deceased. On to Soroca, a baroque-Byzantine-Tatar-Turkish encampment, to meet Gypsies. And all the way to Babadag, between the Baltic Coast and the Black Sea, where Stasiuk sees his first minaret, “simple and severe, a pencil pointed at the sky.”"

>http://www.mediafire.com/?da7zxedy93im9rz

[Anonymous No.2947712]

thanks for sharing, everybody! There's no ebook version of Resistance of Melancholy, is there? By that hungarian guy Laszlo somethingsomething?

[Anonymous No.2947715]

>>2947712
No, but Satantango by Krasznahorkai is in the first sharethread.

[Anonymous No.2947722]

>Bartleby & Co by Enrique Vila-Matas

"Marcelo, a clerk in a Barcelona office who might himself have emerged from a novel by Kafka, inhabits a world peopled by characters in literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of love, but since then he has written nothing. He has, in short, become a 'Bartleby', so named after the character in Herman Melville's short story who, when asked to do something, always replied: 'I would prefer not to.' One day Marcelo sets out to make a search through literature for all those other possible Bartlebys, and with this in mind he has the engagingly original notion of keeping a diary and writing footnotes to an invisible text. His references to authors, both real and invented, provide the reader with extravagant doses of humour that are at once hilarious, irreverent and stimulating."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?twwqn5v0e8d4e1s

[Anonymous No.2947727]

>An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by Cesar Aira

"An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to travel West from Europe to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Rugendas did in fact become one of the best of the nineteenth-century European painters to venture into Latin America. However this is not a biography of Rugendas. This work of fiction weaves an almost surreal history around the secret objective behind Rugendas' trips to America: to visit Argentina in order to achieve in art the "physiognomic totality" of von Humboldt's scientific vision of the whole. Rugendas is convinced that only in the mysterious vastness of the immense plains will he find true inspiration. A brief and dramatic visit to Mendosa gives him the chance to fulfill his dream. From there he travels straight out onto the pampas, praying for that impossible moment, which would come only at an immense pricean almost monstrously exorbitant price that would ultimately challenge his drawing and force him to create a new way of making art. A strange episode that he could not avoid absorbing savagely into his own body interrupts the trip and irreversibly and explosively marks him for life."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?8dffqlq3l68ua8p

[Anonymous No.2947732]

>Stream of Life by Clarice Lispector

"This rarefied novel adopts the form of the interior monologue characteristic of Lispector's (1925-1977) oeuvre. A woman sits by the open window of her Brazilian beachfront studio, writing a long letter to someone no more specific than "you." She parries with language (which is "only words which live off sound") and is wholly consumed with problems of epistemology: "I want to die with life." A painter, she struggles as well to recreate the world around her: "On certain nights, instead of black, the sky seems to be an intense indigo blue, a color I've painted on glass." When she listens to music, she says, "I rest my hand lightly on the turntable and my hand vibrates, spreading waves through my whole body." While the narrator's self-consciousness ("And if I say 'I,' it's because I don't dare say 'you,' or 'we,' or 'a person.' I'm limited to the humble act of self-personalization through reducing myself, but I am the 'you-are.' ") and diction ("the ultimate substratum in the domain of reality") may strike some readers as academic, others will appreciate the challenges of Lispector's philosophical investigations."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?rbgf0wiu4w5b8ha

[Anonymous No.2947776]

>>2947715
yeah, I'm reading Satantango right now, that's why I wanted more Krasznahorkai. So Satantango is the only ebook available? Can't wait for the others.

[Anonymous No.2947784]

Does anyone have Children of the Arbat?

[Anonymous No.2947869]

>>2944416
>(I'm shy)

[Anonymous No.2948362]

Ahh some nice stuff I've been meaning to get to in this thread, thanks anons

[Anonymous No.2948767]

Anybody has "Sunflower" by Gyula Krúdy?
It was recommended in /lit/ not long ago but I haven't been able to find an ebook.

[Anonymous No.2949466]

>All Souls by Javier Marias

"In All Souls, our narrator, a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgusted by its vagaries of human vanity. A bit lonely, not always able to see his charming but very married mistress, he casts about for activity; he barely has to teach. His stay of two years, he recalls, involved duties which "were practically nil"—"Oxford is, without a doubt, one of the cities in the world where least work gets done, where simply being is far more important than doing or even acting." Yet so much goes into that simply being: friendship, opinion-mongering, one-upmanship, finicky exchanges of favors, gossip, adultery, book-collecting, back-patting, back-stabbing. Marías has a sweet tooth for eccentricity, and his novel "crackles with deliciously sly observations of Oxford mores," as James Woodall noted in the Independent. And yet further, All Souls is a story of love within "a mysterious narrative," as The New Statesman noted, within "a turmoil of choreographical stories.""

>http://www.mediafire.com/?8s4k8g19go5ybbc

[Anonymous No.2949471]

>Rene's Flesh by Virgilio Pinera

"Rene is 20, ripe for education in the cult of flesh, "not of intact, athletic flesh, but of slain meat, truly alive and throbbing like a wound." Rene's father exhorts him to elect the path of suffering, sending the reluctant hero to a school for pain and torture where the doctrine that "knowledge must be beaten into a person" is implemented literally. Pinera, a Cuban, fashions a world that is completely carnal--only sometimes erotic--where slaughterhouses are given names like those of banks ("The Equitable Butchers Shop"), where man himself is meat or flesh destined for the knife and where freedom is achieved only by the willing sacrifice of that flesh."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?0ko1x1o0e633r7i

[Anonymous No.2949473]

No Children of the Arbat?

[Anonymous No.2949486]

>>2949473
sorry caps, I couldn't find it.

>>2948767
Can't find Sunflower in any piratable way either, though you are totally free to buy it on Amazon and strip it for all of us. That would be neat.

[Anonymous No.2949921]

buuuuuuuuuump.

[Anonymous No.2949923]

>>2949921
you could totes bump with a share of your own instead of just an elongated "bump" if you want to

[Anonymous No.2949945]

>Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter

"Sophi Fevvers—the toast of Europe's capitals, courted by the Prince of Wales, painted by Toulouse-Lautrec—is an aerialiste extraordinaire, star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover Fevvers's true identity: Is she part swan or all fake? Dazzled by his love for Fevvers, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser joins the circus on its tour. The journey takes him—and the reader—on an intoxicating trip through turn-of-the-century London, St. Petersburg, and Siberia—a tour so magical that only Angela Carter could have created it."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?2hsll9lvi3hl3ii

[Anonymous No.2949953]

>The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato

"An unforgettable psychological novel of obsessive love, The Tunnel was championed by Albert Camus, Thomas Mann, and Graham Greene upon its publication in 1948 and went on to become an international bestseller. At its center is an artist named Juan Pablo Castel, who recounts from his prison cell his murder of a woman named María Iribarne. Obsessed from the moment he sees her examining one of his paintings, Castel fantasizes for months about how they might meet again. When he happens upon her one day, a relationship develops that convinces him of their mutual love. But Castel's growing paranoia leads him to destroy the one thing he truly cares about."

>http://www.mediafire.com/?qsr5mididtgx24i

[Anonymous No.2949972]

>>2949486
That's alright

I hope it eventually pops up

Stumbled across any more Jap lit by any chance?

[Anonymous No.2950004]

Raven, you're collecting NYRB ebooks, right?

I found this that you might not already have, will share

>>Kaputt - Malaparte

Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying report from the abyss, which became an international bestseller when it was published after the war. Telling of the siege of Leningrad, of glittering dinner parties with Nazi leaders, and of trains disgorging bodies in war-devastated Romania, Malaparte paints a picture of humanity at its most depraved.

Kaputt is an insider's dispatch from the world of the enemy that is as hypnotically fascinating as it is disturbing

Fuck ye, more WW II literature written prior to 1950.

[Anonymous No.2950007]

>>2950004
Fuck, forgot link and picture.

http://www.mediafire.com/?h8o9mzfmdxxzbxl

[Anonymous No.2950008]

>>2950004
>NYRB ebooks
what does NYRB stand for?

[Anonymous No.2950010]

>>2950008
Well it's actually New York Review Books Classics

[Anonymous No.2950043]

Sofi Oksanen - Purge
Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
James A. Michener - Tales of the South Pacific
Karen Bliexen - Out of Africa
Martin Amis - Time's Arrow

some of these are shit, but I ain't got much else to share.

>http://www.mediafire.com/myfiles.php#qvhv6k8tfr5mg

gif unrelated, just cracks me up every time

[Anonymous No.2950047]

>>2950043
Thanks for contributing

[Anonymous No.2950066]

>>2950004
what a small gap, lit should make an essential post 1950 WW2 chart

[Anonymous No.2950069]

para todos los hispanoparlantes, epubgratis(punto)me tiene de todo, buena variedad y buena calidad. A bajar y leer, señores!

[Anonymous No.2950078]

>>2950066
NO

[Anonymous No.2950112]

>>2950078
hahaha no more for youuuuuu

also: essential raven-core: the thread, literary insights into large burly bear mode black men

[Anonymous No.2950121]

>>2950112
>raven-core

Dafuq is raven-core?

[Anonymous No.2950132]

>>2950121
large burly bear mode black mens who read

[Anonymous No.2950161]

>>2950121
Raven posts here a lot, made one or two of the great share threads we had here recently. My guess raven-core is raven's obscure taste in books.

[Anonymous No.2950162]

>>2950112
You really don't want to recommend me any other titles? OR just don't know any that suit my needs?

[Anonymous No.2950183]

>>2950161
albeit a small white, blone, blue eyed girl as opposed to burly black man

>>2950162
I legitimately don't know any titles but it seems intresting to me and i'll pass along any I hear of but it's likely you already know about them. I'd be keen for all diffrent nations perspectives of this but not sure how many would have been able to write during the war.

[Anonymous No.2950184]

>>2950183
The way did end prior to 1950

:D

[Anonymous No.2950233]

>>2950184
: O You mean people can write a book in less than 20 years D:

[Anonymous No.2951127]

>>2950233
Plenty wrote during/about WW II prior to 1950.

[Anonymous No.2951445]

Bump

[Anonymous No.2952761]

pmub

[Anonymous No.2952856]

you want me to share a book?

[Anonymous No.2954732]

We all become old threads at some point, it's nice to know some make it back for one more dusty ride....

[Anonymous No.2955940]

hey, same guy who posted the link to master & margarita.
Even though it was a "superior" translation, the copy of the pdf had some major errors that would eat up your time in trying to correct so I corrected them and you can download it here:
https://anonfiles.com/file/06cf4278504a0f1e5bcc5e8ba633ac6d

[Anonymous No.2956664]

Final bump

[Anonymous No.2956710]

Teatro Grottesco, by Thomas Ligotti

>http://www.mediafire.com/?kyal1o45xa81817

Ligotti is usually classified as a "horror" writer, but this label is much too limiting. Ligotti combines the eccentricity and loneliness of Poe (minus the romantic sentimentality), the bleak existential inner landscape of Kafka, the lunatic small-town atmosphere of Bruno Schulz and the mordant epigrammatic nihilism of Cioran. Ligotti is a profoundly disturbing writer, an unclassifiable talent right up there with such unique voices as Borges, Calvino and Lem. A must read.