Recommended Reading Charts (by Author): Difference between revisions

From /lit/ Wiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
imported>Ukodus
No edit summary
 
(104 intermediate revisions by 9 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
== Literature ==
<gallery widths="120">
Borges.jpg|Borges
Burroughs, William.png|Borroughs
Bulgakov.png|Bulgakov
Calvino, Italo.jpg|Calvino, Italo
Flaubert, Gustave.png|Flaubert
Camus, Albert.jpg|Camus
Chesterton, G.K.jpg|Chesterton
Dostoevsky, Fyodor.jpg|Dostoyevsky
Faulkner, Williamr.png|Faulkner
Faulkner, William Flowchart.jpg|Faulkner
Hawkes, John.jpg|Hawkes
Hawkes, John (1).jpg|Hawkes
Hemingway, Ernest.jpg|Hemingway
Krasznahorkai Sequence.png|Krasznahorkai
Krasznahorkai, Lazlo.jpg|Krasznahorkai
Kafka Flowchart.jpg|Kafka
James, Henry.jpg|James, Henry
James, Henry.png|James
Junger, Ernst.png|Jünger
Joyce.jpg|Joyce
Joyce Progression.png|Joyce
Joyce, How To.png|Joyce
Manchette, Jean-Patrick.jpg|Manchette
Mann, Thomas.png|Mann
McCarthy, Cormac chart.png|McCarthy
McCarthy, Cormac.png|McCarthy
McElroy, Joseph.png|McElroy
Murakami, Haruki.jpg|Murakami
Murakami, Haruki Content.jpg|Murakami
Mishima, Yukio v2.jpg|Mishima Yukio
Nabokov, Vladimir.jpg|Nabokov
Nabokov Flowchart.png|Nabokov
Nabokov Sequence.png|Nabokov
Pynchon, Thomas Overview.png|Pynchon
Pynchon guide.png|Pynchon
Pychon, A Guide.jpg|Pynchon
Pynchon, Thomas.jpg|Pynchon
Robinson, Marilynne.png|Robinson
François, Donatien Alphonse - The Marquis de Sade.jpg|de Sade
Schmidt, Arno.png|Schmidt, Arno
Shakespeare, William.jpg|Shakespeare
Natsume Soseki.png|Soseki
Steinbeck.png|Steinbeck
Vollman, Willam T.png|Volmann
Vonnegut, Kurt.png|Vonnegut
File:Ishiguro Chart - Version 2.png
File:Before You Read Ulysses.png|Joyce's Ulysses
</gallery>


==Albert Camus==
== Speculative Fiction Authors ==
<gallery widths="185">
Asimov, Isaac.png|Asimov
Clarke, Arthur C.png|Clarke
Gaiman, Neil.jpg|Gaiman
Heinlein, Robert A.png|Heinlein
Lem, Stanislaw.png|Lem
Lovecraft, H.P.png|Lovecraft
Van Gogt, A.E.png|Van Vogt
Wilson, Robert Anton.jpg|Wilson
Gene Wolfe.jpg|Wolfe
</gallery>


[[File:Albert_Camus.jpg|center|200px]]
== Thinkers and Ideologues ==
 
<gallery widths="185">
==Ernest Hemingway==
Baudrillard, Jean.png|Baudrillard
[[File:Hemingway_chart.jpg|center|200px]]
Bowden Pill.jpg|Bowden
 
Evola, Julius.jpg|Evola
==Franz Kafka==
Guenon Flowchart.png|Guenon
[[File:Kafka_flowchart.jpg|center|200px]]
Jung, Carl.png|Jung
 
Accelerationism.png|Land
==Haruki Murakami==
Weber, Max.jpg|Weber
[[File:Murakami_guide_fuuuu.jpg|center|200px]]
Zubiri.png|Zubiri
 
Zizek.png|Žižek
==H.P.Lovecraft==
Zizek 3.jpg|Žižek
[[File:Slot_dunnwich_in_somewhr_too.png|right|200px]]
Zizek 2.jpg|Žižek
 
File:Schmitt, Carl.png|Schmidt
* Lovecraft is not Edgar Allan Poe; expect no melodrama, no Victorian intellectual/literary masturbation.
File:Williams, Charles.jpg|Williams
* The stories in the Cthulhu Mythos are more accessible to new readers compared with those in the Dream Cycle series. Start reading the former, and if you like it, move to the latter.
</gallery>[[Category:Charts]]
* The format of the stories in the Cthulhu Mythos are usually as follows: a slow setup where the character comes across something that does not feel right, followed by the character encountering whatever the setup was all about (like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QFwo57WKwg this]), and finally, the character getting out of the encounter forever changed by their experience. At this point, the mysteries of the setup are, in a way, solved; you probably will have understood by then why things did not feel right at the beginning.
Take in the prose, especially the "encounters", ''slowly''; the prose is seemingly opaque and verbose, but it becomes very rewarding after getting used to the style. Think about it: Lovecraft does not have (or to be precise, ''didn't have'') at his disposal but the vocabulary of the English language to draw scenes as vivid (and horrific) as--eh, again--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QFwo57WKwg this].
Start exercising those imagination-muscles of yours, soldier!
* You might wish to check the works of ''Thomas Ligotti'' as well.
* You might also wish to read the Dunwich Horror after reading The Call of Cthulhu as well as Haunter in the Dark after The Colour Out of Space.
 
==G.K.Chesterton==
[[File:Chesterton's_fiction.jpg|center|200px]]
 
==Italo Calvino==
[[File:Italo_calvino_guide.jpg|center|200px]]
 
==James Joyce==
[[File:Joyce.jpg|center|200px]]
==Natsumi Soseki==
 [[File:Natsume_Soseki.png|thumb|left]]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
==Neil Gaiman==
[[File:Neil_Gaiman.jpg|left|150px]]
* You do not really have to read through the whole Sandman series (seventy plus issues ignoring the spin-off series) before delving through the rest of his work; the first volume is more than enough to give you a taste and a feeling of Gaiman's style.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
==Thomas Pynchon==
[[File:Pynchon_guide.png|right|200px]]
* After getting a taste of Pynchon's writing, check the '''''introduction''''' of his short stories (or novellas, depending on your definition of thereof) collection ''Slow Learner''. The rest of the book (that is, the stories themselves) are understandably borderline OK, so do not bother reading them unless you want to see how young Pynchon practiced his trade.
 
==William Shakespeare==
[[File:Shakespeare.jpg|center|200px]]
 
==Yukio Mishima==
[[File:Yukio_mishima.jpg|center|200px]]
[[Category:Natsume Soseki]]

Latest revision as of 08:56, 20 August 2023

Literature

Speculative Fiction Authors

Thinkers and Ideologues