19th+20th century in literature - discuss & chat
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Post: #1 Last edited: 25.12.2015, 18:34 25.12.2015, 13:59 19th+20th century in literature - discuss & chat
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i create this topic because i find my self living in absurd ( doing the same things , my personal works , watching ETV ,and losing my time in the internet ) in fact my life is like THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS, a figure of Greek mythology who was condemned to repeat forever the same meaningless task of pushing a boulder up a mountain, only to see it roll down again. [hidden image - please register] so please let's be more reasonable and while you have nothing to do in this site , just take a look to this topic , put anything you know about 19th or 20th century in literature to discuss it here with who is interested about literature .  " KNOWLEDGE IS LIGHT , IGNORANCE IS SHAME " ( proverb ) |
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Post: #11 Last edited: 27.12.2015, 01:57 27.12.2015, 01:49 Re: 19th+20th century in literature - discuss & chat
“Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else's blood.
This is why our thinkers feel free to say just about anything.” ALBERT CAMUS [hidden image - please register] |
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Post: #10 Last edited: 26.12.2015, 05:08 26.12.2015, 02:49 Re: 19th+20th century in literature - discuss & chatHvB wrote:Well, as atheist, I feel closer to Nitzsche than Kirkegaard, but he is still good reading and it's very interesting to see a theologist arguing for seperation of church and state. Many of the arguments are still up to date and desperately needed today. well , i have just read a third about the Banality of Evil and i find it very very important. the banality of evil is a phrase used by hanna arendt to keep in mind a various Paradoxes : how the evil could be fiddling , and she speaks about a radical evil containing violence and pains which is insurmountable to endure and to describe . and eventhough EINCHMANN played a big role in sending away the jews to the Internment camps during the 2nd world war , but he remained in her point of view just an ordinary man , occupied on his career and his bourgeois position , besides he is not a fagot , fanatic ,Deviant or even an Adventurous. and with the banality which Ardent called him proved the triviality of his actions . i think the term of the banality of evil doesn't mean minimizing the horror of the crimes that Eichmann was a part of it , or not just a shorthand of the experience of the "Holocaust" like a passing incident in history , but in fact Arendt was thinking in the estimation of the large penalty in judging the crimes while it reached a strong limit of ugliness, As long as the perpetrators are just an ordinary people and very pettiness. and that was actually true they were just a tool in a dictatorial regime of a MONOMANIA leader ( Hitler ) . |
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Well, as atheist, I feel closer to Nitzsche than Kirkegaard, but he is still good reading and it's very interesting to see a theologist arguing for seperation of church and state. Many of the arguments are still up to date and desperately needed today.
The philosopher I feel closest to is likely Hanna Arendt. Her views on the Banality of Evil have been an eye opener and very helpful in understanding a dark Epoche in history and they are a warning on how easiely it can happen again. Anywhere, anythime. |
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Post: #8 Last edited: 25.12.2015, 20:11 25.12.2015, 19:59 Re: 19th+20th century in literature - discuss & chatHvB wrote:Nice collection. dear HvB i salute you !  first of all i want to thank you that you remind me of the special german writer von goethe who let a huge literary heritage to the German and international library. emil zola the founder of naturalism . leo tolsoy of course nothing need to say , i do believe that he is the most Russian novelists and Greatest novelists EVER .his best Book "War and Peace" deserve to read . the danish philosopher and theologian soren kierkegaard paul sartre the founder of the existentialism when i read SARTRE i recall Simone de Beauvoir the second sex deserve to read .while Nitzsche is my favorite , and i'm totally believe what he wrote and what he gave to the readers . although lots of people have the same opinion like you . |
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Post: #7 Last edited: 25.12.2015, 19:26 25.12.2015, 19:22 Re: 19th+20th century in literature - discuss & chatshnaps7 wrote:[hidden image - please register] yes SHNAPS7 thank you actually Nietzsche was right : what dosn't kill you make you stronger . trying to understand Nietzsche is often hard work. But it is worth it. |
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Nice collection.
I would add Goethe: the Werther definitely caused more suicides than the Take That split and I especially love the Wilhelm Meister novels Schiller: Mary Stuart is my favorite but both wrote most of their works still in the 18th century ... Emil Zola: love his spotlights on the darker poorer sides of Paris Leo Tolstoy: anything I need to say? As you mentioned the strict anti theistic Nitzsche (who is definitely fun to read because if is way to handle language) the he complete opposite: Søren Kierkegaard, very readable. While on the topic of philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre shouldn't be left out. |
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Post: #4 Last edited: 25.12.2015, 18:26 25.12.2015, 18:22 Re: 19th+20th century in literature - discuss & chatHvB wrote:Why do you limit it to just the 19th century? because the 19th century It is the era of cultural prosperity. why i choose it because it's include the best writers ever such as Friedrich Nietzsche ,Theodor Fontane , Victor Hugo , Auguste Comte ,Fyodor Dostoyevsky etc .... by the way anyone want to write about 20th century it is possible as well .
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Why do you limit it to just the 19th century?
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