Why haven't you read the essentials yet?

not read any

>Reading translations
Learn the original language or just don't bother

Not a meme.

There is nothing more pleb than reading books in the original language.

>jealous monoglots can only read books in the original language
>patrician polyglots like myself can read the works of Goethe in French, the masterpieces of Proust in the superior Russian, Chinese and Japanese works in the opposite language, etc., opening up new vistas of interpretation and understanding

I tried reading a book in the original language once, just to see what it's like being a pleb, and it was a suffocating and nauseous experience. I pity those for whom there is no other option.

Maybe for you anglophones. But a book translated from English is still a good book, since every language is better than English

100% agree

>he thinks Euripides is authentic tragedy

>Why haven't you read the essentials yet?
BECAUSE I KEEP GETTING RAPED

>le normie random post
yeah, nice digits

>he hasn't read The Birth of Tragedy

dude weezer sucks get over it lmbo

I've read over half the stuff you listed

hohohoho, yes I have!
apart from what Nietzsche says, Euripides is probably the best of the ancient writers of tragedies, so I suggest you to refer again, with a different and humbler state of mind, to my post number

What happens if I feel like basically stopping at Paradise Lost?

>read all those in high school

yikes

is Zettels Traum really worth reading? I feel like it's bullshit, but I'd like to hear some opinions

nice you read the bare minimum to post on thsi board

Have you seen those screenshots of the english translations of it? I don't have any saved, but Finnegan's Wake had at least oregano Joyce prose to it, Bottom's Dream is just something fucking else

i came here to shitpost but this is more or less correct

Nothing Euripides wrote compares to the Oresteia or Theban Plays. Not even the Bacchae.

Yeah, right.

any particular reason why?

Ajax is better than Theban Plays WHICH HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH EACH OTHER I'M SICK OF THIS THEBAN PLAYS MEME

>reading plays
I want this meme to end

>watching plays performed by damned, effeminate actors like a degenerate

You keep telling yourself that pablo

because the three that survive are from different retellings of the cycle....

The fucking Schmidt meme, my sides

>Why haven't you read the essentials yet?
I have. Everything on your list, and thousands of other books.

portrait is much more important than checkliners m77
also absolutely lacking the wake

pseud af senpai

confirmed never read DUBliners, the big U, and is definitely NOT WOKE

that sounds pretty lazy and inexperienced
surely you should strive to have a command of these languages should high enough that you don't need to read 10 different language translations of a work one by one, but rather translate them into all of the languages in your head while reading.

Only when the Frenchie in you starts recognizing everything in your mother tongue as a sexual innuendo, and when you stop all communication with the gaijin even if your country is the USA, will you be able to prosper as the cucktural marxist you aim to become.

None of this is my prob, ofc.

My mother tongue is Hebrew.

most "classics" bore me desu

no Infinite Jest though?

No play is worth reading or watching. What can you learn from it.

O B S E R V E D

...

Greek religion.

Wtf I hate Shakespeare now

>Bible
>Absolute necessities
Why don't you accept the truth that there's no God?

t. Plato

Because i don't accept delusional fantasies as the truth

Why do you have a problem with a Bible there but not with greek myths stuff?

Cause in my honest opinion, polytheistic religions are superior to abrahamic ones since they're more liberal in their worship.
Also, Greek/Roman ml mythology is , depending on the translation, fascinating to read as stories whereas the Bible is a stylistic mess.

Maybe I should clarify what I mean by more liberal.
For example, if someone was to be priest to Zeus, he wouldn't get (much) shit from a priest of Poseidon.
And now take a look at Christianity and the Islam where Protestants and Catholic or Shiits and Sunni slay the fuck out of each other even though they believe in the same God, but interpret the words of some madmen who sat in the desert writing stuff on a piece of parchment, differently

holy...i want you to go back to r/atheism

Make me.
Yes, I am an atheist, I'm a clear mind that doesn't need the words of some lunatics for guidance. I'm still interested in Religion from a scientific point of view, I'm fascinated by how religion can and does influence people, societies or the law.

I hear Eugene Onegin is only worth reading in Russian.
Or maybe I just read a really shitty translation because I wanted one in verse. Think I'll give Nabokov's a go.

>being this spooked
You're still eating out of the trashcan of ideology.

Protip: both liberalism and scientism are religions.