I've read The Leopard, I've read Schopenhauer, I've read Klages, Leopardi and La Rochefoucauld and I'm working on Proust, slowly.
What other authors will help me hone my air of lordly melancholy?
I've read The Leopard, I've read Schopenhauer, I've read Klages, Leopardi and La Rochefoucauld and I'm working on Proust, slowly.
What other authors will help me hone my air of lordly melancholy?
I liked this one
This madman right here
>Leopardi
The Zibaldone? If not, hit that.
I'm mess Benwie Sundress too.
>I'm working on Proust, slowly
>slowly
There's no other way, baby.
pessoa
These
all of the suggestions have been gay and retarded, read one of Proust's good friends and a fellow schopenhauer type nigga - Jean Cocteau.
No they haven't. Read more.
I'm specifically talking about the evola and pessoa which I know and have been disappointed with
based
To be fair I was thinking of Zibaldone, which exceeds 2,000 pages. For what OP requires it's a very good rec.
Cioran, obviously
Nietzsche and Beckett.
OP here, thanks to all and also polite bump
I’ve read Sartre. I’ve read Thomas Pynchon. I’ve read Ayn Rand. I’ve been to Italy. I’ve been to France. I speak French.
Proclus' Elements of Theology
Yukio Mishima comes to mind.
Damn, dude
Plotinus' Enneads then mos def
Augistine City of God
Wm James' Principles of Psychology (Greater Course)
I mean, with that on your hands, you've got some time before getting worried about what your next read will be!
I like to read two or three books at once, particularly when working on something as long as Proust.