okay fuck it if youre a teen here are the cool books 2 read
Suetonius
Gramsci’s prison notebooks
Shakespeare’s roman tragedies (Coriolanus/ Anthony and Cleopatra)
Capital
Gogol Dead Souls and probably some short stories but i dunno i havent read many of those
Mishima sea of fertility cycle (i havent red the last 2)
Carlyle Sartor Resartus::::Carlyle gets authoritarian and gay as he gets older be careful
everything walter benjamin ever wrote but start with the literary criticism published as ‘illuminations’
the book of job in the fucking bible and all the fucking secondary literature you can find
Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
All of Oscar Wilde’s non-fiction
AND THE BIG DICK TRIP-TYCH
Gravity’s Rainbow (get the companion footnote book theres cool stuff in there)
Joyces Ulysses (read dubliners first see if you like it)
Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy
middle fingers at all the teens and not-teens if you dont like it!
