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in any case, the whole “it all revolves around the mundanity of it all” has been really popular in scandinavian literature for a long while now, so it’s not too hard to find similar vibes. maybe vigdis hjort if you want a female perspective with a harder lean into trauma, I believe she’s translated
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ignore this troll and do read proust mdemone posted:They're gonna tell you Proust but you don't have to listen to them
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ulvir posted:ignore this troll and do read proust Proust has a hundred good pages in a novel of three thousand, fight me
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mdemone posted:Proust has a hundred good pages in a novel of three thousand, fight me Every page of Proust is a beautiful sedative Dude should be administered in hospitals
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ulvir posted:in any case, the whole “it all revolves around the mundanity of it all” has been really popular in scandinavian literature for a long while now, so it’s not too hard to find similar vibes. maybe vigdis hjort if you want a female perspective with a harder lean into trauma, I believe she’s translated Funny enough I have a copy of Long Live the Post Horn! on my shelf. Thanks for the recommendations. Books in translation seem to be my best bet for this kind of thing Re. Proust I have a bad feeling In Search of Lost Time will be one of those that I keep meaning to read but never do I guess I've lived long enough to appreciate the absurdity of life and enjoy seeing it rendered for what it is
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mdemone posted:Proust has a hundred good pages in a novel of three thousand, fight me *stuffs a Madeline in your eye*
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I just read a bit that was clearly parodying Proust but now I can't remember what it was  e: Oh gently caress was it a post ITT?
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mdemone posted:Proust has a hundred good pages in a novel of three thousand, fight me proust has about 3700 good pages in a novel of about 3700 
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Proust is the best
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Read In Search of Lost Time and liked it well enough, but not enough to keep going. I guess I should?
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Well you gotta find out what happened to Time at the end
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Knausgård is twice as narcissistic and ten times the prose stylist.
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can someone spoil it for me and just tell me whether they ever find the lost time
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they do, but it turns out to be far less time than the time they lost searching for it
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It's the time I lost reading the loving thing Pretty sure that was the joke he meant by the title
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derp posted:they do, but it turns out to be far less time than the time they lost searching for it woah that's p deep
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MockingQuantum posted:can someone spoil it for me and just tell me whether they ever find the lost time You come to learn it was about the times we made along the way
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Ben Nerevarine posted:You come to learn it was about the times we made along the way I want someone to ask Knausgård what he thinks of Proust.
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For some reason when I think of Proust I think of the scene where he is horse-playing with Gilberte and gets so riled up he jizzes in his pants because it made me cackle
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mdemone posted:I want someone to ask Knausgård what he thinks of Proust. Why would that not have happened Heath posted:For some reason when I think of Proust I think of the scene where he is horse-playing with Gilberte and gets so riled up he jizzes in his pants because it made me cackle lol
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Heath posted:For some reason when I think of Proust I think of the scene where he is horse-playing with Gilberte and gets so riled up he jizzes in his pants because it made me cackle https://x.com/dril/status/820791986798075904?s=20
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It's been more than a decade since I read all of Proust during the most boring summer internship, but I recall it was pleasant. The later books have some interesting exploration of queer sex practices in upper society. Decided to pick up Mason & Dixon after Bolaño and am surprised I'm not too into it. The prose is of course adventurous and fun and striking but I just really do not care for historical fiction. The fart and sex jokes are there, but I wish he'd stick with more of the surreality of the Learned Dog and the talking navigation clocks. I demand more insanity. But still, very nice way to while away some hours.
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just under 150 pages left of savage detectives arturo belano sounds like a complete dweeb, and yet somehow he continues to stumble into all kinds of weird poo poo, and has at least two women everywhere he couch surfs
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Me at the beginning of one of Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels: hmm, seems a little “gossipy”, lots of relationship drama, I dunno Me at the end of one of Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels: gently caress….. gently caress!! Lila 😭
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Which flavor did you like best?
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Lobster Henry posted:Me at the beginning of one of Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels: hmm, seems a little “gossipy”, lots of relationship drama, I dunno i burned through the first 3 and am taking a break before the 4th. They’re so drat good.
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Lobster Henry posted:Me at the beginning of one of Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels: hmm, seems a little “gossipy”, lots of relationship drama, I dunno Those books are brilliant. I still get emotional thinking about that drat pair of shoes in the first one
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I haven't been able to keep up with the forums much this year, but I'm still running Secret Santa and would love to have as many toxic litbros participating as I can. This is one of my favorite threads (even if I'm a few hundred pages behind at the moment), and it's always a pleasure to have its posters involved.
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The Neapolitan novels are incredibly good. I said offhand at my book club that they're probably the best literary achievement of the new century to some consternation, but I increasingly stand by it. Just wonderful encapsulation of last century. Also halfway through Mason & Dixon where an exiled French chef is describing his flight from a sentient, horny duck automaton and I love Pynchon again. So dumb and yet smart and beautifully written.
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hi guys its been awhile but I asked a warhammer fan to read marquez and it went real bad anyways xoxo mel
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Why tho
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Listened to the audiobook of Liberation Day by Saunders. Overall pretty solid, with some really standout stories for me (Liberation Day, Love Letter, Mom of Bold Action, Sparrow). There are some passages near the end of "Liberation Day" where you can absolutely feel the sweat dripping down Saunder's brow as he's revising the hell out of certain sentences. But I think Sparrow might be the best piece in the book when it comes to his approach, which seems to be concentrating so deeply on the lives of desperate (often despicable) people, in a spirit of metta, until he can lovingkindness his way to an ending point of grace. I feel such an immense respect for Proust but I also have yet to finish Swann's Way. I'm halfway through with it! It's just... It puts me to sleep. Not because it's bad; far from it. But the prose is so dense that I sometimes lose sight of what is actually happening in the story, and when I take a moment to reorient myself, the answer is something like "he was thinking about his aunt's housekeeper's kerchief" and I'm left unmoored once again. I've been reading the Lydia Davis translation, and it is really wonderful, but I almost have to suspend any judgment of it as a novel. I associate it with the same feeling I have when listening to music in a darkened room at night. It feels like words washing over me, rather than a sequence of events leading characters to a conclusion.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:hi guys its been awhile but I asked a warhammer fan to read marquez and it went real bad anyways xoxo mel 100 Years or one of the good ones?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:100 Years or one of the good ones? Woah woah woah woah woah Woah Let’s settle down here, no need to get carried away
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3D Megadoodoo posted:100 Years or one of the good ones? Oh no there's a great new edition
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this is them
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Mel Mudkiper posted:this is them I mean maybe it's just me and my public school education but I remember learning about it in like 5th grade
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They got mad because chernobyl dared me to read a warhammer book and I had an emotional breakdown about the spiritual poverty of people who only read warhammer and then this lady who only reads warhammer got all offended so I told her to read 100 years of solitude and she quit brcuase "who cares about ice"
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