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I wasn't saying it was, I was using Tale of Genji as an example of how even the World lit canon taught in schools is annoyingly Franko/Anglo-Saxon-centric. Of course, you as a academic understand...

I frankly had no idea what post-colonialism is before reading Achebe. XD I'll gladly excise myself from the conversation because I AM BY NO MEANS AN ACADEMIC, SO I HAD NO IDEA HOW IT AFFECTED...

I'm not much of an expert, but I don't think it's useless; it's without a doubt present in a number of works, like Things Fall Apart and Cry, the Beloved Country, just to name two. It's in a way a...

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My understanding of this book is honestly most likely too superficial to warrant comment. I need to reread this book as an adult, probably, to fully understand it, especially the...

All my favorite books address those things tho. DX David Sedaris's books are hilarious and cathartic for me because of [homo-]sexual overtones, as are Faulkner, Joyce and Mann. I just think that...

I dunno. maybe the second read will be more enjoyable. lol if he didn't care about adding a moral he could at least try to keep the reader engaged, as opposed to making them think you're going to...

LOL we read Araby in my non-honors English 11 class and nobody understood it (other than me). When it comes to Portrait of the Artist, it really depends on which section, cause I don't really see...

Where's a good place to start with Henry James? I own Portrait of a Lady, but I worry that'll be a bad place to start...

I started Eco's Name of the Rose, but I got bored quickly and was already...

So after giving Lolita some time to stew, I must say while (LOL) I said it was dull at one particular moment (the middle of part 2), that's not to say I found it even remotely passionless at any...

I have to totally disagree with the attitude of this thread for the most part. If a book is established as a classic, I believe we should at least attempt to read it to the end at some point in our...

LOL honestly this is really very subjective, but I would say absolutely not. To say that it is would be to completely ignore the Black experience's unique role in America. So no, I would say that...

I can understand how this thread devolved (or evolved? not sure) into silliness and parody. The original question was a little... philosophical? metaphysical? It's all very subjective. I would still...

Of course, I'm not really much of a film buff, mainly getting my knowledge of movies from watching "Ebert Presents: At the Movies" then viewing the films discussed for myself, and reading my AP US...

I'm talking about that innovative (if horribly racist and ultimately evil) DW Griffiths film which Woodrow Wilson called "lightning in a bottle" and helped spark the second rise of the KKK. o_o It...

LOL Humbert obviously. He's always rationalizing and fantasizing and lying and being generally shifty so yeah, I can't really say I like him... and yet throughout the book I find myself sort of...

LOL by my standard, as that is often what moves me most about a work. XD And that in the end is what matters most about a work, how moving it was? Idk. Maybe it depends on what you mean by "moral...

Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison, cause his commentary on Faulkner seemed so profound, and, being of mixed race (if not black mixed race), I'm fascinated by the Black experience in America. I'm...

I'd say absolutely [not]. Conrad's Heart of Darkness is now often viewed as a disturbing look into the heart of a racist, but still a classic nonetheless. And insight into the lives of James Joyce,...

Anyhoo, does anybody have any OTHER translations (into ENGLISH!) they could suggest? XDDDD

LOL no wonder its into russian. XDDDD whoops!

I've heard things about Martin Lozinsky's translation of Dante's immortal Comedy, but I cannot seem to find where to obtain a copy. Does anybody have any idea? :willy_nilly:

Hmmm. For very entertaining, if troubling, examples of fantastic but easy-on-the-eyes prose style, I'd suggest Nabokov's Lolita and David Sedaris's memoirs. But really you're entering a wide, wide...

LOOOOL I started with Absalom, Absalom!, in spite of its supposed difficulty (my dad thought it was his easiest, tho). XD Got thru it, tho it took me three arduous months. It was so fantastic, tho! I...

...kind of a thing you think but don't say out loud, least of all in a LIT forum... XP

I read Doctor Faustus. LOL could you help me out? I was strugglin'. At times it seems to meander without much plot, and the symbolism was startlingly difficult to grasp at times. But near the end it...