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Hi everyone, I came across a poem today by James Joyce, below is one passage of the poem All day I hear the noise of waters.

All day I hear the noise of waters
Making moan,
Sad as the sea-bird...

This was the first novel i read. Whenever i read it again, it reminds me of my teenage time, full of passion just like D'Artagnan is The Three Musketeers. Later on when i finished Twenty Years Later...

I have read this book in both Chinese and French, Camus was a great writer indeed, he was far more talented, inspired and skilled than Paul Satre. I think the aim of this weird book may be to proove...

Absolutely. An artist is just what he creates, not who he lives for. Satre and Dostoevsky
are more to me than ones like Maxim Gorky. But the fact is always that bad life makers wrote bad works too,...

not bad.. I'd rather call it a lyric? ampoule may sing it with guitar playing
after all a valentine is better than a poem anyway :)

I'd choose nobody but Oscar Wilde (before he was put in Reading jail).
Only one fairy tale of his will absolutely fullfill the whole tea time with "odour of roses". :yawnb:
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"Anybody dies if his name is on it."

Just then a man of the crowd grabbed his notebook and signed his name.

"Now you remember me!" He stood there, smiling, as if he were a white tulip.
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Hesse is indeed a nice novelist and I've just read his UNTERM RAD and Narciß und Goldmund. Very enjoyable works.

Books waiting for me:

Always Astonished by Fernando Pessoa
Letters to a Young...

A man only forgets in circles.

Whenever certain circles have been ignored for a period of time, it would be spontaneously forgotten. That’s something in area of the memory curve. Facts tell us the...

Why lots of you enjoy 1984? I think it's hardly called a classic,it's a boring book anyway.

I'm surprised to find that there's no thread about him here.
Anyone interested in him? ;)

Ancient Greece,India and China are unquestionably greatest countries several thousand years ago. Then Dante and Shakespeare throughout the following years. In 19th century I think Russia and France...

I've read nearly all André Gide's books except The Notebooks of Andre Walter(there's no version here), what fancies me first is Travels of Urien.I think his best work,beyond all doubt, is Fruits of...

The Chinar Tree - fragments,mottos,literature reverie


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The chinar Tree-- the chinars trees in autumn!（With another charming name - woods with silver bells), stretched his chapped branches,...

When I stood a clear mirror before you, you gazed into me and saw your image.Then you said, "I love you."
But in truth you loved yourself in me.

That's my favourite line from SAND AND FOAM....

I've bought this book a week before in Xinhua Bookstore, it's pleasure to enjoy the writer's witty words and the style of the narration reminds me of Millan Kundera's The Joke.

huan ying lai dao online-literature tao lun,Welcome!
I'm Chinese,too! It's really wonderful to meet a Chinese here.

Hello everyone,I'm working on a historical book of western literature these days, and will someone tell me what's the main trend of western literature nowadays?

Many thanks

I think CL is needless,literature should always be taken as unprofessional.

Oh,it's so popular in China that all the cinemas in my city are full of people who are waiting for a ticket,they're crazy.I went to see it ten days ago and found it a very strange film.

I love Gibran best-and my screen name came from him,too! :thumbs_up
Uh..most of his quotes were collected in SAND AND FOAM,here are some:

I am forever walking upon these shores,
Betwixt the...

Hi,

Many thanks for you all.
Good news first-I've already finished translating eclogue Ⅰ into Chinese, and it's much better than the last translation in 1957 in my mind.
Our Eclogues'...

Hi Virgil,
So it stands for "I will ever deem him for God"?

Yes, it's still Eclogue Ⅰ,

MELIBOEUS
You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy
reclining, on the slender oat rehearse
your silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields,
and home's familiar bounds,...

Many thanks to Virgil, Petrarch's Love and TodHackett!!
After reading your explanations, now I'm clear of this question.
I have another question needed helped,thanks!

This ease to us, for him a...