Pages that are all pictures don't count!
So that eliminates William Blake?
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Pages that are all pictures don't count!
So that eliminates William Blake?
Amazing! Can a facsimile be obtained?Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
By all means read Blake - or any other books that are illustrated - but don't count the pages of illustrations as 'reading'! Only the text counts as reading.
What if it's not a visualization of the story, but the continuation of one and by not reading the image you lose continuity on the following page of text?Quote:
Originally Posted by kasie
What if it's not a visualization of the story, but the continuation of one and by not reading the image you lose continuity on the following page of text?
Yes... doesn't Lawrence Sterne play with the very notion that the narrative can include more than text? Certainly Blake would have insisted that the image was just as essential to the "reading" experience as the text in his various "illuminated" books. What of a graphic novel like MAUS? What of Mallarme's Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard...
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...larmesmall.jpg
...or Apollinaire's Calligrams...
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...pollinaire.jpg
...in which the graphic lay-out... the selection of fonts and scale are all essential elements of the "reading" experience? What of Finnegan's Wake or Lewis Caroll? Are we to imagine that the layout, the use of footnotes or side notations, the inclusion of musical notation, graphics, charts, chess board lay-outs are not an integral part of the experience of the book? What of Japanese poems by poet/artist/calligraphers such as these...
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... in which the calligraphy and the visual appearance... the choice of materials, etc... all add to the experience of reading the poem?
Amazing! Can a facsimile be obtained?
I wish such existed. It will certainly be decades, if not longer, before the whole is properly documented and recorded and given anything approaching facsimile form. There are certainly any number of books on Wolfli's work as a whole, but I doubt that either Darger's or Wolfli's works will be really given the appropriate study for what they were as a whole for quite some time. Hell... I don't think they've even gotten through the entire trunk-cache of Pessoa's work yet. Unfortunately... just as with most of Blake's works... Wolfli's tome is no longer a whole self-contained work. It's worth far more to the greedy jacka** dealers if they split up such works and sell them off piece-meal to the highest bidders with little or no concern for the impact upon culture or the artist's intentions. Look at the recent incident involving Blake:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/16/ar...=1&oref=slogin
I stand corrected - it was a feeble attempt at a joke.
I had presumed as much... but still, who knows? We already had a long and heated discussion about song lyrics and opera librettos as literature and I was very much against the notion of dissecting those works or suggesting that we look at the lyrics or librettos solely as texts (for better or worse) and offer an opinion upon their success (or failure) as poetry or theater when the artist's intention was always that the work be experienced as a unified whole.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes.I speculate it has over 1000 pages and it makes my head churned.
Don Quixote. Although, it's technically two novels, since the second part came ten years after. I also prefer the second part.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Misérables
and coming soon
The Vicomte de Bragelonne, sometimes split into 3 parts, apparently...
All around 2000 pages, depending in the edition.
They were all in French. Can I now double the amount of pages because of the effort?:p
The count of Monte Cristo 1243 pages narrowly beats Les Miserables with 1232 pages
I think Les Miserables. It certainly seemed the longest, LOL. War and Peace ran into three volumes in the edition which I read, and Don Quixote was also pretty long, and I'm not sure exactly how many pages any of these books are. Another 'Big Book' was The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. All very good books (though I was slightly disappointed by Les Mis) but I've only ever read them once.
Definately It and An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. Finnegan's Wake probably took me the longest to read.
I'm still waiting for those Henry Darger books to be published. I could probably spend years reading In The Realms of the Unreal. Of course it's got a bunch of pictures too, so there's probably like 14,000 pages of text. I can't wait!
Lord of the rings!! Not to offend any tolkeinites, this was the only time when i found the movies to be more interesting than the books. My folly was reading all the three parts at one go !!