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I think you could easily do it. You seem to have a better vocabulary than a lot of English first language folk. I hate ebooks too. Contra mundum press published it, and I believe it’s available through most online booksellers for a reasonable price being paperback, but I’m not 100% sure there...

You could read it in English. You are definitely fluent enough.

GordoDeCentral You should read “Marginalia on Casanova”, the first volume of Miklos Szentkuthy’s “St Orpheus Breviary” It’s a uniquely fascinating philosophical discourse of sorts on Casanova’s memoirs, an exquisite and dizzying odyssey through ideas of love/Eros in 18th century Europe...

:tup: And while The Iliad and The Odyssey are pretty straightforward stories, unless one has quite the education in Ancient Greek mythology and history, a lot of references and allusions are going to go unnoticed. Now… how important those are to enjoyment of these stories is another question...

:agree: Not to mention the source of this belief is a disgraced “historian” who was found in a defamation suit of his own making to have purposefully misrepresented, mistranslated, and manipulated historical documents and evidence to further his Holocaust denial and revisionist history. His lies...

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I haven’t actually picked up The End of a Family Story. Parallel Stories and A Book of Memories are his two big novels. I’m still not even sure if you’d like the former. It’s undoubtedly a great novel, but might not be to your taste. I have a number of writers myself, who I recognize as...

Thanks dude. This is awesome. I think that modernist classics like Miklos Szentkuthy’s St Orpheus Breviary, Arno Schmidt’s Zettel’s Traum, Proust’s A La Recherche du Temps Perdu, and contemporary works like Mircea Cartarescu’s Blinding, Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s entire ouevre, Peter Nadas’ Parallel...

@Dostoevsky You talking about The Golden Fleece above? I remember you mentioned it before?

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Says the guy reading online public domain books. I hope not in translation, because those old-ass translations that public domain stuff depend on are mostly garbage.

And both Dusan and I likely read as much, if not more, than you, so I don’t know what the heck you’re spouting off about, criticizing people for not reading online books. Books that have one physical copy in existence are most often not worth reading lol. There is a reason only one copy exists...

There are literally zero worthwhile books that aren’t available in a physical copy somewhere. Why on earth would I read on a screen if I don’t have to?

Loved The Heretic of Soana. His alpine landscape descriptions are beautiful. Story was pretty predictable, but still managed to draw me in. Since then fell into other unread books on shelves. Planning to read Atlantis sometime this year though.

Are you a fan of the book (in German of course)? Poetry of any sort is so hard to get a handle on in translation. Basically only way to make it decent is if an actual good poet translates it, but then it’s an entirely new poem. Literal translations of poems are god-awful. 1619296595 Tyll by...

Romantic and depressing, a great combo. :D Definitely feel a lot of nostalgia for it from reading it as an adolescent. Faust and Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship are better works of literature, but Young Werther just has that sense of nostalgia for me that can’t be compared to the other two...

Which translation did you read? I like Faust but my favourite from Goethe is The Sorrows of Young Werther.

Not sure if this means you enjoyed it or not... :lol2: :shifty: 1603190686 Hmm. I just finished a reread of Blinding by Mircea Cārtārescu. Brilliant book. Highly recommend. I also read a couple of Josef Winkler’s books this autumn. When the Time Comes and Graveyard of Bitter Oranges are both...

Hmmm... The Galley Slave by Drago Jancar is a fantastic read. And if you haven’t read Thomas Pynchon, I’d highly recommend both Gravity’s Rainbow and Against the Day. Krasznahorkai’s The Melancholy of Resistance too.

@DAiDEViL @lgorTudor Do you know anything about Eberhard Werner Happel? I came across a reference to a book of his, a collection of stories. It’s called: größte denkwürdigkeiten der welt oder sogenannte relationes curiosae Rather curious about it.