This might be the greatest post in the history of the site. *NM* - Edit 1
Before modification by Dan at 15/11/2011 07:30:51 PM
I had a thought about a 2012 reading goal but given how little time I've had to read recently I'm not sure if it's prudent.
A few ideas I was throwing around:
1. Continuing with the "Second Thirty Years' War" concept with more reading about the interwar period and by writers writing at that time, and keeping up with the French and German reading in particular.
2. (Harder) Reading 10 books in Latin, 10 in Classical Greek and 10 more books of the Bible in Hebrew.
3. Delving into psychoanalytical books by focusing on Freud and Jung
4. Doing a medieval literature focus and reading those works in the original (Das Niebelungenlied, Tristan et Yseult, the Arthurian legends by both Mallory and Chrétien de Troyes, La Divina Commedia, the Decameron, il Principe, maybe Lazarillo de Tormes is even "medieval" enough).
A few ideas I was throwing around:
1. Continuing with the "Second Thirty Years' War" concept with more reading about the interwar period and by writers writing at that time, and keeping up with the French and German reading in particular.
2. (Harder) Reading 10 books in Latin, 10 in Classical Greek and 10 more books of the Bible in Hebrew.
3. Delving into psychoanalytical books by focusing on Freud and Jung
4. Doing a medieval literature focus and reading those works in the original (Das Niebelungenlied, Tristan et Yseult, the Arthurian legends by both Mallory and Chrétien de Troyes, La Divina Commedia, the Decameron, il Principe, maybe Lazarillo de Tormes is even "medieval" enough).
Although I probably could improve my Latin quickly enough to read 10 books in it, I'm at too rudimentary of a level to attempt the Greek and I don't know the Hebrew alphabet by heart, much less the language
Some of those others, especially the last one, I could participate in, if you wanted to expand it some. I had toyed with the idea of doing a smaller scale of what you and Greg did and do some sort of Latin American book club, but I suspect with the continued decline in activity that it'd end up being me writing a bunch of blog posts with the lack of discussion I'd suspect would take place. A shame, really.
Yeah..you know when you had that pole about the languages and countries other than America that people wanted you to focus on...you might want to look at that pole again...I have 0 interest in latin works in latin...and the way latin america is going I have little respect for their literature but then I am a capitalist and most of their literature is not so..even 100 years of solitude seems to be anti technology and anti hard work and achievement really...