It's hard for me to get excited about Spanish literature.
Tom Send a noteboard - 26/05/2012 02:18:40 AM
After the brief (and distant) siglo de oro the entire country of Spain just seemed to go into terminal decline, including its culture. Latin American literature has sort of picked up the torch as far as the language is concerned, but of course I frequently find that distasteful for ideological reasons and end up enjoying guys like Horacio Quiroga.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
What should I read next in French and German?
- 22/05/2012 08:05:38 PM
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My list of French literature I've read is extremely short, so, um, Racine? Yourcenar?
- 22/05/2012 08:17:49 PM
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Re: My list of French literature I've read is extremely short, so, um, Racine? Yourcenar?
- 23/05/2012 03:23:37 AM
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That would require yet another Pléiade purchase
- 23/05/2012 04:10:48 AM
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How about one of the Greek Novels?
- 23/05/2012 03:47:58 AM
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*browses shelves*
- 23/05/2012 06:43:38 AM
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I bought 16 books of Jung and 4 of Freud.
- 23/05/2012 01:44:16 PM
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Don Carlos
- 23/05/2012 06:21:48 PM
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Yeah, I have that. *NM*
- 23/05/2012 09:30:48 PM
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And if you were to read the Spanish versions, there are two well-known plays
- 23/05/2012 11:57:45 PM
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Okay, I looked at Don Carlos. I see no resemblance to Don Juan.
- 25/05/2012 08:40:05 PM
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I mentioned it because Don Juan appears in it, but is not the star of it
- 25/05/2012 10:24:20 PM
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It's hard for me to get excited about Spanish literature.
- 26/05/2012 02:18:40 AM
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Carlos Fuentes said as much in his 2011 non-fiction book, La gran novela latinoamericana
- 26/05/2012 03:24:22 AM
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Re: *browses shelves*
- 23/05/2012 06:57:22 PM
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I have the two-volume anthology of French poetry from Pléiade (book series, not the poet group).
- 23/05/2012 09:32:51 PM
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Re: I have the two-volume anthology of French poetry from Pléiade (book series, not the poet group).
- 24/05/2012 01:38:45 AM
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You could read the world's first Sci-Fi novel, Lucian of Samosata's Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα.
- 27/05/2012 03:08:30 PM
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Having read more about that, I'm tempted to say genre fiction has always been bad.
- 28/05/2012 03:40:45 AM
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