It might also point me to a few people I'm not familiar with but whose works I might like reading. I've got Lope de Vega, Cervantes, de la Barca and a few others from the Siglo de Oro (or just before it proper, like Lazarillo de Tormes).
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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It sounds interesting.
- 26/05/2012 02:14:28 PM
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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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