/lit/ - Literature

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LAST 3 READS:
>The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
I love Dazai. Again, being more familiar with his short stories, this feels like an expansion and melding of several of his autobiographical ones, changed in some ways, but still obviously personal. The entire book felt like a constant dreamy tragedy.

>One Thousand and One-Second Stories by Inagaki Taruho
Finally read this one all the way through, after having read a story here and there for a few months. Reading it in one go, I got a better sense of the overall atmosphere in Taruho's writing - anthropomorphic celestial objects, motorcycles and guns, the moon beating people up, lots of creepy yellow smoke and general playfulness. Tons of great and very short stories in this.

>Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol
I really adored "Taras Bulba." And "The Nose." And pretty much every story here, honestly. Not much I could say that probably hasn't been said about Gogol already, but I will proclaim that I'll be checking out the rest of his work soon.

CURRENTLY READING:
>Acts of Worship by Yukio Mishima
>Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an

NEXT THREE:
>In Light of Shadows by Izumi Kyoka
>The Dwarf by Par Lagerkvist
>The Golem by Gustav Meyrink