/lit/ - Literature

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>>14567719
I just finished this last night wtf. Yes it's worth your time. The book isn't really a story as is it's an experience through the eyes of an opium addicted madman. The end of "chapter" 1 really sums it up for me
>Is not everything that I feel, see and think something entirely imaginary, something utterly different from reality? I am writing only for my shadow, which is now stretched across the wall in the light of the lamp. I must make myself known to him.
The intense dreamlike surrealism dies off quite a bit after "chapter" 2 and leads way to a more linear and reality-based section. Nevertheless, you still doubt whether anything has actually happened in the book or whether it was a hallucination. Really pay attention to the symbolism and repetition in this book. That's the key.

>>14567930
The D.P. Costello is considered the best if I remember correctly. That's the edition I bought/read.

>>14569833
Absolutely worth the time. One of the modernist classics. One of the first books I read when I seriously got into reading. The book really make you think (meme i know), is he hungry because hes crazy, or is he crazy because he's hungry?

>>12267239
Erotism by Georges Batailie