/lit/ - Literature

Post your current read. Simple as that.

Bit esoteric (I assume we're still allowed to talk about literature on this board), but anyone else love the wild and meandering style of "pre-Victorian" novels? It seems like to me a lot of books pre-1840's weren't afraid of throwing their characters into wild situations and cared very little about structure and on the whole were more episodic in nature. I suspect Dickens's work as a whole is the main offender (with the exception of The Pickwick Papers which clearly belongs to this earlier age) as novels became less chatty, more organized, and more plot-focused but somehow more predictable, so it seems like something I can't put my finger on was lost in the process.

So that is to say, any recs for early 18th-century books?

What book should I read next

The Red and the Black
Sentimental Education
Beware of Pity

Yes, though I am now 100 pages to the end. Can't wait to see what happens.

The final pages of Stendhal’s The Red and the Black were the most psychologically devastating of my /lit/ career

To be quite honest with thee I only picked it up because I heard Julien Sorel was a /literally-me/ character before /literally-me/ characters were a thing because a lot of the book revolves around him thinking that he was /literally/ Napoleon and kept pictures of the Emperor under his pillow and shit.

Pretty good book though. Best description would be a French Crime and Punishment

Are we, dare i say, the lucky few?

>>11102349

What book made you realize you were a plotpleb?
For me it was pic related

>>10594130
>>10594134
>>10594211

Its not so much a genre unless it has fabio on the cover. Also it depends on the book.

I read this book a year ago. What did I think of it?

Just finished pic related. Some takeaways:
>milfs
>ladders as a metaphor
>love letters...you can tell this is highly influenced by the epistolary tradition it succeeds
>napoleon as a role model to all non-nobles
>fuck the provinces
>fuck paris
>fuck the Church
>fuck the petit bourgeoisie
>abbé Pirard was ok

Missing anything?

Here you go Jacob

Haven't seen this one here yet, it's a good read and I think a lot of the readers here would identify with the main character.

>>9224512
Its narrated but it is the journey of a young autist who has problems with women

>>9108892
19th-early 20th Century stuff is ideal, like Marius and Cossette or Gone with the Wind or pic related.

what's your problem with Penguin publishing? excluding translated works

How is this so good.

>died while
embracing her children.

are all french novels this shitty?

This makes Romeo and Juliet look like Twilight.

Shitting on Shakespeare general?