/lit/ - Literature

>>18574854
I got half-way through while I was doing my PhD and abandoned it. For some reason it just wasn't gripping me in the way his other stuff does. It was a stressful period for me, though, and I was used to reading verse all day at that point, so I'll probably pick it up again. Wouldn't read it before Buddenbrooks, though.

>>18574837
No problem.

>>18415132
Dubliners was rejected countless times before it was accepted for publication, as was Lolita. Initial publishers thought Swann's Way was terrible and turned it down. Hermann Melville died in penniless obscurity. It's the name of the game my man.