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1257661 No.1257661 [Reply] [Original]

/lit/, I plan on reading at least one major work by every Nobel Prize for Literature winner. I'll do this by reading 3-4 every year, with the award of a new prize every year making this a lifelong project.

Where should I begin? What can I look forward to? I've already ticked a couple of the obvious ones (Hemingway, Sartre, Heaney, Russell...)

>> No.1257670

Go in sequential order.

>> No.1257673

>>1257670

Y'think? I don't really have a plan just yet. I was just going to pick them up when and where I could. If it's chronological, though, do you have any idea where I could pick up the poetry of some of the more obscure early winners history forgot?

>> No.1257687

Have you read any Faulkner? I'm guessing you have based on who you mentioned, but I want to be sure.

>> No.1257697

>>1257687

Surprisingly no :P

>> No.1257702

Knut Hamsun is awesome. Try Hunger, his major work.

Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks. But there's a shit-ton of shorter stuff out there too, like Death In Venice.

Stay clear of Elfriede Jelinek! That's just books for frigid bitches.

>> No.1257707

>>1257661

So are you just going to assume the activities of Jonathan Franzen characters until you slowly become as much of a pretentious asshole as he is?

>> No.1257714

>>1257697

Aw no. My favourite's The Sound and the Fury, but other people might know more about this stuff. You should definitely read some of his stuff.

>> No.1257717

>>1257714

Thanks :)

>>1257707

It's not for any real purpose of for want of boasting. I'm simply a guy who likes to take on projects and learn new skills. I find it hard to get much of a reading list together from around the world, so I thought this would be a good bet. It's biased, for sure, but it can't all be bad...

>> No.1257723

What about Steinbeck, Eliot and Camus?

>> No.1257842

>>1257723

Done Steinbeck, and Eliot scares me :D