/lit/ - Literature

>Le Comte de Monte Cristo
>comfy

>>12856799
I'm sorry but most of these aren't comfy at all.

Moby Dick
Tolkien
The Pickwick Papers
Verne
A.C. Doyle
Alice in Wonderland
Gogol
Umberto Eco
Calvino

In Search of Lost Time is the absolute undeniable epitome of comfy literature.

>>12856888
t. french
go back >>>/int/

>>12856879
Was gonna post this.
So underrated, I prefer it to "I promessi sposi"

Oblomov
Aksakov's The Family Chronicle

>>12856895
Confessions of an Italian is unironically better than Dostoevskij. Too bad Nievo died young.

>>12856799
>Siddhartha
Are the rest of Hesse comfy too?

>>12856799
What exactly is comfy lit? I mean what are it's qualities or characteristics, other than the obvious?

Here is a start:

ordinary people
domestic setting
small town or neighborhood
introspective
not a lot of violent or calamitous action

anything else?

I think Proust and Joyce are the best for getting me the "comfy feel," particularly the early stories of Dubliners or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>>12856930
It should have nostalgic value and some comedy as well.

Don Quixote

>>12856799
You know how macaroni and cheese is considered a 'comfort food'? A Wild Sheep Chase is like the literary equivalent of that for me. I know it's not very good for me, but I can't help but indulge in it a couple times a year - just for the comfort of a more innocent time.

>>12856815
>an invincible man reap righteous vengeance
>not comfy

Le Morte d'Arthur
Outlaws of the Marsh
Zhuangzhi

>>12856799
>king solomon's mines
>the time machine
>dracula
my rainy/snowy day quick reads

DINO BUZZATI

>>12856955
Why would I read this cultural marxist hock?

>>12856904
Have you actually read Oblomov? Did you just enjoy the comfy countryside descriptions and just not pay attention to anything else?

>>12856887
>>12856930
I've seen a couple of these charts floating around but it's really subjective. I guess a comfy book would need to have descriptive prose and more focus on the atmosphere than on any actual conflict, a sort of dreamlike characteristic. Calvino does this pretty well IMO.

>>12856910
In a melancholy sort of way, yes most are, especially everything up to and including Siddhartha.

>>12857140
You're on /lit/. You wouldn't want to read anything actually relevant or anything that actually corresponds to reality haha

>>12856894
go away retard

>>12857221
>corresponds to reality

DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE: The Collected Short Stories


>>12857204
>>12856799
>>12856887
>Why doesn't /lit/ love D.H.Lawrence more?

Judas by Amos Oz


peak comfy

dubliners is the epitome of comfy.
the gospels too

>>12857742
yeah it's real comfy when the guys beats his child as he begs him to stop

There's nothing comfier than Invisible Cities. I've read it probably 8 or 9 times and it's just as comfy each time.

>>12857762
In Dubliners? I don't even remember that, which story was that?

This. Also, Winnie The Pooh

>>12858379
counterparts

Dubliners is the destruction of comfy. Joyce himself said the heart of every story is a character realizing they're trapped by being in Dublin. Take your pick of stories: an old man exposes himself to two young boys, a man rejects a woman and years later feels immense guilt upon discovering she threw herself in front of a train, a young boy feels for the first time the futility of trying to win a girl's affection, a middle-aged pseud realizes he will never measure up to his wife's first love. Yeah, real comfy stuff

>>12856799

I am reading "Story of a soul" by St. Therese right now and it's really heart warming to hear of her childhood innocence in the autobiography; the feeling of pure love and joy it gives off is something I have never felt elsewhere. I almost became saddened at how pure her personal life was in comparison to mine. Some anons might like it too since she was a bit of a recluse socially and overemotional at times.

>>12857742
uhh, yeah. that feeling at the end of Araby.

that's not comfy.

>>12858379
calvino in general is comfy af, just finished if on winters night a traveller

>>12856955
Arcades is such a comfy read

>>12858491
based

>>12858636
I think these retards don't get the point of Dubliners.

P G Woodhouse is peek comfy

>>12856799
kafka on the shore was pretty comfy

unironically Harry Potter, if we're going for the "I just want to relax and enjoy some lowbrow writing for a while" kind of comfy

>>12856799
basically everything tolkein wrote was comfy af

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, all the moomin books too

Unironically Norweigan wood is the most comfy book in existence. Maybe it's just because I first read it at the 'right' time

>>12856895
Damn that's a big claim. I really like that one. Will have to check it out.

>>12856799
your mom
you
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(you)

>>12857045
>Le Morte d'Arthur
does this have any merit other than being the first intelligible english literary work?<div class="like-perk-cnt">&#x2668;&#xFE0F;</div>

>>12856799
brainlet here, i know just enough french to understand l'etranger, will i be able to comprehend hunchback of notre dame in the original?<div class="like-perk-cnt">&#x1F3F3;&#xFE0F;</div>

Most of Turgenev's works are pretty comfy I'd say

>>12863549
>enjoy reading garbage
yikes

>>12865502
Yes, it does. Le Morte d'Arthur should be mandatory reading in all schools. It is an unrecognized seminal text in the English canon. It is an incredible work that synthesizes English and French court traditions into a work that is not only entertaining but critical for the time period. It also forms the basis of modern conception of King Arthur and in so doing provides a springboard for modern critiques of our ideas of honor and duty through interplay with and reinterpretation of the original text.

>>12857140
Shouldn’t you be cleaning your room anon?

>>12865596
That book is so comfy, yet so sad. I almost never see it posted on /lit/, either. I wish more people loved it.

Is Petersburg a comfy read? Also how many chapters does it take to get into invisible cities