/lit/ - Literature

>>13590597

>>13590597
Moby Dick

>>13590611
Honestly, I feel that. I don't understand why some people don't like the book. Sure it had like a chapter that was essentially a copy and paste from an encyclopedia entry on whales, but aside from that, that shit was cash

the waves

>>13590622
did you even read it? that chapter was eccentric as fuck and hilarious

Not English but Goethe’s Faust. Holderlin is also gorgeous

>>13590647
With some of shame, I will say that I did not.

Melville was paid by the word so I just thought that the chapter was nothing more than something to beef up his word count.

This. Since the original Polish is godlike, the translation is also wonderful. I read it in Polish and in English a number of times.
There's an older translation from Penguin too, but I haven't read it.

>>13590670
The whaling chapters contribute to the novel's overarching theme of perception and the unknown. Moby Dick is the novel it is because of rather than inspite of those chapters.

>>13590670
>Melville was paid by the word
where'd you hear that?

>>13590670
i like this is an insincere troll

>>13590597
Idk about objectively, but here's a list of my favorite,

Chapter 1 of Moby Dick,
Quentin section from the sound and the fury
End of Gatsby
End of Dubliners and Ulysses
Adonais by Shelley
The chapter in On the Road where he has sex with the girl and feels like he fucked it up
You are tired (I think) by Cummings.

Idk why but a lot of those just stick in my head

>>13590597

the enormous room, middlemarch, all of shakespeare, all of taylor, rupert brooke's nonfiction, all of lowry, most of updike, the recognitions, nabokov, burroughs, o'casey, peak miller, melville, royce/santayana/whitehead/desmond, all of dickens, most poets, practically all of james, urqhart's rabelais, florio's montaigne, peak woolf, gass

>>13590790
I'll second the final pages of Gatsby. Probably my favorite ending to any novel.

It's a basic bitch choice, but the beginning of lolita.

>>13590610
Obligatory "fuck you tranny, etc." post.

>>13590611
Best post. Also suggest Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels for the simplicity and sparkling clarity of the language.

>>13590790
Which chapter is that, the one from On the Road?

>>13590597
as i lay dying is my favourite. portrait of the artist as a young man is also really good

also the ending of a farewell to arms

the recognitions

Swann’s Way

>>13593138
I'll see if I can find it in a bit. I know it's in the edited version. I'm reading the original scroll now, so I'm unsure if its included. It has them laying in bed and wondering what god had wrought when he made life so sad

>>13594477
>>13593138
Sorry handsome, cant find my edited copy

>>13590597
Against Nature

>>13590597
Sometimes I go back to the transcendentalists for some beautiful and passionate writing

>>13590597
Bump