/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12000121]

What other books deal with an animal's point of view?

[Anonymous No.12000129]

The Ant Trilogy I guess, although it's not realistic at all

[Anonymous No.12000142]

[Anonymous No.12000159]

All books since humans are animals.

[Anonymous No.12000165]

[Anonymous No.12000188]

>>12000121
Watership Down, Black Beauty, a whooooole lot of 'genre fiction' like Rats of NIMH, Warriors, Warhorse, or Redwall. There's one chapter from a horse's point of view in some Russian novel, I don't remember which...C&P? Not sure.
Technically Animal Farm, but not really.
Kipling has a lot from animal perspectives. Bit kiddish though.
That's what I remember off the top.

[Anonymous No.12001188]

>>12000159
>all books deal with the point of view of a living being
yikes

[Anonymous No.12001401]

>>12000121

White Fang, but London as well. Arguably better than Call of the Wild but it's hard to say.

[Anonymous No.12001411]

>>12000121
Rat by Andrzej Zaniewski. The miserable life of a rat from its point of view.

[Anonymous No.12001454]

>>12000121
the iliad, the similes;like a lion that, like a boar and even achilles horse Xanthus speaks

[Anonymous No.12001458]

>>12001401
the sea wolf is better

[Anonymous No.12001459]

>>12000121
None that are good.
>>12000142
/thread
>>12001408

[Anonymous No.12001486]

>>12001458

I'm working through the Library of America 'Novels and Stories' collection. The Sea-Wolf is coming up soon!

[Anonymous No.12001499]

>>12001486
nice

[Anonymous No.12001978]

Surprised no one's mentioned the Fox and the Hound

[Anonymous No.12002898]

>>12000142
Kek

[Anonymous No.12002928]

>>12001458
bluepilled and cringe

[Anonymous No.12003159]

Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

[Anonymous No.12003165]

>>12000159
t. le edgy atheist

[Anonymous No.12004827]

Miguel de Cervantes' Dialogue of the Dogs, it is not a full book but is still a great short story.

[Anonymous No.12004844]

>>12001458

[Anonymous No.12004861]

i could be difficult and say i haven't found one that isn't pure, fallacious anthropomorphization

but the last paragraph of "To Build A Fire" by Jack London fucking S L A P S. if nobody made you read this as an adolescent, your society did you a disservice

[Anonymous No.12004938]

>>12000188
>horse

Donkey, afaik. It's from The Idiot. Bresson made a film out of it.

[Anonymous No.12005068]

Heart of a Dog

[Anonymous No.12005114]

>>12000121
that 620 page book about the first world war from the point of view of a carrier pigeon

[Anonymous No.12005181]

>>12004844
>not the gay kind like genetic drift

fucking lol

[Anonymous No.12005195]

>>12003165
t. Guy who thinks "athiests r dum edgelrds lol" and doesnt appreciate the epistemological and existential position and assumptions that lead them to that conclusion

Im certainly not a nihilist, nor even an atheist in the strictest sense, but I can at least understand and engage with their position without fatuously rejecting it out of hand.

Theres no reason to think are just retards or edgelrds or etc.

[Anonymous No.12005605]

>>12005195
It's just that in the last several years the contrarian kids started pretending they're religious, conservative and that the orange retard is actually a smart person. It's just young people trying to against the mainstream to the point they're being ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.12005680]

>>12005605
I see a lot of this. I do think that there's a solid group of kids (usually not found /here/) that is legitimately magnetized by one position or the other - not just trying to be contrarian as an act of defiance.

[Anonymous No.12005688]

>>12000121
I really loved that book. But I think it talks about humans too. I mean we all hear the call of the wild

[Anonymous No.12005724]

>>12000188
The house is a chehov short story and is amazing.
>>12004938
I don't remember a cheaper about a donkey in the idiot