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what is the single most KINO book you've read that's not set in europe or north america? talking about comfiness and aesthetics, plot is secondary.

>> No.13142177

>kino
>comfiness
wut

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Just finished pic related, I'm inclined to say it fits your description.

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>>13142177
define comfiness? i personally would describe it as absorbing, well-written atmosphere that makes you imagine it vividly and even feel it. it can be cozy, breathtaking, calming, mildly erotic, and also sad, "empty" (like op pic), even neutral, but it does NOT induce rage, disgust, cringe, etc

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>>13142143
>not set in europe or north america
>comfiness and aesthetics
The plot is tremendously engrossing too, fyi.

>> No.13142237

Beauty and Sadness

>> No.13142244

>>13142143
The Good Earth by Pearl s Buck was pretty sad/comfy. But it was the plot that made it that way

>> No.13142276

>>13142229
Bro this is one my favorites but I wouldn't call it comfy. Also several sections take place in Europe.


But yeah, read Latin-American lit, OP. Try One Hundred Years of Solitude, /lit/ hates it but it's GOAT aesthetics and comfiness

>> No.13142284

>>13142143
Sound and Waves

>> No.13142287

>>13142284
*of

>> No.13142339

>>13142287
*Of Sound and Waves

>> No.13142349

>>13142229
Mexico is North America buddy and everything else is set in Europe

>> No.13142493

>>13142276
This, and Love In The Time of Cholera

>>13142143
Lord Jim, IIRC
I haven't read Kim by Kipling but I imagine it has that feel too (his poems certainly do)
IIRC Empire of the Sun by Ballard is oddly cosy considering there's a war on, and not even a low-tech old-school war

I think being Britbong has culturally conditioned me to associate colonial settings and adventures with a nostalgic cosiness. Which seems all kinds of messed up really, but there you go

>> No.13142497

>>13142143
Snow Country has that exotic cosiness you seem to be after

>> No.13142520

>>13142221
I just found the combination of kino and comfiness a bit weird. I guess I mentally associate kino more with epic spectacle, which is kind of the opposite of comfiness.

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>>13142276
i'm op, Marquez and Borges are undoubtedly among my favorite authors.
>>13142497
seems like a solid one. i wouldn't call it 'exotic' though (this word has unlikable undertones imo) more like "completely foreign"
>>13142520
i associate kino with thoughtful, aesthetic, non-mainstream stuff

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Alamayers Folly, Outcast of the Islands and lots of other Conrad spring to mind. Though for sheer comfiness you can't beat O'Brian

>> No.13142664

>>13142623
thanks, fren

my own favorites so far are many of Borges' short stories, the cultural difference makes it even more dizzingly surreal.

>> No.13142723

>>13142197
Second this

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>>13142143
The Lord of the Rings

>> No.13142853

>>13142143
Book of the New Sun

>> No.13142899

Gentleman Bastard series.

The Lies of Locke Lamora.

>> No.13142913

>>13142143
Midnight's Children

>> No.13143579

>>13142276
One Hundred Years is NOT comfy. Too much turnover in both setting and characters. You can't settle into it, ever.

also, starting around page 150 it goes to shit and doesn't get better until the last 50 pages. that's a lot of bull to sift through.

>> No.13143594

Moby Dick is set in the ocean, so I guess that. Pretty comfy over all, but also intense sometimes. And of course HIGHLY aesthetic

>> No.13144702

I really love Joe Wilson's Mates by Henry Lawson. It's a collection of short stories about Australian settlers in the bush at the turn of the 20th century. Funny ones, sad ones. Check out The Union Buries It's Dead.

>> No.13145868

>>13142143
The Day Lasts More than A Hundred Years
by Aitmatov

Duishen,
same author

>> No.13145887

>>13142143
moby dick was incredibly comfy

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>>13142143
Invisible Cities is easily the comfiest book of all time, seems like it’d fit what you’re looking for perfectly, especially with an interest in aesthetics over plot

>> No.13145996

>>13142143
Sea of Fertility Tetralogy

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>>13142143
>tfw you will never be a bandit god in Song dynasty China

>> No.13146117

>>13142143
Bridge of Birds, forget the author's name. First in a trilogy of novels set in fantasy ancient China.

>> No.13146914

the sheltering sky