/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1487331]

What should I read next? Im thinking British and 19th century, I really liked Ulysses.

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[Anonymous No.1487340]

Do you want 19th Century or do you want similar to Ulysses?

[Anonymous No.1487352]

this is why im coming to /lit/ I want something both similar to Ulysses and published or written in the 19th century. Its a hard find if Im not mistaken.

[Anonymous No.1487367]

>>1487352
Fairly. The reason Ulysses is so important is because basically all of its methods and the project its engaged in were fairly new at the time. It's very much a product of modernism and a whole host of things that really don't develop, certainly before 1900, and largely not until after 1918. So Ulysses is one of the first, best representatives of that style.

[Anonymous No.1487385]

>>1487367
What I am hoping to find is a precursor to Ulysses that may not use the same literary devises that made it such a landmark. I hope to find a book marginally similar to Joyce's style written at least 20 years beforehand.

I am also actively searching, however my forte is with German literature.

[Anonymous No.1487386]

>>1487331

Trolling or just ignorant?

[Anonymous No.1487393]

>>1487385
i guess check out hamsun even tho he's not british

[Anonymous No.1487396]

>>1487386
Ignorant and sincere apparently. I only trolled to the extent of not using correct punctuation, I expected more traffic from that.

I know for a fact that there were writings with a sort of stream of consciousness style in the 19th century in Germany, however I am ignorant of any in Britain at such time.

[Anonymous No.1487408]

>>1487393
I love Hamsun's writings, and he is exactly what I am talking about. I am trying to find someone like him who was living, writing, or born in Britain.

[OUTRAGEOUS No.1487410]

>>1487396
There's not much stream of consciousness stuff from that time. You get Romanticism and Victorian writing and neither lend themselves to that really.

[op No.1487439]

>>1487410
Exactly! As you say "Theres not much". This implies that there are some; some which I intend to find.

[op No.1487500]

Fuck it, Ill just read hamsun.

[Anonymous No.1487505]

>>1487439
I don't know of any stream of consciousness writing from Britain before 1900, and I would be shocked to hear of the existence of any. I suppose there might be some poetry or something, but I again I would be shocked.