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18365401 No.18365401 [Reply] [Original]

What are some interesting coming of age novels that are similar to pic related?

>> No.18365742

Stephen Hero

>> No.18366011
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>>18365401
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

>> No.18366056

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Much better than Portrait.

>> No.18366179

>>18365401
I really did not enjoy this novel. Am I a retard? Should I still attempt Ulysses? I liked parts of it, but overall it made me empty and sad and I struggled to get through the 250 pages

>> No.18366227

>>18366179
Ulysses is much more difficult. Joyce just may not be for you, but still give Ulysses a try. You can get it for free online.

>> No.18367933

>>18365401
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. The original coming of age novel.

>> No.18367954

>>18366056
You crazy. I dnf'd this side of paradise and dislike much of fitzgerald beyond gatsby and tender is the night. The lees of happiness is my fav story by him though. Ben button was dope too.

How is beautiful and damned

>> No.18367962

>>18366011
Seconding this. This book should have more recognition on lit

>> No.18368368

>>18365401
I actually just started this today.

>> No.18368607

>>18365401
In Search of Lost Time by Proust.
The Time of the Hero by Vargas Llosa.
Demian by Hermann Hesse.

>> No.18368612

>>18365742
How good is Stephen Hero? Is it supposed to he after Portrait and before Ulysses?

>> No.18368669

>>18365401
Most postcolonial novels from 1920-80, which used the kunstlerroman form and SD as the rebellious archetype, defying both the coloniser, the church, and the call to tradition.

>> No.18369093

>>18368612
Stephen Hero is actually the original version of Portrait; Joyce wrote it in the Martello tower with the real Buck Mulligan before getting drunk in Trieste, coming back and trying to burn it all before Nora saved what she could. It's written much more like a story from Dubliners than the style we see in Portrait though.

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>> No.18369107

>>18365401
How come no-one here talks about dickens? It might have been because I was only 15 when I read it, but I thought David Copperfield was great

>> No.18369123

>>18366179
The first three chapters of Ulysses (the Telemachiad, or the introductory chapters about Stephen Daedalus post-Portrait) are so much better than Portrait. Then, you get to chapter four, with Leopold Bloom, and Bloom's chapters, the majority of Ulysses, are way better than Stephen's. I really wish I liked Portrait more because I really liked Stephen as a character a lot, at least his characterization in Ulysses anyway. If you haven't read it yet, read Dubliners, which is Joyce's easiest novel. Also, as the other anon said, Ulysses is WAY more difficult than Portrait. The chapter Proteus is basically impenetrable.

>> No.18369833

>>18369123
Stephen is a pretentious ass and nobody except Bloom likes him.

>> No.18369868

>>18369833
I connect with Stephen spiritually because I too am a pretentious ass

>> No.18369896

>>18369868
fair enough. I believe Joyce felt the same way about his hero.

>> No.18370623

>>18369123
>dubliners, a novel
kek

>> No.18372312

>>18369123
It’s not that I found Joyce difficult in terms of his prose, it’s just that portrait was frankly boring and depressing to me. Like the parts about his childhood were really enjoyable and unique, but once I got to the part about hell it just sort of fell off the rails. I found myself in a shitty mood every time I read it, even at the more positive parts and I really found myself not giving a shit what happened to Steven and not really liking him as a person.

>> No.18372399

>>18368607
The Sorrows of Young Werther. Goethe is the German literary champion, in the way of Shakespeare represents the English and Dante the Italian. Everyone should read him

>> No.18372418

>>18366179

Isn't this one of those books that most people hate like the Great Gatsby?

I'm sure most of the people forced to read it in school hated it.