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ITT: Recommendations of literature you can read in one day

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160pp

>> No.2939435

Bump

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If you want to count plays as literature.

>> No.2939439

>>2939436
Read it. Amazing, wasn't it? Eerie how the author almost foretold his own unfortunate early death...

>> No.2939441

>>2939440
Also watched this. But thanks.

>> No.2939443

>>2939440
Have you read/watched Mother Brecht.

Amazing modern play

>> No.2939450

Sarah by J.T. Leroy
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Traveling on One Leg by Herta Muller

>> No.2939454

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

>> No.2939458

>>2939450
Never heard of these, thank you

>> No.2939461

I read Sorrows of Young Werther in a day for the book club thing.
The Stranger by Camus, too. The Eye by Nabokov.
1984/Animal Farm - Orwell
Despair - Nabokov
Fathers and Sons - Turgenev
Old Man and the Sea/Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
The Double - Dostoevsky

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I'm still trying to get my hands on a copy of this, but it's definitely a short read.

>> No.2939463

>>2939454
Thanks, but read it
>>2939457
What do you think about the claims that he foretold the rise of Nazism in this? I found it pretty rough, with the bullying that went the way it did...

>> No.2939466

Whatever - Michel Houellebecq

>> No.2939464

They're all brilliant, I promise.

>> No.2939472

>>2939443
You mean The Mother by Brecht? Unfortunately no. Any particular version you would recommend?

>> No.2939477

>>2939472
I watched a local adaptation unfortunately

>> No.2939480

Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

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part I at least

>> No.2939492

>>2939463
I haven't actually read the novel. I'll be honest with you: I became interested in it because of its sexual and psychological themes, but since modernism is an academic interest of mine, I'm looking forward to doing some more research into that interpretation.

>> No.2939502

>>2939487
Is this one of the first historical fictions?

>> No.2939523

Bump. Please keep it up

>> No.2939538

The Time Machine

>> No.2939549

>>2939538
Thanks, got more? Already read. Not the biggest fan of sci-fi, but some proto sci-fi is actually quite good

>> No.2939554

OP (?), what haven't you already read? If the book is popular enough, can we assume you've gone through it?

>> No.2939556

Death in Venice

>> No.2939564

>>2939556
On that note you all should give Doctor Faustus a try, I hear it's a quick read.

>> No.2939565

I second Death in Venice.

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>> No.2939570

How's your French?

Mark Twain's The Jumping Frog: In English, Then in French, Then Clawed Back into a Civilized Language by Patient, Unrenumerated Toil

>> No.2939573

>>2939554
That is the case, yes. I worked through /lit/'s novella charts on my own and am looking for more. Doesn't need to be a novella of course.

I've read and/or watched a lot of the 'essential' plays as well

>> No.2939581

Evguenie Sokolov by Serge Gainsbourg

>> No.2939583

>>2939570
I could read this in the original, and then in the retranslation back into English. I'd miss out on the French part though...

>> No.2939628

You still here OP? House of Dolls by Ka-Tzetnik 135633...it's out of print and copies go for absurd amounts of money on Amazon, but maybe the library will have it.

Also Reunion by Fred Uhlman.

>> No.2939689

One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich.

>> No.2939751

>>2939573
Too bad you'll never read any off the contemporary novellas chart!

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>>2939751
which is relevant to thread anyway, so I'll post it

>> No.2939844

Dostoevsky's The Gambler been mentioned yet?

>> No.2939846

>>2939844
Nope. But you can be assured that Capsguy has read it

>> No.2939849

Agapē Agape by Gaddis

Although it is a bitch to read and you'll want to find annotations online.

>> No.2939863

>>2939849
Franzen's shitting on this and JR in an essay convinced me that he was a fucking idiot.