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7077940 No.7077940 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw I never have time to read everything I WANT to read because I study literature and I'm to busy reading classics and whatnot

Please recommend me some refreshing and short books for when I do get a fucking break off these 800+ page 17-19th century tomes

>> No.7077947

>>7077940

Let me clarify, I'm espacially looking for really short and fast novellas like the Agota Kristof "The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie" trilogy, Patrick Modiano or stuff like that that I can possibly read in a single free afternoon.

>> No.7077965

>>7077947

Literally any short story, poem, or essay. Personally, I like Chesterton, Borges, Montaigne, Whitman, Melville, Hawthorne... The list goes on.

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Prepare for anons angry with you for disrespecting the western canon.

>> No.7077970

>>7077947
Check out Zweig, he likes short work. I was a fan of Chess Story.

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>>7077947
George Saunders could do you some good, Donald Barthelme.

>> No.7077974

>>7077940
Maybe you can try poetry? Many poems are short in nature but still offer a fulfilling experience