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Has anybody here read Tolstoy's debut novel Boyhood?

It's 120 pages long, published when he was 24, and I really can't believe what kind of literary environment must have existed for this kind of thing to be deemed worthy of publication. The first 70 pages or so focuses on the events of two days, when a 10 / 11 year old Tolstoy goes hunting for hares with his family, and is then told he is to move to Moscow to further his education. There he falls in love with another young boy, and then for a girl who attends a dance at his home. Each chapter is around 3 / 4 pages long and largely consists of character descriptions.

>> No.7496912

>>7496638
>There he falls in love with another young boy
Wait, what? Wouldn't this have gotten him hung or castrated back then?

>> No.7496923

>>7496912
its just Platonic love Anon, only kissing and above the clothes rubbing and hugging, nyoro~

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7496955

Has anybody here read Joyce's final novel Finnegans Wake?

It's 600 pages long, published when he was 57, and I really can't believe what kind of literary environment must have existed for this kind of thing to be deemed worthy of publication. The first 600 pages or so focuses on I have no fucking clue, when a riverrun past bend of bay and swerve of shore, and then goes on to stream of consciousness rambling for 90 pages. Then Joyce references some obscure cave painting that 3 people in the world have seen. Each chapter is around 3 / 4 pages long and largely consists of nonsense.

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>>7496923
puratonniku rabu yu sei

>> No.7496994

How does it compare to the film adaptation directed by Richard Linklater?

>> No.7497245

>>7496955
>Then Joyce references some obscure cave painting that 3 people in the world have seen

Exceedingly high kek

>> No.7497255

>>7496955
great post 10/10.

>> No.7497804

>>7496955
kek

>> No.7497960

It's his debut man leave him alone, >:(

>> No.7497981

It's the only Tolstoy I've read and I found it very rewarding throughout my childhood, boyhood and youth.

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>>7496955
Perhaps, the best Joyce review I have ever read. T O P K E K