Does anyone read classical literature any more?
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Re: Does anyone read classical literature any more?
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I periodically return to Balzac, Charlotte Bronte, Proust, Karl May, Dostoievski, Bulgakov. Just to be sure
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Then I read "Anna Karenina" and I've been trying to read as many classics as I can since.
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They are the building blocks of modern literature, the very few original works we still have. Unfortunately, it seems that original stories and ideas have diluted into the way a certain story is told. I finished my second university studies with English Literature as my main subject. Hence, for the past few year I've been through dozens of classical books. The Canterbury Tales, often considered the original source of English literature as we lnow it today, by Geoffrey Chaucer was a most curious read. When one considers the time at which it was written, the immense creative and artistic talent within its pages... well, simply put, it's mind blowing! The wit and the humor, the vulgarity and the captivation of each tale, even the poetic skill... it's incredible. It was of the first writing styles that broke us into an entirely new era of writing. Accustoming oneself to the old english takes a moment, or five, yet, once one gets into it it flows like a magnificent natural river.
We worked through the classic authors such as Dickens, Mansfield, Charlotte Bronte, George Orwell, Hemingway, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Kafka, H.G. Wells, Chinua Achebe, George Eliot, and many of Africa's homegrown treasures.
I must admit that I found a particular liking to Sylvia Plath. The is just something about her raw honesty and emotion that absolutely captivated my interest and kept me in her mesmerizing grasp.
I am also a fan of Charles Bukowski, the raw and unfiltered nature of his writing simply encompasses my being and entrenches me into his art.
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I totally agree! I have a background in literature so I've read quite a few classics and the list of books I still have to read keeps growing. I have recently begun to explore south american literature, especially Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel García Márquez. I read some of Cortázar's short stories, Rayuela and "Clases de Literatura" (his literature lessons at Berkeley). Absolutely wonderful, I can't wait to read more by him.Simina Dinca wrote: ↑01 Aug 2019, 10:17 I believe that people should first have a solid foundation based on the classics and only after that should they explore other areas.
The author I keep returning to time and time again is Dostoevsky. It seems to me that very few authors have explored human emotions as well as he did.