Thread 214012871

What's your favorite book in your country?
Mine's The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa.

I have this but haven't read it

probably Homo faber by Max Frisch, it's a novel about how a man fixated on rationality who is confronted by fate
we had to read it in school but I grew to really like it

>>214012871 (OP)
I love the epic of Gilgamesh

literature threads never do well here

i read 150 pages of it and then i got too bored of it now i read books about fashions of the imperial court of Japan in the tenth century

Valis by Philip K Dick

>>214014269
bases

favorite kinda hard to pin down, but i like this book currently

>>214012871 (OP)
That's my favorite book as well. I can kinda read Portuguese (though my pronounciation is shit) because I wanted to read Pessoa's poems in their original language. Opiário and Tabacaria are my favorite by far.

>>214014587
>>214012871 (OP)
did you (Italian) read it in english?
what's it about?

>>214014587
dont tell me you are comparing your pronunciation to portugal pronunciation

>>214014634
It's about the emptiness of existence, loneliness and depression.

>>214014634
I read it in Italian.
It is a collection of short thoughts (most are under a page, some a few pages long) about many different topics, mostly how Pessoa can't find his own identity and feels like everything he did in his life is no more than a fiction. It is actually more complex than this but I don't know how to put it in few words.

>>214014673
What do you mean? I have learned the basic grammar and a few words on the internet and I've only spoken it in person like once, I honestly have zero idea how you actually pronounce words in Portuguese

>>214014758
thanks

>>214013179
Thanks for the rec

>>214012871 (OP)
blackpill me on this book

posting some more good ones to get the thread going hopefully

pic rel is set in late 1950s Jerusalem and is kind of a romance, but really nice too imo, read it recently

last novel by Michel Houllebecq, read it in German, French title is aneantir, English is annihilation

it's about reconciliation, love and death

novel about two teenage Waffen-SS recruits experiencing the final phase of WW2

was translated at least into English and French, English title is To die in springtime

>>214015914
Too lazy to talk to type a text. There's a lot to talk about.
Watch this video for an introduction:
https://youtu.be/6qU1sDBU9Cs?si=NRsrdbgMQeoq7zHX

>>214012871 (OP)
Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion.
>>214014269
>>214014402
/lit/

Mine is A Hero of our Time by Lermontov
I've read it three times
Also Le Colonel Chabert by Balzac
>Ne me parlez pas de cela ! répondit le vieux militaire. Vous ne pouvez pas savoir jusqu’où va mon mépris pour cette vie extérieure à laquelle tiennent la plupart des hommes. J’ai subitement été pris d’une maladie, le dégoût de l’humanité. Quand je pense que Napoléon est à Sainte-Hélène, tout ici-bas m’est indifférent. Je ne puis plus être soldat, voilà tout mon malheur. Enfin, ajouta-t-il en faisant un geste plein d’enfantillage, il vaut mieux avoir du luxe dans ses sentiments que sur ses habits. Je ne crains, moi, le mépris de personne.

>>214017844
What do you like about A Hero Of Our Time?

>>214012871 (OP)
It's not a book it's a series, but The Wheel of Time is hands down the best fantasy series I've ever read it absolutely mogs the fuck out of every other fantasy series I've ever read. Yes even with Brandon Sanderson's inferior ending. LOTR fags can fight me.

>>214018895
I'm fascinated by Pechorin's character and I love the Caucasus