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Anonymous No.24850245 [Report] >>24850287 >>24850298 >>24850432 >>24850455 >>24850499 >>24850570 >>24851334 >>24854268 >>24854272 >>24855216
The literature of a century prior
What is your favorite novel, short story, or poem from 1925 (the year which some have called “the greatest year of literature”)?
Anonymous No.24850287 [Report] >>24850323
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Anonymous No.24850298 [Report] >>24850323
>>24850245 (OP)
just looked at the Wikipedia page '1925 in literature', and the only ones i've read are:
>Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
>Franz Kafka, The Trial
>William Carlos Williams, In the American Grain
i've never seen In the American Grain discussed on here, it's pretty interesting.
Anonymous No.24850323 [Report]
>>24850287
Thank you for your paranoid racism, Mr. Buchanan.
>>24850298
How have you not read Gatsby? Everyone has to read it for school.
Might as well knock it out now before the year’s over so you can get in on the centennial celebratory fun:
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/f-scott-fitzgerald/the-great-gatsby
Anonymous No.24850432 [Report] >>24854256
>>24850245 (OP)
Is metropolis a novelization of the film?
Anonymous No.24850455 [Report] >>24850872
>>24850245 (OP)
Great Gatsby had a reference to Lothrod Stoddards Rising Tide of Color - yes its true

http://www.google.com/search?q=great+gatsby+reference+rising+tide+of+color
Anonymous No.24850499 [Report]
>>24850245 (OP)
I have recorded 3 things that I have read from 1925:
The Great Gatsby
Mockery Gap (T.F. Powys)
The Heart of a Dog (Bulgakov)

Probably Heart of a Dog has stuck with me the most.
Anonymous No.24850570 [Report] >>24853009
>>24850245 (OP)
Les faux-monnayeurs
Paulina 1880
Der Räuber (Walser, written 1925, published posthumously)
Anonymous No.24850872 [Report] >>24851384
>>24850455
>yes its true
yeah man, we know
all of us, ALL OF US, have had to thoroughly dissect every paragraph of this novel in high school, so we know its contents, there’s nothing about what’s on the page that’s a mystery to us
also that book is just brought up to be mocked, hence why only tom buchanan, the racist douchebag loon of the group, is the one singing its praises
Anonymous No.24851109 [Report]
Ion even really fw Gatsby like that. Shit was mid asl. Uncs obsessed over sum chopped huzz for a bill and sum change, nahhh, generational simp'n.
Anonymous No.24851334 [Report] >>24851371
>>24850245 (OP)
My favorite novel is Mann's The Magic Mountain, my favorite short story is Wells's The Time Machine, and as for poetry I have a strong attachment to Stevens, Moore, Bishop, and Crane. I was born in 1963, and not particularly literary until around 1997, familiar as I was with subjects like very long baseline radio interferometry, stellar evolution, and corporate intrigue--courtesy of my dad.
Anonymous No.24851371 [Report]
>>24851334
Seneca is also curiously near to me, nearer than anyone else in the ancient world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuxgRiRxzeY&list=RDMM&index=25
Anonymous No.24851384 [Report]
>>24850872
>all of us, ALL OF US, have had to thoroughly dissect every paragraph of this novel in high school

I did not do that
Anonymous No.24853009 [Report]
>>24850570
>Les faux-monnayeurs
based, it's kinda bizarre how Gide is ignored on /lit/
Anonymous No.24854256 [Report] >>24854346
>>24850432
the film is from 1927
Anonymous No.24854268 [Report]
>>24850245 (OP)
fervor by Borges
Anonymous No.24854272 [Report]
>>24850245 (OP)
Fervor de Buenos Aires by Borges
Anonymous No.24854346 [Report]
>>24854256
Damn film really can't compete as an artform.
Almost every single great movie is just copying a book.
Anonymous No.24855216 [Report]
>>24850245 (OP)
I will always read and recommend our friend PG Wodehouse.