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Suggestions needed for March/April fiction discussion
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Re: Suggestions needed for March/April fiction discussion
What about these three for the poll?
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Death in Venice and Other Stories
Thomas Mann
The Iguana
Dinis Thérialut
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Death in Venice and Other Stories
Thomas Mann
The Iguana
Dinis Thérialut
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Re: Suggestions needed for March/April fiction discussion
I take back my suggestion. There doesn't look like there is much interest and I think I'm going to start on Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky.
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Re: Suggestions needed for March/April fiction discussion
I would too! This is a great choice!
kyjake23, do you plan on participating?
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I don't want to make translation a huge issue. The above link is for the Penquin edition. It can also be downloaded for free on ereaders. It's a bit long, the length does not bother me, we could always extend the discussion period to include a third month.
Lets give this a few days to see if we can get more people on board. But right now, we have three nods.
kyjake23, do you plan on participating?
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
http://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Karamazo ... 55&s=booksThe final novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published as Bratya Karamazovy in 1879-80, and generally considered to be his masterpiece. It is the story of Fyodor Karamazov and his sons Alyosha, Dmitry, and Ivan. It is also a story of patricide, into the sordid unfolding of which Dostoyevsky introduces a love-hate struggle with profound psychological and spiritual implications. Throughout the whole novel there persists a search for faith, for God--the central idea of the work. The dramatization of Ivan's repudiation of God is concentrated in the famous "Legend of the Grand Inquisitor." A response to Ivan is contained in the preaching of the monk Zosima that the secret of universal harmony is not achieved by the mind but by the heart.
I don't want to make translation a huge issue. The above link is for the Penquin edition. It can also be downloaded for free on ereaders. It's a bit long, the length does not bother me, we could always extend the discussion period to include a third month.
Lets give this a few days to see if we can get more people on board. But right now, we have three nods.
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Robert Tulip
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Re: Suggestions needed for March/April fiction discussion
Having just mentioned The Brothers Karamazov in the thread on coming out as an atheist, that is the only one mentioned so far that I would just love to read again. It is up there with Don Quixote as a great literary classic.
I was thinking of suggesting Anthill by E.O. Wilson as it should be of interest both to anyone who would like to explore the sociology of Alabama and the comparison of humans to ants, as I explain in my review in the fiction section. But I am not suggesting it, and will probably dip out this time unless Dostoyevsky gets up.
ETA: E-book @ Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28054
I was thinking of suggesting Anthill by E.O. Wilson as it should be of interest both to anyone who would like to explore the sociology of Alabama and the comparison of humans to ants, as I explain in my review in the fiction section. But I am not suggesting it, and will probably dip out this time unless Dostoyevsky gets up.
ETA: E-book @ Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28054
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Re: Suggestions needed for March/April fiction discussion
I agree with you Robert. Well, on BK at least. But, I do want to tell you that I did finally finish DQ. I found that the second book held my interest more than the first book.Robert Tulip wrote: It is up there with Don Quixote as a great literary classic.
Well we can't have that! That makes it four nods, lets just pick it for the nextRobert Tulip wrote:and will probably dip out this time unless Dostoyevsky gets up.
discussion. Yes?
