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Comments

Re: Classic literature thread

[grausam]

-rubs hands-
I love reading annotations and books that seem widely read enough that people have Opinions about them! So count me in.

Jane Eyre was really good. Even if one doesn't like the romance that much, one can still like the protagonist enough to care. Great description of her inner life etc. Some icky racism and elitist stuff.
Shirley was pretty boring though.

I started reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Emily Bronte now, she writes more realistic people. She's modern for her time, so you can indulge in her feminism, lol.

Kim by Kipling is very fun. A travel/adventure story in India. Even if the protagonist is, of course, a British Boy, almost all the other important characters are Indian. They've got a diverse background of religions and ethnicies, respectfully depicted (I'm white though). There's some idealization of British colonialism.

Alice in Wonderland is best read with annotations, its concepts are more amusing and entertaining than the story in a good way. It's pretty experimental. I was surprised how short the appearances of some of the more iconic characters are.

Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book is remarkable, but I read it without good annotations. Despite that I enjoyed it for its vitality, it's probably great with more knowledge of the time.

Short stories by Jorge Luis Borges are great for magic realism and thought experiments. I love Alberto Manguel, so his annotations are a must!

Re: Classic literature thread

[(Anonymous)]

I love Alice in Wonderland. I actually never read it as a child and got into it after taking a linguistic course in college. Our linguistic book had all these word-game quotes from the book, and I just had to check it out.

Now it and the rest of LC's works are a favorite of mine. I just love what he was doing with language.

Re: Classic literature thread

[grausam]

I think I would have enjoyed it as a child, because he takes Alice the character seriously, which is rare enough for children's literature (despite or because of his leanings, idk).

You get the sense that he enjoyed what he wrote and that he wrote it to be enjoyed on a more basic level at the same time.

Interesting, the annotations I read pretty much downplayed his other works :/ Which ones would you recommend?

Re: Classic literature thread

[(Anonymous)]

I have his complete works so I don't know what's in which book. It just has random stuff of his and I like it as a whole.

I've never read an annotated version of his works, and I don't think you'd need it. I like it as is.

Re: Classic literature thread

[(Anonymous)]

eh, I'm ESL, so the annotations helped me make sense of the English original.

did you enjoy his poetry or his prose with poetry more, then?

Re: Classic literature thread

[(Anonymous)]

I enjoyed everything. I just love his use of words. Even his dry scholarly stuff is interesting to me.

Re: Classic literature thread

[herpymcderp]

I actually think Alice In Wonderland is best read without annotations once and then read again with annotations. There's something about that sense of total, bizarre surrealism that comes with not knowing exactly what the references and some of the words mean, only to then realize that when you know what they mean it's even more bizzare.

Re: Classic literature thread

[(Anonymous)]

oh yeah, bizarre surrealism is a good way to put it. I read one chapter and then its annotations, but it did hinder the reading flow.

Re: Classic literature thread

[(Anonymous)]

YES for the Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon!

Also The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu.

logged in again, cough

[grausam]

high five!

Oh, I heard so much about The Tale of Genji. Could you by any chance recommend a translation/annotation of it?