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>>7639356
Easy enough, the difficulty mainly resides in the meaning of the play. As a native, I would recommend it to someone like you that's learning.

Same goes for L'Etranger, it is a very simple work when it comes to prose, and you should have no problem understanding it if you have a decent level, except maybe the very last part.

Do not forget that both of these works are infamously easy to misinterpret

Bisoux

I loved this play until I saw it. Not this particular version, but, the one on YT.

>>7639363
how can I guide myself to grasp the intended meaning of both works so I avoid a misinterpretation?
Not op, rookie here.

I'm generally worried about not being creative enough. It's hard for me to judge.

Describe banal things too much

I have weak spatial and chronological control. I offer meaningless details relating to travel and vistas when the core of the narrative is interactions between people. Then when the interactions come, they go on word for word interminably, so the meaningless descriptive details in between become padding for overgrown dialogue sequences.

Then when I start cutting, the narrative seems rushed and super-intense when it should be leisurely.

Quixotry

>>7637744
jawnz

Attrition

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>>7635230
Breakfast of Champions. Vonnegut mindfucks the fourth wall and it's pleasurable, not quite an insertion as you want, but still an insertion of his self.

Anna Karenina, the greatest novel of the 19th century, has a self-insert in the form of Levin.

>>7640156
nah, don't read it. you wouldn't like it. try reading some stephen king.

>>7640163
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

>>7640171
>>7640163
>Giving up that easily
I guess the book isn't really that good then

>>7640127
>the consolation of a follower

Originality is inimitability.

Thinking about original things is easy, putting into words so the others can recognize it is hard.

>>7640099
>Everyday until you love it.

>>7640099
the bitch talking to pidgeons.

>>7640099
I don't like this. I barely consider it worthwhile. Poetry is not about pretty well put words alone, its also about the content.
>"first time in my life I saw somebody homeless not realizing she's a nutjob with brain damaged with coke and booze since the 70s"

Russ shook her head slowly. "Perhaps you'll regard this situation with the gravity it merits when those machines tear through the hull and pull your arms and legs off."

Tai's expression fell, but Elif wasn't having any of that. "Coming here was your idea, Russ."

Her head jerked back a fraction of an inch as if to get a better look at him. "I recall vigorously arguing against using the conduit."

Without a beat, Elif continued, "Which means you wanted us to argue for it, and to take the blame when it went sideways." Aside, to Tai, he murmured "Paranoia. It's great! It's always somebody else's fault." To Russ: "So, how long do we have before we die screaming?"

"The ship's camouflage system will adapt to the local environment in about three minutes, but I doubt we'll have that much - "

Three loud knocks sounded from the front of the ship, metal on metal. " - time before they find us. Oh, well. We're dead. Tai, it's been good working with you. Elif, you've been a medium-sized pain in the ass." Russ sat down on the end of Tai's bed and folded her hands in her lap.

I'm not sure. Melancholy, certainly.
You tell me.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1A95cfNpTCz

>>7638623
Ash it for pseudo-intellectual liberals

What's wrong with The Nation? The paper's too pulpy and doesn't have the glossy $8.99 feel of The New Yorker? Or is it too proletarian with all the articles about issues that affect the working class rather than elite transgender professors of racial studies etc.

>>7638694
never mind, i just looked at their website and two out of four headlining articles were about race...the neoliberal race distractors even got to The Nation, well fuck it, it's over man, capitalism not gonna be seriously challenged again ever

Get Fitzgerald or Lattimore if you're a LAD; Chapman if you a CHAP

THIS IS LITERALLY THE THIRD THREAD IN TWO DAYS

>translation

just thought i'd get this one out the way

>bringing up what you read like an autist monkey instead of organically weaving your new insights into the human condition into normal conversation

>bragging about my achievements whenever I talk to people about what I've been reading.

you sound retarded. and a pseud.

>>7638135
Don't mean to be arrogant, it's only the feeling of isolation.

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Nothing particularly new about what he's saying and he doesn't say it in a particularly interesting way.

the bitch talking to pidgeons.

You have to begin with Iago. Get caught and refuse to speak, that's that.

Death. Always compelling.

>>7635450
Cate in East of Eden seriously scared the shit out of me when I read it five years ago. Terrifying character

>>7635861
The Martian.

>>7635861
Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka

>>7635861
Mein Kampf

meme

Learn how to read a book in just ten minutes with the Tai Lopez technique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24KnwTepKdU

>fella
>pal
>meme