Sui caedere

I have read,

The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe)
Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
A Perfect Day for Bananafish (Salinger)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)
Burmese Days (Orwell)

I recommend Werther above all; I have never read as accurate and genuine a description of a struggle as it. Please recommend others.

Bump?

I keep meaning to read werther but have not yet.


read turgenev? choderlos de laclos?

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Turgenev looks perfect, and I have been looking for another diary-based novel (Liaisons is all I can find.)

Do you have any specific novel from Turgenev in mind, though? I'll probably end up devouring his collection, but I don't want to get a bad taste in my mouth. Russians have a tendency to create hoards of characters all suffering from various things.. So has he written any one-man tales of suicide?

Anyway, Werther is such a light read, it's really worth getting through. I wish Goethe wrote more novels. Thanks very much for the authors.

>one-man tales of suicide

not a suicide, but turgenev's rudin is a wonderful story about a man who talks big and enchants people with his eloquence but ultimately loses out in life because he's weak. it starts off slow, but gets good further in.

and do read l'étranger (camus) if you haven't already but judging from your tastes you would have already.

frankenstein is a decent diary-type novel if you don't mind the gothicness of it all.