Jack
wants
to read:
I’m interested in reading Don Quixote soon, but I think I’d enjoy it more if I read some chivalric romances and the like Cervantes parodies first. What would be good? Le Morte d’Arthur?
About:
I used to read because I felt it was necessary to have intimate knowledge of Dostoyevsky or Cervantes or Shakespeare or Virginia Woolf to be a completI used to read because I felt it was necessary to have intimate knowledge of Dostoyevsky or Cervantes or Shakespeare or Virginia Woolf to be a complete person -- but I've done that now, and if I've become a complete person, it hasn't provided me with many dazzling insights. So now I read for my own entertainment, wherever that might be found - though perhaps that's what I always did. Trying to puzzle out reviews to be something a little less hermetic than my immediate thoughts upon reading, to understand what place a book, and a reader, has in the wider scheme....more
he
said:
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If only because it's cheekier than you'd imagine. Also should mention for de Troyes the verse renderings (Raffel and others) are far better than prose (Penguin).If only because it's cheekier than you'd imagine. Also should mention for de Troyes the verse renderings (Raffel and others) are far better than prose (Penguin)....more
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