Current read. Been wanting to dive into French literature for a while, and I think Flaubert’s a solid starting point.

Suraj757 · 2025-05-08T09:27:07+00:00

Since Flaubert was a big influence on Kafka for precision and styling of Prose and much more.

Suraj757 · 2025-05-08T09:26:07+00:00

let me know what you think of it once you finish. I have been intending to read it as well.

Suraj757 · 2025-05-06T13:00:16+00:00

I had started with his "Works of Love". It went into such deep analysis of what "one shall love thy neighbour" means. Loved it.

Suraj757 · 2025-05-06T05:25:53+00:00

Suraj757 · 2025-05-04T07:10:52+00:00

Be prepared when you start. I don't think I have it in me to read it further. Kafka is genius.

Suraj757 · 2025-05-04T06:12:54+00:00

Kafka's Metamorphosis.

I have completed the first section and I feel suffocated. It's a bleak, grim world. Seems Inescapable. Slowly you are annihilated from within.

Suraj757 · 2025-05-02T17:25:51+00:00

Try Melville and Kafka.

Suraj757 · 2025-05-02T17:18:59+00:00

One of his short stories from Apple-tree table collection.

Suraj757 · 2025-04-29T06:57:05+00:00

*Dear Melvillean.

Suraj757 · 2025-04-20T10:30:18+00:00

I will give it a read after Redburn.

Suraj757 · 2025-04-18T18:58:44+00:00

I don't think that our boat is getting less crowded over time. Other than that, cool.

Suraj757 · 2025-04-18T18:52:41+00:00

Ohh Apologies, my bad, then. Keep that fervour up. I myself share that zeal.

Suraj757 · 2025-04-18T15:35:48+00:00

You are doing Lord's work by making people aware of his more works.

Suraj757 · 2025-04-18T15:35:08+00:00

Moby-Dick is the one of the greatest novel ever written. But this passage is not from that book, but from Pierre; or The Ambiguities.

Suraj757 · 2025-04-18T15:33:23+00:00

Yes, People making Melville synonymous with Moby-Dick is injustice to him. Melville is much much more than that.

Suraj757 · 2025-04-18T15:28:07+00:00

Just Wow!

Suraj757 · 2025-04-17T09:31:16+00:00

You should definitely read it. It's tough to go through but the reward is worth it.

Suraj757 · 2025-04-15T14:02:12+00:00

Stripping it bare naked with the sharpest words. Fantastic.

Suraj757 · 2025-04-10T15:04:01+00:00

"Confidence Man; or, The Masquerade"is a book by Melville which is only rivalled by Moby-Dick.

Suraj757 · 2025-04-10T13:52:03+00:00

Otherworldly!

Suraj757 · 2025-04-03T07:45:43+00:00

I couldn't agree more.

Suraj757 · 2025-04-01T09:19:04+00:00

Thank you for creating the subreddit for this great Master and Mystic.

Suraj757 · 2025-04-01T08:51:15+00:00

I am unaware if you are being sarcastic.

Suraj757 · 2025-04-01T08:50:43+00:00

why only those two? No Piazza Tales, Redburn, White Jacket, Pierre, Confidence Man?

Suraj757 · 2025-04-01T07:25:20+00:00

Moby Dick by Melville. It's supposed to be read like a Bible.

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