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National Literary Figures (pg. 3)
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| diggerz |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
You're talking about your personal opinion, right? I think most Germans consider Goethe to be their greatest writer. |
Goethe, how could I forget?
quiz for lira.
"faust" written by....from.... |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by diggerz
Goethe, how could I forget?
quiz for lira.
"faust" written by a man from Germany |
:conf:
A bitch of a book to read in the original German... only class I've ever really wanted to drop. |
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| Lira |
Actually, my favourite would be Von Humboldt :D
I mentioned Goethe because it's the name of the most important German language institute abroad, and his name was the first on the Walk of Ideas:
Billy Von Humboldt didn't even make it to the list :( :p |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| Ooooh, Hesse, I forgot all about Steppenwolf. Another bitch of a book. Germans are just too deep to express themselves properly. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by diggerz
"faust" written by....from.... |
Jesse James Joyce, from Ayerland!!!1 |
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| PETRAN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Jesse James Joyce, from Ayerland!!!1 |
Its Stephen Kink u Dumbo Duh! |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| It's kind of a trick question since the story of Faust has been adapted dozens of times - aside from Marlowe the majority of the authors are German though. I'm guessing diggerz is referring to the Thomas Mann adaptation. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Ooooh, Hesse, I forgot all about Steppenwolf. Another bitch of a book. |
Ever read Siddharta?
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Germans are just too deep to express themselves properly. |
I think they must try very hard to think because they're surrounded by too many hot womenz, so they keep losing track of what they were saying... and they do it in German, which makes it all the more challenging! :D |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
It's kind of a trick question since the story of Faust has been adapted dozens of times - aside from Marlowe the majority of the authors are German though. I'm guessing diggerz is referring to the Thomas Mann adaptation. |
I actually had to look it up on Wikipedia, because I was going to jokingly say "Oscar Wilde" and - what do you know? - Oscar Wilde did give it a try :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Ever read Siddharta? |
Indeed - very good and much more accessible. Steppenwolf is Siddhartha on crack.
| quote: | | I think they must try very hard to think because they're surrounded by too many hot womenz, so they keep losing track of what they were saying... and they do it in German, which makes it all the more challenging! :D |
You can rest your case with Heidi Klum. How old is that woman now? |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Indeed - very good and much more accessible. Steppenwolf is Siddhartha on crack. |
But, did you read it in English or German?
I wonder if I'm doing something wrong. I read it in English and I remember the first thing that came to mind when the book ended was "That's it?". I read dozens of books every year, but I don't seem to appreciate fiction as much as non-fiction (reason why I mentioned von Humboldt as my favourite German author, with Schopenhauer as a second close). I can count on my fingers the books I actually enjoyed reading. Actually, scrap that, I usually like excerpts, but I can't think of a single fiction book I've enjoyed thoroughly.
Like, I love the beginning of "Human Failure" by Osamu Dazai, and the 9th chapter of "Notes from the Underground" by Dostoevsky is probably the most beautiful thing I've ever read. But I can't even stand the rest of these works.
Am I broken? :conf:
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
You can rest your case with Heidi Klum. How old is that woman now? |
35 springs old, sir :D |
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| diggerz |
| where would samuel beckett fit in your opinion? |
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