Oh yes, Beloved has been standing in my shelf for some time. I even had to check that I hadn´t read it before making the video because I have thought about reading it many times..
I really like (2013 winner) Alice Munro's short stories. I'd pass on "The View from Castle Rock" collection as it is an outlier--stories about her family history. "Selected Stories" is probably the way to go. I really enjoyed Sinclair Lewis's "Babbit". I think it's about 200 pages. Patrick Modiano's "Missing Person" is supposed to be a good place to start with him. Also around 200 pages. I read Sartre's "Nausea" in college and found it interesting. Pretty philosophical though. About 250 pages. Mauriac wrote "Therese Desqueyroux". Well under 200 pages. Recently saw it recommended on BookTube. It uses stream of consciousness. I just picked up (1933 winner) Bunin's "The Village".
The sound and the Fury is one of my favorite books. I read it as a young man and really did not get anything from it. Well, I got confusion. And then I read it in my late thirties and again twice in my 40s. It is an extremely moving book, and I think I enjoy it more each time
Thank you for the suggestions. I am new to your channel. You might want to check out Blindness by Portuguese author Jose Saramago which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
Thanks for the suggestion! I have been wondering about Saramago earlier but could not make up my mind on which one of his books to go for.. Will but it on my tbr :)
An author I recommend is Knut Hamsun. He won the Nobel Prize in 1920. I've read two of his books, Hunger and Pan. Both were very good. The man, himself, is a problem. From Wikipedia: "Hamsun had strong anti-English views, and openly supported Adolf Hitler and Nazi ideology. Due to his professed support for the German occupation of Norway, he was charged with treason after the war. He was not convicted, due to what was deemed psychological problems and issues with old age." I am capable of separating the man from the work but some people can't do this. Hamsun influenced many famous authors, one of which was John Fante. Fante did not win the Nobel Prize but I still recommend him to you because he is such an amazing writer. I read Ask the Dust by him, a book that takes place during the Great Depression in Los Angeles, California. The writing is original and quite gripping. A current author I also recommend is the French writer, Patrick Modiano. He won the Nobel Prize in 2014. His writing style evokes Marcel Proust. His books are filled with memories. However, where Proust took pages to write about a few seconds of time, Modiano's books are more like novellas than novels. Wikipedia says this about Modiano's books: "Modiano's novels all delve into the puzzle of identity, and of trying to track evidence of existence through the traces of the past. Obsessed with the troubled and shameful period of the Occupation-during which his father had allegedly engaged in shady dealings-Modiano returns to this theme in all of his novels, book after book building a remarkably homogeneous work." I have read fifteen of Modiano's books. They are like tiny historical mysteries written from the aspect of cause and effect. Modiano is one of my all-time favorite authors. I hope you find these suggestions worthwhile.
Knut Hamsun will be read this year, I think I will go with Hunger first.. Tried reading growth of soil a couple of years ago, but could not quite get into it. Safe to say that he has become more and more controversial as time passes here in Norway. Not familiar with Fante, so will check him out. The way you and wiki describes Modiano makes me believe I might enjoy it. Weird that his name did not seem familiar to me.. Thought I looked closely at the Nobel list.. Thanks for all suggestions!
You, and everyone, should definitely read 100 years of solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. One of the finest, most intricate and fascinating books I've ever read.
I thought you didn't liked/enjoyed Boddebrooks, mmaybe if you knew about the time, visited Lübeck...But in Bergen you can get a good impression of Hansa tiden as well.
I don’t know.. There are quite a few, especially «classic» authors, that seem better after some time have passes maybe. I did actually visit Lübeck when I went to Hugh school. Beautiful city :)
Some shorter fiction could be the short stories from Ernest Hemingway (i loved studying "The Killers") or Nadine Gordimer. J.M. Coetzee has quite a few short novels (Foe and Disgrace are examples) and are a prolific short story writer. Wole Soyinka is well-known for his plays (esp. Death and the King's Horseman), so that's also a shorter work to tackle!
Of course you’re right, but I still feel like there are books that I don’t do justice. But I am working on ny mindset on that part 😂 After all I am entitled to talk nonsense, as you point out.
