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Re:The Bookish Life: How to Read and Why by roymurdock on Thursday October 18, 2018 @08:47PM (#18253557)
I like the bitter passion. Who would u recommend to read outside the unremarkable western canon?
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Re:The Bookish Life: How to Read and Why by ekphrasis on Friday October 19, 2018 @01:28AM (#18254414)
A few tips: ”One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, ”Things fall apart” by Chinua Achebe, ”Wide Sargasso sea” by Jean Rhys, poetry by Anna Achmatova, ”My life in the bush of ghosts” by Amos Tutuola, ”A personal matter” by Kenzaburo Oe, ”Woman in the dunes” by Kobo Abe, ”The grass is singing" by Doris Lessing.
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Re:The Bookish Life: How to Read and Why by 1123581321 on Saturday October 27, 2018 @11:59AM (#18316293)
Most of these are contemporary works in, or in response to, western literature.
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