What is the most beautiful book ever written?
What is the most beautiful book ever written?
The Silmarillion.
It's like The Bible but with better prose and a deeper mythology.
I saw images like this one in the pages of Water Pater's Marius the Epicurean.
My diarrhea desu
The Iliad, in my opinion
>memefantasy
gross
>boring lists and random neckbeard fantasy miscellanea
my diary, tbqhwyf
Émaux et Camées by Théophile Gautier
Mein Tagebuch, um ganz ehrlich zu sein famalamadingdong.
Zettels Traum, the superior Finnegans Wake.
Stoner.
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Dhalgren
>getting meme'd into that easily computer generated shit
The New Testament
The Bible
Mein Kampf
The Man Who Planted Trees.
more like Mein Menstural Krampf ;^)
m i rite???
nein
>deepest lore
Maldoror
I second that, brilliant book.
Surprised there is no cult yet
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Reading this now, comfiest of all time
Define beautiful
Go away Zone theorist
Read Portrait. Joyce rants about it
my avant-garde screenplays
Sorrows of young werther
I have
Lolita, look at this tangle of thorns.
Where THE fuck is Proust
Yeah, just the first page of Swann's Way alone is some of the greatest prose ever put to paper.
I'm reading this right now in English. It's super rambly and doesn't seem beautiful at all. Is it more beautiful in French?
Portrait of the Artist and Ulysses
agreed, proust put me to sleep
Emerson's Nature
mein tagebuch, zse
Can you go into detail on why you think this?
Moby-Dick.
This.
I wish I could have met Tolkien and cry on his lap, telling him how much his work mean to me. But it'll never happen.
The Letters of James Joyce
You're asking if it's more beautiful in its original language ? Are you kidding ?