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 ?