(영) 취미와 자기계발 - 소설읽기 (1)

"Projects bound to fail"

Prompt 

One thing that I never got around to doing was reading the classics.  I did not have enough 'human depth' for that in my high school years.  I was late to the party in maturing.  When I thought I did during university, I could not hack the inconvenience of trying to drag myself through texts that I did not easily understand.  

It is inevitably the case that we turn to things when we have the composure but no longer the youth and time for them.  But books are perhaps most treasured and well-read when we find the little bits of our days to do go through the pages.  I have turned to the world's most renowned titles in the hopes that they do bring me some well-needed depth, and in good order, fodder for me to cope with the quarter-life crisis that is soon to follow.

In order:

2024

<Brothers Karamazov>, Fyodor Dostoevsky

<Lolita>, Vladimir Nabokov

<Of Human Bondage>, Somerset Maugham

<Die Blechtrommel>, Guenter Grass

<The Catcher in the Rye>, J.D. Salinger

<Othello>, W. Shakespeare  - for a second time!

<Sons and Lovers>, D.H. Lawrence

<Steppenwolf>, Herman Hesse

<Macbeth>, W. Shakespeare  - for a second time!

<인간 실격>, 다자이 오사무

<Oscar Wilde All Works>

2025-2026

<Death in Venice>, Thomas Mann

<Heart of Darkness>, Joseph Conrad - for a second time!

<My Michael>, Amos Oz

<The Moon and Sixpence>, Somerset Maugham

<A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man>, James Joyce

<A Sorrow Beyond Dreams>, Peter Handke

<London Observed>, Doris Lessing

<그 후>, 나쓰메 소세키

<Pride and Prejudice>, Jane Austen

<Resurrection>, Tolstoy

<A Nietzche Reader - Friedrich Nietzsche>, R. J. Hollingdale

<Jane Eyre>, Charlotte Bronte

<Grapes of Wrath>, <East of Eden>, Jon Steinbeck

<A Clockwork Orange>, Anthony Burgess

<The Turn of the Screw>, Henry James

<King Lear>, Shakespeare

<Sense and Sensibility>, Jane Austen

<L'amant>, Marguerite Duras (in French)

<Inferno>, Dante

<A Streetcar Named Desire>, Tennessee Williams

<Great Expectations>, Charles Dickens

<Death of A Salesman>, Arthur Miller

<Pest>, Albert Camus

<Das Glasperlenspiel>, Herman Hesse

<Farewell to Arms>, Ernest Hemingway

<Crime and Punishment>, Fyodor Dostoevsky

2027 and beyond

<Q'uest-ce que la litterature?>, Jean-Paul Sartre (in French)

<One Hundred Years of Solitude>, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

<Madame Bovary>, Gustave Flaubert (in French)

<My Name is Red>, Orhan Pamuk

<Pensees>, B. Pascal (in French)

<Le Rouge et le Noir>, Stendhal (in French)

<Wuthering Heights>, Emily Bronte

<Scarlet Letter>, Nathaniel Hawthorne

<The Age of Innocence>, Edith Wharton

<Tess of the D'Urvilles>, Thomas Hardy

<A Hero of Our Time>, Mikhail Lermontov

<A time to love and a time to die>

<A Doll's House>, Henrik Ibsen

<War and Peace>, Tolstoy

<좌절> 임레 케르테스

<닥터 지바고> 보리스 파스테라나크

<가와바타 야스나리 전집>

<Middlemarch>, George Elliott