Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1911

Lawrence gets a terrible rep these days but his poetry, which is a strange alloy of the incantatory and the tone-deaf, helped me through my late teens.

― pomenitul

Kind of on your side here. I mean, maybe it's b/c he's a Notts lad so I've got more patience to extend, but I will defend a Lawrence to a certain extent. Novels really are too much macho posturing for me despite his skills with language, but the poetry is definitely worth checking out.

Its quasi animist (iirc) understanding of nature also jives with current developments in ecocriticism.

It's the Brazilian/Portuguese literature Daniel picks that has me most curious.

ftr I only include the works that English language wikipedia itself includes - so it's more about which countries have ppl who care enough to write English language entries for their canon. So far I've noticed Brazil and the Philipines being really good at this - conversely, I'm sure that if I went into French or German language wikipedia there'd be a lot of stuff that hasn't gotten mentioned in these polls

A sad truth is that we did literally zero Brazillian literature in high school :(

Par for the course, alas. Québécois literature is all but nonexistent in France.

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Its quasi animist (iirc) understanding of nature also jives with current developments in ecocriticism.

― pomenitul

OK now I'm intrigued, thanks

That was a bit of hyperbole on my part, but his animal poems, starting with ‘Snake’ are worth exploring. There’s an acknowledgment of the proximity between us and other species but also an emphasis on remoteness, which bespeaks respect. It’s still mediated through myth, in accordance with poetic tradition, but there’s more to it than that: it’s an encounter with an irreducible other whose existence is beyond what we humans attempt to make of it.

I also quite like ‘New Heaven and Earth’, which is a somewhat artless yet highly effective take on the fin de siècle spiritual temper tantrum. It blew my mind when I was 18.

Jenni or Ethan, both are great.

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The Lair Of The White Worm by Bram Stoker

what's this like? i haven't read any stoker besides the obvious, but the premise of this one is intriguing enough.

It's terrible, really. All of his novels other than Dracula are terrible, but in this one the syphilitic brain damage was really kicking in.

Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1912

I am sorry I missed this one, I'd have voted for Fermina Márquez, which I loved.