I think The Good Soldier is the only one I read but I thought it was fantastic 12 or so years ago.
― JoeStork, Friday, 23 October 2020 02:48 (three years ago) link
look at all these idle novelists. introduce conscription i say
― imago, Thursday, October 22, 2020 2:34 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
:-D
Surprised 'The Metamorphosis' by Kafka isn't on the list! I would've voted for that in an instant. As it stands, I've not read many others - and indeed it's a meagre French harvest - so I'll go with 'Of Human Bondage'.
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 23 October 2020 06:54 (three years ago) link
It was on wikipedia but come on, that's a short story.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 23 October 2020 10:10 (three years ago) link
No I understand, just that it was published on its own that year, too. I’ve no complaints!
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 23 October 2020 12:13 (three years ago) link
Anyway, I'm curious about Meyrink's Der Golem.
If you're at all curious, you should definitely check it out. It's a kind of bonkers, occult-steeped fever dream of the Prague Jewish ghetto, only tangentially about the Golem myth. I've actually read three of these, the most of any year so far, I think. Besides The Golem, I also read and enjoyed The Good Soldier, and most recently The Song of the Lark. I still don't really feel qualified to vote though.
― o. nate, Friday, 23 October 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
Cool, thanks. I've been meaning to check it out as a companion piece to the work of another, considerably more famous early 20th century German-language Jewish writer from Prague, as there appear to be some surface similarities between the two.
Notorious white supremacist and antisemite H. P. Lovecraft was reportedly a fan, heh.
― pomenitul, Friday, 23 October 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
I've only read the Maugham, a long time ago, and remember it as pretty dreary.
― jmm, Friday, 23 October 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
The Rainbow is quite an incredible book
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 23 October 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 25 October 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
<3 Maugham, so that.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Sunday, 25 October 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 26 October 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1916
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 26 October 2020 11:24 (three years ago) link
I've just been bamboozled by The Good Soldier. Unreliable narrators can do that to you I guess. As a study of people who are all stone cold bananas I could maybe get behind it; if I'm meant to have any sympathy for them then, save Leonora, it ain't gonna happen.
― Believe me, grow a lemon tree. (ledge), Saturday, 31 July 2021 17:50 (two years ago) link