[In which book do I live?]

Congratulations. Now it's your turn.

[In which book do I live?]

Right. For this one I will try not to provide with much information as it would be quite obvious.

I am a central figure of a psychologicaa book. I am a sailor full of remorse. I am mentally broken as I have missed the opportunity to be a hero and at the same time I behaved like a coward.

[In which book do I live?]

Jane Eyre! Sorry for that. Things are somehow so obvious that we may miss them.

[In which book do I live?]

Looks like A little Princess from Burnett but I haven't read it, so I am not sure. Any clue?

[In which book do I live?]

Correct! Now you are doomed : it's up to you to make us chase for a book character defined by your own sensibility and clues.

[In which book do I live?]

Hello all,

Apologies if there is already a thread regarding this but could not find it.

I wanted to come up with a quizz thread where one should guess where a character is coming from. The one who answers and find both character and author may be able to start a new quizz.

So I start with an easy one :

I am a persevering child coping with many sorrows. My father is dead and my stepfather is severe. Fortunately, my nurse loves me. My aunt is providing me with good education. I will work for a notary who will escape bankruptcy. My best friend are books and I will become a writter and, at last, find in Australia the woman that was waiting for me. Who am I ?

[Parallels between 'Madame Bovary' and 'The Idiot']

I never thought of this comparison! But maybe you can enlighten us.

Everytime I think of Madame Bovary, Anna Karenin's fate or Virgina Woolf's detiny actually come up to my mind. General unsatisfaction, mysterious, elusive characters and a tragic end.

[My Library]

Thanks for your comments. It's not that big. It's just a whole wall 2.5 x 5. The first shelves (down) are dedicated to kids' books.

[My Library]

Sorry I could not type more as the number of letters was limited /

This is only what is left on my shelves.

Most of these are classics as you can see. Nothing intentionnally pretentious or nose in the air from my part as I wnted to share this with you. It took me years to read it with my wife and I am now trying to push my kids to grow with books in their hands.

[My Library]

Here is what's left from my library. Everything is ordered chronologically

 

Antics-Modern

Greek Cynicals, / Apul

[Looking for French Authors]

Hello,

What are you specifically looking for in french? What style, era?

[What are your top three classics?]

All the books above are great. Here is my choices

- Tolstoy, The Kreutzer sonata / very radical and intense drama about jalousy and crime

- Dostoievsky, The Idiot / What if Jesus was alive now ? His kindness and lack of self-esteem would make of him a pure "idiot" in the balance of our judgemental societies

- Huysmans, Against nature / This is the yellow book given by Lord Henry to Dorian Gray / The story of decadent man who indulges his own passions in order to live remote in an excentric house at the end of the 19th century

[Dostoyevsky's style]

Hello all,

Dostoievsky's style is not Nihilist. He displays Nihilism in many of his books (Notes from the underground, Karamazov Brothers, The Idiot, etc...) but he's not a nihilist himself as he deeply believes in god.

Dostoievsky is not an existentialist either as exitentialism relate to Sartre and co's style which is far from Dostoievsky's.

If I would define his style I would use words such as mystic, russian, deep-psychology, drama.