/lit/ - Literature

>>14152532

>>12531132
This bad boy right here

Hands down the greatest novel I've ever read

Raymond Martel

>>11434890

>>11178435

>>11081493
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards
The Tanners by Robert Walser
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
The Castle by Franz Kafka

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
Jakob von Gunten
A Schoolboy's Diary
Skylark
Diary of a Man in Despair

>>10575302

>>10503760

Also:
To the Islands by Randolph Stow
Imperium by Ryzard Kapuscinski
The Islandman by Tomas O'Crohan

>>10175298
It's not overtly Christian, but religion plays an enormous part in the story. Also my favourite novel of all time, READ IT

Raymond's entire story arc

He is me :(

>>10124331

>>10095870
This is fantastic for family, as well as the affinity that outsiders feel for each other.

>>10091853
ITT: Post lesser-known Catholic novels

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>>9868082
Seconding this.

But also Book of Ebenezer Le Page, Jakob von Gunten, and Diary of a Man in Despair

>>9129553
>INFP
>picrelated
>picrelated
>20
>History/Sociology (I hope to be a research assistant one day; I'm currently working doing significance research at a museum)

>shill

Sing, Christine: sing! Be not bitter, as Lot's wife was. Forgive them, forgive them; for they have loved much! ... I wish I could live my life again. I wish I could write my story again. I have judged people. I do not want to judge people. I want to bless. I want to bless every soul who have ever lived and laughed and suffered on this whore of an island, this island in the sun, this island in God's sea!

I am on the last page of the last of my three big books. Who will ever believe I have written these three big books? I want to write another. Next time I go to Town, I will buy another from the Press. I want to write down in it all the good thoughts I have left out of this. Now it is high time I thought of going ot bed. I mustn't forget to wind the clocks; and I will turn the lamp down, but not right out. I don't like it in the dark. I like to be able to see my two chian dogs while I am falling asleep. Damme, I am tired, me! I will sleep well tonight, I know. Ah well, that is all for now. A la prochaine!

>>8944944
Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France yet a world apart from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the stories of those he has known. He writes of family secrets and feuds, unforgettable friendships and friendships betrayed, love glimpsed and lost. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is a beautifully detailed chronicle of a life, but it is equally an oblique reckoning with the traumas of the twentieth century, as Ebenezer recalls both the men lost to the Great War and the German Occupation of Guernsey during World War II, and looks with despair at the encroachments of commerce and tourism on his beloved island.

G. B. Edwards labored in obscurity all his life and completed The Book of Ebenezer Le Page shortly before his death. Published posthumously, the book is a triumph
of the storyteller’s art that conjures up the extraordinary voice of a living man.


"Imagine a weekend spent in deep conversation with a superb old man, a crusty, intelligent, passionate and individualistic character at the peak of his powers as a raconteur, and you will have a very good ideas of the impact of The Book of Ebenezer Le Page...It amuses, it entertains, it moves us...” –The Washington Post

"A true epic, as sexy as it is hilarious, it seems drenched with the harsh tidal beauties of its setting...For every person nearing retirement, every latent writer who hopes to leave his island and find the literary mainland, its author–quiet, self-sufficient, tidy Homeric–remains a patron saint." –Allan Gurganus, O Magazine

Trust me, it's amazing

>>8839246
I've been pushing this one quite a bit but it totally deserves it. It's a fictional memoir written by a farmer/fisherman on the island of Guernsey named Ebenezer Le Page. The period is rougly 1890s-1970s. It documents the history of the island in that period (WW1, Spanish Flu, occupation during WW2, the rise of the tourist industry after the war, etc, etc.), as well as Ebenezer's personal life, family drama, etc. As time goes on the island changes but he stays the same, suffering the fate of all old people I suppose (not to say that its a bleak novel).

It's written in such a convincing voice that it's hard to believe its fictional. William Golding said that reading this book feels not like reading but like living, and he's totally right. Ebenezer is a grouchy old curmugeon but he's also a sweet and honest witness to what life is like. Trust me, read it.

>>8824744
Also Robert Walser's novels.