There'll also be translated fiction discussions (or rather I discuss certain works in the original)
Larry Send a noteboard - 28/12/2011 02:14:00 AM
...it doesn't mix with my goals for 2012 at all, insofar as English-language literature gets the shaft for a second year running. Next year I want to expand into Italian from French and German (which I am going to keep up to make sure I don't lose any proficiency). I actually got a full Italian course for the sole purpose of making sure I get the stress right, and I blew through the first half in two days (obviously, Italian is one of the easiest languages on the face of the planet, especially if you know Spanish, French and Latin). I saw that the stress on the infinitive of -ere verbs follows the II/III conjugation split in Latin, and there are other patterns that make stress easier to predict. I'll probably finish with the course just to make sure I'm pronouncing subjunctives and conditionals with the right stress, but I'm ready to start. I'll probably read Eco's Il Nome della Rosa since I've read it in English and it's fairly straightforward. From there I'll probably read more Eco, then go like a madman to Dante and Boccaccio. Il Gattopardo is on my short list, too.
I haven't decided when in 2012 I'm going to it (other than not January/February), but I am thinking of having a weekly or biweekly discussion of Petrarch, Ariosto, Boiardo, and a few others. Eco I've been reading in both languages recently and I do need to write those reviews in the coming weeks.
Let me know ahead of time and I might read/re-read some of those, especially the poems.
Unrelated note: I found a two-volume Lermontov and a two-volume Chekov (and a third, unrelated volume of his works) in Russian today. I might take up studying Russian if I lose patience with the Persian-Arabic alphabet or (more likely) in 2013. Do want to have some of the more well-known works on hand, as I prefer to learn a language through its writers and poets. Only cost me $28 for the five books. Looks like they are early 1960s editions, with Soviet stamps.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Faulkner Fridays: A 2012 reading/review plan
- 24/12/2011 09:47:07 PM
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I may read a Faulkner novel next year, and more if I like it. 
- 25/12/2011 12:33:06 AM
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- 25/12/2011 12:33:06 AM
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I'd be shocked if 20 views, 2 responses were passed on most of them
- 25/12/2011 01:31:16 AM
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It sounds interesting, but...
- 27/12/2011 10:28:10 PM
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There'll also be translated fiction discussions (or rather I discuss certain works in the original)
- 28/12/2011 02:14:00 AM
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I will keep you posted. I may read Mencken in 2012 at your suggestion as well.
- 28/12/2011 03:52:11 AM
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Luckily, Mencken can be read at around 8-20 pages a day, skipping several days
- 28/12/2011 07:15:13 AM
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