(no subject)

[icarus]

I got my books for school today. My World Literature professor looks to be a twisted sort, reading list:

Heart of Darkness
God of Small Things
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Bone People
... and one other I can't recall.

This is gonna be cheery.

Comments

[cursive.livejournal.com]

I'm a big Joyce fan, although I don't like A Portrait however much I appreciate its role in the history of Lit in English. I think you have to come at Joyce the right way - I was lucky to have a great Joyce teacher.

Dark? Well, Marquez and Small Things contain humour, and I think it's only healthy to laugh at Heart of Darkness but yes. The thing is, like most World Lit courses this is a course partly on the literary aftermath of European colonialism and thus there's a lot of dark.

Don't forget to tell me what the other text is, I'm all curiousity about it.