Three Novels
by Samuel Beckett · first published 2009
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Three Novels - Samuel Beckett The Upanishads - Eknath Easwaran translation Season in Hell - Arthur Rimbaud Modern Man in Search of a Soul - Carl Jung Abandoned Fragments - Franz Kafka Philosophical Grammar -…
on “Ask HN: What book changed your life?” ↗It's definitely not the hardest "arthouse" novel (or whatever you call it), I found Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon so much more harder, and Beckett's Three Novels (i.e. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) was likely the most difficult text I attempted to read in my life. Even then, I think it's still pretty difficult for an average Western reader in 2020s, our…
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