What a wild ride, it's weird this book is not more popular
>>24698929Most people just don't know that it exists.The film is great as well.
>in the sleep of reason, monsters appear>"monsters"=some owls and a cat
>>24699361I mean I would be slightly perturbed if a bunch of owls and a cat randomly showed up at any moment.
>>24699771That happens in my yard every night
>>24699361think about how the largeness of a woman's eyes or the 'freshness of her countenance' was enough to send a 19th-century man into a protracted period of erotic mania, and now many people have to seal themselves into goon caves and blast porn on multiple monitors to feel some flicker of desire. i imagine something similar has occurred with our sense for the spooky.
what's your favourite story?
>>24698929I know nothing about this book. Can someone tell me what it's about
>>24699813>Can someone tell me what it's aboutNo. That is probably actually impossible, and only partly because the author forced his priest to shoot him in the head before he finished it.But it starts with a young Spanish nobleman being dispatched to take up an officer's post in the Walloon Guards. He has to cross the Sierra Morena to get there. It turns out to be harder than expected.
>>24699361They are nocturnal animals.It's such a midwit idea, though. Hume retroactively BTFO'd this idea of Reason being the be-all, end-all of morality almost a century before Goya.
>>24698929Is this the only existing english translation?
>>24698929>saragossa mentionedLet's fucking go obscure bros. I hope more publishers release it, it can't die in oblivion.
>>24698929not to try to one up you, but i recommend this even more obscure gothic story cycle from the early 19th century
I read the first half, got tremendously bored, and dropped it. It just felt like too much of a structural (i.e. not fun to read) novel, like it was designed with standing out or proving a point as the main goal rather than being actually good, and like it showed its hand early on and would have had steadily less to offer had I kept going. Can't help but lump it in with novelties like The Master and Margarita, The Dictionary of the Khazars, and all that other showy and mildly irritating Slavic lit.
>>24700119I'm from the region and I hate how the last thirty-five years around here were spent aping the absolute worst trends in the absolute worst ways.Your three choices are>magical realism decades after it stopped being cool>boilerplate pomo shit decades after it stopped being impressive>the grand saga of your jewish haute bourgeois ancestors in the capital - if you have any, but if you're plugged into the mainstream literary scene, you probably do - until the unspeakable happened
>>24700116Thanks, I didn't know about this one.
>>24699361There are at least two cats, and also a bunch of bats.>>24700116If we're doing suggestions: Told By The Death's Head by Mór Jókai. In some ways a very similar tone to the Manuscript, in some ways very different.>>24700119Your taste is objectively shit. There's a consetllation somewhere in the cosmos spelling out a mathematical proof of it.
Will i enjoy this if i enjoy other gothic literature? Is it as good as melmoth?
