If you should bring one author complete works on that dreaded lonely island, mine would be Montaigne. Yours?
If you should bring one author complete works on that dreaded lonely island, mine would be Montaigne. Yours?
If you should bring one author complete works on that dreaded lonely island, mine would be Montaigne. Yours?
Probably either Kierkegaard or Pessoa.
Joyce, obviously.
Tolstoy
Pretty good choice, Anon, Montaigne is very underrated by this board. He'd definitely entertain you as you were stuck on the island.
For me it has to be Shakespeare. His COMPLETE works would keep me amused for a long time.
Plato or Emerson
John Grisham
Paul Scheerbart
Rumi probably. I just think I could live with his versus and be basically at home in such clean beauty.
Homer
Wow, an actually good thread on IQfy for once? I'm almost convinced I'm dreaming. As for your question, I would answer Balzac.
>this is anon's idea of a "good thread"
>just post a name and don't discuss anything
Okay...
Compared to the countless bait threads and endless pseudo-intellectual shitflinging, yes this is a good thread.
you must be a newbie. these "what would you bring on a desert island/in prison" threads get made every other day.
We do. And each time I answer with a different author. Barely anyone ever replies to me.
Thomas Mann or Rudyard Kipling.
No idea, but the main criterion would be variety, so...
Even though my favorite writer is Dante, maybe Plato, Shakespeare, Pessoa, Leopardi, Plutarch would be my preferred choices.
Still, I'd rather choose all the anthologies compiled by some good anthologist...
Carl Schmitt probably
Shakespeare -- and I would put on performances where I play all the characters. I would memorise all the lines, and make different hats and cloaks and masks etc. out of coconut fibres and palm fronds, which I would swap from line to line to differentiate the characters. The plumed macaws would look down from the branches with curious black eyes as I paced the sandy stage; the restless monkeys would settle down and in hushed awe before my soliloquies.
Respect for Montaigne
Proust might be it for me. Great balance of prose, philosophy, and the prose kinda read like poetry at times. Proust is great at making you see the beauty in the mundane and ordinary which would be very helpful in a dull life stranded on an island.
Of course we're talking about complete works here. So I would have to include his letters to his family about being addicted to masturbation. Which really seal the deal to confirm Proust would be the best choice here.
David Foster Wallace
Shankara