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fluffyblue-multifandommess · 2 years

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thinking about Antigone (by Anouilh), one of the only books I actually enjoyed reading for school

I really liked Antigone, the main character. I'm not sure i remember why i liked her so much, except that it felt like i could sort of relate.

giving it more thought, it does occur to me that, in all my school-imposed reading, Antigone was a rare female protagonist story in a big crowd of male protagonist stories.

And also, thinking back on the two other books I most enjoyed/least hated reading for school, both of them also have female protagonists (Liaisons Dangereuses and Huis-Clos).

Hm.

#meanwhile the books I most hated were Bel-Ami and L'étranger. two books where #the protagonists were so utterly impossibel for me to relate to that i was actively rooting for them to die #biggest tragedy of my life is that bel-ami didn't die in that gun duel he has at one point #when i think about 'classic literature' the books that come to mind are these beloathed stories #oh and maupassant. i have no memory of the maupassant i read except that it was utterly uninteresting to me #anyways school managed to disgust me from reading classic lit #because in all the many many many books they made us read there were only three i kind of enjoyed #and the boring stuff just isn't worth wading through for me just to find the interesting ones #especially outside of school where i dont have someone to tell me the interesting historical context #sidenote if i still had an attention span id love to reread comte de monte cristo but alas #(that one i read entirely on my own time because the movies were really interesting)#blue personal ramblings #also this post is not an invitation for book recommendations #my brain does this horrible thing where sometimes if someone recommends me something that makes me want to read/watch/... it LESS #dont ask me why i dont know

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