Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The Classics
So here's another sketch I did last night while I was on the phone with Laura. I thought she'd be a perfect compliment for a post about my desire to read more classics. In college, we were never required to take any proper literature classes -- I skirted by on a diet of film studies classes since, well, I love film. And there was that whole Film major thing going on the first few years. So while I saw Breathless and Un Chien Andalou about three times each, and wrote extensive term papers on the merits of The Graduate and The Matrix, I never once touched a Hemingway, Wharton, or Steinbeck (for class, anyway). These are the hallmarks of a hippie college founded on the scripture of John Muir and a writing department founded on the second wave of the New York School.
So now, in these next few years between Right Now, art school, and then Grad School, I want to read a solid grip of (modern) classics. Here's a list to start:
1. Madame Bovary, Flaubert
2. Timequake, Vonnegut
3. On The Road, Kerouac
4. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde
5. Vanity Fair, Thackeray
6. Middlemarch, EliotLabels: books, sketchbook
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