Time to brag: what’s the hardest book you read? (literature.cafe)

submitted 2 years ago by Eq0@literature.cafe to c/fiction@literature.cafe

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By this I mean, a book you had to brace yourself to read, and you feel proud for having read. Did you enjoy the process of reading it?

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[-] Xariphon@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

Julius Caesar's Commentarii De Bello Gallico in Latin. And... yes I did enjoy it. There are some points where translation just cannot capture Caesar's wit. I wish I still knew enough Latin to read it again.

(Why yes I am a huge fucking nerd, how could you tell?)

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

For anyone wondering what kind of wit this might be, an example is the opening line:

Gail est divisa tres partes ("Gaul is divided into three parts")

With divisa ('divided') dividing the phrase exactly.

[-] Eq0@literature.cafe 2 points 2 years ago

I read pieces of it, I knew this quote by heart and never noticed! Wow!

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