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Reading Hamlet as an adult simply blew my mind. It was one of those moments where you step back in awe that a single mind could produce a work of such depth, wi
by scop 4y ago
Reading Hamlet as an adult simply blew my mind. It was one of those moments where you step back in awe that a single mind could produce a work of such depth, with so many layers, yet with a consistency and a wholeness. JS Bach is the only other artist I have seen to produce a similar “Forrest” and “Trees” views within his artwork.
While King Lear is my personal favorite of Shakespeare’s plays, I acknowledge Hamlet his greatest in all aspects (poetry, philosophy, etc).
- dbtc 4y agoHamlet is what rerevealed Shakespeare to me. Now, speaking of forest and trees, what's even more mindblowing is to consider all those plays together, all the characters, (and the sonnets). What range! What scope! Who else? Melville's Moby Dick blew me away a bit like that too. And Joyce. And Goethe.
- publicola1990 4y agoPerhaps Victor Hugo Les Miserables, its like so vast, like a sea.
- dbtc 4y agoWhen I think of vast I think of Tolstoy (War and Peace). Have not read Hugo, yet. Will do!
- becquerel 4y agoJoyce, more than any other author, makes me ask 'by what human hands was this created?'. Truly awe-inspiring stuff.
- wolverine876 4y ago> Reading Hamlet as an adult simply blew my mind. Shakespeare has really improved their writing over the years. In high school, the Bard was tedious, had little of relevance to say, and the language was absurdly complicated. Much improved since then.
- magpi3 4y agoYou joke, but you make an important point. A book is just a dead thing without a reader who has something in them that can respond to the book's contents. A book by itself has no value. It is the event that occurs between the book and the reader that is the real thing.