just finished part 1
prose is VERY british and occasionally hard to follow for this poor american sod
but oh god my heart
i can't take it
29 // fey af // i try to read but the adhd always wins out in the end
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Gotten my way through the (extensive) introductions. Kinda wish I hadn't read them? Or at least hadn't read the "Textual Introduction" because I think it kinda assumes you've read the book before.
Also got through the first chapter or so. Definitely in line with the "book as philosophical screed" vibe I get from a lot of 19th-century lit, but the prose is gorgeous (though what else is to be expected from Oscar fuckin Wilde)
wow
I have lots of feelings about this book? it's weird as fuck and simultaneously in and out of my wheelhouse, but i'll be damned if i didn't love it despite its flaws
review at some point definitely
(technically i started april 22nd and finished april 23rd but i basically read it in the span or 3 or 4 hours i think)
I tried to read the latest poetic translation, but while this specific translation is only in prose (though it does preserve a lot of the poetic elements anyway), the extensive footnotes are making it so much easier to read and make sense of.