One Novel:
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf: wonderful historical novel built around the life of this weirdly immortal and noble transgender that happen to live from the 16th century Elizabethian England to the 20th century United Kingdom. Oh and the transition from man to women is basically the longest vision when a totally abstract court of virtues is drowned and drained until, under the residues you can find another person, in this case, a woman!
One very extraordinary and consuming poem:
- Maldoror chants (Les chantes de Maldoror, in the original language, french) by Comte de Lautréamont
This can be a blow-minding experience in poetry. For some people is considered one of the ancestor of the Surrealist movement, also but not only for the powerfully original metaphors that connect and rearrange practical modern objects in a strange and poetic way (very famous quoted verse:"As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.") But more then that Les Chantes tell the story of a young man perverting and corrupting that find in the challenge to God that God Himself is a monster, a rapist, a defective father. Surronded by the most incredible array of animals with which Maldoror has a great number and variety of encounters, the poem musically ask the reader if he/she/they have the courage to go ahed, promising lands of philosophical debate, unthinkable sensations (there is an entire reflection on lices and their empire of blood and power among humans), and titanic and ironic and eerie encounters! Much more should be said and I will
Ps: Histoire de l'oeil by Georges Bataille (History of the Eye)
Pps: I'll try to be more persuasive and focused the next time