Hello, all! A friend of mine (22M) and I (22F) are thinking of reading a book together (we would read to each other in turns). I'm gathering my interests and trying to combine them with what he is into. We are brazilian (opa, galera!) and would read the book in portuguese. We were reading "Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason", by Foucault, but it ultimately wasn't what we where looking for and we decided to try out literature instead.
Stuff I enjoy: brazilian 20th century literature (think Guimarães Rosa, Jorge Amado and Clarice Lispector), some russian classics (I quite enjoyed Ivan Ilich by Tolstoy, The Brothers Karamazov, Nietotchka Niezvanova, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man and a share of Dostoyevsky's short stories, and the ocasional 19th century russian short story), and the general vibe that emanates off what I read by Valter Hugo Mãe, Mia Couto, Borges and Virginia Woolf. I enjoy the ocasional science fiction (super into Dune right now). My current obsession is Dino Buzzati, I love the way he works surrealist themes into his works.
Stuff he enjoys: science fiction mostly, anything with magical/surrealist stuff baked into it. He is loving 100 Years of Solitude (which I also love), and read all the Dune books.
We are both psychology students and have a soft spot for deep, emotional moments in literature, something we can really get into and feel deeply with the characters.
I was thinking of something written by Saramago, but his strange punctuation style makes it hard to read aloud to another person (already tried it, doesn't work for me). My first suggestion would be The Tartar Steppe, by Dino Buzzati, which I havent read, but I've heard it can be a bit of a drag.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance 😉
by Curious-Ad1698