I came up with this because I learned from Tumblr that there’s apparently more than a hundred fanfics for The Epic of Gilgamesh on Ao3, and I think it’s poetic in a way how we’ve still never really gotten over the first story ever.
My answer would be Le Roman de Silence, from the early 1200s, which is about the adventures Silence, a boy who was born as a girl (that’s the author’s way of describing him)and who eventually becomes a knight. I just stumbled across it randomly but I fell in love with it after reading it the first time, and I think it’s beautiful how something 1000 years old can still be around and not have lost any of it’s capability for arousing our emotions.
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did you know there is a retelling? “The Story of Silence”
Alex Myers. it was a joy to read!
I used to love Homer’s Odyssey and the Metamorphoses by Apuleius, but recently I have also switched to more medieval stuff and I must say I love Ysengrimus.
Demian by Hermann Hesse, tho it’s not that old. This book is like a life mentor for me. It even piqued my interest in author himself and Germany. I even started to learn German because of the book.
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