Comfy thread

What exactly is comfy lit? I mean what are it's qualities or characteristics, other than the obvious?

Here is a start:

ordinary people
domestic setting
small town or neighborhood
introspective
not a lot of violent or calamitous action

anything else?

I think Proust and Joyce are the best for getting me the "comfy feel," particularly the early stories of Dubliners or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

It should have nostalgic value and some comedy as well.

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Don Quixote

You know how macaroni and cheese is considered a 'comfort food'? A Wild Sheep Chase is like the literary equivalent of that for me. I know it's not very good for me, but I can't help but indulge in it a couple times a year - just for the comfort of a more innocent time.

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>an invincible man reap righteous vengeance
>not comfy

Le Morte d'Arthur
Outlaws of the Marsh
Zhuangzhi

>king solomon's mines
>the time machine
>dracula
my rainy/snowy day quick reads

DINO BUZZATI

Why would I read this cultural marxist hock?

Have you actually read Oblomov? Did you just enjoy the comfy countryside descriptions and just not pay attention to anything else?

I've seen a couple of these charts floating around but it's really subjective. I guess a comfy book would need to have descriptive prose and more focus on the atmosphere than on any actual conflict, a sort of dreamlike characteristic. Calvino does this pretty well IMO.

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In a melancholy sort of way, yes most are, especially everything up to and including Siddhartha.

You're on Yea Forums. You wouldn't want to read anything actually relevant or anything that actually corresponds to reality haha

go away retard

>corresponds to reality

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DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE: The Collected Short Stories

>Why doesn't Yea Forums love D.H.Lawrence more?

Judas by Amos Oz

peak comfy

dubliners is the epitome of comfy.
the gospels too

yeah it's real comfy when the guys beats his child as he begs him to stop

There's nothing comfier than Invisible Cities. I've read it probably 8 or 9 times and it's just as comfy each time.

In Dubliners? I don't even remember that, which story was that?

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This. Also, Winnie The Pooh

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counterparts

Dubliners is the destruction of comfy. Joyce himself said the heart of every story is a character realizing they're trapped by being in Dublin. Take your pick of stories: an old man exposes himself to two young boys, a man rejects a woman and years later feels immense guilt upon discovering she threw herself in front of a train, a young boy feels for the first time the futility of trying to win a girl's affection, a middle-aged pseud realizes he will never measure up to his wife's first love. Yeah, real comfy stuff

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I am reading "Story of a soul" by St. Therese right now and it's really heart warming to hear of her childhood innocence in the autobiography; the feeling of pure love and joy it gives off is something I have never felt elsewhere. I almost became saddened at how pure her personal life was in comparison to mine. Some anons might like it too since she was a bit of a recluse socially and overemotional at times.

uhh, yeah. that feeling at the end of Araby.

that's not comfy.

calvino in general is comfy af, just finished if on winters night a traveller

Arcades is such a comfy read

based

I think these retards don't get the point of Dubliners.

P G Woodhouse is peek comfy

kafka on the shore was pretty comfy

unironically Harry Potter, if we're going for the "I just want to relax and enjoy some lowbrow writing for a while" kind of comfy

basically everything tolkein wrote was comfy af

The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, all the moomin books too

Unironically Norweigan wood is the most comfy book in existence. Maybe it's just because I first read it at the 'right' time

Damn that's a big claim. I really like that one. Will have to check it out.

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>Le Morte d'Arthur
does this have any merit other than being the first intelligible english literary work?♨️

brainlet here, i know just enough french to understand l'etranger, will i be able to comprehend hunchback of notre dame in the original?🏳️

Most of Turgenev's works are pretty comfy I'd say

>enjoy reading garbage
yikes

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Yes, it does. Le Morte d'Arthur should be mandatory reading in all schools. It is an unrecognized seminal text in the English canon. It is an incredible work that synthesizes English and French court traditions into a work that is not only entertaining but critical for the time period. It also forms the basis of modern conception of King Arthur and in so doing provides a springboard for modern critiques of our ideas of honor and duty through interplay with and reinterpretation of the original text.

Shouldn’t you be cleaning your room user?

That book is so comfy, yet so sad. I almost never see it posted on Yea Forums, either. I wish more people loved it.

Is Petersburg a comfy read? Also how many chapters does it take to get into invisible cities