Literary Classic meme

[sigune]

Snatched from seaislewitch.

...I really didn't cheat. Honest!

XD

Which literature classic are you?

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray. You are a horror novel from the world of dandies, rich pretty boys, art and aesthetics, and intellectual debates between ethical people and decadent pleasure-seekers. You value beauty and pleasure but realize their dangers, as well.
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Comments

[todayiamadaisy]

How appropriate! It just goes to show you're on the same wavelength. :-)

I'm Lord of the Rings. I really don't know what to make of that.

[sigune.livejournal.com]

*g*

I wonder what the other options were... Everyone I know seems to have got either Lord of the Rings or The Name of the Rose! ...Am I the only one who wouldn't mind being surrounded by wealth and handsome young men? ;P

Did you have a specific book in mind for yourself?

[todayiamadaisy]

Not knowing the other options, it's hard to pick a specific book. The only other one I could guess based on the options in the answers was 1984 (or maybe Brave New World), but I don't think I'm that.

If I got to pick a book from the whole canon, what I'd like to be is The Great Gatsby - but I suspect I'm really The House at Pooh Corner. :-)

[veradee.livejournal.com]

Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose. You are a mystery novel dealing with theology, especially with catholic vs liberal issues. You search wisdom and knowledge endlessly, feeling that learning is essential in life.

Hmm, have they read the book? Weren't those people killed to stop them from seeking wisdon / finding the truth?

[sander123.livejournal.com]

I thought the reason for the killings were that they were not allowed to laugh... :D
I don't want to write spoilers so I stop here ;) But you are right the description sounds a bit odd, as if they have not read the book, but only watched the movie... which is a bit cheesy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsjKsl1bY0Y

[veradee.livejournal.com]

Now that you mention it... It seems that it's too long ago that I read the novel.

(Spoilers for those who haven't read NotR...)

[sigune.livejournal.com]

sander123 is right: the victims were killed for trying to read Aristoteles' treatise on Comedy... I think the quiz makers meant to say that you are like William of Baskerville :D. Could have been worse, if you ask me :-).

Re: (Spoilers for those who haven't read NotR...)

[veradee.livejournal.com]

Well, they were kept from knowing the truth about the fact that it is allowed to laugh, weren't they? ;)

Yes, with the tiny exception that theology isn't my thing at all, William of Baskerville is okay.

[sander123.livejournal.com]

This quiz is clever!
I got the Name of the Rose... :D

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Not bad, I think :-). I thought I was going in that direction too when I ticked "a monastery with a huge library" as one of my preferred environments, but I guess I chose so many aesthetic, moral and dandy thingies in the end that Wilde was unavoidable... That's only natural - my writing is so very heavily influenced by my reading :D.

[mary-j-59.livejournal.com]

well, that does seem to suit your! I am not sure, however, if it suits me; I got "The Name of the Rose", but would rather have had "The Lord of the Rings".

[sigune.livejournal.com]

I think I should re-read both, actually - but when I think of how many essential books I still have to read *for the first time*, I despair a little...

Do you consider yourself a fantasy writer more than anything else? Me, I always seem to lose the magic as soon as I can, though I don't at all mind reading about it. But I can certainly identify with Wilde's despair about his characters being "all talk and no action" XD.

[mary-j-59.livejournal.com]

A fantasy writer above all else? I don't know. I seem to be strongly drawn to fantasy of a certain type, but, as you may have noted from my fics/fanfics, I do seem to want to be realistic about certain things. I suppose I'd consider myself a romantic/idealist above all else, if anything, and that's Tolkien far more than Eco, IMHO. I'm not especially interested in magic, either.

BTW, I think I know exactly what one would have had to do to get Tolkien as a response. You'd have to answer that you were "focused on the eternal battle between good and evil", and so on. I didn't pick those answers, though I could see where they were tending, because I thought they were an inaccurate representation of Tolkien and his philosophy - and of mine, certainly! No eternal struggles for me, thank you! Etermal discovery and fun, yes!