Alright /lit/ I need your help, ever since I watched My dinner with Andre some months ago I've wanted to read a book that was similar to it, the movie is basically 2 hours of conversation, there's no real plot it's just two guys talking about many different topics ranging from life experiences, mundane stuff and philosophical shit.
So, does anyone know of any book that fits this description and is worth it?
>>8237066
I'm hurrying
Asimov does this, two characters talking in a sterile setting, but those ideas explored might not interest you.
Cormac McCarthy's Sunset Limited
I think Beckett does these. Waiting for Goddard, no?
Other playwrights...
I really do recommend Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean for a passive stroll through ancient Rome discussing philosophy.
>>8237086
>Cormac McCarthy's Sunset Limited
bit more dramatic but a good suggestion
>>8237086
That Beckett play is generally referred to as "Waiting for Godot," not Goddard.
>>8237066
Plato's dialogues?
>>8237108
Oh shit. Sorry.
>>8237066
most of Thomas Bernhard's books
Imaginary Conversations by Walter Savage Landor; this is historical figures though not just normal people
Wyndham Lewis' 'Tarr' begins and ends with extended dialogues between two characters
there's also loads of medieval debate poetry - in both middle english and Latin - but it usually deals with religious/ethical themes so it might not interest you particularly
The Confidence Man by Melville is a series of dialogues without any real plot to speak of, but those are conversations between "The Confidence Man" himself and a variety of different characters.
Thomas Mann's, The Magic Mountain is also very much like this.
>>8237197
which are the best conversations? There's like thousands of pages worth of them.
>>8237108
>>8237086
someones been watching too many french flicks
>>8237251
I haven't read anywhere near all of the conversations but the ones i found the most interesting were Diogenes and Socrates (the most famous one I think), Brooke and Philip Sidney and Essex and Spenser.
>>8237324
Think i'll be hard pressed if i'm not well versed in philosophy?
>>8237302
I don't even like Goddard. Contempt was good, very literary, but it seems it was just a fluke, a perfect storm with Bardot directing just enough of the production
>>8237327
it might be, but i think a more serious difficulty will arise if you are American and don't know much about english history: a lot of the dialogues are between english kings/figures from English history that are pretty obscure even in Britain today.
