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Fantastic! Thanks for sharing Rores!

I'm reminded of a character from Miller's Tropic of Cancer. I can't remember the character's name, but he never finished writing anything because he spent too...

If I were to go away for a while and had to bring a single book that would keep me from becoming mentally malnourished, I'd pick either Ulysses or Infinite Jest. They both have a bit (or a lot) of...

I actually quite enjoyed DeLillo's Point Omega. There's also Salinger's Franny & Zooey, Conrad's Heart of Darkness (re-recommended, I know), and a very artistically written book that I continue to...

I travel frequently to Gothenburg, Sweden, and it seems the orchestra there (GSO) really favors Schnittke. Hopefully I'll find time to check out a live performance in the next few months!

Welcome! English and French for me.

Love it.

Modernism: Colouring outside the lines is kind of cool.
Postmodernism: What lines?

John Barth's story collection Lost in the Funhouse is a pedantic work of metafiction. Barth is a very passionate teacher of literature.

It has just occurred to me that trolling this board makes a really nice sociology experiment.

Define short. < 300p?

I applaud G L Wilson for having fun in an environment imbued with condescension and braggadocio. Whether the rapid-posting effort is in jest or actually to spark "serious debate," we need to remember...

Anybody here listen to Alfred Schnittke? I just discovered him on Last.fm. His piano quintet (lamenting the loss of his mother) is among the moodiest of moody Russian music (is moody Russian...

Take Joyce's cue: prove by algebra that Hamlet's grandson is Shakespeare's grandfather and that he himself is the ghost of his own father!

I recently read Stanley Fish's newest book, How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One. Interesting discussion of the first sentences power to shape everything that follows.

James Salter's A Sport and a Pastime

Had to consult Goodreads: 30.

Besides myself, I know that David Foster Wallace liked the Muirs' translation, if that helps any (citation: one of the essays in Consider the Lobster, probably the one on Kafka's humor).

I just finished Michel Houellebecq's Les particules elementaires, which was quite interesting. I especially liked the strong allusions to Poe's "Annabelle Lee." Houellebecq also renewed my interest...

I just finished the Fagles translation of The Iliad a couples day ago, and it was the most "powerfully poetic" version of the three I've read: Butler (prose), some translation I had to read in high...

There is a copy of Mason & Dixon at a local used books store that I frequent. It has been there for months now, and (humorously) it is in absolutely pristine condition--as is a copy of the Gabler...

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Manet, "Le Bon Bock"


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Je vis assis, tel qu'un ange aux mains d'un barbier,...

I can't think of an enfant terrible with more depth in any field! When I read Rimbaud, I cannot believe I'm reading poetry and prose-poems all written by age 21! I've read the Complete Works edition...

I tend toward Norton Critical, then Penguin. Definitely procure the Deathbed edition, either way!

I haven't read any other novels of his, but I've read all of his short stories (at least the 5 published in Slow Learner); and I really enjoyed "Entropy."

Pynchon so craftily packs his sentences full of treasures--sometimes overt, sometimes encapsulated. And it doesn't just end with wordplay; I swear this guy can go on for pages and pages, alluding to...