ThomasBernhard
07-18-2011, 03:00 PM
As the summer's reaching its peak, I'd like to ask you a summery question. I've read Chabon's Mysteries of Pittsburgh, a novel which is intentionally imbued with a slightly nostalgic feeling of remembering a past summer. The author himself later commented on his aims: "And then maybe I would find some way, magically, to really say something about summer, about the idea of summer in America, something that great American poets of summertime like Ray Bradbury and Bruce Springsteen would have understood..." He also mentions The Great Gatsby and Goodbye, Columbus which both "coincided precisely with a summer" as having influenced him.
What I'd like to ask is this: what other books "say something about the idea of summer" (in America or elsewhere;)) according to you? Are there any books that have, let's say, the "feeling of summer" (whatever that might mean) to you?
What I'd like to ask is this: what other books "say something about the idea of summer" (in America or elsewhere;)) according to you? Are there any books that have, let's say, the "feeling of summer" (whatever that might mean) to you?