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This is the second novel I have read of his in english translation. I am so far unimpressed. Not sayin' he's not a good writer, just surprised that he's considered THE heavyweight living Italian novelist. I question the quality of his (various) English translators...
Reviewed on blog...
Just read this. What an amazing novel. Much better than The Following Story (which itself was pretty interesting read). I would not mind at all if the Swedes recognized him this October. Its a 140 page novel that contains no filler...(if one were to ad water, it would be a 500 pager..;) )...
I bow down before your TBR list! What an excellent range of books...I am happy you included a couple of Native American works as well. I went to a Sherman Alexie reading (I live not too far from the reservation where he grew up). I took an Native American Fiction course in college and the proff...
I need to read Home and Gilead. I have read Housekeeping
and loved it.
I have to chime in that I don't quite abide by pegging her to the midwest. She was born and raised in Sandpoint, Idaho (the town I reside in) and it is definitely not in the Midwest. Housekeeping is set here...
I have been looking at this novel and have vacilated whether to add it to the cart...I think its really exciting the number of new voices emerging out of Africa...its been sort of a personal recent voyage of discovery for me. When one considers the violent social and cultural upheavel and...
The only other Llosa I have read is The War At The End of the World, but it was a long time ago and my (poor vaporous) memory does not serve me well if it was a remarkable read or not.
The Green House is NOT a novel to be read as an entertaining, plot driven novel, as it is a kaliedescope of...
I really, really need to read ISTKOE...I fell in love with Hrabal after Closely Watched Trains, Too Loud a Solitude, and his Total Fears...Letters to Dubinka
Thirwell has intereting things to say about Hrabal. Hanta is one of my favorite characters in 20th century fiction...
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The Slynx-- Tatyana Tolstaya
In The Skin Of A Lion-- Michael Ondaatje
Aura-- Carlos Fuentes
A Wild Sheep Chase-- Haruki Murakami
The Ghost Writer-- Philip Roth
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting-- Milan Kundera
The Green House-- Mario Vargas Llossa (not quite finished)
all (but the...
As ST says, its a book that that takes a bit to get used to the narrative tone. He has a unique voice, but once you get used to it, it becomes affective. His distancing himself from the world IS part of the story. Highly recommended.
Tartuffe--Moliere
The Misanthrope--Moliere
The Orestes--Aeschylus
The Oedipus Cycle--Sophocles
The Medea--Euripedes
Hippolytus--Euripedes
King Lear--Bill
The Following Story---Cees Nooteboom 4/5
Blood Meridean--Cormac McCarthy 5/5
This is a great thread idea ST. Its an easy one for me, since I have come back to literature after a 3 decades of AWOLness...
I have noticed the following formerly respected (at least academically) authors whose books are no longer as available nor names rarely come up in discussion...
Marcel Proust, A Life--- William Carter 4/5
In Search of Lost Time-- Marcel Proust (Half way, volumes 1-3--- I have set aside for the time being, willl take it back up at some point) 6/5
Divine Comedy-- Dante (kind of stupid to rate this so I won't)
Thanks for the excellent review. As a recent Le Clezio fan, its frustrating how few of his works are currently available in English. This is one of those that are not available yet (that I am aware, someone please correct me if this is wrong!). I can only hope his Noble prize exposure get's more...
Pere Goriot-- Balzac :stars4:+
The Charterhouse of Parma-- Stendhal :stars5:
Onitsha-- Le Clezio :stars4:
Madame Bovary-- Flaubert :stars5:
Having recently read (and/or re-read) 2 Balzac novels, both Stendhals and Flaubert's MB. I am a contrarian and personally like...
Not having started reading literature again until September, my list is a short one:
Crime & Punishment-- Fyodor Doestoyevsky
The Red and the Black-- Stendahl (a re-read)
Murphy-- Samuel Beckett
Dubliners-- James Joyce (re-read)
As good as these were one was "Above category" (and...