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Authors I don't think I've read twenty pages of:

Musil
Camoens
Manzoni
Ekelof
Amichai
Pasternak
Gaskell
Dreiser
James Jones
Anne Bronte
Doeblin
Bachmann
Zola
Pindar
Ted Hughes

Billions of others of course. All of these I just didn't like the sound of, or the sound of the translations of. Either that or they seemed like they might be too much of a time commitment. Or whatever one thinks when one puts a book down so soon. I'm worst with this with novels. I think having read too many beginnings might be why I think of the novel as being so formless, when presumably it's almost never that.

I'm craving something totally new, among all the rereading I'm doing this term--Homer, Stevens, Tennyson and Whitman this weekend--is why I make this list. Maybe Musil's short stuff?

Date: 2007-09-08 11:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nightspore.livejournal.com
...his short stuff is good. Five Women, Read Bolano for something new though.

Date: 2007-09-08 04:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] proximoception.livejournal.com
Not sure I can afford something new-new, though that book's been intriguing me for a while. Perhaps the library here.

Date: 2007-09-08 12:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] localcharacter.livejournal.com
Instead of all that rereading, you could just read Pessoa. Caiero gets you Homer, Reis gets you Tennyson, Pessoa-himself gets you Stevens, and Àlvaro de Campos = Whitman + bonus Marinetti just for fun.

Something totally new: W.G. Sebald? Machado de Assis? Thomas Bernhard?

Date: 2007-09-08 04:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nightspore.livejournal.com
Yep, them too. Reis also gets one to Saramago.

Date: 2007-09-08 04:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] proximoception.livejournal.com
Pessoa I've read tons of, Bras Cubas I dropped partway through for some reason. Surprisingly, I have no idea who Bernhard is. Yes, maybe Sebald, I have a couple around. Austerlitz his best, or which?

Date: 2007-09-08 04:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] localcharacter.livejournal.com
Emigrants may be the best place to start—Austerlitz may seem too much all at once.

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