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Sep. 8th, 2007 01:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
proximoceptionAuthors 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?
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?
