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[proximoception]

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?

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[nightspore.livejournal.com]

...his short stuff is good. Five Women, Read Bolano for something new though.

[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.