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[proximoception]

Cormac McCarthy's four great novels:

Moby-Dick
Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses
The Sound and the Fury

John Crowley's five books he wished he'd written:

A High Wind in Jamaica
The Once and Future King
Orlando
The Suicide Club
The Man Who Was Thursday

Katherine Ann Porter's three almost perfect novels she reread with pleasure and delight:

A High Wind in Jamaica
A Passage to India
To the Lighthouse

Vladimir Nabokov's four masterpieces of 20th century literature:

Petersburg
Ulysses
The Metamorphosis
Remembrance of Things Past (1st half)

Calvino's book "which I have always considered "The Novel" par excellence in world literature in the twentieth century and perhaps not only in that century":

Amerika

Comments

[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

I wonder if VN picked Petersburg b/c he felt there ought to be a Russian and he didn't dare put Himself. I read it and it's good but doesn't belong with those other three.