book rec?/ if you enjoyed P, try these /++

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< My guess is that even yr more motivated raeders here know little to 
nothing of a
 fair number of Nobel Laureates.  >>

When Czeslaw Milosz won the Nobel in 1980, the only person in New York who 
could be found who had read him was Susan Sontag, who was quoted in virtually 
all the news reports.

In 1981, Elias Canetti won and editors were calling "get me Susan Sontag." 

<<Petersburg is an all-out neglected modernist classic, a sort of Russian 
Ulysses ... >>

Nabokov held Petersburg with Ulysses, The Metamorphosis, and In Search of 
Lost Time, as the best novels of the century.