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

[Dave Monroe]

See what I mean?  Jeez, who even (here or otherwise) has read, say, Pearl S.
Buck, Rudyard Kipling ("I don't know, I've never kippled ...") or Upton Sinclair
of late?  Much less Wisnton Churchill (who WAS a Nobel Laureate ... as was Henri
Bergson--whatever happened to nonfiction laureates?)?  If at all?  I set out once
to read something by everyone on the list, and found quickly I couldn't even get
translations of works by some ... sorry, off-topic, I realize, but I feel as if I
somehow provoked this, so ... but, hey, if it was good enough for Nabokov ... I'd
recommend the Indiana U Press ed., myself--not that I'd know from translations,
but the cover is pretty cool, and I believe it had a map in it.  It's either that
or the Penguin, these days, I think.  And there was a Grove Press ed. ... hm,
neglected modernist classics ... Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities?  Italo
Svevo, Confessions of Zeno?  Raymond Roussel, Locus Solus?  Simone de Beauvoir,
The Blood of Others?  Alfred Doblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz?  Now there's a big
book (and a long movie) ... now if I could only get a translation of Doblin's
novel where the glaciers melt and the dinosaurs come out ...

MalignD at aol.com wrote:

> << 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.