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[David Morris]

--- Malignd <malignd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I don't think he was provocative for the sake of it, because he was
consistent.
> 
> He thought Dostoyevsky was not good, said that often; similarly Gorky.  But
he admired Tolstoy, Gogol, Pushkin.  
> 
> Didn't like Mann; liked Robbe-Grillet.  Thought highly of Ulysses, didn't
like Finnegans Wake or Portrait of the Artist.
> 
> Loathed Freud.  
> 
> Thought the greatest novels of the century were The Metamorphosis, Ulysses,
In Search of Lost Time, St. Petersburg.

It would be interesting to find the pattern in the likes and dislikes here. 
For instance, loathing Freud, but liking Ulysses (but not FW) shows some level
of inconsistency, but that's my POV intruding.  Not liking Freud is I guess
consistent w/ disliking FW, but Ulysses employs similar psychological themes as
FW...

Of N's works that I've read, I liked Invitation to a Beheading, Bend Sinister
Lolita, & Pale Fire (so far).  Disliked Glory (bored me) and Ada (too
infatuated with itself and too long (especially if it wants to be peald away at
as PF does)).

David Morris

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