The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: A Novel

[alice wellintown]

T'wuz once "required" reading, along with "The Sorrows of Young
Werther." Never did enjoy either one; but then, there are lots of
books that we 'must" read that are no fun and not much can be said
about them but that they are works we still must getrough soon or
later. Been re-reading Sabastian Knight, only now enjoying must of
what baffled me and was off-putting and humorless drudgery first go
round. This never did happen when reading Shakespeare thugh. Like
Frank McCourt, I took to Shakespeare when very young and ill, and he
was like diamonds in my mouth, like the sweetest and most beautiful
music....aspires to music someone said, but Shakespeare disproved him.