A sort of thesis

[Mark Kohut]

There are a few "big" books that have the status
of great novels that all cluster in my head in the same
place.

Moby Dick, Ulysses, The Magic Mountain, The Man Without
Qualities, The Tin Drum, The Golden Notebook, Gravity's
Rainbow, Portrait of a Lady, Middlemarch, Cairo Trilogy, Radetzky March
and like that.
Swap out or add others, we can do.

Proust in seven volumes is in a class by itself because of length.
(Some say first three volumes equivalent to the above bracketing?)

But I think the two most ambitious novels in English, perhaps, the only ones
I can think of this morning, that might be 'great' in even larger ways
than the above
are Finnegan's Wake and Against the Day.

Argue with me. Find others?
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