A sort of thesis

[John Bailey]

Mark I know you love Against the Day but that's a big claim. More
ambitious than Gravity's Rainbow? Great in a larger way?

You gotta go first here.

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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