This is why I'm reading it......a book as exciting, in quiet observational ways, as were the sixties live. Lotsa notes and excerpts for my sixties class.

[Mark Kohut]

Newly translated in full in English, it is like reading Pynchon or Roth or
a great Nobelist's BIG novels when new, from Ulysses thru Proust thru
Catch--22 (or Something Happened)  thru Sabbath's Theater thru Against the
Day, say.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/dec/30/uwe-johnson-anniversaries-review?CMP=share_btn_tw

A surprising, important moment's dialogue from the novel: "are you against
violence?"...I'm against violence to books"...