Nora Bossong recommends Mason & Dixon as Corona reading because it has so many pages ...

[Mark Kohut]

*Against the Day* is the Pynchon for Life in the Time of Corona. I say.

I am in a *War & Peace *group sponsored by A Public Space. All the life one
dismissing while cloistered.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 6:35 AM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
wrote:

>
> I've never read literature by Nora Bossong, and this text, although the
> recommendations (which contain besides Pynchon authors like Boccaccio,
> Mann, Proust, Arno Schmidt & David Foster Wallace) are certainly superb,
> does not motivate me to do so. Especially since her comment at the end
> on Schopenhauer's main work is so exceptionally clueless that it appears
> doubtful whether Bossong has really read all those long books ... & if
> it's just about the number of pages, "Against the Day" would make an
> even better reading. Well, of course it's not a bad advice to read long
> books now, but in the case of Pynchon I would, of course, recommend
> "Gravity's Rainbow" (which is long enough, no?). Especially to a German
> audience.
>
> "A little bit like [Kehlmann's] "Measuring the World" in crazy & less
> upright. & most of all: with many, many more pages! It's funny, clever,
> tough, meta ..." Plus references to the talking dog & the mechanical duck.
>
> *+ ... Thomas Pynchon:/Mason & Dixon/
> <https://www.rowohlt.de/taschenbuch/thomas-pynchon-mason-dixon.html>
> *Ein bisschen wie/Die Vermessung der Welt/in durchgeknallt und weniger
> bieder. Und vor allem: mit viel, viel mehr Seiten! Es ist lustig, klug,
> hart, meta, es gibt einen sprechenden Hund und eine mechanische
> Flugente. Wann wollten Sie jemals so gern eine Flugente sein wie jetzt?
> *–*So sehr nach einem sprechenden Hund haben Sie sich aber auch seit
> Ihrer Kindheit nicht mehr gesehnt. Und wieder müssen Sie feststellen:
> Sie werden ihn einfach nicht bekommen ... +
>
>
> https://www.logbuch-suhrkamp.de/nora-bossong/zehn-buecher-die-man-sonst-nicht-schafft/
> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_Bossong
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