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

Kai Frederik Lorentzen lorentzen at hotmail.de
Tue Mar 31 11:36:14 UTC 2020


I am reading "Der Zauberberg" (The Magic Mountain) again.

Very fitting. & also funny ...

Laughter is the best medicine; it does strengthen the immune system.


Am 31.03.20 um 12:39 schrieb 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 <mailto: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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