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

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, I say that would be a good non-Pynchon to read---and why is it not on
every
book journalist's list?

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 7:36 AM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
wrote:

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> I am reading "Der Zauberberg" (The Magic Mountain) again.
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> Very fitting. & also funny ...
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> Laughter is the best medicine; it does strengthen the immune system.
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> Am 31.03.20 um 12:39 schrieb Mark Kohut:
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> *Against the Day* is the Pynchon for Life in the Time of Corona. I say.
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> I am in a *War & Peace *group sponsored by A Public Space. All the life
> one dismissing while cloistered.
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> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 6:35 AM Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
> lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> *+ ... 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 ... +
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>> 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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