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

[Samir Sellami]

To compare M&D to the Kehlmann fluke is really the most inappropriate thing
I've seen in a while.
The rest is rather obvious and random. I am surprised though that García
Márquez' "El amor en los
tiempos de cólera" is missing. The master's real novel of quarantine and
confinement, however, is
"Cien años de soledad". Good times for re-reading it.

Am Di., 31. März 2020 um 11:36 Uhr schrieb Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de>:

>
> 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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