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

[Jochen Stremmel]

Yes, of course: "A little bit like it"? The polar opposite!

(Drinking mezcal, I'm reading Under the Volcano: what a great book.)

Am Di., 31. März 2020 um 14:27 Uhr schrieb Samir Sellami <
samir.manuel.sellami at gmail.com>:

> 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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