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

[Johnny Marr]

The ‘big book’ I’m going to attempt at some stage is The Man Without
Qualities

Without claiming anything approaching the erudition of some fellow members
of this mailing list, I have read all the published Pynchon, all the
published Joyce (save his letters), The Magic Mountain, War and Peace, Anna
Karenina, Infinite Jest, Underworld and A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu

Still plenty more doorstoppers (and more miniature masterpieces) to get
through. Maybe I should order The Epic of Gilgamesh...

On Tuesday, March 31, 2020, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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