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

[Jochen Stremmel]

Allan: please read Wanderer by Hayden and you'll understand him better.



Am Di., 31. März 2020 um 17:33 Uhr schrieb Allan Balliett <
allan.balliett at gmail.com>:

> Crap, I never even heard of The Man Without Qualities until today. One peak
> at Wiki and it's clear that my post-consumer confidence is not strong
> enough about the future to start that jewel!
>
> What "miniature masterpieces' have you read or want to read would you
> recommend?
>
> On another topic, I enjoyed PHAROS of CHAOS on MUBI last night. It's a very
> unusual in-his-last-days interview with Sterling Hayden. Although its a
> very informal home  movie quality chronicle of Hayden talk about Life and
> disown life on his barge in Europe, it does give enough biographical info
> to renew my respect for how robustly he lived life.However, I wasn't aware
> that he was one of the real hollywood commies who gave up fellow travelers
> during th McCarthy hearings. I have a hard time excusing him of being a
> weasel at that point and yet and yet and yet I sure loved him in Altmas's
> THE LONG GOODBYE and in DR STRANGELOVE  I can't recommend this film to
> anyone because it's a slow long beautiful slog but I hope you see it just
> the same
>
> EveryoneL Please alert me if any service starts streaming FIRST COW. Seeing
> it has b come something like a Last Wish for me.
>
> -Allan in WV where the tap water in our town is toxic  enough to sterilize
> our hands without soap
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 11:02 AM Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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