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

[Allan Balliett]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 11:59 AM Jochen Stremmel <
jstremmel at gmail.com
> wrote


Allan: please read Wanderer by Hayden and you'll understand him better.
>
> Yes. Thanks for the reminder. The book is referenced repeatedly in the
> Movie
>

Allan



> 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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