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It all looks very intellectual and I'm glad its as enjoyable as it is high-brow, I'm currently hammering my way through a backlog of books including 4 collections of plays by Euripides ... because I hate myself. I'd thoroughly recommend Ion if you've yet to read it, the humour feels very dry, contemporary even. I do have a copy of Homer's Ulysses lying around but heaven knows when I'll finally get around to it.
Its been years since I read any Joyce though I'll never forget the drawn out sermon and the dinner table discussion on Parnell. Nothing like some passionate drunken chest-beating to bewilder ignorant younguns! Dubliners edges slightly ahead in my affections but I've yet to exhaust the Modernist canon, I'm about to read Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms ... could I either way.
Hi Katrina, so you're totally pounding through some classics there ... what would you say are the choicest picks of your recent reads?
Interesting that you find The Honorary Consul as good, The Human Factor which followed several years later was really good too. The Human Factor was made into a half-decent movie, which in turn was followed by a film adaptation of The Honorary Consul starring Tony 'Hannibal' Hopkins.
Yes, I taught Lady C to a class of apathetic sixth-formers so it was a great excuse to indulge myself in some deep thought about it. Lawrence is truly unique, rather like reading Woolf, his work is a drag but infinitely rewarding ... I trust you've read Waldo Emerson's essays on the sublime? I always think of the Americans from the Romantic era when I see or hear that word.
Wow, totally going through a Greene moment huh? How was Travels with my Aunt? Its one I haven't read that always sounded interesting ... and is The Lawless Road his non-fic precursor to the Power and the Glory? I have a stack of Greene novels but its been a while since I've visited Greeneland.
Hi Katrina, what did you make of Catch-22? I remember being given gushing recommendations from scores of male friends - you must be the first woman I've known to have read it - only to be underwhelmed and rather fed-up by it.
Hi Katrina, what did you make of Catch-22? I remember being given gushing recommendations from scores of male friends - you must be the first woman I've known to have read it - only to be underwhelmed and rather fed-up by it.
Hi Katrina ! Diary of a Nobody is one big hilarious read if i remember rightly, isn't it?
What aspects of comparative literature are you studying Katrina, is it European lit.-centred or theme-centred? Lucky you !?
By the way, Katrina, we're reading Marias's 'A Heart So White' over at the Sebald group, sometime in late January. Feel free to join us if you have the time.
Yes, he could be that kind of writer. He's developed a singular writing style that has a lot of detractors. He's an easier read than Henry James though.
If it takes them a long time I wouldn't mind. They're students of Rabassa, so I think they are meant for the job.
Marias! I've read only 5 books. I think that the best places to start are any of the following: Fever and Spear, Written Lives, Bad Nature, and All Souls (which should be read before Dark Back of Time).
Katrina, I just finished 'The Jaguar' by JG Rosa, translated by David Treece. I think it was a very good translation. It contains 10 stories, some were from 'The Third Bank of the River.' I highly recommend it. Btw, it seems like GSV now has new translators (Elizabeth Lowe & Earl Fitz). I read their work on a book by Clarice Lispector. Here's a link to the interview with Fitz, if you haven't checked it out yet: http://thedeviltopayinthebacklands.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/interview-with-dr-earl-e-fitz/
Hey, Katrina. I'm finally done with the reread of "The Devil." I still find the final battle and the ending cinematic. Hope everything is going fine in your new place.
Saw you've added Austerlitz. I was meaning to read that one.
Don Q is quite a page-turner. It's full of surprises and still remains fresh despite its age.
Good luck on your move, Katrina. Bring some books. *_*
I'm now on p. 360. The part where the jagunco leadership changed was really exciting.
I do hope to read a lot more from Brazil. A big country which has a lot to offer. But most titles in the list, those that are lucky enough to have come out in English, are really uncommon. I don't see them in bookstores! Well hopefully the translations will come and the old ones reprinted.
I'd like to read Sagarana too! It's his earliest fiction so maybe the style is not as convoluted as GSV. I think the translation, in spite of its shortcomings, has brilliant spots. The trial of Ze Bebelo is particularly well written, I think. GSV is not even considered his best. Some say the 7 collected novellas in Corpo de baile is a rival masterpiece. But it's yet to be translated. What a pity.
Hi, Katrina. I'm still at it, page 238. I am finding reading onscreen to be slow going but I'm recognizing the intelligent design in this book. This being a reread, I can see more the way Rosa drops hints early on about the surprise twist at the end.
I found the list: http://www.brazzil.com/p12sep98.htm
50 books, not 100, it turned out. Fonseca is in last place with A Grande Arte (translated as High Art). Maybe I'll post this list in the RB group after I checked out the availability of translations.
