claude simon

Not My Flavor

The Flanders Road by Claude Simon

March 13, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

CBR15Passport Flanders OK, let me just put this out there. Unconstructed prose is not my jam. Page after page with no structure, no punctuation, no paragraphs, OK, no. Looking at you James Joyce. Dubliners? Love. Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man? Well OK. Finnigan’s Wake? OK, now we having issues. Ulysses? Oooohhh no. So I feel guilty about not giving this a better rating because it is not my cup of tea, but I suspect it is well written. Generally when I give […]

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Another Turn of the Crank by Wendell Berry

The Trolley by Claude Simon

Nights at the Alexandra by William Trevor

The Red Collar by Jean-Christophe Rufin

The Secret of Evil by Roberto Bolano

Across by Peter Handke

The Meeting at Telgte by Gunter Grass

July 18, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This, and a subsequent post will collect together a bunch of small books of no particular connection together. In some case I tend to find connections among various texts I end up reading at the same time. This is a product/habit from college and grad school where I would be taking multiple classes at the same time and looked to streamline my research and explore different ways to use the same critical texts in multiple ways. But mostly I am trying to clear off shelf-space […]

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