This book was mentioned I think three times in the last few weeks in things I read. Milan Kundera discusses it in The Art of the Novel, Annie Dillard discusses it in Living by Fiction, and Vladimir Nabokov mentions it in an essay of the four greatest prose novels of the 20th century…he doesn’t count this one, but it gets a kind of honorable mention. So, I have now read it. And I am not entirely sure what to do with that. It’s most obvious […]