List: The Ramifying Sentence
1. Thomas Bernhard
2. Jose Saramago
3. Imre Kertesz
4. Dag Solstad
5. Leonid Tsypkin
Special Mention:
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
One of these writers I have read compulsively; another, I have read but not as deeply as he deserves; a third, I could read at any time but am deterred by lack of knowledge of the source material; a fourth, I sampled briefly but was too intimidated to continue; a fifth, I plan to read, and it's happenstance entirely that I do not own his books; the sixth, I hadn't heard of until a few days back, and hence naturally my desire to read him is the greatest of all.
2. Jose Saramago
3. Imre Kertesz
4. Dag Solstad
5. Leonid Tsypkin
Special Mention:
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
One of these writers I have read compulsively; another, I have read but not as deeply as he deserves; a third, I could read at any time but am deterred by lack of knowledge of the source material; a fourth, I sampled briefly but was too intimidated to continue; a fifth, I plan to read, and it's happenstance entirely that I do not own his books; the sixth, I hadn't heard of until a few days back, and hence naturally my desire to read him is the greatest of all.
posted by Cheshire Cat at 2:00 AM
13 Comments:
wow! I have got kaddish for an unborn child, melancholy of resistance and two thomas bernhard books, frost and gargoyles right next to my pillow now! I am a big fan of long sentences and monologues :)
Haven't read anything by Saramago yet and I hadn't heard of fourth one on your list until a few days back. I briefly read about his book shyness and dignity somewhere... Tsypkin's book is also on the to-read list after I read Susan Sontag's essay. Too many books... but I really like this style of writing.
And how could you leave the granddaddy of long sentences... Proust?
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which one by Solstad?
and do you read the Dostojewskij one by Tsypid?
Krasnahorkai is worth special mention, Bela Tarr etc.
oh can you delete some of these double comments?somehow rubbish with commenting today
Alok, I own the Tsypkin but don't feel I should read it until I know more about Dostoyevsky. As for Solstad, his name just seems to be in the air - I saw references to "Shyness and Dignity" in a couple of different places.
As for Proust, a bit too obvious... In fact, his omission signals his special status.
Antonia, 10 comments on a single post is a record for this blog. Couldn't have done it without you :)
BTW, I'm unable to comment under my profile name on your blog. Blogger is so messed up...
The Solstad one is "Shyness and Dignity", as Alok said. I wonder if the others have been translated yet. I own the Tsypkin but haven't read it yet; then again, that's the case with the majority of my books. I impressed a Hungarian professor in my department by knowing of Krasznahorkai, but his admiration was completely undeserved, I haven't got past the first page of the book although I really like the style. One needs time and patience to read "The Melancholy of Resistance", and I had neither when the book was in my possession.
haha yes i is the stupid blogger, honestly I don't have a clue why you cannot sign in over at my place. And I always thought blogger hasn't somehow not posted this comment here, so I pressed continually 'publish this comment' which why it apparently appeared so often here...blogger is crap just now
'shyness and dignity' I don't know but the title is intriguing, I have the one about the teacher here, but unread as well....so many books. I don't know about the english translations, but there are quite some translatd into german... The Tsypin one about Dostojewskij I also plan ton read since quite a while....The hungarians have interesting writes, like Nadas also a lot...
i feels like an ignorant!
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