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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
Finished Pure Colour, by Sheila Heti. Recommended if you like experimental metaphysical fiction. Sorry, but there are no BEMs with tentacles wrapped around a scantily-clad female.  (Not that there's anything wrong with that!)
Now reading another novella: The Hole, by Hiroko Oyamada.
After that, I may start The Tunnel, by Ernesto Sabato. It's been on my radar for some time. (I keep one in the backyard.) |
Finished
The Hole. I thought it was a poor imitation of Haruki Murakama. The ending is way too abrupt, and the female character (strikes me) as very weak, very unintelligent, and very much lacking in insight.
Sabato would have been next, but I decided to re-read
Jonathan Littell (
The Fata Morgana Books) next, one I read when it first came out. I enjoy books that are rich and deep, and written in a 'modernist' writing style. Think Proust, Musil, Mann, et al. The book was a critical failure when it came out, but not for me.
I'm still amazed at how an author (
Littell) can produce a piece of sci-fi crap at age 21 (?) and then produce a work of maturity and insight (
and disgust) with a novel that, if not equal to the thematic content of his father's big novel, is certainly equal in length.