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[trwnds]

The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann

Comments

Nein.

[schwarzes_herz]

A. Highly suspicious of brand new journals.

B. What did women and POC ever do to you? Garcia Marquez does not diversity make.

i would entirely argue with that

[murdermystery]

this list is like ostensibly the core of everything i have liked ever, whether it was written by a white or poc, man or woman

core

[murdermystery]

robbe grillet + beckett = new novel = marguerite duras, natalie surraute which leads to new narrative = kathy acker, dodie bellamy, camille roy

joyce (+ burroughs) = paving the way for censorship trials which lead to things like = the apocryphal pauline reage, diane bataille & catherine robbe-grillet (as jean de berg)

i can do this with POC too if you'd like

[mlknchz]

NO NO NO NO NO.

Joyce, Nabokov, and Beckett do NOT a list make.

No, thank you.

[dryride]

Try imaging me saying that with the emphasis on the last two words to denote contempt and sarcasm.

well

[murdermystery]

i appreciate that this is at least the good part of the canon

Re: well

[murdermystery]

actually i would be far more likely to consider a person with a list like this interesting than a list like the last one, which probably violates all expectations i have of myself.

yes

[murdermystery]

whatever in retrospect i think i like this a lot

That's something I've thought about, myself.

[dryride]

I don't dislike most lists, believe it or not.

I read a good chunk of "the canon" when I was just beginning to get into books. I can easily understand why so many lists have so many of the same titles.