13 Aug 08
Originally posted by der schwarze RitterAh, Hemingway is the true master, indeed!
I was always partial to Hem's "The Sun Also Rises." His collection of short stories, "A Movable Feast," is one of my favorite books.
Have you heard about Hemingway's six-word flash fiction masterpiece?
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Genius!
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13 Aug 08
Originally posted by Bosse de NageFor me, it's about knowledge, more than anything. As the author says, the criminals already know the stuff that's in there; I figure I might as well know also. I have not found a use for anything that is written there and I don't think I'll ever have a use for anything there but I could be wrong about that.😲
I never really took it seriously. What's particularly useful in it, do you find?
19 Aug 08
I just finished reading Vladimir Nabokovs - Pale Fire and I thought it was work of genius. I read the foreword afterwards and apparently missed a whole hidden meaning (or 10) to the book but I think the whole way the book is structured, being a poem written by a fictional charactor and then the main story being the comments on the poem written by a deluded friend of his with a agenda to push, was a deliberate two fingers up at book reviewers anyway..
For a guy with Russian as his first language he has a stunning command of the English language!
19 Aug 08
Originally posted by Bosse de NageImagine, what he wrote in russian! Every his english novel (accept Lolita) has an older twin in russian. I really mean twin, not translation. Because he rewrote them in a different way with new caracters
Nabokov at his best is positively hallucinatory.
19 Aug 08
Originally posted by viskovI don't want to, because I'll get envious.
Imagine, what he wrote in russian! Every his english novel (accept Lolita) has an older twin in russian. I really mean twin, not translation. Because he rewrote them in a different way with new caracters
The Nabokov stories I like most are the ones about Russian emigrants in foreign cities. A magician, really.
19 Aug 08
Originally posted by Bosse de NageI haven't read "War and Peace", but I found "Anna Karenina" quite boring, which is probably one reason why I didn't read "War and Peace".
What other Great Works have left you cold?
War and Peace in my case. Just boring, and I don't have an aversion to long books.