What are you reading?

[electric_alyce]

Sounds like a manual for lesbians.

And ^, Got so fed up with Sult from school, must have been through it a gazillion times.

[Purity]

Never read it in school actually. Although this is my second reading I never really got into Hamsun until a few years after i finished school.

[Fade]

Guy de Maupassant - Une vie

En français pour la première fois.....ahhh! C'est magnifique!

[DHC]

Kafka On The Shore

[Spectacolos]

Rayuela by Julio Cortázar and Petersburg by Andrei Bely.

Hamsun is beyond awesome, btw.

[hanajibu]

Kafka On The Shore

I read this when I was supposed to visit Shikoku (and primarily Kochi) last May, but I never made the trip! It's a great book.

[AKA*NYC]

A norwegian classic: Knut Hamsun - Sult (hunger)

one of the best books EVER

[Faust]

Not reading in full, but about to start comparing Master and Margarita in Russian and English. Being a guest lecturer ain't no picnic.

Has anyone read Umberto Eco On Literature? Worth it?

[skecr8r_l8r]

It is a decent piece of critique and I would recommend it to you Faust, but I of course do not know how much you are into literary criticism in general.

I'm reading "Objectivity" (MIT Press), a history of the attempt to achieve perfect objectivity in the arts and sciences. Recommended.
Also improving my knowledge of Japanese authors - Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oe and Yasunari Kawabata. I don't think any style of literature is as underrated as the post-modern Japanese.

First post here in ages, I guess that return to Atelier yesterday for the first time in a year (re)started something.

[Fuuma]

Not reading in full, but about to start comparing Master and Margarita in Russian and English. Being a guest lecturer ain't no picnic.

Has anyone read Umberto Eco On Literature? Worth it?

No, Foucault's pendulum sorta made me edgy about reading any more Eco (also read The name of the rose). I assume it could be interesting considering his reputation.

[Faust]

Did you like The Name of the Rose? Sounds like quality easy reading.

[justine]

"Brave new world"

[Fuuma]

Did you like The Name of the Rose? Sounds like quality easy reading.

Yeah I liked it, dense but accessible. Well my copy didn't have latin translations and didn't explain the references so maybe not that accessible...

[Faust]

Thanks, Fuuma. I ordered it a few days ago from Amazon.
Nice choice, justine. If you are curious, the book that inspired BNW is called We, by Yevgeniy (Eugene) Zamyatin.

[Acid, Bitter and Sad]

Murakami's "What I talk about when I talk about Running"