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From: Christopher Berg <tentender@peoplepc.com>
Many of the following previously mentioned on list:
Flann O'Brien (especially The Third Policeman, but all his books are of
considerable interest; At Swim-Two-Birds is his best known)
Rushdie (everything but the two most recent novels, which seem to me a steep
decline, and esp. The Moor's Last Sigh, The Satanic Verses)
G.V. Desani (only one book: All About H. Hatterr -- but what a book!)
Alan Hollinghurst (all)
Philip Hensher (esp. Kitchen Venom, Other Lulus, Pleasured, in that order)
W. G. Sebald (all)
Vikram Seth (not a Victorian, but his huge A Suitable Boy has been compared
to Trollope -- don't hold this against it; also his wonderful verse novel in
Onegin Stanzas, The Golden Gate -- but NOT, I warn you, An Equal Music --
Barbara Cartland territory!)
Zadie Smith (personally I liked both her books very much, but some have more
reservations than I about her second book, "The Autograph Man")
All these offer challenges and rewards the nature of which will be familiar
to readers of Nabokov.
Christopher Berg
Paris
Many of the following previously mentioned on list:
Flann O'Brien (especially The Third Policeman, but all his books are of
considerable interest; At Swim-Two-Birds is his best known)
Rushdie (everything but the two most recent novels, which seem to me a steep
decline, and esp. The Moor's Last Sigh, The Satanic Verses)
G.V. Desani (only one book: All About H. Hatterr -- but what a book!)
Alan Hollinghurst (all)
Philip Hensher (esp. Kitchen Venom, Other Lulus, Pleasured, in that order)
W. G. Sebald (all)
Vikram Seth (not a Victorian, but his huge A Suitable Boy has been compared
to Trollope -- don't hold this against it; also his wonderful verse novel in
Onegin Stanzas, The Golden Gate -- but NOT, I warn you, An Equal Music --
Barbara Cartland territory!)
Zadie Smith (personally I liked both her books very much, but some have more
reservations than I about her second book, "The Autograph Man")
All these offer challenges and rewards the nature of which will be familiar
to readers of Nabokov.
Christopher Berg
Paris