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From: Mark Bennett <mab@straussandasher.com>
Mr. Lawrence:
Is this a serious enquiry? Are you truly unable to find anything else to
read, now that your have consumed the works of the authors you list in your
email, as well as other unidentified "greats"? I find this hard to believe.
While I defer to no one in my admiration for VN and JJ, mighty galaxies in
themselves, there is an entire universe of first-rate literature for the
curious, eclectic reader to explore. If you really need direction in this
matter, here are some suggestions, selected entirely at random:
Jorge Luis Borges
Samuel Beckett
Flann O'Brien
Phillip Roth
Anthony Burgess
Kingsley Amis
Anthony Powell
Dawn Powell
Paul Bowles
Gustave Flaubert
Charles Baudelaire
Marcel Proust
Arthur Rimbaud
Oscar Wilde
Halldor Laxness
Edith Wharton
Henry James
Marianne Moore
Michel de Montaigne
Mark Twain
Herman Melville
W. B. Yeats
Dylan Thomas
G.K. Chesterton
Robert Browning
William Wordsworth
S.T. Coleridge
William Blake
P.B. Shelley
Lord Byron
John Keats
G.M. Hopkins
Robert Graves
Alfred Tennyson
W.H. Auden
V.S. Naipaul
Evelyn Waugh
Michael Frayn
Dante Alighieri
Franz Kakfa
William Trevor
Flannery O'Connor
Joseph Conrad
Thomas Hardy
Virginia Woolf
Italo Calvino
Frank O'Connor
John Banville
Benedict Kiely
Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Steven Milhauser
Gore Vidal
Marguerite Yourcenar
Robert Frost
Edward Gibbon
Emily Dickinson
Chrtien de Troyes
Laurence Sterne
Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
Thomas Macaulay
Jean Racine
Moliere
Pierre Corneille
Sir Thomas Malory
Jean Stafford
Italo Svevo
W.G. Sebald
Stendhal
Victor Hugo
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Emile Cioran
The Bible
The Holy Qur'an
The Bhagavad Gita
Presumably, the ancients and the Elizabethans are among the
"greats" you mention in your enquiry, so I'll omit any suggestions on those
scores. I won't even touch Russian literature, as the erudite members of
this list can much more capably direct you though that wonderland than I
can. Some of writers I have listed have been famously dismissed by VN as
unworthy of notice. That's fine. If you're Vladimir Nabokov, you can
dismiss them too. If you're not, I highly recommend all of them. Happy
reading.
-----Original Message-----
From: Galya Diment [mailto:galya@u.washington.edu]
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 2:05 PM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Reading Suggestions, Please (fwd)
From: Basil Lawrence <hhumbert@HOTMAIL.COM>
hi,
I have read as much nabokov as i have been able to lay my hands on (novels,
poems & problems incl. translations of pushkin, lermontov and tyutchev,
lectures incl. _ulysses_, letters, short stories, translations incl. _a hero
of our time_, as much of _eugene onegin_ + notes as i could muster); i've
read and enjoyed joyce's _ulysses_ (some short stories); almost all of saul
bellow; and, everything I can find by martin amis.
my dilemma: who else is worth reading? am i doomed (but nevertheless
delighted) to reread the greats from now on?
suggestions, please (no victorians).
note: i asked martin amis to recommend an author at a lecture/book-
signing, and he mentioned don delillo. try as i might, delillo's not my cup
of tea, unfortunately...
regards,
basil lawrence
gentle reader
Mr. Lawrence:
Is this a serious enquiry? Are you truly unable to find anything else to
read, now that your have consumed the works of the authors you list in your
email, as well as other unidentified "greats"? I find this hard to believe.
While I defer to no one in my admiration for VN and JJ, mighty galaxies in
themselves, there is an entire universe of first-rate literature for the
curious, eclectic reader to explore. If you really need direction in this
matter, here are some suggestions, selected entirely at random:
Jorge Luis Borges
Samuel Beckett
Flann O'Brien
Phillip Roth
Anthony Burgess
Kingsley Amis
Anthony Powell
Dawn Powell
Paul Bowles
Gustave Flaubert
Charles Baudelaire
Marcel Proust
Arthur Rimbaud
Oscar Wilde
Halldor Laxness
Edith Wharton
Henry James
Marianne Moore
Michel de Montaigne
Mark Twain
Herman Melville
W. B. Yeats
Dylan Thomas
G.K. Chesterton
Robert Browning
William Wordsworth
S.T. Coleridge
William Blake
P.B. Shelley
Lord Byron
John Keats
G.M. Hopkins
Robert Graves
Alfred Tennyson
W.H. Auden
V.S. Naipaul
Evelyn Waugh
Michael Frayn
Dante Alighieri
Franz Kakfa
William Trevor
Flannery O'Connor
Joseph Conrad
Thomas Hardy
Virginia Woolf
Italo Calvino
Frank O'Connor
John Banville
Benedict Kiely
Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Steven Milhauser
Gore Vidal
Marguerite Yourcenar
Robert Frost
Edward Gibbon
Emily Dickinson
Chrtien de Troyes
Laurence Sterne
Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
Thomas Macaulay
Jean Racine
Moliere
Pierre Corneille
Sir Thomas Malory
Jean Stafford
Italo Svevo
W.G. Sebald
Stendhal
Victor Hugo
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Emile Cioran
The Bible
The Holy Qur'an
The Bhagavad Gita
Presumably, the ancients and the Elizabethans are among the
"greats" you mention in your enquiry, so I'll omit any suggestions on those
scores. I won't even touch Russian literature, as the erudite members of
this list can much more capably direct you though that wonderland than I
can. Some of writers I have listed have been famously dismissed by VN as
unworthy of notice. That's fine. If you're Vladimir Nabokov, you can
dismiss them too. If you're not, I highly recommend all of them. Happy
reading.
-----Original Message-----
From: Galya Diment [mailto:galya@u.washington.edu]
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 2:05 PM
To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Reading Suggestions, Please (fwd)
From: Basil Lawrence <hhumbert@HOTMAIL.COM>
hi,
I have read as much nabokov as i have been able to lay my hands on (novels,
poems & problems incl. translations of pushkin, lermontov and tyutchev,
lectures incl. _ulysses_, letters, short stories, translations incl. _a hero
of our time_, as much of _eugene onegin_ + notes as i could muster); i've
read and enjoyed joyce's _ulysses_ (some short stories); almost all of saul
bellow; and, everything I can find by martin amis.
my dilemma: who else is worth reading? am i doomed (but nevertheless
delighted) to reread the greats from now on?
suggestions, please (no victorians).
note: i asked martin amis to recommend an author at a lecture/book-
signing, and he mentioned don delillo. try as i might, delillo's not my cup
of tea, unfortunately...
regards,
basil lawrence
gentle reader