Re: 20/20 list
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@hotpop.com)
Sun, 24 Oct 1999 10:44:02 +1000
Colin wroteL
> 3. Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot.
>
> An English doctor pursues his obsession with Flaubert following his
> adulterous wife's death: ring any bells?
Aha! Someone else who actually knows/cares about this book! I believe I
earmarked it as kith and kin along with Seymour: An Introduction and
Nabokov's `Pale Fire' quite a while ago, but no one seemed to have heard
about it.
I notice also the inclusion of Heinrich Boll on your list. I wonder if you
have ever read his short stories? There's quite a few of them that are very
Salingerian - not to mention very fine in their own right. My favourites
are `Murke's Collected Silences' and `In The Valley of the Thundering
Hooves'. Considering Boll was also the official translator of `Catcher'
into German, perhaps this isn't such a coincidence (I believe it was Bernd
though who said that Boll largely missed a lot of the colloquialisms?)
Camille
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