Re: What's your favorite book of all time?
Date: March 5, 2007 13:15
This is almost impossible since naming titles automatically means excluding others. Anyway, some book and writers I keep returning to:
Anything by Kafka (novels, stories, diaries, letters)
Dostoevsky - amazing to see him mentioned so many times - is in my DNA (finished my academic studies on him). I prefer the subjective quality of Crime and Punishment and Notes from Underground above the multi voiced symphonies like the Brothes Karamazov, The Devils.
Italo Svevo - Confessions of Zeno, stories. Probably the 1st writer to meticulously take his own character apart. Self-mockery of the highest order!
John Updike - Rabbit cyclus, The Centaur
My fav contemporay writer is probably Nicholson Baker. Wonderful, brilliant musings on everyday and family life. Completely plotless but wild and very funny - especially if you're caught up in it yourself, I might add.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-03-12 16:41 by Greg.