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David wrote: "whoa, fun list...no entry for Cairo or any imaginary city (New Corbuzon?)..."
Dunno but for me it feels a bit like imaginary cities don't quite cut the criteria somehow. There's a different feel ; similar perhaps to how some folks when they read certain novels sneakily declare Ah ha! It's not a novel it's a memoir!!
BUT..... CAIRO. I feel sheepishly confident we might add The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street ;; not absolutely certain on its larger literary merits ;; but heck I've got in on my shelf anyway.
And while you're here ; are Nádas' novels city=oriented and maybe we could add Budapest?
My sCoreCard ::Alexandria (Lawrence Durrell's quartet) --TO READ
Beijing (Cao Xuequin's Story of the Stone) --ZUM KAUFEN
Alexander Theroux's Laura Warholic)
Chicago (Mark Smith's Death of the Detective --DON'T KNOW,
Glasgow (Alasdair Gray's Lanark) --ZUM KAUFEN
José Lezama Lima's Paradiso)
London (George W. M. Reynolds's Mysteries of London --DON'T KNOW,
Charles Dickens's Bleak House --I INTEND TO,
Wyndham Lewis's Apes of God --GOD YES ZUM KAUFEN,
Martin Amis's London Fields --UNDECIDED,
Los Angeles (James Frey's Bright Shiny Morning) --DON'T KNOW
Mexico City (Carlos Fuentes's novels --read TERRA NOSTRA, will read more,
Montreal (Norm Sibum's Traymore Rooms) --DON'T KNOW
Mumbai (Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, --SOME DAY,
Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games) --ZUM LESEN
New York City
Paul Goodman's Empire City --DON'T KNOW,
Sergio de la Pava's Naked Singularity)
Paris (Victor Hugo's Les Misérables --TO READ SIGH,
Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time --"CURRENTLY=READING",
George Perec's Life A User's Manual) --TO READ
San Francisco (Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel) --ZUM LESEN DAMMIT
St. Petersburg
Andrei Bely's Petersburg --TO BUY DAMMIT
Tokyo (Hiraga Gennai's Rootless Weeds --DON'T KNOW,
Haruki Murakami's IQ84) --NOT LIKELY
Vienna
Heimat von Doderer's Demons --TO BUY DAMMIT
Istanbul (Buket Uzuner's I Am Istanbul)* --DON'T KNOW NOTHING AND NEITHER DO YOU
and points in between. Großstadtromane the Germans call them. [indicative, isn't it? that Vollmann hasn't been credited with one of these Großstadtromane ; he like me's a country=boy at heart.(view spoiler)]
I know I know I'm sorry I should've floated this a few weeks before Xmas so as we all could've left hints around the house for ole Santa or Ms Claws as to what with our bookshelves to stuff with for the HolyDaze'sake. Next year in Jerusalem!!! .....wait what?! What's the Jerusalem novel?
*(view spoiler)
This one here's another one of those Lists from Sir Steven Moore that have been intermittently haunting me. Contained therein seem to be a good number of titles I've either read or anticipate reading. Said list I've reproduced already for your convenience in my review of his My Back Pages right about here ::https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And here it is again for your Completionism Pleasure ::
Many big, maximalist novels are set, appropriately and even symbiotically, in big cities such as
Alexandria (Lawrence Durrell's quartet)
Beijing (Cao Xuequin's Story of the Stone)
Berlin (Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz))
Boston (David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, Alexander Theroux's Laura Warholic)
Chicago (Mark Smith's Death of the Detective, Leon Forrest's Divine Days)
Dublin (Joyce)
Glasgow (Alasdair Gray's Lanark)
Havana (Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Three Trapped Tigers, José Lezama Lima's Paradiso)
London (George W. M. Reynolds's Mysteries of London, Charles Dickens's Bleak House, Wyndham Lewis's Apes of God, Julián Ríos's Larva, Martin Amis's London Fields, Zadie Smith's White Teeth)
Los Angeles (James Frey's Bright Shiny Morning) { sic! and Vanessa Place's La Medusa }
Mexico City (Carlos Fuentes's novels, Fernando del Paso's Palinuro of Mexico)
Montreal (Norm Sibum's Traymore Rooms)
Mumbai (Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games)
New York City (William Gaddis's Recognitions and J R, Paul Goodman's Empire City, Joseph McElroy's Women and Men, Sergio de la Pava's Naked Singularity)
Paris (Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, George Perec's Life A User's Manual)
San Francisco (Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel)
St. Petersburg (Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Andrei Bely's Petersburg
Tokyo (Hiraga Gennai's Rootless Weeds, Haruki Murakami's IQ84)
Vienna (Robert Musil's Man Without Qualities, Heimat von Doderer's Demons
Istanbul (Buket Uzuner's I Am Istanbul)
and points in between. Großstadtromane the Germans call them. [indicative, isn't it? that Vollmann hasn't been credited with one of these Großstadtromane ; he like me's a country=boy at heart.]
My Back Pages: Reviews and Essays p721.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "I'm not sure John Barth is for me, but I know another reader who I think will appreciate him thoroughly (and probably this list), and am glad to pass it on. "You might not dig Barth, but everything up there is all kinds of different from one another. Might be something for you.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Yes, the Readers Also Enjoyed feature changes. I think the frequency of the changes depends on the popularity of the book source."But too this one has remained rather stable ; with the two additions being quite appropriate.
gr has also of course updated their list. It now includes Zettel's Traum
by Schmidt
The Making of Americans
by Stein
[in progress on ZT and MoA on deck]
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "The list and my score ::Take Five
by D. Keith Mano
Darconville’s Cat
by Alexander Theroux
The Runaway Soul
by Harold Brodkey
Women and Men
by Joseph McElroy
You Bright and Risen Angels..."
I've gotten a few more knocked out [Runaway Soul, Divine Days, Witz] and only two outstanding -- Frog and the Doderer.
my score ::A Wallace Stevens Handbook.
Wallace Stevens: Musing the Obscure.
Death of the Novel and Other Stories (short story collection).
98.6 (novel).
Long Talking, Bad Conditions, Blues (novella).
In Form : Digressions on the Act of Fiction
The Endless Short Story (short story collection).
Down and In - Life in the Underground: Bohemian to Hip to Beat to Rock and Punk - Mutiny in American Culture.
Doggy Bag: A Collection of Stories (short story collection).
Degenerative Prose: Writing Beyond Category (1995) editor with Mark Amerika
In the Slipstream : An FC2 Reader (1999) editor with Curtis White
Mosaic Man (novel).
Narralogues: Truth in Fiction.
Cows (novel).
Moving Ahead
quiet group. this thread is way way late. i've been chipping away at ron's work for a little while now.A Wallace Stevens Handbook.
Wallace Stevens: Musing the Obscure.
Up (novel).
Death of the Novel and Other Stories (short story collection).
Out: A Novel (novel).
98.6 (novel).
Long Talking, Bad Conditions, Blues (novella).
In Form : Digressions on the Act of Fiction
Blown Away (novel).
The Endless Short Story (short story collection).
Down and In - Life in the Underground: Bohemian to Hip to Beat to Rock and Punk - Mutiny in American Culture.
Doggy Bag: A Collection of Stories (short story collection).
Degenerative Prose: Writing Beyond Category (1995) editor with Mark Amerika
In the Slipstream : An FC2 Reader (1999) editor with Curtis White
Mosaic Man (novel).
Narralogues: Truth in Fiction.
Cows (novel).
Moving Ahead
Last Fall (novel).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_...
A few years back Joshua Cohen compiled a list of the XYZ Ulysses :: "Joshua Cohen celebrates the books from Turkey to Argentina that have been called the Ulysses of their own country."http://www.thedailybeast.com/a-blooms...
There's a gr=Listopia ::
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
And I've been adding to it as I encounter similar comments to a similar effect ::
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Of Cohen's original list, here's my score ::
to=read
Petersburg -- The Russian Ulysses
Under Milk Wood -- Welsh Ullwsses
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa -- The Japanese Ulyssese
Past Continuous -- The Israeli Uly
currently
Prae: Vol. 1 -- Hungry Ulysses
read
Berlin Alexanderplatz -- The German Ulyssches
A Mind at Peace -- Turkish U
(But I think it's more a Turkish Proust ; The Disconnected being more the Ulysses)
All About H. Hatterr -- The Indian Ulyssesapada
Larva: A Midsummer Night's Babel -- The Spanish Ulysh
Mrs. Dalloway -- The Brit=U
Adam Buenosayres: A Critical Edition -- Argentine Ulyssaryes
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands -- Devil to Pay to the Ulysses of the Backlands in a Whirlwind
Read ::A Treasury of Virtues: Sayings, Sermons, and Teachings of Ali, with the One Hundred Proverbs, attributed to al-Jahiz
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume One
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume Two
Risible Rhymes
The Principles of Sufism
The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muhammad
Light in the Heavens: Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad
Leg over Leg: Volumes One and Two
Leg Over Leg: Volumes Three and Four
Scents and Flavors: A Syrian Cookbook
Currentlee ::
Knot=Red ::
What 'Isa Ibn Hisham Told Us: Or, a Period of Time, Volume One
What 'Isa Ibn Hisham Told Us: Or, a Period of Time, Volume Two
The Epistle of Forgiveness: Volumes One and Two
Virtues of the Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal: Volume One
Virtues of the Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal: Volume Two
The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt
The Life and Times of Abu Tammam
Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad
Gotta=Go BookShopping ::
Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology
Arabian Satire: Poetry from 18th-Century Najd
Disagreements of the Jurists: A Manual of Islamic Legal Theory
A Hundred and One Nights
Two Arabic Travel Books: Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga
The Excellence of the Arabs
The Epistle on Legal Theory
In Darfur An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume I (and volume II)
I'm going to read everything published by the Library of Arabic Literature.http://www.libraryofarabicliterature....
I've also got a gr-Group going ::
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...
Ausgezeichnet!
Kyle wrote: "I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask this, but what is the best place to start with her? I have Netsuke, Brightfellow, and The Fan-Maker's Inquisition available to me now. I'm really inter..."I think Fan-Maker's was my first. But just dive in!
And the tetrology is thematically linked ; so no worries about any particular order there either.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "I think I'll add your recommendation of The Correspondence. I doubt I'll be a completionist, but one of the great things about this group is an introduction to authors I might not ot..."Very good to hear! Hope you enjoy it!
Nate D wrote: "Yes! I think til now, I had the sole review of Four of Fools, so I'm glad for the (much more complete) company now!"Still can't quite grasp the fact that no one reads her.
A month and ten days later I've completed Sullivan. Here's my ranking (which I typically can't do, but.....)1) The Correspondence
2) Dead Magician
3) Four of Fools
4) Games of the Blind
5) The Concise Book of Lying
2 & 3 are close.
I've seen those photos before but never quite came to any conclusion about them. Now they may serve as a clear indicator...
Oh yeah. We've not been the first taken in." An Alternate Marguerite Young "
http://worldsleastpopularbookclub.blo...
Still sounds rather dodgy. It's also not listed in the checklist of her works in The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Summer 2000 :: Jean Rhys / John Hawkes / Paul Bowles / Marguerite Young. No mention in Inviting the Muses. And I don't recall anything from Marguerite Young, Our Darling: Tributes and Essays.We'll have to decide this when you have the evidence in hand!
