> Life Turns Man Up and Down: High Life, Useful Advice, and Mad English - > African Market Literature, edited by Kurt Thometz (This is out of print but > still findable - it's too wonderful to describe.)
Ah, this is in the lineage of "The Palm Wine Drinkard" perhaps, yes lovely! And Japanese lit in trans is a huge and wonderful field, from Lady Murasaki on . . . I really like Kenzaburo Oe, Banana Yoshimoto, Yaunari Kawabata. And Murakami is wonderful, sometimes. Windup Bird Chronicle. Etc. Did as a youth like Yukio Mishima, kind of what Oe is the voice against. Douglas Messerli has a new book of poems out, very lovely. Everyone should also read my friend Les Plesko's first novel "Last Bongo Sunset" and write to his publishers (Simon and Schuster) and plead for the next book, a most wonderful ink-dark ms that he hasn't been able to place. God knows why. Anyone looking for a book of great beauty that concerns itself with the backwash of war, the mudflats after the tide of killing has receded? AK On 7/16/04 6:01 PM, "badgergirl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah, Soseki! Have you read Kokoro? That was my first Soseki. If you have any > interest in Japanese youth literature (of about 20 years ago, admittedly) I > recommend Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami. It was touted as the > Japanese Clockwork orange. It wasn't quite that good, but still very > interesting and worth a look. > > Recent (worthwhile) reading: > > Wilson by David Mamet (intentionally confounding, but worth the effort - quite > hilarious) > > Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things by Gilbert Sorrentino > > Americana by Don Delillo > > Life Turns Man Up and Down: High Life, Useful Advice, and Mad English - > African Market Literature, edited by Kurt Thometz (This is out of print but > still findable - it's too wonderful to describe.) > >> >> From: aliceklar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 2004/07/15 Thu PM 12:22:44 EDT >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: Reading Matters >> >> i am reading dharma punx - noah levine and middlesex - >> jeffery eugenides. plus man and his symbols - jung, a >> beginner's guide to constructing the universe - >> michael s. schneider. i switch a lot when i get bored >> of it. some good ones i liked this year are i am a cat >> by natsume soseki as well as botchan. i like the >> japanese way of thinking in literature. great sense of >> humour >> >> >> --- Ann Klefstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I've been reading Christopher Logue's really >>> fantastic retellings of the >>> Iliad, lots sexier than "Troy" by many powers of 10. >>> "The Husbands" is one, >>> "All Day Permanent Red" the most recent. There are >>> more. >>> >>> Also lately anything by any Roth seems great. Most >>> recently Joseph Roth's >>> "Radetzky March" and his "Holy Drinker" (may have >>> the title askew--) >>> >>> "The Furies" by Fernanda Eberhardt. >>> >>> "Butcher's Wife" by Louise Erdrich, not all great >>> but w/ great passages. >>> >>> Of course and always "Trilce" and "Posthumous Poems" >>> by Cesar Vallejo. >>> >>> And a spate of mid-20th century stuff, poems by >>> Williams, Olson, Berryman. >>> Pound's Cantos. And even some Patchen! Who can be >>> skinmeltingly lovely. >>> >>> And "that sweet man John Clare". Some kind of >>> cultural salvation there, if >>> only we could get at it--I've got some essays on his >>> work if anyone would >>> care to read them. Send me offlist message and I'll >>> forward, if you wish. >>> >>> AK >>> >>> On 7/13/04 2:41 AM, "michael leigh" >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> I was wondering what the other members of the >>> Fluxlist >>>> were reading at the moment(besides this e-mail)- >>> books >>>> especially, that they recommend or they have >>> enjoyed >>>> reading just lately. >>>> I used to read quite a lot but these days I find >>> it >>>> quite tough going to plough through a novel but >>> Hazel >>>> enjoyed this book and passed it onto me. It's >>> called >>>> "The Curious Incident of the Dog In the >>>> Night-time(Don't let the long winded title put you >>>> off!) by Mark Haddon. Published in the u.k., by >>>> Definitions. >>>> It's about a 15 year old boy who suffers from >>>> Aspergers Syndrome and his quest to find out who >>>> killed the neighbours dog. It's quite funny and >>>> sometimes quite sad and written in an engaging >>>> dead-pan style with helpful diagrams and pictures. >>>> >>>> Michael >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW >>> Yahoo! >>>> Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express >>> yourself >>>> http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> __________________________________ >> Do you Yahoo!? >> Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! >> http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail >> >> > >
