Somebody did mention "To the Lighthouse," and I'd agree. I mentioned
admiring, without particularly liking (except in parts) "Ulysses." The
Scott-Moncrieff translation of "Remembrance of Things Past" is heavy
weather; a later translation (sorry; it's on a high shelf) lets
Proust's humor show through. But you need a lot of sitzfleisch to
finish the whole thing.
Speaking of the French, I used to teach Malraux's "Man's Fate," which
my undergraduate students loved. They also loved "One Day in the Life
of Ivan Denisovich," because it reminded so many of them of being in
the army in Vietnam.
Pamela
"How quickly weeks glide away in such a city as New York, especially
when you reckon among your friends some of the most agreeable people
in either hemisphere."
Fanny Trollope, "Domestic Manners of the Americans"
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