or
发帖数: 720 | 1 Your professor didn't recommend "Possession"?;-P That's also an academia
eh..romance, half compositional half analytical touched with literary critism
about life in literature ivory tower. I had a quick look at this
"Hallucinating Foucault" in the wkend, couldn't like it either finish it.
It's a bit melodramatic to me, for this life and adventure absorbed by a
writer. The dialogue is not funny and it tries hard to be funny. Your
reader=writer cricle is too abstract for me to understand. I c | or
发帖数: 720 | 2 I didn't look through to the end of HF, was really disappointed. Possession
is at least better than HF and is totally different style from stream of
consciousness in the Hours. It also combines the past and present, tells a
few modern literature majors searching through life and works of a pair of
classic poets. I finished it without a stop since it had an atomosphere of
suspense, tho I didn't think this novel perfect either. If your professor
recommended and preferred HF, he/she probably th | or
发帖数: 720 | 3 grin I can be gushing on things I was interested in.
anyway possession is worth a read, borrowing from libarary, not worth buying
or keeping.
Both "Emma" and "Remembarance of Things Past" are perfect, the only two so far
I couldn't find fault with.;-P
Ppl say that Austen and Proust are narrow and trivial; there are profounder,
grander, deeper things they never got touched with. But on materials that
they did touch they made them perfect. If Emma is limited and closed up, it's
also a round circ |
|
