The Rorschach reading test
Burningbird asked for some reading recommendations. Here are some of my favorites (not necessarily in order of preference):
- Jun’ichiro Tanizaki, The Makioka Sisters
- Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
- Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
- Saiichi Maruya, A Mature Woman
- Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Alberto Moravia, Boredom
- Fumiko Enchi, The Waiting Years
- Soseki Natsume, Kokoro
- Naoya Shiga, A Dark Night’s Passing
- W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn
- Ivan Morris, The Nobility of Failure
- Allison Fell, The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogoro
- James Salter, Burning the Days
- Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
- Eudora Welty, Collected Stories
- Dorothea Brande, Becoming a Writer
- Joseph Mitchell, Up in the Old Hotel
- Taeko Kono, Toddler Hunting
- Julio Cortazar, Hopscotch
- Akira Yoshimura, On Parole
I tried to keep the list to ten but couldn’t manage it.
Well, whadayaknow. I didn't think anybody but me had read _Rayuela_ (_Hopscotch_).
How did you manage to get through _Tom Jones_? I couldn't. I didn't give enough of a hoot about him or his doings or anyone he did them with.
Posted by: Dorothea Salo on 17 August 2002 at 01:28 AM