"There are high modernist books that take effort – Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru, or William Gaddis's The Recognitions or Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil – but I've never yet read one that didn't repay the effort."
Not one? Is there any other classification of literature of which one would make such a statement?
"There are high modernist books that take effort – Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru, or William Gaddis's The Recognitions or Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil – but I've never yet read one that didn't repay the effort."
ReplyDeleteNot one? Is there any other classification of literature of which one would make such a statement?