Posted by Steven on 30/10/2007, 14:57:32, in reply to "slate article: the great novel i've never read" Thanks for posting this. I've heard of a couple of the other authors - Bloom and Crowley - but Atwood is the only one I've read. It's interesting that she mentions Kreuzer Sonata. I'm reading This Side of Paradise, and it's mentioned as a major inspiration for Amory Blaine and his friends. I guess I'll try to read it when I finish Fitzgerald. : I still consider "Faust" parts one and two I've been trying to correct my major omissions, but still haven't gotten to The Man Without Qualities. Another reading group I belong to is doing it next year. Probably the most important novelists I've never read are Gunther Grass and Emile Zola. I'm not nearly as well up on poetry and short stories. At least your home state HAS important writers. The most important Texas-born writer is Katherine Anne Porter, but she did all of her writing after she moved to New York. After Porter you have Larry McMurtry. Then there's Robert E. Howard, author of Conan the Barbarian.
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: This seems fairly interesting, at least for skimming
: and for a topic here. I don't know any of these
: authors who've responded to the survey. I think
: Jennifer Egan was the author of the "chick
: lit" book that Jane Smiley added to the end of
: 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel . Oh, there's Margaret
: Atwood; I didn't even notice her name the first time
: through; I do know of her.
: the most important work i've never read. It has been
: for several years. I have never been able to make up
: my mind about which edition of it seems best. There
: are a few books mentioned in the article which I've
: not read. The Man Without Qualities has been sitting
: on my shelf unread for ten years now. I've not read
: Buddenbrooks . I've not read The Kreutzer Sonata ,
: and I don't feel much interest in reading it. I've
: never read To Kill a Mockingbird .
: I have been neglecting of writers from my home state.
: I've read a couple Faulkner novels, but I've never
: read Eudora Welty, and, as I said elsewhere, I've had
: some aversion to Richard Wright.
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