dubliners
Alex Rumford (RumAJF-U@hhs.bham.ac.uk)
Mon, 07 Jun 1999 15:12:28 +0000 (GMT)
still here- thanks very much everyone for your book suggestions- the
ones i heard of i know are quality, the ones i havent im sure are
too. (by the way i have enough now so no more please!)
but just quickly, we did a course on dante last year and studied
some joyce. and yes dubliners is very good- but it has a hell (ha ha)
of a lot in common structurally and thematically with dante's
inferno, and since the translations are generally pretty
straightforward and praiseworthy, you might appreciate dubliners in a
different way by reading dante first.
i somehow fooled many of you (or you were just being nice) by
thinking i was well read. what a joke! i have neither read much not
read many canonical works (not that the latter means anything in the
real world anyway) but some good books i read recently and not so
recently are: the shipping news, by e annie proulx; steinbeck's works
(though i only read a couple as yet), the great gatsby, and a trilogy
of books by mervyn peake respectively called titus groan,
gormenghast, and titus alone. (the last is a bit crap). theyre all
gothic/ realist and absolutely brilliant.
right i really am going now
see you later crocodile
alex