What other books were on the experimental lit syllabus, do you remember? It seems like Red Shift might fit right in on one....
It would have! It was, I think, a five-week block, and every week we discussed Nabokov's Pale Fire for the first half (and came up with an explanation that completely contradicted whatever we'd said the previous week) and then another book for the second, plus extended discussion. Riddley Walker, Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveller (which I love), Julian Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot (which I don't), and then one I can't remember at all and then another that was, I think, in translation, and was possibly about a group of people stumbling through the world of a Bruges' painting? Mud and medievalism, anyway.
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Date: 2019-06-07 10:40 am (UTC)It would have! It was, I think, a five-week block, and every week we discussed Nabokov's Pale Fire for the first half (and came up with an explanation that completely contradicted whatever we'd said the previous week) and then another book for the second, plus extended discussion. Riddley Walker, Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveller (which I love), Julian Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot (which I don't), and then one I can't remember at all and then another that was, I think, in translation, and was possibly about a group of people stumbling through the world of a Bruges' painting? Mud and medievalism, anyway.