I'm looking for a novel that doesn't have postmodern nonsense like when you're reading a book and suddenly you're reading about unrelated AIDS statistics among Black folks in 1980s NYC or about niche shoemaking techniques in medieval England. I want a novel with no quirky vignettes, or random encyclopedic digressions that have nothing to do with anything. I want a clear flowing river of pure literary gold. Is there anything in your mind that gets close to this description?
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fiction is the fast food of the written word
Nothing can be proven. All works are fiction.
Prove it
Buden of proof is on the works claiming they're not fiction.
Faulkner, Joyce.
Sticky, read it.
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
A pale view of hills
Le rouge et le noir by Stendhal.
Sorry I can't read french
Sorry I can't read hungarian
Sorry I can't read german
Yo no hablo inglés
Embers by Sandor Marai.
What do you like or what other books do you enjoy?
Mainly short fiction and poetry. My favorite writer is Borges. Other writers I have read and enjoyed: Faulkner, Cortázar, Carroll, Houellebecq, Stevenson, Yeats, Tolkien, Conrad, Bolaño. Writers I don't like: Bioy Casares.
I'm really enjoying Herman Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund.
Buddenbrooks
Siddhartha
Sons and Lovers
foucault's pendulum if you're not uneducated
Reddingway
Julian, by Gore Vidal
wtf
Read the sticky.
The charts are filled with exactly the things I don't want.
Gravity's Rainbow
hehe
>I'm looking for a novel that doesn't have postmodern nonsense like when you're reading a book and suddenly you're reading about unrelated AIDS statistics among Black folks in 1980s NYC or about niche shoemaking techniques in medieval England.
That's not postmodernism, you dumbass. But fine, read The Magic Mountain or Marinkovic's Cyclops.