Just finished
Concrete by Thomas Bernhard. This was the story of an Austrian musicologist who is trying to write a study of the work of Mendelssohn Bartholdy. He had spent ten years trying to write the study and all he had to show for it was a pile of notes. Due to a healthy inheritance he has ample opportunity to write the study however he continuously finds reasons that he cannot begin, i.e. his sister's presence, his full stomach, his house, his illness, etc. It was actually a pretty interesting story and at about 150 pages, a quick read.
The one thing that took some getting use to was the fact the story was written in one continuous paragraph. Hard to find a stopping point when there's no breaks. Good thing I had my trusty Last Line bookmark.
The bookmark slides right onto the page so that you don't lose your place. I sometimes have to stop in the middle of a chapter or section and it great to be able to pick the book back up and not have to read over the page to find where I left off.
Next up is
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The bookmark slides right onto the page so that you don't lose your place. I sometimes have to stop in the middle of a chapter or section and it great to be able to pick the book back up and not have to read over the page to find where I left off.
There are books written in German that are one entire sentence because in Germany a run-on sentence is not a grammatical taboo they continue to write and write and write regardless of what the rest of the world may think of their grammar.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. Him being Austrian would explain that. I assumed it was a form of stream-of-consciousness.
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