Can't read it. Makes me vomit. My friend Niksa in Zagreb tells me he had to
read it when he was a pre teen. I can't get through it. Awful awfui awful
book. Disgusting book. Loathesome.
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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:30:32 -0500
Whoever in this case was Ivo Andric, and The Bridge over the River Drina
was a great book that had much more than sadness in it, as I recall. It's
been
years since I read it.
Hal
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On Apr 26, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Jennifer Compton wrote:
>That Bridge OverThe River Drina book - by whoever - that I simply stopped
>reading when the mother tried to breastfeed her doomed chiold immured in
>the bridge - that is a pretty sad book.
>apparently ex yugo kids had to read it at school
>when they tell me this i always ask - how? how did you read it?
>
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>Subject: Re: Abrupt Snap - What is the saddest book ever written?
>Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:39:59 -0400
>
>Funniest novel I ever read, apart from Tristram Shandy, was Snow White, by
>Donald Barthelme. Runners-up: The Ginger Man, by J. P. Donleavy. Chapel
>Road, by Louis Paul Boon (Flemish); mordantly funny, deeply melancholy,
>sharply critical.
>
>Since we're talking about novels, I recommend in the strongest possible
>terms a short novel from around 1900 by Hjalmar Soderberg (umlaut over the
>o) called Doctor Glas. One of the great classics of Swedish literature.
>Definitely falls into the "sad" category, but goes way beyond it.
>Recently translated and published here, with a good intro by Susan Sontag.
>
>Most profoundly sad (and moving) modern novel I know is also Swedish -
>Finno-Swedish: Axel, by Bo Carpelan. Who is also a noted poet. Sort of
>book that, once you've finish it, makes it hard to get your life started
>again.
>
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