Apart from all that, did you have anything against it?
Hal
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On Apr 26, 2007, at 5:42 PM, Jennifer Compton wrote:
> 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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> Subject: Re: Abrupt Snap - What is the saddest book ever written?
> 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
>
> "The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away,
> for expedients, and by parts."
> --Edmund Burke
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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?
>>
>> ----Original Message Follows----
>> From: Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]>
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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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