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I'm very glad to have your input. Tom Send a noteboard - 22/06/2012 06:10:28 AM
After having read both authors, I have to say that I would like to read more of both (I think I connected to Vian more because of the absurdity than anything else - a "mushroom" connection, as it were). I do think that Vian would be almost impossible to transfer from a book to other media, because of the double meanings, the word play and the oddness of it all.

I might try L'Automne à Pékin next - based on your comments, it might be something that I would connect with better. Since I bought the two-volume Pléiade version I think I can choose from anything he wrote, and I know that I have i>L'Automne à Pékin since it immediately followed L'Écume des Jours.

For Racine, I might pick Andromaque next. I don't think I'd ever want to see his plays actually staged, because I imagine them to involve lots of Greek helms with the horse hair, and long spears and lots of posing. However, from a language perspective, the richness of his plays is just amazing.

Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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I'm very glad to have your input. - 22/06/2012 06:10:28 AM 1747 Views
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You have now made me sad that I can't find the Beaussant book - 25/06/2012 02:58:09 AM 1709 Views
Haven't read that Racine, but I've read others. - 29/06/2012 01:49:42 AM 1610 Views

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