No, really, are you serious?
Because when I see a list of 12 books to entertain, challenge and inspire if you’re confined at home due to Covid-19.
And no 2 on the list is Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain????!!!!
Life is too short even without a raging pandemic is all I'm saying.
Okay, I daresay that people do think that being in isolation is a great chance to get stuck in on Proust or whatever, but my experience is that being in trying circumstances is not the time to undertake long-deferred challenges (re-reading Proust would be another matter...).
It is a time for guilt-free huddling up with old favourites, or new works by trusted favourite authors, not those epic canonical works that have long been on the 'some day' list. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/3055397.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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