Next on the reading list is Embers by Hungarian author Sándor Márai. Here's a quote from the third page of the book that augurs well for the read ahead:
On the other side of the closed blinds, in the scorched, withered garden, summer ignited a last blaze like an arsonist setting the fields on fire in senseless fury before making his escape.
Mmm! In the meantime, in Kyoto, when the clouds lift and allow a fleeting glimpse of the hills that surround the city, I have never seen things looking greener or the fields further from being scorched than they are now. Yes folks, the deluge continues with worse ahead ... there's a typhoon approaching!
Posted by Joe at June 18, 2003 11:53 AMJumping the gun a tad my dear friend. According to my inside knowledge you still should be deeply absorbed in a certain Russian author.
Posted by: martin at June 18, 2003 01:17 PM'tis true. 'tis true. And indeed the "psychedelic Nabokov of the Cyber Age" (always new Time was a naff magazine) will be completed, but will the U.S. authorities allow me into the country with a book cover like that one?
Posted by: Joe at June 18, 2003 02:14 PM