I loved Book 1 and it's steadily deteriorated since then (midway thru Book 4 at this point). I almost gave up at the Epilogue and then skipped that part.
Surprising to hear the church mural was a real work of his, I thought it was a metaphor for the entire book, equally sprawling. I do think his strongly visual style combined with the absurdist elements is one the things that I have a hard time relating to.
Does he have better books that are less self-indulgent/absurd? Should I read Of Human Bondage? I hated A Remembrance of Things Past, and the painfully awkward bildungsroman bits of Lanark started to grate on me after a while.
― viborg, Sunday, 28 April 2019 02:58 (four years ago) link