Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1932

I was reading about The Girls of Radcliffe Hall after we were discussing RH in another of these threads, it's an interesting artefact but I'd probably never read it unless I was actually studying queer fic of the period.

I've read a few of these, some notable omissions that I should read but haven't, but my vote will go to Light In August.

Oh! The Radetzky March! There goes my vote.

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I am going to vote for Time, Forward! because I love a Soviet novel, and I love a project management novel, because it's really good and because I'm the only person I know who's ever read it and that makes me feel all smug.

Surprised you aren't interested in Arlt, xyzzzz.

I've not read it but anytime I've tried Argie Fantabulism (Arlt, Casares, Ocampo) it's never landed for me, except Borges but he is doing other things too.

My tastes are more on the Argie existential spectrum (Sabato, Di Benedetto).

I've only read "The Seven Madmen" and god knows that was long enough ago but from what I recall it was more a dingy surrealist/expressionist thing than fantabulist thing but as I'm typing these words I'm not sure I could really mark out a clear difference.

This is all covered at length on the "Serpent's Tail Extraordinary Classics" thread which does not exist.

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Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1933

I’m reading the Radetzky March on the strength of this thread and loving it so far. These threads have been great for picking up reading ideas.

Joseph Roth is just a wonderful writer, one of my favourites.

Definitely going to be digging into some more stuff, and recommendations?

Legend of the Holy Drinker is a tiny masterpiece
The Emperor's Tomb is a semi-sequel to RM
His main translator, Michael Hofmann, has said that all his books work together as a sort of vast mosaic novel of the collapse of Austro-Hungary, and it's kind of true.