tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post8776749301761738380..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Clothes and shoes, meat and drink, hearth and home, wife and child - detailed BuddenbrooksAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-36284675001582208532013-07-12T08:04:20.652-05:002013-07-12T08:04:20.652-05:00The walks along the river, where some of the walls...The walks along the river, where some of the walls once were, perhaps compensates today's tourist. One picturesque view traded for another.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-53252743755018096352013-07-12T00:14:38.926-05:002013-07-12T00:14:38.926-05:00That's a shame - I distinctly remember the wal...That's a shame - I distinctly remember the walks around the walls...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07546287562521628467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-34245205508335471432013-07-11T23:25:53.683-05:002013-07-11T23:25:53.683-05:00Perfect Provençal cooking right in the center of P...Perfect Provençal cooking right in the center of Paris.<br /><br />Young Christian, in the first manifestation of his lifelong hypochondria, becomes obsessed with the idea of choking on a peach pit. <br /><br />p. 66 of Woods:<br /><br />"Good heavens - Christian, you haven't swallowed it, have you?!" For it really does look as if that is what happened.<br /><br />"No, no," Christian says, gradually calming down, "but what would happen if I <i>did</i>?"<br /><br />Are world-class, canonical works of literature really allowed to use "?!" ?Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-63384314817587713432013-07-11T17:45:26.436-05:002013-07-11T17:45:26.436-05:00I am sorry I missed that post on Carnavalet, but h...I am sorry I missed that post on Carnavalet, but happy for the Internet ensuring that it's still there. I want that lamb crumble for dinner - tonight and maybe all week. <br /><br />Mann certainly shows restraint compared to Zola (or to that crumble, for that matter). As I recall, one of his characters in <i>Buddenbrooks</i> even wrestles over whether to eat a peach - a scene I assume led directly to Eliot's line in "Prufrock." seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-73727951494420762332013-07-11T14:10:59.888-05:002013-07-11T14:10:59.888-05:00Oh yes, here we have my visit to the Museé Carnava...Oh yes, <a href="http://wutheringexpectations.blogspot.com/2011/08/visit-to-prousts-cork-lined-room.html" rel="nofollow">here we have</a> my visit to the Museé Carnavalet, which, as a bonus, includes a photograph of a dish I wish were in front of me now.<br /><br />This vacation actually included a second visit to an author's town and home that from a literary point of view was far more valuable, but I do not expect to get to that for a while.<br /><br />To Richard's point, I believe that Mann himself, and his detached narrator, are at minimum skeptical of his characters' baroque tastes, and in his own descriptions certainly never pours it on in the manner of Zola's overripe cheeses and flowers. Mann is more restrained, even when describing excess.<br /><br />There is a long Christmas scene that demonstrates the point even better than the initial housewarming party scene, and regardless when else is excess more forgivable than at parties and at Christmas?Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-62321514691845287182013-07-11T13:05:46.656-05:002013-07-11T13:05:46.656-05:00Now that I think of it, my best experience of this...Now that I think of it, my best experience of this was also with Mann. The reading I'd taken along with me to Switzerland was <i>The Magic Mountain</i>, and I was stunned to discover - only upon my arrival in Murren - that the Schilthorn was that mountain up above me. seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-91017348323837498002013-07-11T12:58:01.891-05:002013-07-11T12:58:01.891-05:00The Carnavalet museum in Paris has a recreation of...The Carnavalet museum in Paris has a recreation of Proust's bedroom, but I much refer this idea of reconstructing rooms from fictions. Imagine an entire mansion like this!<br /><br />What a lovely idea, too, to visit the setting of the novel you're reading - maybe <i>that</i> novel especially. Welcome back. seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-74176380313478991902013-07-11T12:07:35.452-05:002013-07-11T12:07:35.452-05:00Mann does a good job straddling detail and excess....Mann does a good job straddling detail and excess. In the one-plus book of his I've read anyway. Which might not have anything to do with <em>Buddenbrooks</em>' baroque excesses, of course.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-26125734632681195212013-07-11T10:44:31.333-05:002013-07-11T10:44:31.333-05:00A real-world Perc, now that is an ambitious recons...A real-world Perc, now that is an ambitious reconstruction. After that, perhaps Borges' Library of Babel.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-50903404005650059802013-07-11T10:36:58.653-05:002013-07-11T10:36:58.653-05:00love idea of rebuild the rooms using the books ,I ...love idea of rebuild the rooms using the books ,I love to see perecs life a user manual made into a house to look round ,all the best stustujallenhttp://winstonsdad.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-7597884103288573092013-07-11T08:09:53.143-05:002013-07-11T08:09:53.143-05:00Baroque has become associated with excess, and can...Baroque has become associated with excess, and can easily take a turn to kitsch, but in context can be vibrant, almost thrilling. I am glad I do not have to live in it, though.<br /><br />Lübeck is one of the prettiest cities in Germany. The prettiest, I am tempted to say. In this season, the combination of setting, architecture, and vegetation (all those roses) was amazing.<br /><br />"Tonio Kröger" has more of a "tourist's view" of Lübeck, doesn't it? Even though the character is a native, he returns as a tourist. I read the novella after my visit - Lübeck was instantly recognizable in every detail except the city walls, which are now all gone.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-66443617083837526352013-07-11T07:50:55.340-05:002013-07-11T07:50:55.340-05:00Oh, I envy you... From 'Buddenbrooks', bu...Oh, I envy you... From 'Buddenbrooks', but especially 'Tonio Kröger', Lübeck sounds like a beautiful place to visit.<br /><br />The book's pretty good too :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07546287562521628467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-47018559418570045602013-07-11T06:14:24.872-05:002013-07-11T06:14:24.872-05:00It is really a neat idea to reconstruct rooms from...It is really a neat idea to reconstruct rooms from the novel at the museum. Based on the picture the room does not look all that oppressive. I tend to like baroque however.Brian Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15139559400312336791noreply@blogger.com