Brother Schenker
Founding member
I've tried many of Buk's favourites. I didn't like some of them, found them dull. I liked Fante's Ask The Dust. Buk said many times Fante was his god. Fante laid the line down cleanly and unpretentiously, and so did Buk.
I enjoyed Hamsun's Hunger. He also wrote a thin book, a love story, can't remember the title...Valerie? I liked it, too. Tried to read his others and found them dull.
Celine's Journey had two magnificent parts. One takes place in a Detroit car plant in the 1920s, and the other takes place in a public loo in New York City circa the 1920s. The writing about the loo is sheer, explosive poetry. Phenomenal disgust. Literary vomit with bright yellow bile. He was a volcano of rage & hatred & repulsion. I loved it.
I believe Journey influenced Henry Miller's writing to a very large extent. He redd it after he published Tropic of Cancer but before he wrote Tropic of Capricorn. And Cancer sucks but Capricorn kicks ass. I think Journey helped Miller find his own voice and trust it.
Mind, this is all intuitive conjecture in conjunction with past consumption of various letters, novels, and bios by & on Miller. (Belch) And that's good enough for me.
I'm gonna try Death on the Installment Plan. Looked at it once years ago and saw how fat it was and said no thanks. But I'm hankering for some angry writing so I'll give it another go.
I enjoyed Hamsun's Hunger. He also wrote a thin book, a love story, can't remember the title...Valerie? I liked it, too. Tried to read his others and found them dull.
Celine's Journey had two magnificent parts. One takes place in a Detroit car plant in the 1920s, and the other takes place in a public loo in New York City circa the 1920s. The writing about the loo is sheer, explosive poetry. Phenomenal disgust. Literary vomit with bright yellow bile. He was a volcano of rage & hatred & repulsion. I loved it.
I believe Journey influenced Henry Miller's writing to a very large extent. He redd it after he published Tropic of Cancer but before he wrote Tropic of Capricorn. And Cancer sucks but Capricorn kicks ass. I think Journey helped Miller find his own voice and trust it.
Mind, this is all intuitive conjecture in conjunction with past consumption of various letters, novels, and bios by & on Miller. (Belch) And that's good enough for me.
I'm gonna try Death on the Installment Plan. Looked at it once years ago and saw how fat it was and said no thanks. But I'm hankering for some angry writing so I'll give it another go.