Originally posted by silvestrione
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What are you reading now?
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Not read by me, as yet, but this looks to be of interest:
Aural Diversity addresses a fundamental methodological challenge in music and soundscape research by considering the nature of hearing as a spectrum of diverse experiences. Bringing together an interdisciplinary array of contributors from the arts, humanities, and sciences, it challenges the idea of a normative listening experience and envisions how awareness of aural diversity can transform sonic arts, environments, and design and generate new creative listening practices. With contributors f
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Still enthralled by Kenneth Hamilton's book on Romantic Pianists and Modern Performance, how concepts of the solo recital developed and changed through the centuries... very insightful about audience behaviour too....
The best thing to come out of the Chopin BaL for me, discovered by chance looking up the reviewer...Terrific read!
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Originally posted by Historian View PostJust finished 'Anglo-Saxon Attitudes', Angus Wilson (1956). I thought it was marvellous but, considering the central character is a medieval historian, I was probably pre-disposed to enjoy this work. Read 'Hemlock and After' (his first novel, 1953) a few months ago and enjoyed that, so will keep an eye out for his others as I had never read anything of his previously.
We've slated his Late Call for future reading, and I'm looking forward to revisiting that one also.
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Originally posted by Master Jacques View PostIt's sad that his considerable body of novels is now more or less forgotten, and I was very glad to read that we're not alone in finding it so vital and enjoyable.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Yes, and O Henry and Hugh Walpole. Much depends on availablility in print. I became a CP Snow fan after hearing Radio 4 broadcasts of his novels, but could find none in print. I've since assembled a collection from second-hand and charity shops. Vita Sackville-West and Edith Wharton are others: Out of print for years, then a film or Radio 4 adaptation brings them back into fashion.
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Originally posted by smittims View PostI became a CP Snow fan after hearing Radio 4 broadcasts of his novels, but could find none in print.
I'm not sure what people are reading now that come into the category of widely read literary fiction: Ishiguro, certainly, Ian McEwan. That maybe even skips a 'generation'. What was there in the 1990s?It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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I can't say as I've always had a problem with modern (20th cent.) novels, apart from a few writers who appeal to me such as Patrick Hamilton and , more recently, Julian Barnes and, when I'm in the mod for him, Mordecai Richler.
I looked for a long time to find a 20th-cent. equivalent of 'literature', e.g. Trollope, Thackeray, Austen, but those on offer I found uninteresting to me. So I'm content to spend my remaining years re-reading evergreen favourites.
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Originally posted by smittims View PostI looked for a long time to find a 20th-cent. equivalent of 'literature', e.g. Trollope, Thackeray, Austen, but those on offer I found uninteresting to me. So I'm content to spend my remaining years re-reading evergreen favourites.
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Originally posted by HighlandDougie View PostAlan Hollinghurst, for one, springs to mind. The Angus Wilson de ses jours. Graham Swift? Colm Toíbín. David Mitchell is 2000's so doesn't count.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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