The sleepwalkersHermann Broch
The sleepwalkers
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…favorite bookstores anywhere, and I feel its fiction collection is second to none. There are a handful of novels I use to judge how broad (and good) a bookstore's fiction collection is. Hermann Broch's Sleepwalkers, Robert Musil's A Man Without Qualities, and Witold Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke. I would say 90 percent of the bookstores out there would not have any of these three books in stock, and certainly not Barnes…
on “Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco” ↗…through: * Faust - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe * How To Read a Book - Mortimer J. Adler * Python Machine Learning 2nd Edition - Sebastian Raschka * Economics 19e - Samuelson/Nordhaus Next in line: * The Sleepwalkers - Hermann Broch * The Will to Power - Friedrich Nietzsche * Oxford Handbook of Business and Government - David Coen(and other dozens of lecturers)
on “Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?” ↗…convincing and startling clothes when narratives taken for granted crumble, to cancel something is then just burying it mindlessly, it doesn't at all address the underlying issues. As I'm reading "The Sleepwalkers" (1932) by Hermann Broch anew this isn't something peculiar to our times as the book covers three time periods (1888, 1903, 1918) in then Europe/Germany elegantly intertwining the recurring motive of…
on “Jokes that have made people laugh for thousands of years” ↗