First novels: do we like them or love them? 🤔 Interestingly, I read the first novels by my favourite authors only after I’d read some other books of the said authors, which is an absolutely unconscious move 🤷♀️ Look here: “Player Piano” by Kurt Vonnegut “Poor Folk” by Fyodor Dostoevsky “Sense and sensibility” by Jane Austen “A Confederate General from Big Sur” - by Richard Brautigan …to name a few. I like all of them but I love ❤️ other books more 🙂 My recent read, “The Broom of the System” by David Foster Wallace, is a great book. It’s funny, very postmoderny (ticks all the boxes: a confused heroine, a strange drug/medicine/plot going around, drawing all kinds of weird people (there was a man who at some point was consuming a building 😅😬), etc.); it’s stuffed with some little charming tricks only DFW can pull and the anticipation and the subsequent discovery of such things make you smile. That being said, it is nothing like “Infinite Jest”, has not a single moment of sadness or revelation in it. Also, it’s short. I decided to pair this book with “V.”, the first novel by Thomas Pynchon, also the first postmodern novel which made me realize it’s not easy to read books of this genre, what with nonlinear narrative and so many characters you have to write them down not to forget who is who (it was more difficult to keep track of them in this particular book). The book makes you feverish, you search - like the characters of the book - for V., the elusive femme fatale. Anyway, I enjoyed the chase 😉 What do you think about first novels, their charms and imperfections? #bookstagram #bookstagrammers #instabooks #instabookstagram #firstbooks #postmodern #postmodernism #davidfosterwallace #thebroomofthesystem #thomaspynchon #v #americanliterature #americanauthors (at Tallinn, Estonia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTIUsCLLRh8/?utm_medium=tumblr









