Xiao Hong (萧红) - The Field of Life and Death.Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy.Introduction or, The Art of Sillybustering I am honored to be a part of thatĪnd what exactly is in it? Here's a list of the contents, arranged (as you can see) in chronological order: It’s a great literary feastįor the true readers, for all the verbivores around the world, a feastĬonsisting of hundred delicious meals. “ The Syllabus, as a third volume of Verbivoraciousįestschrift, is a celebration of reading. Reader to insatiable verbivore in 225 pages. Should expect nothing less than an incontrovertible conversion from Surviving on a merciless and unkind planet. Them towards those works that offer deep spiritual succour while Shape their intellectual and moral life with greater awareness, and lead Manual from which the reader draws inspiration and hope, helping to Is a form of religious creed, and should be read primarily as a holy The texts featured, chosen in a rapturous frenzy by editorsĪnd contributors alike, represent a broad sweep of the most importantĮxploratory fiction written in the last hundred years (and beyond).įeaturing 100 texts from (fewer than) 100 contributors, The Syllabus Those texts which have transported us to the peak of readerly nirvanaĪnd back. Is an act of humble genuflection before the authors responsible for Įach contributor was limited to 500 words, and it must have been a devil of a job to assemble them all, since it was only last week that I was at last alerted to the appearance of the compilation:Ī monument to our insatiable verbivoracity, The Syllabus We quickly rejected the idea of compiling an essay from the blog itself, and instead I decided to take the licence he offered to compose a more "creative" piece taking off from Thirlwell's book (which rejoices in a number of titles in America and Britain, my favourite being the one on the spine of the paperback edition: Miss Herbert: A book of novels, romances, and their translators, containing ten languages, set on four continents, and accompanied by maps, portraits, squiggles and illustrations. The reason this surprised me was that he based the request on the blogpost I'd written about it, a piece which strikes me (in retrospect) as rather unkind - though I certainly don't subscribe there to any of the more ad hominem attacks Thirlwell's book received in the more up-themselves reviews. The book Mark Nicholls wanted me to write about was Miss Herbert (2007), by British novelist Adam Thirlwell. Adam Thirlwell: Miss Herbert: An Essay in Five Parts (2007)
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