Woman Reading — Utagawa Kuniyoshi

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Susan Sontag’s List of Novels with Cinematic Structure

Novels with cinematic structure:

Hemingway, In Our Time

Faulkner,

[Horace] McCoy, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

Robbe-Grillet, Les Gommes [The Erasers]

[Georges] Bernanos, M. Ouine

I[vy] Compton-Burnett,

V Woolf, Between the Acts

Philip Toynbee, Tea with Mrs. Goodman

des Forêts, Les Mendiants

his first novel—multiple pov [points of view]

[Barnes,] Nightwood

Reverzy, Le Passage

Burroughs,

[John] Dos Passos

Firbank, Caprice; Vainglory; and [Inclinations] (trilogy)

Jap[anese] writer [Yasunari Kawabata] (N.B. visual sense, suppleness of changing scenes)—Snow Country, etc.

Dickens (cf. Eisenstein)—

There are people who thought with camera eye (a unified p-o-v that displaces itself) before the camera

N[athaniel] West,

Blechman

“new novelists”: Claude Simon, Le Palace

Claude Ollier, La Mis-en-Scène

(all based on organization of a decor (N[orth] Africa)

–From an entry dated 6/26/66 Paris in Susan Sontag’s notebook, published as part of As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh. (I’ve maintained the bracketed editorial intrusions of the published text, even with they did not seem necessary).

Hannah/Nabokov/Mann (Books Acquired, 8.30.2013)

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“The Men Running Past” — Franz Kafka

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Two Arabs Reading — Edwin Lord Weeks

Watch This Terrible Book Trailer for Thomas Pynchon’s New Novel Bleeding Edge (Or Don’t)

I don’t know, I’m guessing this is intentionally awful. I mean, book trailers are supposed to be awful, right?

The Artist’s Granddaughter at the Table — Max Liebermann

Walt Kelly’s NO!

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Read all of Walt Kelly’s NO! at Whirled of Kelly.

Portrait of Y.E. Kustodieva — Boris Kustodiev

The Hammock — James Tissot

Portrait of Seamus Heaney — Edward McGuire

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Two Women on the Hillside — Franz Marc

Windmill Drawing — Vladimir Nabokov

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(From Vladimir Nabokov’s Lectures on Don Quixote).

Woman with a Child in a Boat — Berthe Morisot

Zuleika — John Singer Sargent

Aurora — Will Barnet

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Homework — Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky