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“Georgica” might be one of the most beautiful chapters I’ve ever read... God this book is ceaselessly rich with knowledge and emotion and passion. In some ways Kjærstad works in plain view, yet he has an elusive playfulness that defies summary and analysis

Aunt Laura is lowkey cancelled

there’s a chapter called “The Magic Penis”

this book is genuinely difficult, but in a way I’ve never experienced before. It is so rich, so dense with ideas, that you’re basically full after every 15 pages. Astounding, certainly demands a future re-read

never read anything like this. Kjaerstad approaches reality with a sense of almost childlike wonder, resisting easy explanations. He constantly searches for the nuance and complexity. this sense of anti-reductionism might seem postmodern, but the joy and excitement of the book is refreshingly free of the bitterness and irony one might associate with other postmodernist novels. brilliant stuff.

it’s like a much more readable Joseph McElroy novel. Superb

have heard a lot of good thigns about this novel... Weird complaint but I'm not a fan of how this paper feels lol