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The Opposing Shore
Julien Gracq · 1998 · 292 pages
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Nassim Taleb
“Until I read this book, Buzzati’s Il deserto dei tartari was my favorite novel, perhaps my only novel, the only one I cared to keep re-reading through life. This is, remarkably a very similar story about the antichamber of anticipation (rather than ‘the antichamber of hope’ as I called Buzzati’s book), but written in a much finer language, by a real writer (Buzzati was a journalist, which made his prose more functional); the style is lapidary with remarkable precision; it has texture, wealth of details, and creates a mesmerizing athmosphere. Once you enter it, you are stuck there. I kept telling myself while reading it: ‘this is the book.’ It suddenly replaced the deserto.”↗
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