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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Wow, I tried to read that a few years ago but really couldn't get to grips with it. There's a contemporary novel by Michael Bracewell about a bloke who bunks off work that's packed with references to it. I'll try and find the title.... hang on...........looking on amazon....bear with me......here ya go....it's called 'Perfect Tense'.
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I'm in the swing of epic poetry and classics. Strangely enough, I find a lot of 'straight' narrative literature massively confusing. Joyce or Pound or Eliot I adore endlessly, your Senecas, Ovids, Virgils, Euripides and the like I have no problems with, but something that is more obviously 'narrative fiction' and I simply can't follow it. I tried reading a Maeve Binchy book recently (my old dear recommended it) and it was like reading a book in Hebrew (a language I don't speak).