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"A blood-soaked novel of existential angst that takes 200-plus pages to stumble to a self-evident conclusion. Too bad. There was a good idea in here … somewhere." Permalink

""Every family invents and feeds its own madness, because it can't survive without it." I love the French, but sometimes it feels they have no idea how to write novels." Permalink

""My qualities? That's funny: I have friends who call me a man without qualities." A massive (over 700 pages), sprawling, ambitious modernist novel set just before World War I, which makes it feel like a portrait of a world about to vanish. This is..." Permalink