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8 Jan 2025 Conversations with Tyler Scott Sumner on Monetary Rules, Blooming Late, and the Death of Cinema
“” Then there are some novels where you feel like a whole world has been sort of opened up in front of you. I think My Struggle was like that.”
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- 8 Jan 2025
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…Same here. I think it’s an unusual novel. It seems to me to be kind of a depressing novel, but on the other hand, I consider myself a middlebrow reader, not a highbrow reader. When I say it’s depressing, that may be just superficial, and maybe at a deeper level, it’s inspiring in some way. But I found it kind of mesmerizing in a similar way to My Struggle by Knausgård, in that sometimes you finish a novel and say, “Okay, on to the next one. That was a nice novel. ” Then there are some novels where you feel like a whole world has been sort of opened up in front of you. I think My Struggle was like that. I think Solenoid was like that. The author, Cărtărescu —…
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