KC /int/ Book Club discussion

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Those of you aspiring wizards should give a look at this book. Maybe it should be the next we read after the book of sand.

'A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man' is another good read that goes along with Chapu's recommendation. Joyce was a total bernd.

I know Oblomov is about a young, rich guy who never leaves his bed. But I've never read it. Malone in Samuel Beckett's Malone Dies also never leaves his bed, but that's because he's a dying old man.
Uncle Toby in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is the ultimate portrait of a loveable autist. He also has a very Bernd-like courtship with Widow Wadman.

The Underground Man from Notes from Underground is the proto-Bernd par excellence. Never seen more Berndness in a single character. Read and learn, my fellow comrades!

Obviously everything by Houellebecq but especially Extension du domaine de la lutte which seems to have been published as "Whatever" in English for whatever reason. See what I did there? benis.

Notes from Underground is a great book too, by the way.