Literature

I read The Floating Opera when I was 18 years old, and thought it was a well-done but tame “realist” novel, a warm-up to the author’s later “post-modernist meta-fictions.” Re-reading it decades later, I think Floating is a model of what a novel can be – a delightful entry into a unique world, with a new way of seeing everyday life, imbued with a vision of love and delight at the world around in all its absurdities and pleasures.