/lit/ - Literature

A few days ago I caved and picked up a used ereader, since it's hard to find good and decently priced books in English where I'm living in Germany. I have a number of books written down on a list I came across here, this being one of them. It's really fantastic, well written, funny, ect. Anyone with even a pedestrian interest in food and cooking should read it. The translation for this edition might be my favorite of any translated book I've read, maybe even exclusively because of the mostly tangential remarks the translator has on the text. I don't think I've read something so cozy since A Month in the Country, following the musings of an old french lawyer on food, death, history, with short excursive anecdotes from his life is peak comfort. I wonder as well if DFW was familiar with it, given that his Consider the Lobster is a reference to a book written by M. F. K Fisher, the translator. Her method of using endnotes feels somewhat similar to Foster Wallace's.