"Them Was Rotten Days"

I'm an outspoken critic of Big Buk, at least here. As it stands, I'm the only British mod in the sub. As for my reading...I've read Zola, Baudelaire (in translation, of which my partner said the translation was awful), Jean Genet, Celine, Oscar Wilde, Joe Orton, Jean Cocteau, Émile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Marguerite Duras...there's an overabundance of French writers in the past few years, but only because until recently, I lived in Paris. But yes, I've read Malcolm Lowry, James Joyce, Fernando Pessoa, Alasdair Grey, and whatever other Modernists you'd like to mention.

Further read Shakespeare, Neruda, Pope, Wordsworth, De Quincey, Shelley, Byron, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, John Rechy, Denis Johnson, and so on.

As far as Baudelaire goes, I read him before I met my partner (a Parisian woman), but, in translation, and she went on to tell me that the English Baudelaire translation that I had (Penguin, I think?) was dreadful, and probably why I never got much from him.

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