Nadja by Andre Breton is ranked 50th on Le Monde’s Best 100 Novels, it is 394th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and is also part of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read compilation, but notwithstanding that, it does not make it on my Top 300, or 6,000 for that matter, mea culpa for that…you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, perhaps ten items might be worth the trouble
Nadja by
Andre Breton is ranked 50th on Le Monde’s Best 100 Novels, it is 394th
on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and is also part of The 1,000 Novels
Everyone Must Read compilation, but notwithstanding that, it does not make it
on my Top 300, or 6,000 for that matter, mea culpa for that…you have thousands
of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, perhaps ten
items might be worth the trouble
6 out of 10
for no good reason
Magister
Ludi Kingsley Amis https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-kings-english-guide-to-modern-usage.html wrote about ‘The Checkoff formula:
you take a lot of characters, all miserable because of something they won't do,
and let them talk without influencing each other for three acts, and at the
last moment…
You introduce some arbitrary calamity, or some
proposed change like a return to Petrograd or a holiday in the Cry-mere, which
you know won't make any difference to any of them, and then you go on for ten
minutes or so after the thing should have stopped even by your own standards,
to show how delicate and unemphatic your art is’
And Anton
Chekhov https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-short-stories-of-anton-chekhov-are.html is one of my favorites, I dispute
Kingsley Amis on that one, but with Nadja, I am afraid my limits are reached - ‘The
novel is a surrealistic exploration of the narrator's relationship with a young
woman named Nadja.’
-
‘Say
no more’
That is a
line from Monty Python https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/05/monty-pythons-life-of-brian-bymonty.html though it is so simple, it could be
from so many other films, not as marvelous as this, nevertheless, you have me
at surrealist, I have not reached that stage, what with Pick’arso, Dali and the
rest
Then there
are some psychology classics to use, say Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, and Flow,
to name those two, the former would explain the concept of Thin Slicing, the
notion that we form opinions, reach conclusions in under one minute, and stay with
them, there are terrible mistakes, but there it is, The Harding Effect is
another matter
From Flow https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/learn-how-to-get-to-optimal-state-from.html we get the formula for Being in The
Zone, Maximum Experience: you are in control, nothing else matters, otherwise
formidable concentration, time is relative “Put your hand on a hot stove for a
minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it
seems like a minute. That's relativity.” To quote Einstein
You are also
between boredom and burnout, it is autotelic, but these do not check for Nadja,
not for me anyway, I am either ‘burned out’ because I cannot follow, ergo I
also lose control, or bored, because it is not something I like, which is not a
‘judgement in stone’, it is a subjective, flawed opinion, for a professional,
worthwhile analysis, one must look for experts, however, I will find some
justification, do some pro domo and quote Kingsley Amis again: I think novels
ought to tell a story and have a theme and give you a sense that a problem has
been proposed and solved’, and mention The Six Pillars of Self Esteem https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/six-pillars-of-self-esteem-by-nathaniel.html
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