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Finished Antonio Di Benedetto’s SILENTIARY, tr. Esther Allen: definitely liked ZAMA more, but still a nice existential/absurdist vibe.

Past the dry grass and the ruddy gravel, a little white truck rolled along the dirt road, while the dump trucks went the other way, along the brown road to the level field of beige, on and on in brown and beige, till the haze-enshrouded shallow hills.

A new table of “genres” or novel types, based on Bazlac’s categorization of his own Comedie humaine: 1) Private Life, 2) Provincial Life (i.e. suburbs, pastoral), 4) Parisian Life (i.e. urbanism), 5) Political Life, 6) Military Life, 7) Campaign Life, 8) Philosophical Studies, 9) Analytical Studies.