Watt

MIsschien wel het boek waarvan ik het minst begrepen heb. Toch vond ik het mooi.

Has a great recipe for making a once a week pot of foodstuffs,alcohol and drugs ( )

Funny AND Avant-garde: This novel is SO funny! I know it's an avant-garde masterpiece and all, but it's also hilarious. I guess if we read it straight, we would have to conclude that the protagonist, Watt, is schizophrenic, along with the narrator also, probably. The characters are not realistic. Plot actions seem completely random and unmotivated. Watt's characteristic action is to consider every possibility in every situation, and every possible combination of possibilities. There's one part that had me laughing out loud. Watt is some kind of minor servant in a household, and his orders are to feed the leftovers to the dog. But there is no dog! So Watt dreams up all these far-fetched and absurd schemes for finding a dog to feed the leftovers to. I couldn't stop laughing, but my friends say I have a weird sense of humor.

I don't know what I'd think of it now, but when I picked it up off a library shelf in 1973 . . . ( )

The funniest book I have ever read. ( )