Two narratives — a data-encrypting Calcutec in Tokyo and a dreamreader in a walled town — converge at the end of the world.
Books mentioned in Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (11)
Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges: “One was Archaeology of Animals, by Burtland Cooper, and the other Jorge Luis Borges's Book of Imaginary Beings.”
Rudin by Ivan Turgenev: “I climbed into what there was of my bed with Turgenev's Rudin. Actually, I'd wanted to read Spring Torrents, but I would never have found it in my shambles of an apartment.”
Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev: “I climbed into what there was of my bed with Turgenev's Rudin. Actually, I'd wanted to read Spring Torrents, but I would never have found it in my shambles of an apartment.”
The Red and the Black by Stendhal: “together with Stendhal's The Red and the Black. What can I say? I seemed to be in the mood for passe literature.”
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal: “That much I understood when I read Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma years ago.”
Les Chouans by Honoré de Balzac: “The girl sat in a corner, reading Balzac's Chouans.”
The Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum: “What was this about unicorns and a high wall? The Wizard ofOz had to be more plausible.”
The Greening of America by Charles A Reich: “I read The Greening of America, and I saw Easy Rider three times.”
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham: “"I love Maugham. I've read The Razor's Edge three times.”
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: “"Ever read The Brothers Karamazov" I asked. "Once, a long time ago." "Well, toward the end, Alyosha is speaking to a young student named Kolya Krasotkin.”
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle: “Someplace, say, on a high plateau, like in Conan Doyle's Lost World. Or down deep, like a crater.”