Think you’re well read? At a certain point, don’t you despair of the sheer volume of everything out there that’s worth reading? “Let’s not pretend: when did you last read a book by any of the younger Russian novelists? You’ve read Victor Pelevin? Really? ‘Chapaev i pustota,’ or the translation, ‘The Clay Machine-Gun’? Did you finish it? Did you understand it?” Really? – The Guardian