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Discovery Of Heaven is Harry Mulisch, isn't it? He's a name that's been on the periphery for me (perhaps he needs his own thread) since I read a review of another of his novels. I've no idea what DoH is about, but, based on your question - which was no doubt rhetorical and therefore cancels out what I'm writing - it's either a Holocaust novel or it's Pynchonesque.
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Yes, Mulisch (and yes he deserves a thread whether or not he needs one). And actually, in this case, not either/or but both. Recommended (it's one of Complete-Review's Best of the Best). For me there's the added frisson of one of the characters being based on a
chessplayer I followed. (Oddly, I've just now once again picked up the book I left off then.)
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I think I spotted [Queneau's Elementary Morality] today, a colourful looking hardback. I've not read any of his other stuff. Oulipo, isn't he?
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Yep. Though I got it in paperback (Carcanet). And I've read all his other stuff that's been Englished. Except
Exercises in Style. Self-imposed constraint. (Speaking of stuff I'd left off, I'm working my way through the Oulipo compendium as well.)