Ramuz, Merimee

Since my last post, I've read an issue of OK Magazine and an issue of Eclectic Reading. I've also ploughed through about 25 of Ramuz's novels, all the ones that were published, trying to figure out why this author was picture on Switzerland's currency, the 200 franc note. Well, I finally got it, Derborence, a novel with a wonderful, evocative sense of space, about a rockfall in the Alps. Wonderful. The rest are ordinary and didn't hold my attention. It was a slog, all these quiet bourgeois people. Then I read all of Merimee's novels and short stories, and while these were less boring than Ramuz, nothing stands out that much.