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Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
Finally reading 10:04 after avoiding it for half a decade.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
durdencommatyler wrote:
Mickey wrote:
Finally reading 10:04 after avoiding it for half a decade.
I really liked that book. Virtually everyone else I know that it was fine but more miss than hit. Interested to see where you land.
Interesting, my memory is that everyone LOVED it for about six months but in a begrudging way, like "ah shit, I guess this is the perfect novel, huh?" but that the tide has since turned on this kind of autofiction and especially on Ben Lerner. I really liked Atocha Station but I could never previously get past the second chapter of this one.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Finally reading 10:04 after avoiding it for half a decade.
I really liked that book. Virtually everyone else I know that it was fine but more miss than hit. Interested to see where you land.
Interesting, my memory is that everyone LOVED it for about six months but in a begrudging way, like "ah shit, I guess this is the perfect novel, huh?" but that the tide has since turned on this kind of autofiction and especially on Ben Lerner. I really liked Atocha Station but I could never previously get past the second chapter of this one.
I'm not sure about national sentiment just my own private circle. And my friends were mostly underwhelmed. I think it's a wonderful book. I'm also not well versed in autofiction so maybe that's part of it? I don't know. The thing really resonated with me.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
durdencommatyler wrote:
Mickey wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
Mickey wrote:
Finally reading 10:04 after avoiding it for half a decade.
I really liked that book. Virtually everyone else I know that it was fine but more miss than hit. Interested to see where you land.
Interesting, my memory is that everyone LOVED it for about six months but in a begrudging way, like "ah shit, I guess this is the perfect novel, huh?" but that the tide has since turned on this kind of autofiction and especially on Ben Lerner. I really liked Atocha Station but I could never previously get past the second chapter of this one.
I'm not sure about national sentiment just my own private circle. And my friends were mostly underwhelmed. I think it's a wonderful book. I'm also not well versed in autofiction so maybe that's part of it? I don't know. The thing really resonated with me.
Well, chalk me up as a bit underwhelmed too. I loved reading it, raced through it this time, but there was something about it, and especially at the end, that felt overly precious (loathed all the "dear reader" asides). And politically it feels strangely dated for a book about climate change.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19693 Location: Cumberland, RI
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The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse—by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals—propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village. Like Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 or Faulkner’s greatest novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with mythology and violence—real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it’s a world that becomes more terrifying and more terrifyingly real the deeper you explore it.
This book is wild btw. Still have about an hour left.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19693 Location: Cumberland, RI
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The narrator of Montano’s Malady is a writer named Jose who is so obsessed with literature that he finds it impossible to distinguish between real life and fictional reality. Part picaresque novel, part intimate diary, part memoir and philosophical musings, Enrique Vila-Matas has created a labyrinth in which writers as various as Cervantes, Sterne, Kafka, Musil, Bolaño, Coetzee, and Sebald cross endlessly surprising paths. Trying to piece together his life of loss and pain, Jose leads the reader on an unsettling journey from European cities such as Nantes, Barcelona, Lisbon, Prague and Budapest to the Azores and the Chilean port of Valparaiso. Exquisitely witty and erudite, it confirms the opinion of Bernardo Axtaga that Vila-Matas is “the most important living Spanish writer.”
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
Simple Torture wrote:
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The narrator of Montano’s Malady is a writer named Jose who is so obsessed with literature that he finds it impossible to distinguish between real life and fictional reality. Part picaresque novel, part intimate diary, part memoir and philosophical musings, Enrique Vila-Matas has created a labyrinth in which writers as various as Cervantes, Sterne, Kafka, Musil, Bolaño, Coetzee, and Sebald cross endlessly surprising paths. Trying to piece together his life of loss and pain, Jose leads the reader on an unsettling journey from European cities such as Nantes, Barcelona, Lisbon, Prague and Budapest to the Azores and the Chilean port of Valparaiso. Exquisitely witty and erudite, it confirms the opinion of Bernardo Axtaga that Vila-Matas is “the most important living Spanish writer.”
Getting back to the classics--you've read this before, yeah?
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 7:41 am Posts: 19693 Location: Cumberland, RI
Mickey wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
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The narrator of Montano’s Malady is a writer named Jose who is so obsessed with literature that he finds it impossible to distinguish between real life and fictional reality. Part picaresque novel, part intimate diary, part memoir and philosophical musings, Enrique Vila-Matas has created a labyrinth in which writers as various as Cervantes, Sterne, Kafka, Musil, Bolaño, Coetzee, and Sebald cross endlessly surprising paths. Trying to piece together his life of loss and pain, Jose leads the reader on an unsettling journey from European cities such as Nantes, Barcelona, Lisbon, Prague and Budapest to the Azores and the Chilean port of Valparaiso. Exquisitely witty and erudite, it confirms the opinion of Bernardo Axtaga that Vila-Matas is “the most important living Spanish writer.”
Getting back to the classics--you've read this before, yeah?
Actually, no! I've read Bartleby (years ago, I'd love to re-read it), Portable Literature, and one or two of the shorter ones, so this is a fun new adventure.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
Did you read Never Any End to Paris? That's the one I think about the most. Lovely book.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 6:02 am Posts: 9712 Location: Tristes Tropiques
durdencommatyler wrote:
Mickey wrote:
Did you read Never Any End to Paris? That's the one I think about the most. Lovely book.
Is there more than one translation and if so do you recommend one over another?
Not that I'm aware of. All the EVM books were translated pretty recently, most are on New Directions.
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VinylGuy wrote:
its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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