Brazil's Fonseca claims top award at Guadalajara book fair.

[joeallonby]

on 12/3/03 5:23 AM, Burns, Erik at Erik.Burns at dowjones.com wrote:



>> Treated to a rapturous ovation, Fonseca, who refuses to give interviews to
> the press, gave a brief speech about the inspiration he had received from
> Rulfo's ground-breaking novel from the 1950s, Pedro Paramo.

How appropriate. Reminds me of Salman Rushdie's review of "Vineland" in the
NYT Book Review. The author in hiding writes about the author in hiding.


>> US novelist Thomas Pynchon counts himself among Fonseca's admirers, and
> has written that "the best thing in Fonseca's work is that you don't know
> where it is heading. Every time I start one of his books, it's as if the
> telephone rings at midnight: 'Hello, it's me. You are not going to believe
> what's happening.'"
>> 
I'll check themodernword but I'm curious as to when, where, and for whom
this was written.

Joe