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

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joeallonby wrote:
> 
> 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

It was written by Thomas R. Pynchon. It's a blurb on the back cover of
Fonseca's novel Agosto. Pynchon, as I noted recently, is indebted to the
Brazilians. Agosto was made into a made for TV miniseries and it reads a
lot like Vineland. 

"Trip" sounds better. 

A blurb from Pynchon sells,  so the blurb has been retreaded onto other
books, like, 
"Thomas Pynchon, the reclusive North American author has written blah
blah about Agosto/ Fonseca.