TRP's review of Garcia Marquez

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Mark,

Can you steer me to TRP's review of Marquez? (I assume you are referring to Garcia Marquez.) Was it a largely about *100 Years of Solitude*, or was it not focused on any particular novel or short story (ies)? 

G M has published the first volume of a projected three-volume autobiography, titled *Living to Tell the Tale.* Anyone who likes GM, particularly 100 Years, will find the book fascinating. It challenges the reader to determine whether his autobiography is factual, or a re-telling his his fiction.

Thanks--Page

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Kohut 
  To: rich 
  Cc: pynchon -l ; Brad Andrews ; mark levine ; me 
  Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:34 AM
  Subject: Re: English Translation Bolano's 2666 in November 2008


  I had dropped a note to Mr. Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review, whom I have met as lightly as a butterfly, reminding him (as if he knew) that Pynchon is
  reputed to have read, maybe knew, Bolano, and so forth ala Archimboldi.........and how
  wonderful was that front-page review by TRP of Marquez back in the day, eh?,  which he has to have known of, and how wonderful, etc"...............

  A--and he responded with a hint---'yes, that would be wonderful if we could"--- that they might be trying/have been trying to get TRP to review Bolano..................................

  Let's hope. This would be THE ONE.......Bolano's BIG ONE...............................

  Mark

  rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
    this looks like something to look forward to:

    "The monumental 2666 was published in 2004. At 1100 pages, the novel
    is divided in five "parts," four and a half of which were finished
    before Bolaño's death. Focused on the unsolved and still ongoing
    serial murders of Ciudad Juárez (Santa Teresa in the novel), the
    apocalyptic 2666 depicts the horror of the 20th century through a wide
    cast of characters, including the secretive, Pynchon-like German
    writer Archimboldi.

    2666 is considered by many critics[citation needed] to be the most
    important book of its generation, a novel which opens roads through
    the unknown, a huge show of narrative power, a brilliant work of
    personal battles, blood, astonishment and geniality."

    rich







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