TRP's review of Garcia Marquez

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Thanks, rich. Love is the most likely book TRP would write about. Silly me. 
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: "Page" <page at quesnelbc.com>
Cc: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>; "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>; 
"Brad Andrews" <braden.andrews at gmail.com>; "mark levine" <leevyne at aol.com>; 
"me" <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: TRP's review of Garcia Marquez


> P--
>
> Pynchon reviewed Love in the Time of Cholera for the NYTBR--you can
> read it on NYT's website--book reviews are free.
>
> Rich
>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:
>> 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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