[np] Bolano

[Mark Kohut]

just gotta correct for whoever conflated them.

Jose Donoso wrote Obscene Bird of Night, an obscenely brilliant book.

Julio Cortazar wrote Hopscotch and the short story which became the movie Blow-Up, which is when I learned his name...

--- On Tue, 10/27/09, Michael Richard <veg at dvandva.org> wrote:

> From: Michael Richard <veg at dvandva.org>
> Subject: Re: [np] Bolano
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 8:27 PM
> 
> The Obscene Bird of Night is a great novel,
> brilliant.  I have not read
> anything else by him, having been told nothing else is as
> good.  I will
> read Hopscotch eventually.
> 
> I've read SD, 2666, Distant Star, and By Night Through
> Chile.  I didn't
> think much of DS, but it's images keep popping into my
> head.  If you don't 
> finish SD, I suggest skipping the rest of section 2 and
> reading section 3. 
> 
> FWIW, my tweeted review of IV (might be a mild
> paraphrase):
> 
> It's great, read it: Pynchon writes his own fanfic and
> shows Neal how it's 
> done.
> 
>     veg
> 
> 
>