[np] Bolano

[Michael Richard]

Thanks, it felt odd. I'll go back to lurking.


On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Mark Kohut wrote:

> 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
> > 
> > 
> >
> 



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