[np] Bolano

[Robert Mahnke]

More on Cortazar and his short stories from The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/oct/19/short-story-julio-cortazar


On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 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:
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> > 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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