[np] Bolano

[Mark Kohut]

this was terrific, thanks.....

I read those stories before I had much comparative knowledge....before kafka, or any other Latin American magic realists........or many other modernists......I was a 'cutting edge' reader before I had a cutting board, so to speak... 

Maybe therefore some have stuck with me for their mysteriousness, their ambiguity without comprehension......the house one, the guy who turned into a fish by staring into an aquarium.....

Now I MUST reread them....

Thanks,

Mark

--- On Thu, 10/29/09, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [np] Bolano
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 11:09 PM
> More on Cortazar and his short stories from
> The Guardian: 
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/oct/19/short-story-julio-cortazar
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> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:24 AM,
> Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
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> just gotta correct for whoever conflated them.
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> Jose Donoso wrote Obscene Bird of Night, an obscenely
> brilliant book.
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> Julio Cortazar wrote Hopscotch and the short story which
> became the movie Blow-Up, which is when I learned his
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> --- On Tue, 10/27/09, Michael Richard <veg at dvandva.org>
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> > From: Michael Richard <veg at dvandva.org>
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> > Subject: Re: [np] Bolano
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> > To: pynchon-l at waste.org
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> > Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 8:27 PM
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> > The Obscene Bird of Night is a great novel,
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> > brilliant.  I have not read
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> > It's great, read it: Pynchon writes his own fanfic
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