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Darned cockwombles.
I remember being phenomenally bored reading a Saul Bellow book. Why would anyone that turgid get feted? Roth I have time for. Heller I find infinitely superior to either.
Heller I find infinitely superior to either.
No, I mean that Portnoy's Complaint was too silly to be self-lacerating, I haven't read The Finkler Question (is it any good by the way?)."It was the first contemporary novel I could think of! Had to be another neurotic, self-obssessed Jew, of course."
Already in 1984 Julian Barnes mockingly called for a reduction in its (MR) output: “A quota system is to be introduced on fiction set in South America. The intention is to curb the spread of package-tour baroque and heavy irony. Ah, the pro- pinquity of cheap life and expensive principles … ah, the fredonna tree whose roots grow at the tips of its branches and whose fibres assist the hunchback to impregnate by telepathy the haughty wife of the hacienda owner; ah,the opera house now overgrown by jungle”
When it comes to magic realism I've only read Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar (and like them both a lot), but I fail to imagine how you could make something like that in a twee manner.
may be 'twee' is the wrong word, but it's like...to pick a random example, there's a bit in 100 Years of Solitude where a woman is bleeding to death following childbirth, so she chooses to stem the bleeding with cobwebs.
Reminds me a little of some of the stuff I found annoying about the Wind Up Bird Chronicle. Borges and Cortazar are nothing like that at all.
My profesor back in Denmark once explained that there was three different categories of South American un-realistic fiction. Magical Realim, like GGM and MVL. Fantastic fiction, a described by Tzodorov, and which include Borges and Cortazar. And... something third... I've forgotten parts of it...I wouldn't have exactly called either of them magic realism though - they're slightly different aren't they?
Oh that's a shame, can you look it up?"My profesor back in Denmark once explained that there was three different categories of South American un-realistic fiction. Magical Realim, like GGM and MVL. Fantastic fiction, a described by Tzodorov, and which include Borges and Cortazar. And... something third... I've forgotten parts of it..."
Murakami - I adore Norwegian Wood, but found his 'dififcult' fiction a bit unrewarding.
Must read Borges and Cortazar
hi. id like it on the record that ive been saying bellow is a cunt for years. ask craner, he'l back me up.