tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post4241935131483293145..comments2024-01-02T15:37:04.858-05:00Comments on Caravana de recuerdos: La Vida NuevaRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-81647645658329872742012-12-10T21:12:53.366-05:002012-12-10T21:12:53.366-05:00It is, Tom--maybe even my new favorite Aira after ...It is, Tom--maybe even my new favorite Aira after "Cecil Taylor." Of course, I'd have to read <em>An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter</em> again before I could say for sure...Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-24719363428858180282012-12-10T21:09:59.535-05:002012-12-10T21:09:59.535-05:00I don't know when Achával died, Rise, but I su...I don't know when Achával died, Rise, but I suspect that Aira might have "waited" 3 decades to write this as a homage to Achával as much as anything else. It's a really warm account of their friendship, though, and that's an adjective I don't often associate with Aira. Anyway, hope this book gets translated soon because it's a really good one!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-24699807472570604662012-12-10T20:49:32.368-05:002012-12-10T20:49:32.368-05:00I think Aira might have put some words in Achával&...I think Aira might have put some words in Achával's mouth there, Jill, but the part of the joke that most appeals to me hinges on the publisher thinking that Aira would be a big seller (a 1,000 copy "big seller" at that!) for reasons about the public that you, I, and probably even he knew weren't true. In any event, meta, yes, very much so. Your "friend" suggestion, while indeed alliterate, would have sounded too much like Mr. Rogers or a pastor to me, and I was going for the potty-mouthed jaded Californian effect instead. I trust I "succeeded," friend!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-74921510150503633942012-12-10T10:33:41.371-05:002012-12-10T10:33:41.371-05:00Yum, this sounds like a tasty one.Yum, this sounds like a tasty one.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-39024019479945227432012-12-09T08:32:52.263-05:002012-12-09T08:32:52.263-05:00Aira's shorts were indeed designed for rereadi...Aira's shorts were indeed designed for rereading. It's strange he waited 3 decades to write the (fictional) afterword to his first novel. Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-51338132534063139212012-12-09T05:55:45.089-05:002012-12-09T05:55:45.089-05:00No reason to underestimate the public? I don't...No reason to underestimate the public? I don't get it! Oh, wait, yes, writing about Argentina.... Or was he being sarcastic? In any event, your review, coupled with the blurb on the cover, puts one in mind a bit of [a meta-META postmodern perhaps] analogy to Don Quixote. Yes?, or did I just get overly swayed by, say, your technical terms? [And I congratulate you for choosing to go for the mood of adding "man" rather than the alliteration of "friend" which I myself would have been unable to resist.]rhapsodyinbookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07041412748239010264noreply@blogger.com