tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post7714943509077058239..comments2024-01-02T15:37:04.858-05:00Comments on Caravana de recuerdos: Continuación de ideas diversasRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-35063759828893031082014-07-07T00:22:24.325-04:002014-07-07T00:22:24.325-04:00Brian, one of the things about the "it's ...Brian, one of the things about the "it's about..." style of reviewing as it pertains to the blogosphere is that it seems many bloggers <em>only</em> talk about plot and/or characters. When visiting blogs that I'm not all that familiar with, for example, I often find myself reading detailed summaries of books with almost no idea of what the blogger feels the writing itself is like. Frustrating! Aira's book is fun and thought-provoking in more or less equal measure.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-34768821025827033362014-07-04T17:19:25.913-04:002014-07-04T17:19:25.913-04:00Sounds great.
I loved that last passage that you ...Sounds great.<br /><br />I loved that last passage that you quoted, <br /><br />I have had, in a playful and mostly tongue in cheek way similar thoughts. <br /><br /><br />Of course I too have used the dreaded"The novel is about..." or some variation upon it. Unavoidable I thing but it usually it is the part of my post that I want to make as brief as possible. Brian Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15139559400312336791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-60826684248210380232014-07-03T18:00:08.243-04:002014-07-03T18:00:08.243-04:00Humblehappiness, I guess the Bioy Casares/Roussel/...Humblehappiness, I guess the Bioy Casares/Roussel/<em>Last Year at Marienbad</em> connections all make sense given the six degrees of separation literary/film culture thing and Robbe-Grillet's status as a fan of most (all?) of the other parties involved. However, I think I'd mostly missed hearing about Roussel being a possible influence on Borges. Thanks for sharing that--an interesting tidbit!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-39891935296488951702014-07-03T17:51:50.593-04:002014-07-03T17:51:50.593-04:00Rise, I think you're probably mostly right abo...Rise, I think you're probably mostly right about Aira's fiction being kind of nonfiction, too. At the very least, I recently came across something on the background to <em>The Literary Conference</em> that might put that suspicion to the test. The title of this 2014 book is mostly tongue in cheek, I think, but the "continuation" part also has something to do with the way that many of the fragments form a dialogue with previous ones. I ran out of gas before I could provide a good example of that alas.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-86580299381945113442014-07-03T17:43:41.416-04:002014-07-03T17:43:41.416-04:00The funny thing about your caption contest idea, S...The funny thing about your caption contest idea, Scott, is that Aira is writing with his left hand on the cover of <em>Continuación</em> and with his right hand in the autograph session author photo. Ambidextrous, a reverse image, or a "false" dedication to the owner of that book? Lautréamont and Marianne Moore, strange bedfellows indeed!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-45293128272969718592014-07-03T17:38:39.702-04:002014-07-03T17:38:39.702-04:00I wonder where that "monumental camel of the ...I wonder where that "monumental camel of the sublime" came from, Tom. It almost sounds like something that another crackpot must have thought up.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-22728779040302564042014-07-03T13:54:31.305-04:002014-07-03T13:54:31.305-04:00Some have wondered about a supposed influence of R...Some have wondered about a supposed influence of Roussel on Borges, what seems almost certain is the influence of the middle episodes of Locus Solus over Bioy's The Invention of Morel (and possibly indirectly over Last Year at Marienbad). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-91134928777620061632014-07-03T11:18:22.211-04:002014-07-03T11:18:22.211-04:00Continued from?
Various ideas from?
His avant-g...Continued from? <br /><br />Various ideas from?<br /><br />His avant-gardisms?<br /><br />Before I sound like a spam comment ... I suspect his fiction are nonfiction too, and not entirely disguised. In terms of the Method, they're all like diary entries to him. <br /><br />I am guilty of "the novel is about ..." I'm about to reconsider my use of it. Maybe it's about time.<br /><br />Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-52276134666877028482014-07-03T10:32:14.586-04:002014-07-03T10:32:14.586-04:00Caption contest! What is Aira writing to the owner...Caption contest! What is Aira writing to the owner of that book?<br /><br />Great stuff. How often does one see Lautréamont and Marianne Moore juxtaposed as influences?seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911087927983597831.post-65702284521239621202014-07-03T10:01:43.805-04:002014-07-03T10:01:43.805-04:00No wonder I like him so much - I agree with Aira a...No wonder I like him so much - I agree with Aira about <i>everything</i>. Especially about the monumental camel of the sublime. No, I mean especially about promoting reading.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.com