tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post1700469170217893625..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Bolaño, Aira, and the Argentinean Literature of DoomAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-79069651720281291772012-07-03T11:08:05.552-05:002012-07-03T11:08:05.552-05:00Ah, thanks for the extra link Tom. It does indeed ...Ah, thanks for the extra link Tom. It does indeed sound fine.<br /><br />I am much indebted to Trevor (Mookse) for putting me on to Aira. As ever the comments here signal further routes to explore.leroyhunternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-53478571026408022602012-07-03T09:47:24.542-05:002012-07-03T09:47:24.542-05:00Yes! 'Tis awesome! Genuinely Aira, but also ...Yes! 'Tis <a href="http://caravanaderecuerdos.blogspot.com/2011/09/cecil-taylor.html" rel="nofollow">awesome</a>! Genuinely Aira, but also actually about Cecil Taylor. Not just off-in-the-wilderness crazy like some of the stuff in the novels, but rather a thoughtful parable about creativity.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-45741863062903334152012-07-03T08:35:58.329-05:002012-07-03T08:35:58.329-05:00So...did you get to read "Cecil Taylor"?...So...did you get to read "Cecil Taylor"?leroyhunternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-70390554684025321972011-08-29T09:38:02.759-05:002011-08-29T09:38:02.759-05:00Piromas, how generous! I will email you.Piromas, how generous! I will email you.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-6960184213144224292011-08-28T16:00:12.868-05:002011-08-28T16:00:12.868-05:00I translated the Cecil Taylor story just for fun. ...I translated the Cecil Taylor story just for fun. If you want it, email me at piromas@gmail.comPiromashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08957708970823319331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-57618449789901519722011-05-16T21:34:19.842-05:002011-05-16T21:34:19.842-05:00That's when I was looking at the anthology, ea...That's when I was looking at the anthology, early last year, whenever I wrote that post.<br /><br />The book is beyond my Spanish, which is only strong enough for me to understand how much I was missing and be filled with bitter regret.<br /><br />Paraguay has the strangest history - the Jesuit Empire, the devastation of the War of the Triple Alliance. Something I should research, someday.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-38980765007467470312011-05-16T09:26:27.670-05:002011-05-16T09:26:27.670-05:00You left out one of my favorite lines from the Bol...You left out one of my favorite lines from the Bolaño essay in this otherwise fascinating post of yours: "Let's say, to put it modestly, that Arlt is Jesus Christ." And the kicker: "Argentina is Israel, of course, and Buenos Aires is Jerusalem." Oh, how I laughed over Bolaño's lit crit turn!<br /><br />Don't have any inside dope on Lamborghini other than that he's often mentioned alongside fellow Argentine writer Néstor Perlongher by Lat Am bloggers and writers who have way more knowledge of "the Argentinean literature of doom" than I do.<br /><br />Forn's <em>Buenos Aires</em> short story anthology, which I had checked out of the library early last year, also includes two top short stories by Fogwill ("Muchacha punk") and Ricardo Piglia ("El fluir de la vida") in addition to the Aira you mention. Those two stories were so good, in fact, that I had to stop and take a break to recuperate before soldiering on with the rest. My loss. The Piglia is all too "typical" of this rich motherload of mostly overlooked material in a way I think you might appreciate, Amateur Reader: loosely presented as a story about storytelling centered on a possible wacko who claims to be the granddaughter of Nietzsche's sister, it's so action-packed in terms of its regional and storytelling detail that I decided it was impossible for me to write about it at the time. Fun historical fact lifted from Wikipedia: sort of like in Piglia's story, the real life sister of Nietzsche married a Nazi who supposedly tried to found an Aryan supremacy utopia in Paraguay at some point (fortunately for one and all, the colony floundered).Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.com