tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post2354818736315474267..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: He is a great poet; in a future life you should really study him - Cees Noteboom's The Following StoryAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-10464478337310868812012-07-04T08:49:52.876-05:002012-07-04T08:49:52.876-05:00Tony - yes, it kinda did.
litlove - so it helps t...Tony - yes, it kinda did.<br /><br />litlove - so it helps that I had seen a very similar treatment of the theme, published, come to think of it, around in the same time, in Neil Gaiman's <i>Sandman</i> comics. The female Death who appears differently to each person, etc. Kids - keep reading those comic books! You never know.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-29607152992927723422012-07-04T05:49:51.855-05:002012-07-04T05:49:51.855-05:00Ah, but did it broaden the horizons and give diffe...Ah, but did it broaden the horizons and give different cultural perspectives? ;)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07546287562521628467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-49685591339268739442012-07-04T02:53:08.893-05:002012-07-04T02:53:08.893-05:00Ohhhhhh....... I see at last! Well yes, thank good...Ohhhhhh....... I see at last! Well yes, thank goodness for no Nazi collaborators. Thank you, AR. Much appreciated. Have a fabulous time in la belle France.litlovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952927245186474480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-2142705693016707092012-07-03T14:33:48.221-05:002012-07-03T14:33:48.221-05:00No my irony is also ironic. Or,no, my irony is - ...No my irony is also ironic. Or,no, my irony is - I don't even know anymore.<br /><br />A lot of unnecessary weight got attached to the word "serious" in that chain. I tried to leave a comment at Jillian's to clear away some of the rubble, but Wordpress must have turned it into lunchmeat.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-70996112401117416552012-07-03T11:25:53.692-05:002012-07-03T11:25:53.692-05:00After following all the links, I was amused to see...After following all the links, I was amused to see the (to my mind) relatively innocuous pebble that started this landslide of translation-angst.<br /><br />"that last word is inaccurate, at least; I read with irony" - but is your irony <i>sincere</i>, Tom?leroyhunternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-30746070223075078062012-07-03T08:21:05.461-05:002012-07-03T08:21:05.461-05:00At the end of the novel, each of the recently dece...At the end of the novel, each of the recently deceased tells his story, whatever that story might be, to the angel of death or Persephone - a female representative of the afterlife. The telling of the story releases the person into the next stage of death. The narrator is last, and the book ends as he begins to tell his own story, "the following story," which is the story we just finished.<br /><br />Then there's some plotty stuff about an affair and adultery and so on, the usual curse of "significant" plotting. At least no one turned out to be hiding his past as a Nazi collaborator or something equally cheap.<br /><br />Speaking of significance - yes, Tony, that was a significant post!Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-84152921132123313932012-07-03T03:11:47.303-05:002012-07-03T03:11:47.303-05:00I am truly sorry to say that this book is one that...I am truly sorry to say that this book is one that I struggled, and failed, to understand. I wanted to appreciate it and did during the first half. But by the time the narrator is on the boat, I had lost the plot. I know plot is not your thing, Tom, but help me out here. What is happening at the end? I've been longing for someone I know to read it so I could ask.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-3012720411265396542012-07-02T22:40:34.919-05:002012-07-02T22:40:34.919-05:00This one sounds a little meatier than my choice (&...This one sounds a little meatier than my choice ('Lost Paradise'), but it's good to know that Nooteboom is worth persevering with. And I am amused to see that the ripples of my little post are still gently expanding to areas of the blogosphere I was unaware existed...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07546287562521628467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-2478387880775414442012-07-02T20:17:21.936-05:002012-07-02T20:17:21.936-05:00AT one point in my life I read piles of books like...AT one point in my life I read piles of books like this one - the Modernist European Calvino Robbe-Grillet Beckett stuff - and I surely would have gotten to Noteboom eventually. Good stuff.<br /><br />Spanish will be poetry, all poetry, I think.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-45029106165574599692012-07-02T17:00:45.907-05:002012-07-02T17:00:45.907-05:00I like Noteboom ,I had a interview with him last y...I like Noteboom ,I had a interview with him last year on the blog ,I not read this so find it hard to comment on other than the fact I ve read a number of his other books and not found a dud one yet and if it wasn't for translation I wouldn't have read as my dutch is limited to a few words ,look forward to your Spanish choices ,all the best stustujallenhttp://winstonsdad.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com