tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post244739968991603149..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Freedom and writing, those two thrilling gifts - reading and the death of FrancoAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-54168807274816746612011-05-10T23:03:08.363-05:002011-05-10T23:03:08.363-05:00Hmm. Suggests? Too kind. That is exactly what i...Hmm. Suggests? Too kind. That is exactly what it <i>says</i>. I believe I will have to leave that narrow thinking intact as a cautionary example, and use your comment as a correction. <br /><br />Richard's bilingual review of <i>El invierno en Lisboa</i> may be perused <a href="http://caravanaderecuerdos.blogspot.com/2008/08/el-invierno-en-lisboa.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />Muñoz Molina's books do sound pretty good. Here's what he says about those New Wave films, and their Italian and American etc. contemporaries: They "shattered my whole self down to my very roots." He had "to imagine a way of living up to the expectations awakened by these films, feverishly searching for a style of writing that would match the power of their images."<br /><br />That must have been pretty wild, seeing all of those movies packed into a couple of years, long after much of the rest of the literary world had absorbed them. Although, now that I think of it, that it not so different from how I saw them on video.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-27060500035246698332011-05-10T22:29:47.800-05:002011-05-10T22:29:47.800-05:00Peer review time: is your last paragraph really me...Peer review time: is your last paragraph really meant to suggest that we adventurous <em>Wuthering Expectations</em> readers would only know this author in translation? Tsk, tsk. All kidding/carping aside, I really enjoyed this post both for its overall focus and for that great little reading list supplied by MM. Muñoz Molina's 1987 <em>El invierno en Lisboa</em> (or <em>Winter in Lisbon</em> in its English incarnation) is great fun: sort of like a bookly equivalent of one of those French noir films from the <em>nouvelle vague</em> era in its combination of seediness and sophistication. It may appeal to your jazzbo sympathies as well. Other stuff by him comes highly recommended too, but that's the only title of his I've read to date myself.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.com