tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post8265859688931063721..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: The glassy glitter of the cheap metaphors I loved - how The Land at the End of the World is written and whyAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-37586719355246954452011-12-18T11:33:45.986-06:002011-12-18T11:33:45.986-06:00I can glibly link Lobo Antunes and Simon through F...I can glibly link Lobo Antunes and Simon through Faulkner. And Antunes likely knew Simon directly. Still, for all the hints of others, even in this early novel his voice sounded so individual, which I think is one reason I am excited to read more of his work.<br /><br />Good luck with the Americo de Almeida. Who knows.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-20169243502142987792011-12-17T18:10:44.696-06:002011-12-17T18:10:44.696-06:00I started reading another Lobo Antunes book yester...I started reading another Lobo Antunes book yesterday (Act of the Damned), and this scene-shifting, temporal cutting technique reminded me enormously of the Claude Simon novel I read earlier in the year - except Lobo Antunes is a lot, lot easier than Simon, and at least has something of a comprehensible plot.<br /><br />I happened to pick up another Brazilian book quite by accident today - Jose Americo de Almeida's Trash (1928). Our friend, Scott-Buccleuch sees it, in the introduction, as a pivotal work in which the Brazilian novel shed its European influence. Well, we shall see when we read it (or, more probably, not).obookihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03885121629202810216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-20555042390739364682011-12-15T21:29:50.451-06:002011-12-15T21:29:50.451-06:00Good, yes! It took me three days, but I finally g...Good, yes! It took me three days, but I finally got somewhere.<br /><br />Part of the quality of the Lobo Antunes novel is that he is genuinely ingenious with metaphor, even when he Goes Too Far or is blatantly ridiculous. That <i>is</i> how camels look - like that, what he said, except without the actual cigars.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-22285981855979663212011-12-15T16:04:41.902-06:002011-12-15T16:04:41.902-06:00Yes, excellent; this is the way to talk about book...Yes, excellent; <i>this</i> is the way to talk about books! I now have two more for my to-be-read stack, darn you.<br /><br />A seal's face is perfectly formed to wear a set of wire-rimmed spectacles.<br /><br />~scott gf baileyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com