This novel was a stunning history set in Pinochet's Chile. The main character is queen of her own apartment in Santiago (but to everyone else, a gentleman, a maricon, a pathetic figure). Starstruck by a handsome, educated revolutionary, she permits the Marxists to store boxes of unknown goods in h...
My first Aira novella, but not my last. Playful and serious, the 88 page recounting of a conversation between old friends of a strange adventure movie that was on tv the night before, offers an everyday memory relived, analyzed, expanded, amended, deepened. Short novels usually have a sense of compr...
Title: The Mongolian Conspiracy Who Wrote It? Rafael Bernal (1915-1972), a well-known writer of Mexican detective novels. The Mongolian Conspiracy is regarded as his masterpiece. It was translated from Spanish by Katherine Silver, co-director of the Banff International Literary Translation Cen...
So-so book with a so-so plot that was actually quite boring to read even though the blurbs on the back say otherwise. I found nothing "hysterically funny" or "brilliant" or "masterful" about it. I am incensed by insult with the idea promoted by the publisher that this book is "pitch-perfect" with "...
A remarkable "first book" written by an eighteen year-old kid. I have trouble believing he did not have help either with the original publisher or translator of the time. The distinguished and mature sophistication exhibited was unbelievable for a kid that age and my bull-shit radar was smoking from...
It must have something to do with the presence of the paragraph. That which makes it obvious that one isn’t reading poetry. The paragraph, distinguished from those lines of eneven lengths, which may or may not rhyme. The presence of paragraphs, that tell me, just maybe, I’ll be able to understand wh...
I read this collection of short stories on my vacation in Costa Rica and I found it lent an interesting depth to my trip. Most of the stories are about hard lives of manual labor for the banana company, and grinding poverty. It's easy to overlook that part of the history while playing tourist becaus...
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