wakephan09
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Just finished *Swing Time*. What you think, JuiceCrew?
Finished Graveyard Clay, about 40s Irish corpses arguing/gossiping about their past and the present above ground. Just dialogue.
Finished Graveyard Clay, about 40s Irish corpses arguing/gossiping about their past and the present above ground. Just dialogue.
Read this New Yorker piece:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ne...o-good-people-were-scared-to-translate-it/amp
Have not read it, but it is on the list. Feelings/thoughts about it?
Thoughts about the book or the translations?
It was an interesting read about the apprehension around translating it, but I was looking for your thoughts around the content of the book itself. Worth a read? Pacing work as it being all dialogue?
The content is solid. The dialogue is a little repetitive in some spots, but that's probably a critique of the characters (buried corpses) more than the author. I didn't find it super tough to figure out which character is speaking.
It's definitely an idiosyncratic read.
Just finished Inherent Vice, which I dug a lot -- was really funny and trippy, the only Pynchon I've ever read. On tap I have Under the Volcano, Moby Dick (never read), Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn, Didion's The White Album, The Lowlife by Alexander Baron, and Return to the Dark Valley by Santiago Gamboa.
I think once I get through this backlog I'm going to concentrate on works by women, people of color, and translated works. Maybe it'll be like a resolution, except I don't expect to get through all of these any time soon.
I already did! In fact, I think I read it based on your post in this thread about it.