Selected Prose
by Fernando Pessoa
The Book of Embraces
by Eduardo Galeano
Renaissance Lives
by Theodore Rabb
The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bolaño
Last Evenings on Earth
by Roberto Bolaño
The Voyage to the Island of the Articoles by Andre Maurois
The Horses of St Marks
by Charles Freeman
Asleep in the Sun
by Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Ball
by John Fox
The Cardboard House
by Martín Adán
Another nice list, Richard. Which ones stood out?
ReplyDeleteGreetings Rise. In nonfiction, I enjoyed 'The Ball.' It didn't cover soccer as much as I would have liked, but the (all-too) brief section on the Mesoamerican ball game Ulama was both well-written and informative. Galeano was intriguing. In literature, I enjoyed Bolaño's 'Last evenings,' especially the short story "Enrique Martin." The biggest surprise, and in some ways my favorite of the group, was the short novel by Maurois. I read it in one sitting and then found myself going back and rereading certain sections. I bought it on a lark, didn't expect a great deal, and loved every page. I trained academically as a classicist, but the neighboring grad program in our building belonged to a lit theory group, and many of the Articoles in the novel - the people who have elevated art but dispensed with life - began to take on in my mind the form of those graduate students down the hall from whom I often heard the name 'Derrida' spoken in awed reverence.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the detailed notes, Richard. And it's great to hear about your rewarding surprise on Maurois.
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