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“You know,” he says, with a resilient smile, “it is a hard world for poets.”
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[quote user="Fuuma"]I finished readingMaudit manègeby Philippe Djian for the second time, heavilyrecommended, I know part of hiswork has been translated.[/quote]</p>
Can you give me a 101? Never heard the name.</p>
I'm done with Borges, so today I picked up Francois Rabelais - Gargantua and Panttagruel. I am reading it in Russian.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
[quote user="Fuuma"]I finished readingMaudit manègeby Philippe Djian for the second time, heavilyrecommended, I know part of hiswork has been translated.[/quote]</P>
Can you give me a 101? Never heard the name.</P>
I'm done with Borges, so today I picked up Francois Rabelais - Gargantua and Panttagruel. I am reading it in Russian.
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Try this interview, it's not amazing or anything but will help you somewhat situate him in the contemporary literary landscape:</P>
I'm about halfway through a copy of Men in Black I found for $3. It's an interesting read, if a bit tedious.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>
Have you read anything else by him? How is he? I always see a ton of books by him here translated into Russian.</p>
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I've read Second Body previous to and thought it's been a good book and sooo not straightforward. From what I know nonlinearity is one of the main features of his books.
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Have you read anything else by him? How is he? I always see a ton of books by him here translated into Russian.</p>
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I've read Second Body previous to and thought it's been a good book and sooo not straightforward. From what I know nonlinearity is one of the main features of his books.
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Interesting. Would you compare him to someone like Jorge Luis Borges? Or Dmitriy Lipskerov?</p>
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
the wilderness world of john muir (a selection from his collected work)</p>
i really like this excerpt "his trousers, in particular, have been so adhesive with the mixed fat and resin that pine-needles, thin flakes and fibers of bark, hair, mica scales and minute grains of quartz, hornblende, etc., feathers, seed-wings, moth and butterfly wings, legs and antennae of innumerable insects, or even whole insects such as small beetles, moths and mosquitoes, with flower petals, pollen dust and indeed bits of all plants, animals, and minerals of the region adhere to them and are safely imbedded"</p>
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