Chekhov's Mistress
I Love Fatties and Other Thoughts on a Cloudy Monday
Fuentes and Tomatoes
No, not the Grateful Dead types, but big fat meaty books. I’ve had my eye on Carlos Fuentes’ Terra Nostra for a while, and shunning all those patiently unread books on the shelf, I picked it up and jumped in. At 785 pages and 2 1/2 inches thick, it won’t set any records, but with the opening paragraph you know there’s going to be a lot to chew on from its centuries long scope and three page list of characters.
As I often like to do some critical reading of an author while I’m involved with their works, any suggestions would be helpful. So far, I have an essay on C.F. in a book of essays on Postmodernism, some reviews and letters from the New York Review of Books, and an interview at Dalkey Archive Press, the publisher of Terra Nostra.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: August 30, 2004
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