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Date:
3/31/2023 9:06:49 AM
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RE: book
I remember kinda enjoying South and Central American writers -- Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, Isabel Allende's Eva Luna (would also like to read her take on Zorro), Carlos Fuentes's The Old Gringo, etc. Don't remember a lot about them, only that they were interesting with their views of history and their magical realism shtick -- up there with Borges, the arch postmodernist guy. All this is very vague in my mind, however.
Ulysses is an interesting experiment and sort of a modernist epic in prose. I like Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man a bit better, just because it's a tad less experimental.
Woolf is just masterful, no matter what she does. Easily one of the greatest writers who ever lived.
The whole Modernist period is pretty interesting to me -- lots of experimentation and variety. I think of William Faulkner as the American Joyce, though he may be closer to people like Trollope and Hardy because of all the families and continuity. More than the experimentation, I liked the discipline people like Fitzgerald, Ford Maddox Ford, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, et al. were so crazy about -- they were deploying the processes Chekhov used in his short fiction and put the
le mot juste
of Flaubert and Maupassant on steroids.
The discipline above all is what I value, no matter what period or "school." The world has enough fruity inspired people.
