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Claes Oldenburg Spoonbridge and Cherry

24 aug 09

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Since I'm here, I'll come and mess things up here too. Why 2? Because the Oldenburg-Van Bruggen couple were brilliant at their beginnings, back in the days of "soft machines" and the repellent "èpatant la burgeoisie" tables, but we are now in the era of Argan. Then they started to imitate Jeff Koons and Haim Steinbach, resulting in the kind of work one would expect from an art academy with nothing new to offer...

Claes Oldenburg Spoonbridge and Cherry

24 aug 09

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Since I'm here, I'll come and mess things up here too. Why 2? Because the Oldenburg-Van Bruggen couple were brilliant at their beginnings, back in the days of "soft machines" and the repellent "èpatant la burgeoisie" tables, but we are now in the era of Argan. Then they started to imitate Jeff Koons and Haim Steinbach, resulting in the kind of work one would expect from an art academy with nothing new to offer...

Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez Cent'Anni Di Solitudine

24 aug 09

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Okay, peace? I know that from a literary standpoint, the road is superior to the other one. It just doesn’t feel like a McCarthy book, which, as you may have understood, is my favorite writer. I prefer him when he tackles subjects more closely related to his anthropological roots. Now I’m off, or I might go a bit overboard.

Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez Cent'Anni Di Solitudine

24 aug 09

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Sorry, I got your username wrong...

Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez Cent'Anni Di Solitudine

24 aug 09

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Ondadrek, I'm sorry, but I said FOR ME when I spoke about Blood Meridian (which I still consider superior to The Road, to which I prefer, for example, I Am Legend by Matheson, for that genre). Obviously, in such a short space, one can sound arrogant because they have to simplify. I didn't mean to pass judgment, pardon. Infinite Jest is brilliant, but exhausting and deconstructed, which is why I prefer the former. It's a matter of taste (at these levels). I apologize again for the tone.

Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez Cent'Anni Di Solitudine

24 aug 09

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Zaireeka, surely Baricco washes more, at a glance...

Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez Cent'Anni Di Solitudine

24 aug 09

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But what nonsense: it seems like Marquez is telling you: buy me and I'll make you cry and look like an intellectual all at once. The writers mentioned by Voodoomiles are something else, even if poor Wallace was a bit self-referential (The Broom of the System, though, is beautiful). Bolaño, on the other hand, is a must-read from cover to cover. Anyway, the most beautiful novel of the last few decades, for me, is Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. And the stories of William Vollmann.

Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez Cent'Anni Di Solitudine

24 aug 09

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Surely this is not your case, but if this has always been the favorite novel of semi-literate and/or non-readers, there must be a reason. And the reason is the cunning and artificial pathos of plot and language, the recycling of "high" literary clichés (think Faulkner and Carpentier) made digestible for the gullible who are unfamiliar with modern literature, not even Balzac and Tolstoy... it’s no coincidence that Latin Americans have been replaced, by that type of reader, with supermarket-level Arab and Indian writers, who are akin to them.

Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez Cent'Anni Di Solitudine

24 aug 09

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Surely this is not your case, but if this has always been the favorite novel of semi-literate and/or non-readers, there must be a reason. And the reason is the cunning and artificial pathos of plot and language, the recycling of "high" literary clichés (think Faulkner and Carpentier) made digestible for the gullible who are unfamiliar with modern literature, not even Balzac and Tolstoy... it’s no coincidence that Latin Americans have been replaced, by that type of reader, with supermarket-level Arab and Indian writers, who are akin to them.