The chapter on Molkas, Palinuro’s obsessive friend, is a classic of pathetic comedy. About Fernando del Paso. Un libro que no tiene desperdicio!And while that is perfectly fine, I felt it wasn’t enough and didn’t make up for the great comments I had read about this book.

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It’s an eloquent tribute to ageless mythologies and to unforgettable works of art and literature. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Palinuro of Mexico Dalkey Archive PressThis was over the top excellent – it mixes tall tale with myth with history oalinuro offbeat yet deep pieces of trivia; all of this collages together into a dense encyclopedic feat of literature.

Gracias, Fernando del Paso, vive por siempre, es todo lo que te pido.But he doesn’t use the telling details, as a realistic novelist would, to enhance dramatic scenes. V Creo que tengo un problema semejante al que tuve con Rayuela. Flaubert read the entire encyclopedia and regurgitated it in Bouvard and Pecochet?OK, I can see it. For Del Paso, the rhetoricizing of experience is everything. The meaningless death of Palinuro, in the struggle for a dream mmexico was not to be, and deprecated by those around him, is a very gory and therefore appropiate image for the death of youth dreams.Just, no more lists of things. Don’t read it looking to get somewhere mexlco to msxico.

This is one of those sure-fire books that get all the modern literature majors excited at their po-mo, creme-limned Starbucks orgies. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. Let me not forget to acknowledge the great job by the translator who not only made this work accessible to us, but sculpted all the wordplay, never-ending sentences and paragraphs dd delicious prose.In its passage through the corporeal landscapes, beyond the silvan valleys and olfactory deserts, the water reached mxeico shore of the Islets of Langerhans, which everybody knows are in the pancreas, and baptized those crystal beaches with the name of Islets of Palinuro. O my Darling Clementine! Think of any deformity or condition you can: The book was first published in Spain in and in Mexico in palniuro, and first appeared in English under the English Quartet imprint. With the uncountable allusions to art, literature, science, history, philosophy and what not, it was all I could do to not lose myself in a Wikipedian labyrinth.

Del Paso sings the body biologic. Fernando del Paso nos riega de palabras, nos reboza y nos inunda de ellas, modificando significados, invirtiendo significantes, buscando movernos del sitio, alterarnos el mundo, mudarnos el pensamiento, siempre tan supeditado a la palabra.This is the post-modern epic we know and love: One of its kind. Youth dreams die and the next eel that I read are about how bowing the head and toiling keeps things running, no matter how smart you think you are.Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.It’s a solid testament to the richness and power of imagination and the ability of fiction to stretch the reality to that which lies beyond the physical world and the conscious mind.

It is playful with form; it is literate at all times, piling references and allusions into multi-page length paragraphs. There’s a litany of medical terms and body parts.If certain characters resemble people in real life, it is because certain people in real life resemble characters from a novel.

OUTRAGEOUS GEMS WAITING TO BE MINED IN `PALINURO OF MEXICO’Lacking any sort of coherent structure and plot, the novel is largely a series of infinitely interesting sexual episodes between the narrator and his cousin in their infinitely interesting apartment interspersed with some lively pranking done by the narrator jexico his medical school buddies e.Palinuro of Mexico – US. They discuss their cocks.

Dubravka Ugresic’s “Karaoke Culture” – Words Without BordersLists with This Book. Tijana Spasic rated it really liked it Sep 16, Overall a bit disappointed considering how much I was excited to dive into Ugresic’s oeuvre, but we’ll see how it compares to her fictional work. The 22 essays in Karaoke Culture read fast—several are only two or three pages—but the collection rewards rumination.

It drew all the visitors away from a genuine nearby historic village and its inhabitants who made a living selling folk crafts to tourists.Interesting, entertaining, and more readable than some other collections of her essays. Oct 06, Jamie Ross rated it it was amazing. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. I am the publisher of the book and thus spent approximately two years reading and editing and working on it.Karaoke Culture is often hilarious, yet also a profound commentary on how much modern conveniences have twisted the world so rapidly in recent years.A lot of the ideas dubrwvka here could be found in any mediocre NYT opinion piece by a conservative columnist, except those would have far less panache. Similarly, ‘A Question of Perspective’ also deserves room of its own. On the central topic, there isn’t anything new here – and I’m not sure there would have been in either. God, how I love this womain!

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Aug 15, Zoe Elizabeth rated it liked it Recommends it for: She is exactly the kind of person I would love to share a dzezva with, talking with extreme animation and civilly jibing each other. Karaoke CultureI also found that as an American reader I couldn’t relate to, or didn’t know enough about some of the items or situations which were addressed in some of the essays, and that it was sometimes hard to keep my focus on the page.Creating needle point rugs that show scenes from porn movies is not art, but just loss of any kind of objective standards. She teaches occasionally at American and European universities. Over and over again she encounters the paradoxes of the west, for example, describing the lives of Filipino maids serving western families in Hong Kong and living in puny little closets.This site uses cookies. Most contain several points that I wanted a lot of elaboration on.Makes my brain fizz. Want to Read saving.Orthofer28 September Her greatest vitriol, though, is for the inhabitants of the former eastern block. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website.

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