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Fuentes’ List of Upcoming Mexican Writers
At Paris's annual Book Salon, Carlos Fuentes presented a list of five upcoming Mexican writers. They are Jorge Volpi, Ignacio Padilla, Pedro Angel Palou, Cristina Rivera-Garza y Xavier Velazco.
Rivera-Garza has a story in Dalkey's recent Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction, and in fact I discuss it in my review:
Cristina Rivera-Garza’s “Nostalgia” is, on the surface, the story of a man who keeps dreaming about the same city. In dream after dream he obsessively explores and maps this city until one day, he loses the ability to dream about it.
This story could be a metaphor for all sorts of things. Unfortunately, “Nostalgia’s” last line imposes a somewhat constricted reading on this intriguing structure (it’s a good reading, but I still wish Rivera-Garza hadn’t imposed it on us); but if we ignore that last line, then “Nostalgia” could be about almost anything—except what it’s ostensibly about. Being able to do this with singular virtuosity was what made Borges great, and, indeed, there are echoes of Borges in “Nostalgia,” even if Rivera-Garza’s story is diminished when stood next to the towering Argentine.
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Recommended Books DeLillo's major work before White Noise is probably his most underrated novel. Its all right here--the politics of paranoia, terrorism, the unnamable--set in an evocative, timeless Greece.
The most bizarre Abe novel I've yet read, which is indeed saying something. About a subclass of Japanese men who go around wearing boxes from the waist up (and then use them as domiciles in the evening), the book is also an experiment in perspective shifts, a highly unstable, metafictional first-person narrative, and an exploration of voyeurism, consumerism, and aberrant sexuality.
Charting the path to three gunshots--the one that killed filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, the one that disabled his Islamic extremist assassin, Mohammed Bouyeri, and the one that led to Vincent Van Gogh’s one hundred years earlier--Olsen tells three separate stories that resonate with one another on numerous levels: the logic of extremism, the role of the dissident in Dutch society, the limits of tolerance, the purpose of the artist, the feeling of the most important five minutes of your life. Read my interview with the author.
Creatively structured, well-executed epic novel of rural South Africa from 1950 - 2000. Takes on a lot and lives up to it magnificently. Highly recommended.
A book that's an interview about the book you're supposedly holding in your hands. Creative, potent, and full of life. Just what metafiction should be. Read my post on it.
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The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas (2006, English 2009)
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