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април 17 2006 BOOK BURNERS

     sisters & brothers: i've been quiet, i know.

oddly enough it's not from lack of words but the opposite: too many things to say, no time for glib summaries, i want longwinded. For example: the books I'm reading are all excellent and rewarding, but to actually talk about them would require paragraphs, which would require time, which i don't have since i'm doing other things like reading them in the first place, recording and arranging sounds, and trying to seriously contemplate what i call "the beginning of the end" ////


these fine burnable books are as follows -- if you have read them perhaps you agree and neither of us need to explain anything, we can just nod:


        Nada - Carmen Laforet1

 

        The File on H. - Ismail Kadare (thanks Lillevan!!)


        My Cocaine Museum - Michael Taussig


        Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K Dick (thanks Soze!!)





          1. Nada = Nothing. bizarrely, this doesn't appear to have been translated into English.

GA - април 17 2006

Nada?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN..

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jc - април 17 2006

nada. that version claims to be in english but is spanish with language notes & explanations as english language footnotes. looks like a nice edition actually.

here's an excerpt
ttp://tinyurl.com/fbedd

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GA - април 17 2006

Doh! Ok, what's wrong with this one?
http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vSite..

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carlos - април 18 2006

when i bought nada for my lit. class, it was really, really hard to find because there was only one publisher that printed it, according to my teacher and like, every book store in granada. now i'm seeing there are more versions, which is great, because the book is everything the guardian article says and more (i really don't like to say shit like that but it's true).

article doesn't mention the emotional whubumablub that laforet portrays so well through andrea, the heavy shit one can write off as 'nothing' when asked 'what's wrong?' an earlier, less emotional, more brainy and show-offy depiction of this emotion in PRE-civil war spain is found in miguel de unamuno's 'niebla' ('fog'). good book about randomly channeled love, people 'comiendose la cabeza'(eating their own heads), an anarchomysticotheoreticoestablishmentarian husband, suicide, doggies, and sad, sad rich dudes.

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