tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post5436505962984707275..comments2023-04-30T07:27:54.645-07:00Comments on <b>HUNGRY GHOST BLOG</b>: "...not easy."David Chutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-55167015333045979652011-01-02T16:28:39.264-08:002011-01-02T16:28:39.264-08:00Of course we can have both and should.... The poin...Of course we can have both and should.... The point of the snark (which I regretted, but you can't edit comments) was to raise a tired old point that (1) you should make time for both and (2) Vargas Llosa, for example, doesn't publish articles about how to write and while doing so hint that all those not Vargas Llosa are bad writers.<br /><br />In fact, the Leonard issue doesn't interest me much any more... I suspect that he's really not as dumb as his rules for writing would lead you to believe.Tulkinghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380273659057130770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-8100586367422696312011-01-02T13:39:12.985-08:002011-01-02T13:39:12.985-08:00http://www.amazon.com/White-Knight-Tirant-Blanc-eb...http://www.amazon.com/White-Knight-Tirant-Blanc-ebook/dp/B002JM0KX4/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1294004294&sr=1-4David Chutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-261011132874044572011-01-02T13:37:10.871-08:002011-01-02T13:37:10.871-08:00Malreux > Leonard, apples > oranges.
We can...Malreux > Leonard, apples > oranges.<br /><br />We can't have both?David Chutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-51917308347602554682011-01-02T13:35:34.841-08:002011-01-02T13:35:34.841-08:00Terse, and yet "The Plague" is grand if ...Terse, and yet "The Plague" is grand if not grandiose; a universal metaphor.David Chutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05606470667042155559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-34803745534287016192011-01-02T12:02:35.221-08:002011-01-02T12:02:35.221-08:00Of course, there's room for both American ters...Of course, there's room for both American terseness and Gallic grandiosity... Besides, if I remember, Camus is pretty terse (which is why everybody reads L'Etranger in French class)Tulkinghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380273659057130770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-39944454473219102652011-01-02T10:04:55.612-08:002011-01-02T10:04:55.612-08:00Way too frivolous for the moment, but still amusin...Way too frivolous for the moment, but still amusing: novelist Cathleen Schine's literary resolutions, from this morning's NYT:<br /><br />“(1) Stop reading mysteries obsessively like an addict. (2) Stop pretending never to read mysteries. (3) Read all of Hazel Holt’s 19 mysteries in a row. (4) Read Proust. (5) Don’t broadcast resolution to read Proust all over New York the way every other person resolving to read Proust does. (6) No Trollope this year, not even one — even though, against all odds, there is an app for that. (7) Download Trollope app.”Tulkinghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380273659057130770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8896069787782846811.post-53472734789564761192011-01-02T09:58:57.701-08:002011-01-02T09:58:57.701-08:00Boy... You could do worse than this as a reading l...Boy... You could do worse than this as a reading list for the new year.<br /> <br />(Adding, of course, Conversations in the Cathedral -- the one book that Vargas Llosa says that he'd save from the fire.) <br /><br />The mysterious Martorell took a lot of Googling. He wrote "Tirant lo Blanc" one of the two romances (together with "Amadis of Gaul") that drove Don Quixote mad with literary passion.<br /><br />Funny how, in the eyes of some, scope and ambition equals pretension and bloat. Not a minimalist in the bunch, here. <br /><br />Malraux! Better than Elmore Leonard? You decide.....Tulkinghornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12380273659057130770noreply@blogger.com