Yes, it's a really cool book - and I think everybody was really amazed that it was possible.
There is this paradox about doing very original things in writing - that somebody finds some new idea, that seems to create whole new approaches in art, and then it's like nobody can imitate them. It seems like David Foster Wallace …
Yes, it's a really cool book - and I think everybody was really amazed that it was possible.
There is this paradox about doing very original things in writing - that somebody finds some new idea, that seems to create whole new approaches in art, and then it's like nobody can imitate them. It seems like David Foster Wallace owns the footnote. Nicholson Baker owns extremely detailed analysis of daily life, and maybe Labatut owns the non-fiction novel. I'd prefer to believe that that's not the case - that literary 'discoveries' belong to everybody!
Thank you Stan!
Yes, it's a really cool book - and I think everybody was really amazed that it was possible.
There is this paradox about doing very original things in writing - that somebody finds some new idea, that seems to create whole new approaches in art, and then it's like nobody can imitate them. It seems like David Foster Wallace owns the footnote. Nicholson Baker owns extremely detailed analysis of daily life, and maybe Labatut owns the non-fiction novel. I'd prefer to believe that that's not the case - that literary 'discoveries' belong to everybody!
Absolutely - I would never want to foreclose the possibility of someone starting from Lababut and taking it someplace new. Its all a conversation.
And what is it about Chile? There's Bolaño of course, and I think I mentioned a new favorite of mine, Alejandro Zambra...