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...question’s—unresolved nature that is most easily illustrative of its beauty.The novel’s kaleidoscope of females—Xenia, Louise, Randi, Katarina, Bathsheba—all write novels or letters, but beyond existing on the page to the reader at hand (which is to say Christensen’s) they are themselves written by one another in turn, defined as characters within each others’ dramas. And throughout the text—or perhaps texts—author and creation become blurred beyond distinction. Christensen’s book collapses...
...There is something strangely poetic about “Imperial.” The passion with which Vollmann overflows for his subject infects the (patient) reader. The seventh reiteration of some Imperial resident’s saying “I can’t help believing in people” is infinitely more touching than the sixth. “The Desert Disappears. Water is Here”—which originally appeared in a headline of a newspaper from which Vollmann quotes—is more heartbreakingly ironic and more beautiful for its rhythmic prose each time...
...true. I mean, I don’t remember things very well from the day before yesterday, and these are Deo’s 12-year-old memories. This was one of the reasons I wrote the book as I did, and turned to the first person after the reader has heard the bulk of the story. The more remarkable story is what happened in New York, and that I did verify.The experience of being with Deo, watching him in the throes of memory, especially in Burundi, was spooky. It was not so much difficult...
...topics ranging from masturbation to modesty, was published in June by New York University Press. Yet despite the academic credentials of the authors who penned most of the book’s essays, Ruttenberg said that she designed The Passionate Torah with “the intelligent lay reader in mind.” “The whole idea is that smart people are capable of dealing with big questions,” she said. “I wanted to take them seriously.” A graduate of both Brown and Los Angeles’s Ziegler...
...Remo Morán, a Chilean novelist running several businesses in the town; and Enric Rosquelles, a deputy to the mayor of Z. The seemingly tenuous connections between the three men wind progressively tighter around a pair of vagrant women and a beautiful Spanish figure skater. A voracious reader in general and an avid fan of popular cinema and genre fiction, Bolaño punctuates the beginning of a long penchant for the referential with an invocation of detective novels: “Anyway, as Hans Henny Jahn, I think, once wrote: if you find a murder victim, better brace...