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Horacio Castellanos Moya. Senselessness.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Horacio Castellanos Moya. Senselessness. Trans. Katherine Silver. New Directions, 2008. 142 pp. Paper: $15.95.
In Horacio Castellanos Moya's biting English-language debut, a self-described "depraved atheist" agrees to work in an unnamed country (apparently located in Latin America) for a...
Roberto Bolano. 2666.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Roberto Bolano. 2666. Trans. Natasha Wimmer. FSG, 2008. 898 pp. Cloth: $30.00.
Spanish writer Javier Cercas, a contemporary of Roberto Bolano, once described an overly adulatory critic: "[H]e more or less said there was an immense gulf in universal literature between me and Cervantes."...
Georges Perec. Cantatrix Sopranica L.: Scientific Papers.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Georges Perec. Cantatrix Sopranica L.: Scientific Papers. Trans. Antony Melville, Ian Monk, and John Sturrock. Intro. Marcel Benabou. Atlas Press, 2008. 100 pp. Paper: 12.00 [pounds sterling].
The neurological cause for a soprano yelling at her audience when pelted with tomatoes is,...
Rudolph Wurlitzer. The Drop Edge of Yonder.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Rudolph Wurlitzer. The Drop Edge of Yonder. Two Dollar Radio, 2008. 275 pp. Paper: $15.00.
Rudolf Wurlitzer's The Drop Edge of Yonder is a metaphysical western, with the emphasis on metaphysics. The novel is thematically invested in various belief systems: Buddhism, Mexican Indian brujo...
Attila Bartis. Tranquility.(Book review)
March 22, 2009... Attila Bartis. Tranquility. Trans. Imre Goldstein. Archipelago Books, 2008. 292 pp. Paper: $15.00.
Andor Weer lives with his mother, Rebeka, a well-regarded stage actress who nearly twenty years before had been informed by the communist authorities that she would no longer play leading...