Well, well, well, well ....
Ah, yes, what is good about blogging is the immediacy. That can be updated instantly. We will not expect journalists to get out of bed to deliver the news. It's nice not having a boss to tell you what, how and when to write. Here are the bloggers, the seventh power. Free as the wind never write.
However, and now I have to work, I am obliged to, not a boss but two or three or four (the problems of multiple jobs), I decided to take the ostracism to this blog. A whole month without opening the bill and when you open it: cuaaaac, the smallest return of history.
Because what makes me get down to the keyboard is the newsletter of literary news agency. It is rare that something exists and where it could exist only in Miami and who could carry on but a Latino. And in the salad without interest are usually those "literary news" I find that today's newsletter includes three stories that talk to each other involuntarily
LITERARY NEWS No. 1 .- The writer Marcela Serrano open a clothing house in Santiago de Chile.
The notice states that "the Chilean writer begins a new stage in your life with an office away completely from the literature (...) The store, which also sold works of art, design and fitting, will at its center the costumes, including a women's clothing line designed by the writer. " However
: how to say, a priori, that the costumes designed by the writer not closer to the literature books? Marcela Serrano definitely has a fashion designer name. And I believe in the magic power of the names I am convinced that their designs will be closer to being an object aesthetically beautiful, and therefore closer to the literature books.
LITERARY NEWS N º 2 .- The story and the novel experience crises of quality: Seymour Menton.
Menton refers to the Latin American narrative. Struck me in passing Menton's statement that "some stories of Quiroga, Borges, Onetti, Rulfo and Cortázar would be difficult to overcome, even for novels." I agree, and I immediately say, two Argentines, two Uruguayan and Mexican and still Felisberto Hernández
lack While I'm far from being able to say anything about the health of the contemporary Latin American narrative, I will find the anthology "The English-American story," prepared by Menton and now in its 7th. revised and enlarged edition, although I have the 2 nd. I look at the index. Felisbertoless, Bioyless, Ocampoless. It's nothing, an anthologist anthology at will. And in passing through my mind what Bolaño?. Well, maybe I have included in previous editions, and rightly stresses Bolaño not just as a storyteller, but then I read another story, but old, who was saved out there and that has to do with the quality crisis narrative recent Latin American:
"If I did not include authors born in the sixties (in the 7 th edition of the anthology), not on purpose. Just not really outstanding stories found in this group." However, the critic born in 1927 in New York said that does not mean out of sympathy with young writers. "To verify that sympathize with the young, provided that deserve my attention, several conferences this year, I noted the great achievements of 'In Search of Klingsor", by Jorge Volpi (1968) "
Uh, Seymour vs. Sigmur. Celebrity Deathmatch.
LITERARY NEWS N º 3 - Declared wilderness first prize Tusquets Editores de Novela
This news gives reason to Menton. And there's nothing that I love more than a jury award desert states. And in its first edition! I seem to see those responsible for organizing the competition, wondering, what notice Sprite "What we will have wrong?"
Some may seem silly but it takes a brave jury to order desert a contest in which 785 were presented not only Latin American novels, a publishing contest as Tusquets and is released under the Guadalajara Book Fair. If the prize Alfaguara de Novela had done the same, we had saved bummer ilevantables as the novels of Manuel Vicent and Clara Sanchez. Moreover, here in Montevideo, judges have been honored to void and insisted that certain contests and have met with strong opposition from the rest of the jury, with the excuse that it is a crime not to award the prize, here in Uruguay , where prizes are scarce and the money that a mediocre writer can spend in becoming a writer even worse, lost forever in the coffers of the government or is intended to clean the pipes of the SBI.
And speaking of awards: novaleventar declared winner of "Arrow" to the Faculty of Chemistry, which took nearly a week to perform the analysis brown water that comes out of your tap, ma'am, sir, and give his diagnosis that the water was not potable according to quality standards SBI. Water that any idiot with the naked eye could determine who had considerable wealth oxide residues (and also has aluminum and manganese) was declared at all times safe to drink. I forgot to say that the fund was mineral water. The Uruguayans are of iron.
And finally, idle question: The order of these stories should not be exactly the opposite? Do you even a 2-3-1? I know, is negligible. But it is tiring. Not for nothing that breaks the camel is a drop, not a bully jet. One day the guard has the bad idea of \u200b\u200bspending a stop and grab an ax and kill all poultry in the block. Or, to calm your nerves, you put a laundromat, internet cafe and spent many days pondering whether to call or CleanWindows Bra & Brainwash or Wash-o-Matic or LaveClick or Pumpass. And then think who the hell cares. Then grab a bigger ax or perhaps could be ... orange juice concentrate and gasoline ... or maybe ...
That's it. I will continue contrahibernando. Summer makes it bad for my snowy skin. I am a bipolar bear. Do not comment much.
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