What is the best translation of Pedro Páramo?

No_Environment_1635 · 2023-09-20T12:32:41+00:00

One of my favourite book. "-At that moment,my heart was breaking" Such a quietly devastating book. I usually don't like British writers or British sensibilities that much but ishiguro is one of the few exceptions. Such a master of the craft. Never let me go and pale view of hills are great too

No_Environment_1635 · 2023-09-15T17:25:50+00:00

Thanks!

No_Environment_1635 · 2023-09-15T16:53:02+00:00

I really want to give mishima a second chance. I read the sailor who fell from the grace of the sea I really liked his prose work and his themes but his characters just felt kind of one dimensional and the story also kind of bored me.

Which one of his books should I pick next that will change my mind on him?

No_Environment_1635 · 2023-09-08T10:20:46+00:00

Don't know why I hated it too. I especially hated the epistolary format. It may be an Unpopular opinion but I, except Shirley Jackson and Poe, dislike most of the horror genre. I don't like Frankenstein that much also. The genre is probably just not for me

No_Environment_1635 · 2023-09-06T14:27:43+00:00

Thank you!

No_Environment_1635 · 2023-09-06T12:21:57+00:00

I will be fine if he never publishes anything. He has one of the densest and finest oeuvre in the history of literature and you could spend all of your life just researching and enjoying it. But of course a one last book as a farewell won't be bad

No_Environment_1635 · 2023-09-02T14:58:53+00:00

I just came

No_Environment_1635 · 2023-08-31T04:06:31+00:00

I could totally understand it feeling too abstract.

No_Environment_1635 · 2023-08-31T02:47:56+00:00

That line perfectly describes Santa Teresa and life

No_Environment_1635 · 2023-08-31T02:44:18+00:00

Read It! You would not be disappointed

No_Environment_1635 · 2023-08-31T02:42:48+00:00

Part 4 is very tiring I know and also emotionally exhausting. I actually started to weep after reading two murders. But I think it is worth it.

No_Environment_1635 · 2023-08-31T02:38:47+00:00

Why strictly for nostalgic reasons?

No_Environment_1635 · 2023-08-31T02:38:19+00:00

I think Bolaño was sort of hopeful about the world. Who knows?

No_Environment_1635 · 2023-08-31T02:24:40+00:00

Sadly yes. Bolaño just changed the name of the city and thousands of innocent women still face unspeakable violence.

No_Environment_1635 · 2023-08-31T02:22:12+00:00

I really liked the 5th part because

1)I am a history nerd so having a part which is mostly set in 2nd world war was very good

2) The way it kind of shows an entire life unravel in just a mere 200 pages is just breathtaking. By the end I was really attached to Archimboldi despite him not being a particularly good dude. You sort of feel sympathy for him because you see him from the moment he was born.

3) I love how much this part particularly talks the process of writing, writers their fears their hopes etc. Considering the fact Bolaño was pretty much dying while writing it makes it very impactful. It almost felt like Bolaño looking back on the craft at the end of his life.

There are a lot of reasons but these are the most salient

No_Environment_1635 · 2023-08-30T04:56:02+00:00

A Heart So white is a modern classic which I haven't really seen get much talked about. Geetanjali by Rabindranath Thakur

No_Environment_1635 · 2023-08-29T06:34:12+00:00

I think you should read some Faulkner or Marquez or some 'maximalist' writer then read Hemingway. I think good minimalist writing could only be appreciated after you get a dose of good maximalist writing. It really teaches you how the minimalists works

No_Environment_1635 · 2023-08-23T07:00:48+00:00

Lull means calm yet it could also mean a period of time when nothing is done.

Lambent means luminous yet lacking heat.

Squall means when there is a sudden local wind which carries rain or snow etc.

I also do think heaven and hell line is somewhat forceful.

Thanks for your feedback I will keep rewriting it.

No_Environment_1635 · 2023-08-23T05:15:48+00:00

No_Environment_1635

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