The Blind Owl
Not quite finished with The Blind Owl yet, but i am a little puzzled. Pamuk says that he has read it in a few interviews with the Persian press, but barely mentions the book otherwise... or at least, that's how it appears to in the English language. He praises the book. It's not as if he dismisses it in any way. However, in reading The Blind Owl, i recognized passages that are echoed in Pamuk's work... the obsessive, hallucinatory mania that creeps in, especially The White Castle... it feels drawn straight from the scorning alienation of the wildly unhinged, but wonderfully poetic narrator of The Blind Owl.
Anyway, i gotta go finish it. Setting back up the Wordpress blog tonight is beginning to feel too much like work.
2 comments:
Haven't read pamuk or kadare yet. Tried some Bolano short stories---not bad and not great. The next coupla months will be Speak, Memory and Against the Day. I just read Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child. Holy shit was that a fun read; a highfalutin Rosemary's Baby. Recommended.
For Robyn post-'96, Luxor and Ole! Tarantula are both real charmers. The Robyn sings Dylan stuff is not as good as one would wish.
Never read Speak, Memory, but have every intention to.
Sorry that you were nonplussed by the Bolano. Betcha what you read was collected in Last Evenings on Earth, which i loved.
Wouldn't expect Robyn singing Dylan to be anything i want to hear. As much as i care about Dylan, i prefer the interpretations to be more... um.... rocking, than folky.
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