tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post1135274672604214127..comments2024-03-25T22:38:46.822+08:00Comments on in lieu of a field guide: Bartleby has companyRisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-8558056143766612272012-07-28T12:36:23.475+08:002012-07-28T12:36:23.475+08:00LOL.LOL.Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-12041170292797882782012-07-28T12:18:08.962+08:002012-07-28T12:18:08.962+08:00Jeremy, I went to check if it was written in disap...Jeremy, I went to check if it was written in <a href="http://designtaxi.com/news/352885/A-Disappearing-Book-That-Encourages-People-To-Read-From-New-Authors/" rel="nofollow">disappearing ink</a>. Alas, the papers are mysteriously gone.Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-26479054088038514682012-07-27T10:19:03.609+08:002012-07-27T10:19:03.609+08:00(a friend points out that a good answer to "I...(a friend points out that a good answer to "If I keep silent, who will hear me from among the invisible hierarchies of invisible cities?" might be "Horton.")The Modesto Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13495938191100565263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-60521186754643888452012-07-26T01:48:58.926+08:002012-07-26T01:48:58.926+08:00I am only surprised that this text was not written...I am only surprised that this text was not written in invisible ink.The Modesto Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13495938191100565263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-61352694705599641092012-07-23T12:39:25.899+08:002012-07-23T12:39:25.899+08:00Bettina, I'm sure V. is glad you liked his &qu...Bettina, I'm sure V. is glad you liked his "book". :D<br /><br />It's amazing how a book about writer's block can enable reading books (perhaps even by fake writers!).Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-86198023205980151242012-07-22T21:25:06.698+08:002012-07-22T21:25:06.698+08:00That was very enjoyable, thank you Rise!
As I sai...That was very enjoyable, thank you Rise! <br />As I said in my own post, I also had the problem of a lot of things going straight over my head with this book. But then again, feeling as if we need to read more is one of the things that fuel us, right?Bettina @ Liburuakhttp://liburuak.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-43531391372701699032012-07-21T20:50:32.720+08:002012-07-21T20:50:32.720+08:00Tony, scores of writers named in the book made a c...Tony, scores of writers named in the book made a clean exit through me too. I think the only reader completely prepared to recognize all the references in <i>B & Co.</i> is the narrator Marcelo himself. The irony of writing about non-writing through footnotes to an invisible text is quite charming. But more than the content, many of them obscure to me, I appreciate the intelligent design of Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-83564172227262100832012-07-21T20:19:27.355+08:002012-07-21T20:19:27.355+08:00Séamus, it's strange really. I received the ha...Séamus, it's strange really. I received the hardcover from someone in Australia 3 years ago and only discovered the "papers" when I started reading it for the Spanish month. Though it reeks of something spurious, like Avellaneda's Don Q.<br /><br />Tony, yeah. Bloggers are quite attentive to stuff falling out of books.Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-51134903198771012672012-07-21T19:49:27.937+08:002012-07-21T19:49:27.937+08:00Richard, I'm just the messenger. I'm not s...<b>Richard</b>, I'm just the messenger. I'm not sure how I can relay your message to V. LOL. I'll take the credit for transcription as I had a hard time deciphering the unruly handwriting. I sure could use Paranoid Pérez's insight into the provenance of this text. It must be plagiarized somewhere.Risehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17446964640160585194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-9168193076024205942012-07-21T11:13:32.157+08:002012-07-21T11:13:32.157+08:00That happened to me when I was reviewing '1Q84...That happened to me when I was reviewing '1Q84' - something by Trollope, funnily enough...<br /><br />...it's amazing that this only happens to us bloggers...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07546287562521628467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-20439675893700110242012-07-21T11:12:34.292+08:002012-07-21T11:12:34.292+08:00I have a feeling (not having read the book) that a...I have a feeling (not having read the book) that all of this went sailing way over my head, but it's given me enough of a taste to want to try it... although perhaps I'll first need to reread Kafka, read Samarago, Borges...<br /><br />...Vila-Matas, like Kafka, is obviously a writer who has this effect on literary bloggers, rendering them unable to review the book without being pulled Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07546287562521628467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-40522847926962908532012-07-21T11:03:14.031+08:002012-07-21T11:03:14.031+08:00Rise, what a stroke of good fortune. I love when s...Rise, what a stroke of good fortune. I love when stuff falls out of books. There I was, feeling cheated that Vila-Matas had only taken half the trouble Nabokov had taken in Pale Fire but now I have the text and footnotes. Now I'll have to reread the 'complete' book before completing my own post..Séamus Dugganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574186409184247059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3769714277850142841.post-28505886991206735932012-07-21T10:29:36.199+08:002012-07-21T10:29:36.199+08:00I must congratulate this "V" person, per...I must congratulate this "V" person, persona, or heteronym, Rise, and thank him and/or androgynous her for such a fine three pages of anti-prose. Thank you as well for your <em>Don Quixote</em>-like transcription! [Naturally, I mean the original Arabic-to-Castilian <em>DQ</em> and not that Frenchman's 20th century word-for-word update.] It is to be lamented, of course, that thoseRichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.com