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Sean. A medievalist academic distracted by the modern world. Book reviews.
New review of António Lobo Antunes' THE INQUISITORS' MANUAL, trans Richard Zenith (2003). Astoundingly brilliant novel. youtu.be/KCjJCGbdREM?si…
I finished another Antoine Volodine novel and I'm increasingly convinced that his "post-exotic" literary universe is the most ambitious, exciting, and fun literary project currently being produced.
Alright, time to figure out what these are all about.
Rereading this masterpiece. If you like Castellanos Moya, Guyotat, Schutt, Acker, Genet, this one’s for you.
100 pages into Midnight is Not in Everyone's Reach, and I'm once again wondering why everyone isn't reading and talking about António Lobo Antunes all the time.
Current rotation: Antunes, Pirandello, and Percy
Current rotation: Antunes, Pirandello, and Percy
9 days before it even begins, summer is already peaking.
It's looking like a Melville summer
"Certainly I could not understand, then, how completely the world survived as the word, or that it was the historian's duty to outshout Time and talk down Oblivion" (65). —William H Gass, The Tunnel
Reading, as my wife affectionately calls him, Tony Wolf at the playground.
Seems pretty relevant. "It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted... secretly, it was being dictated instead by the needs of technology... by a conspiracy been human beings and techniques..."
When you ask writer/musician/and António Lobo Antunes super-fan Geoff Rickly (@thursdayband) for a blurb, he delivers. Pick up MIDNIGHT IS NOT IN EVERYONE’S REACH when it arrives next month
Antunes is an instant preorder. One of the greatest living authors.
Unspooling in torrents of dialogue and surreal breaks with reality, MIDNIGHT IS NOT IN EVERYONE’S REACH is a profound meditation on memory and time by António Lobo Antunes, considered by many to be Portugal’s greatest living writer. Coming this summer.