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Nathan "N.R." Gaddis (nathannrgaddis) | 986 comments I'm the Moderator so I can cheat just a little!

a) This book has been newly translated (Translation may be impossible which is why translators are Angels) :: Adam Buenosayres: A Critical Edition.

b) It has 102 gr=ratings and 3 Reviews, one in English :: "An obscure, forgotten classic... " --maybe not so forgotten in Argentina?

c) BIG Thumbs up from Mr Steven Moore :: ...[rec'd for fans] of gringos like Coover, Gaddis, Pynchon, and Theroux."

d) I'm thinking it belongs to a certain (tbd) angelic choir of southern voices :: I know I'd put Cortázar and GMM and Borges in there -- I mean those fictionists who make realism look like a provincial Anglo=thing.

e) I'm a little giddy lately about the unEARTHing work being performed by these angelic translators.

f) Where's my Bottom's Dream?


Nathan "N.R." Gaddis (nathannrgaddis) | 986 comments Ali wrote: "New review by M. A. Orthofer, who gives the novel a rare A: "grand, exhausting". Even now, ten months after its publication, he found only one external (and paywall'd) review of the translation, by..."

Trying my best to not buy any more books for a short spell ; getting increasingly difficult.


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