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Rambling Raconteur
is on page 55 of 545
If you enjoy a portmanteau or twelve, on every page, this is for you: Finnegans Wake + JR and prefiguring Infinite Jest with a dash of Gravity’s Rainbow, Maldoror, and the Don Juan side of Faust’s coin.
I enjoy a verbal puzzle, though some of these moves are a stretch.
— Dec 26, 2023 09:31AM
I enjoy a verbal puzzle, though some of these moves are a stretch.
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Rambling Raconteur
is on page 437 of 545
Chaotic enumeration is followed by an explicit reference to Sterne’s Tristram Shandy.
— Jan 12, 2024 07:22PM
Rambling Raconteur
is on page 417 of 545
More references to Finnegans Wake, Casanova, with Salome and Messalina tossed in for good measure. There’s a sense of libidinously chaotic enumeration.
— Jan 09, 2024 08:54PM
Rambling Raconteur
is on page 364 of 545
And we have the most explicit shout to Finnegans Wake: “Given! a way a lone a lost a laved a long the . . . nurre vir!”
I’ll be curious to see Don Juan’s final metamorphosis. Will he be dragged to hell, à la Mozart and Marlowe or cycle through lusty love as in Goethe?
— Jan 08, 2024 08:51PM
I’ll be curious to see Don Juan’s final metamorphosis. Will he be dragged to hell, à la Mozart and Marlowe or cycle through lusty love as in Goethe?
Rambling Raconteur
is on page 305 of 545
Nice to see Ríos drawing on the links between Faust and Don Juan in the Shadow section. A French fragment that phonetically reads “Mephistopheles” is quite the touch.
— Jan 07, 2024 09:28AM
Rambling Raconteur
is on page 257 of 545
Ríos includes so many allusions on each page. The book is a bizarre version of Borges’ “Library of Babel”, an accumulation of fragments, scraps, and epigrams from centuries of literature.
— Jan 05, 2024 08:00PM
Rambling Raconteur
is on page 123 of 545
Strangely more accessible than Finnegans Wake but somehow having less of a “narrative plot”. It’s hilarious that the endnotes are the most traditional aspects of this book.
— Dec 27, 2023 01:56PM
