Silas Flannery, writer invented by Italo Calvino wrote in his diary: "I hope readers of my books read something I do not know but I can only esperármelo which expect to read something they do not know. " ( If a winter's night a traveler *, page Editing 181, Bruguera, 1983)
This found, for not going after him. How do I get now, after nearly twenty years to recover that very clause? No, if anything, it would have stressed: the former, and safe for modesty, I am reluctant to underscores. When you open a book highlighted is surprised the soul of his own underwear.
heard these days to confess Badulaque but underlines not read a book he had borrowed, they were so substantial work. As in Woody Allen's joke student of metaphysics to nullify the test because I was watching student's soul away.
By way Borgesian said Sergio Pitol: "One, I venture, is the books you read." And Jünger has been compared with the building continued reading: "If every day was adding some bricks, after seventy or eighty years you may live in a palace." Then said Botho Strauss **: "Is it true? The wise old man is not at the end also to an open house, charred, the door uncertainty hanging from the hinges? "
Whatever, be the reason Jünger or Strauss, has at last a palace or a house in ruins, one could not declare, as here the last time Uriel Hincapie who gives up the books. It was to leave immediately evident the boutade : apostate books is to devote one indeed splendid: Flaubert's Parrot ***.
Flaubert himself, according to Nabokov, wrote to Louise Colet: "Qué sabios seríamos si sólo conociéramos bien cinco o seis libros." Y así al final tendríamos una cabaña, de 3 x 3,5 metros, como la de Thoureau, cuyo Walden debería ser uno de esos cinco o seis libros. Y Si una noche... otr o .
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* There are recent edition: Ediciones Siruela 2002. $ 49,000.
** Couples, passersby Ediciones Alfaguara 1986, p. 109 (apparently discontinued).
*** Julian Barnes, Editorial Anagrama narratives Panorama 1986. There are recent edition in the collection Compact 2005. $ 25,000.
José Fernando Street
Dragonfly Books
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