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    Well he's probably the most influential South...

    Well he's probably the most influential South american writer along with Borges (and THE great mexican writer if there is any)... he hasn't written much, his masterpiece Pedro Paramo and some nice...
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    StLukes, you have ommitted Juan Rulfo... a) You...

    StLukes, you have ommitted Juan Rulfo...
    a) You forgot him (I hope)
    b) You don't like him
    c) You don't know him
    ?

    For he who cares, Pedro Paramo is a true masterpiece, a real jewel.
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    What? Are you kidding? a paramilitary coup? (and...

    What? Are you kidding? a paramilitary coup? (and imminent too?)
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    Yes, yes, kind of. Actually, you'd...

    Yes, yes, kind of.



    Actually, you'd probably like Quebec's poutine, chips with brown sauce and cheese.



    Hey what do I know, they manage to make carrots and even tomatos brown!
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    When a French and an English discuss food, the...

    When a French and an English discuss food, the English is bound to lose...

    Come on, the only thing you can find to sneer at is eating frog legs, which, by the way, are delicious. Besides vinegar...
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    "Components of literary analysis"... So wether...

    "Components of literary analysis"... So wether you read Joyce, Proust, Ovid, Dante, Beckett, Austen, Rabelais, Perec, Borges or Flaubert you will judge a book by these "components of literary...
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    Yes, yes, I can confirm it's great, and it's...

    Yes, yes, I can confirm it's great, and it's very, very funny. The part where he talks about how he gets into conversations with an *** had me rolling on the floor.

    "Now, 'tis an animal (be in...
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    What if I say: I didn't like Candide, because it...

    What if I say: I didn't like Candide, because it was not written in good English (it was written in French). Would that be a good criticism? The same goes for criticizing Candide for lack of...
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    Wow this opinion is so two-dimensional, of course...

    Wow this opinion is so two-dimensional, of course you didn't like Candide if you were bothering about character development... if you had simply been reading it taking it for what it is, you might...
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    I'd vote on Aristotle being more influential than...

    I'd vote on Aristotle being more influential than Plato any day.

    I'd also put Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy in such a list any day.
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    I had thought about the same at first, but with...

    I had thought about the same at first, but with Rabelais instead of Montaigne.
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    Well ok, here are some of my suggestions: Men...

    Well ok, here are some of my suggestions:

    Men in the Sun by Kanafani
    Pedro Paramo by Rulfo
    Next Episode by Aquin
    One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez
    Lolita by Nabokov
    The Stranger...
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    Not that I want to diminish Sterne's achievements...

    Not that I want to diminish Sterne's achievements or works (I absolutely love his Tristram Shandy) but Sterne did not come out of the blue, but in fact is probably the pinnacle of decades of...
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    Depends on what you want to read?

    Depends on what you want to read?
  15. This reminds me, Nabokov also had something...

    This reminds me, Nabokov also had something against Cervantes. I have to check out... I think I remember Kundera criticizing Nabokov for that... have to check out.
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    Rulfo - Pedro Paramo Bely - Petersburg Celine -...

    Rulfo - Pedro Paramo
    Bely - Petersburg
    Celine - Travel to the End of the Night
    Döblin - Berlin Alexanderplatz
    Villiers-de-l'Isle-Adam - Sardonic Tales
    Gombrowicz - Bakakaï
    Garcia Marquez - One...
  17. Well Nabokov comments on Death in Venice, which...

    Well Nabokov comments on Death in Venice, which gets so much praise, and I can agree that this story is overrated, Dr. Faustus, for instance is much better. Maybe some people just want to read Mann...
  18. "somehow the Nobels should have acknowledged...

    "somehow the Nobels should have acknowledged Proust, despite the impossibility of such a choice, as I have stated above."

    They could have, by 1918 he had published the two first parts of In Search...
  19. Anatole France is certainly still considered a...

    Anatole France is certainly still considered a classic in french literature. And Pasternak's Zhivago is certainly among the most read classic of the 20th century.

    "Halldor Laxness an Icelandic...
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    Well I'd be interested in reading him finally....

    Well I'd be interested in reading him finally. He's just another who's been waiting in line for too long, that might be a good reason to finally do it (and get him in front of Soseki), and just as I...
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    Poll: "But, of course, that’s all horsesh*t. It’s a...

    "But, of course, that’s all horsesh*t. It’s a myth, foisted on us mostly by other over-fed, dreamy-eyed, self-absorbed Westerners. It is also one of the ideas Aravind Adiga gets at fairly well in his...
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    Poll: Reading Proust is somewhat like spending an...

    Reading Proust is somewhat like spending an afternoon back in the womb.
  23. Poll: About the confusion about the names, am I the...

    About the confusion about the names, am I the only one who actually enjoyed it? It is really a book to be put in the pantheon of literature.



    Really? I wonder how you managed to stop, I think I...
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    Poll: Why didn't I vote it a nightmare? I think I...

    Why didn't I vote it a nightmare? I think I thought it could be some kind of gateway for teenagers... but objectively, it is really just a nightmare. I remember I asked at a gas station in a foreign...
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    Poll: Retrospectively, I'd probably vote "don't forget...

    Retrospectively, I'd probably vote "don't forget to unplug...". The unnamable, for example, was greater I thought.
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