Diary of Andres Fava
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (867 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0974968064 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 103 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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He died in Paris in 1984. His other works include Autonauts of the Cosmoroute, Hopscotch, Blow-Up and Other Stories, All Fires the Fire, We Love Glenda So Much, A Certain Lucas, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds, and Cronopios and Famas. . She has twice won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Julio Cortázar was born in Brussels in 1914 and grew up on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Anne McLean has translated works by Javier Cercas,
He would quietly become sadderand, probably, little by little, he would lose his hair. He can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night. Something similar to a man who has never tasted peaches. Equal parts tender wit, elegant aside and acid observation, Diary of Andrés Fava, which comes to us from the desk of one of the 20th century's greatest literary explorers, is 100 percent delight. —Laird Hunt Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed. This beautiful amalgam of 'marvelous instances' tilts against the 'airy blades' of empty thought with vengeance. —Time Magazine. —Pablo Neruda Cortázar is a un
"Self-Portrait of an Artist in Saison en Enfer" according to Irakli Qolbaia. I do not have much to say about this book, nor would I, had I not been filled with the sense of injustice at seeing that this book has apparently been out there for ten years now and nobody’s written a word about it – this fact being twice as sad, for this is the kind of book you probably will not pick yourself or even come across unless
Diary of Andrés Fava is pure reflection: on his reading, dreams, conversations, and writing. Exploratory and honest, Diary of Andrés Fava lets us in on his own intimate reflections on literature, music, friendship, love, and the act of writing. A late-night rap session with Cortázar–he lets down his guard and we have the impossible pleasure of watching this lovable genius think and feel out loud.. Cortázar’s brilliance and irreverence are in full power. This unpredictable journal of the protagonist of Cortázar’s posthumously published El Examen is peppered with quotes from French poets and American jazzmen. It’s full of bold jabs and devilish claims