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Book Worm

Continuing in my New Year's non-resolution vein, Your Literary (Pseudo)Latino has just completed two more books:

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov

As I am currently embroiled in the act of adding the epithet Skydiving Saboteur to my current title of Tango Terroriste, I have little time to elaborate upon these books for your general edification and amusement. I'll keep it short and sweet.

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Anyone who is interested in an inventive use of language and a mainstream application of experimental typographical techniques would do well to pick up Foer's EL&IC. It ain't Thomas Pynchon, but I was pleasantly surprised.

Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog on the other hand, though entertaining, is far beneath The Master and Margarita in both imagination and execution. Still . . . I had to read it. I admit that when I discovered that the plot involved the unexpected consequences of transplanting the pituitary gland and testes of a petty criminal into a stray Moscow dog, I had to give it a shot. And even with my profoundly limited knowledge of 20th-Century Russian/Soviet history, the satire is pretty hard to miss.

In any case . . . enough for now. The Saviour of Bad Behaviour is off to do His thing.

Ciao,
---the PL

Posted by earwicker at January 9, 2008 11:59 PM