tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post358217929091760005..comments2023-08-29T02:42:23.063-05:00Comments on ¡Bemsha SWING!: BoomJonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-11316501355780457232011-04-30T10:48:52.679-05:002011-04-30T10:48:52.679-05:00Sabato may not have been a genius but if I had to ...Sabato may not have been a genius but if I had to recommend a single Latin American novel for somebody to read, I would recommend El tunel. It offers a very powerful insight into the nature of machismo. It isn't often that a writer manages to do that.Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-62285986413709014222011-04-30T09:47:39.307-05:002011-04-30T09:47:39.307-05:00I guess I shouldn't have use the verb "de...I guess I shouldn't have use the verb "deserve". But we agree on the rest. <br />Reading "El Obsceno Pajaro de la Noche", "El lugar sin limites" and "Coronacion" have always given me more pleasure than anything by Garcia Marquez.Spanish profhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04248530328973177920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-51232128306352564042011-04-30T09:30:50.519-05:002011-04-30T09:30:50.519-05:00I didn't know he was an awful person, never ha...I didn't know he was an awful person, never having heard that. His writing is mediocre, I agree, but I didn't know that the 'boom" was an honorific categorization. There are plenty of mediocre writers in the boom. He' a bit older than the boom writers. <br /><br />Donoso's Obsceno pájaro de la noche is briliant, but I tried to read a more recent novel by him and it was awful.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-37532616671930893242011-04-30T09:25:10.632-05:002011-04-30T09:25:10.632-05:00If you are including Sabato in the novelists of th...If you are including Sabato in the novelists of the boom, I don't think he deserves it. He was a mediocre writer and an awful person, despite his public persona (literary circles are small everywhere). <br /><br />Despite his latests books, my favorite writer of the period was Donoso, who himself felt excluded and pretty envious for not achieving the notoriety of Garcia Marquez and Vargas Llosa.Spanish profhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04248530328973177920noreply@blogger.com