No reason, no order, my favorites: Barbara Pym Iris Murdoch Donald Westlake Anthony Powell Trollope Dickens James Rachel Cusk Ivy Compton-Burnett Wodehouse Rex Stout Ellis Peters Dorothy Dunnett Tolstoy Penelope Fitzgerald Alvaro Mutis Joseph Conrad George Eliot Portis Bolaño
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Yeah, there's definitely a male quality to Mutis that's unavoidable, and a sense in which the world-weariness is all ultimately a joke. But lord, when I am in the mood, there's no one like him.
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Re-reading Conrad after reading Mutis was really interesting: I knew Mutis had lifted his milieu from Conrad, but I hadn't realized how closely he was also deliberately aping the prose style, but with different aims. It was fascinating.
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would love to know more about Alvaro Mutis himself… the fact that he absconded from Colombia, wanted for embezzling from a big oil company (no?) makes me love him!
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He wrote a book about his experience in prison that I would love to read, but my Spanish is far too limited. Really curious about it.
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Yo sí leo español and I want to read this prison memoir! Will report back when I do…
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