Fictions Fo Th

by Jean-Yves Pouilloux

Rare Book

Genres: Fiction

224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 23, 1992

Reviews

[crabtree]

c'est pas parce qu'un auteur est difficile qu'on est obligé de faire des essais indigestes sur son œuvre!!!

[Tania · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lido em fevereiro de 1974

[StephenWoolf · Rating 2 out of 5]

Le genre de livre qui donne l'impression qu'on aurait pu en lire un résumé sans que cela change grand chose à notre expérience de lectrice. La traduction semblait pourtant élégante.

[Locust0ne · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,3/5

[Vivi · Rating 5 out of 5]

When reading Fictions, I (we) become Borges.

[Rudolph Pascucci · Rating 1 out of 5]

Perhaps Borges sounds better in Spanish. Sadly, I read the English translation version. Here is a typical line: "Intoxicated with insomnia and with a vertiginous dialectic, he wandered." Oh, you'll get vertigo alright, your head will spin with all the made up references, esoteric names and veinte y cinco words este antiguo pedo drops along the way to endings that will have you scratching your head if you can still find it. El es un tío pesadísimo. Try some of these: the rectangular belvedere, crapulous, the mysterious 4th eclogue of Virgil, prourced, demiurges, sacerdotal, cavilling, apodictic, Dithyramb, syntagma, philogic, dialectic materialism, Gnostic conventicles, Docetists, the hypostatic union, vindication of eternity, John of Viterbo, Shem Hamephorash, Valerius Soranus (oh I had a soranus for sure), Rabanus Maurus, Simon ben Azai (related to Willy ben Dover?), Conventicles of Ferrara, mystagogue, strophes, ausculated, Septicomia, cosmogonic myth...
Borges is supposed to be the father of the magical realism that we find in such Latin American works as "100 Years of Solitude" and the list of writers whom he has influenced is impressive and prodigious. The man impressed me to go run screaming into the night. You have been warned. Read Gabo.

[Steve]

Hmmm...battled to get into these short stories