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A review ::"Comment les Etats-Unis ont produit leurs propres ennemis" ::
http://www.lesinrocks.com/2014/11/14/...
Hadrian wrote: ""Everybody Loves Americans" is a section title from RURD, and all of the other listed chapters (Yugoslavia, Africa, Jamaica) are from the same. "Title of the Yemen piece is "Everybody Likes Americans". If this first of four volumes is Africa and the Muslim world, and if they are keeping the essays from each continent together, then it might look something like this ::
Africa and Muslim World
Southeast Asia
Europe
North America and South America
leaving then "Perception and Irrationality" (USA & Japan) to be included somewhere in one of the four volumes. Thus the entire contents of volumes five and six of RURD. But that is only 27 essays, not the 30 mentioned in the blurb ; three essays written post-RURD?
"(Yugoslavia, Africa, Jamaica)" -- that first sentence of the blurb refers to the 2009 translation of the abridged RURD.
Now the thing is, if the French get volumes five and six of RURD, when is the working stiff of the Anglo world going to get them at a reasonable price?
When one speaks of the 3% problem.... and then looks across international borders and oceans. In France, what appears to be a four volume translation project of materials out of RURD :: Tout le monde aime les Américains: Et autres enquêtes en Afrique et dans le monde musulman. The first of four volumes is published November 2014.http://www.amazon.fr/Tout-monde-aime-...
"Le Livre des violences - événement critique de l'automne 2009 - se concluait par une série de quatre reportages littéraires, sur quatre zones de conflits contemporains : en Asie du Sud-Est, en Europe dans l'ex-Yougoslavie, en Afrique, à la Jamaïque. Nombre de lecteurs, ayant le souvenir de l'enquête de William Vollmann sur la pauvreté, menée selon la même méthode d'immersion et dans le même style empathique, ont jugé qu'il s'agissait des chapitres les plus forts de l'ouvrage. Ce sont à coup sûr les plus bouleversants. Le projet du Livre des violences comporte une trentaine de ces récits. Après Le Roi de l'Opium et autres enquêtes en Asie du Sud-Est, nous en poursuivons la publication exhausive, qui comptera en tout quatre volumes. "
googlated (volunteers for doing this right?)
"The Book of violence - a critical event in the fall of 2009 - ended with a series of four literary reports on four areas of contemporary conflicts in Southeast Asia, Europe, the former Yugoslavia, Africa, Jamaica. Number of readers, with the memory of William Vollmann survey on poverty conducted by the same method and immersion in the same empathetic style, felt that they were the strongest chapters of the book . These are certainly the most moving. The project includes the Book of violence thirty of these stories. After The King of Opium and other investigations Southeast Asia, we are continuing to exhausive publication, which have a total of four volumes."
Le livre des violences : Quelques pensées sur la violence, la liberté et l'urgence des moyens (RURD) was pub'd in 2009. I might just not have the French sufficient to see what this new publication is ; (egg on face?) but it looks like more stuff out of volumes five and six of RURD. Is that right? Anyone? Also, at 128 pages, Pourquoi êtes-vous pauvres ? (Poor People) appears to be abridged.
(yes, this gets its own thread because it appears to be a different book from an editorial point of view. I'll add it to the gr db shortly)
Chris wrote: "I think Bill was coerced. According to one interview I read, he submitted over 2,000 pages to Viking. Compromise? Or just wishful thinking on Viking's part . . . we shall see. "The 2000 pages were I think manuscript. I think one of his other anecdotes was that he initially sent in 1300 pages ; they sent it back with edits ;; he returned it with 1700 pages. Adding as one edits and proofs! But I doubt he's cut any more on this one than he has on his others ; especially assuming he's got the same editor who's sort of learned to put up with Bill's resistances.
ps --;
Re :: amazon -- they own all your content here on gr. You and me and Vollmann Central and wholly=owned subsidiaries of amazon.Inc. But I'd rather not discuss amazon further in this particular group....
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "amazon now says "November 14". But I want it now."And again :: December the First.
Geoff wrote: "while we were checking the item before shipping we noticed that the item had gotten damaged."The lower=case 'w' is a dead giveaway. Check that seller again in a day or two and see if they don't relist it at a grand$.
I'm almost certain it's not for real, but if you want to investigate, abebooks is listing three copies claiming to be the 7 volume set for ~US$90.http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Searc...
Bill says about his Coal/Nuclear project ::: On and off over the past few years, he has shuttled between West Virginia (“It’s like a third-world country”) and the hot zone around Fukushima, Japan, site of the nuclear-meltdown disaster in March 2011. At those disparate locales, he’s been gathering material for his next Big Project, a nonfiction book that will examine and compare fossil fuel and nuclear energy, and their relationships to climate change and what he sees as the coming apocalypse.
“My feeling is that 100 years from now the planet will be much degraded,” he said. “If there are any people left in this hot, dark future, I would like them to have this book to read in case they’re wondering why the people in the early 21st century didn’t care about the planet or think about their legacy.
“That’s what I’m asking people in West Virginia and Japan,” he said. “Thoreau always said that it’s important not to let our knowledge get in the way of what’s more important, which is our ignorance. I want to always keep my ignorance so I can be open to what people are saying.”
http://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/b...
[i see that i'm being redundant here.]
A lite feature article on Bill in the Sacramento Bee from the time of the release of Last Stories ::"Between the Lines: William T. Vollmann on ‘Last Stories’" by Allen Pierleoni 07/21/2014
http://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/b...
"Also in the works are another nonfiction title and two novels", that is, in addition to the coal/nuclear book. Please tell me that the "two novels" are the two remaining Dreams.
[this may be a redundant post, for which, my heart=felt apologies]
Zadignose wrote: "Don't worry, you're right that it's only a placeholder. I hacked the publisher's account and accessed this final version of the cover that will go to print:""Author of How You Are".
Josh wrote: "Also fingers crossed for different cover art"I'm on the same page.
anyone disappointed in the scant 864 pages? ; )
amazon now says "November 14". But I want it now.
oh that is very good. thanks for the making-available, Jeff. And of course I blush at the closing paragraph.
I did confirm that WTV cites HG Wells The Outline of History, 2 Vols, but I swear he cites Wells' interview with Stalin as well. New Republic is revisiting it ::A 1935 'review' of the interview ::
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/11...
Direct to the interview ::
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/...
Unpublished manuscript from 1981; cited in RURD. Full title : The Song of Heaven: Grammar and Rhetoric in Literature and Political Actions. (memoir/Cornell University undergraduate thesis). Cited in relation to the anti-nuclear action he participated in at Seabrook, New Hampshire. In RURD, I find the photo-essay at page 101 of vol I. Now I need to locate the write up.
Eric wrote: ""...and the unknickered serpent grows its scrannel limb" "I like modernism too! ; but modernism was always within its context or created its context or provided a context. Not just dropping stuff along the curb.
TLS has reposted their 1991 review of 13 Stories ::"Then and Now, 1991 : We look back to a review by Mary Hawthorne of Thirteen Stories and Thirteen Epitaphs by William T. Vollmann"
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/a...
(thanks, Jeff)
