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Anonymous Sun Nov 27 19:16:22 2011 No.2215908 [Reply] [Original]

Better than Pynchon. Better than any living novelist.

Saramago was a genius.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 19:40:15 2011 No.2215950 agreed

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 19:44:14 2011 No.2215961 Yes, he was.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 19:44:14 2011 No.2215963 Where to begin?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 19:46:16 2011 No.2215965 not better than pynchon.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 19:47:12 2011 No.2215968 >>2215963 blindness, probably. or balthasar and blimunda

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 19:49:17 2011 No.2215973 >>2215963 The History of the Siege of Lisbon All the Names The Gospel According to Jesus Christ Blindness is cool too, but not his best. It's just widely popular because of the film.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 19:50:17 2011 No.2215978 blindness was like reading stephen king w/o punctuation and paragraphs

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 19:55:14 2011 No.2215989 I'm making an x-mas list of book suggestions. Any opinions on the following of his works Death of Ricardo Reis The Elephant's Journey Cain Manual of Painting and Calligraphy All his books sound fucking intriguing. I wanna read 'em all.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 19:59:15 2011 No.2215996 >better than Pynchon AH JA JA PUTO. Bolaño was better. Pynchon is better.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 20:07:12 2011 No.2216012 >>2215996 "I suspect Bolano is another period piece. His excess attracts but flows away." - Harold Bloom "Saramago is a permanent part of the Western Canon " - Harold Bloom Check mate, bro.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 20:09:13 2011 No.2216018 File: 73 KB, 360x267, 1319835615056.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2216012 >bloom

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 20:12:15 2011 No.2216021 Death of Ricardo Reis was absolutely beautiful. I absolutely recommend "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" as well.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 20:16:18 2011 No.2216028 >>2216018 > not taking Bloom for the gospel truth > questioning his authority in any way, shape or form

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 20:17:18 2011 No.2216030 >>2215989 Manual of Painting and Calligraphy is the only one I've read and it was completely captivating for me, specially because I'm in the same position of the painter/writer. I aproove.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 27 20:20:14 2011 No.2216035 >>2215989 None of those is exceptional but none of those is bad either. If you have no better options, go for any of them.