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[Leseratte]

About Southern/Regional Literature from USA:

As Delphi Classics will publish the entire works by Geoge Washinton Cable on April and our dear @Rodica bought Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner and instilled his name here, I decided to share more information about unknown authors for those interested in knowing important names of Regional/Southern Literature from USA (because few people around the world already heard about them).

So, here are those two links with rich information about them:


1) https://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/index.php?threads/southern-literature.25423/
2) https://www.worldliteratureforum.co...eads/regional-united-states-literature.66738/

I confess that I'm very curious about Cable's works.

But who is this Cable?

 

[Benny Profane]

But who is this Cable?

George Washington Cable: https://www.delphiclassics.com/shop/george-washington-cable/

 

[Benny Profane]

Thanks, Benny, I´ll see what I can find. Actually I´m looking for a Brazilian Literature Historian, who has sorted out the more recent national literary production. Say until 2010 or thereabouts. Do you know any one?

Unfortunately, our scholars think Brazilian literature died on 60's and Guimarães Rosa was the last great author of Brazilian Literature.

But, contradicting all of them, after Guimarães Rosa, we had Tropicália, Geração Mimeógrafo, Brutalismo, Clube da Esquina (Geraldo Carneiro is a incredible lyricist and poet), Geração 90 (Brazilian New Sincerity) and "Neo-Brutalismo". In nowadays, we have 10 and 20's Social-Literature and nobody collected about these movements onto a concise book so far.
We just have sparses papers about these movements.

 

[Leseratte]

Unfortunately, our scholars think Brazilian literature died on 60's and Guimarães Rosa was the last great author of Brazilian Literature.

But, contradicting all of them, after Guimarães Rosa, we had Tropicália, Geração Mimeógrafo, Brutalismo, Clube da Esquina (Geraldo Carneiro is a incredible lyricist and poet), Geração 90 (Brazilian New Sincerity) and "Neo-Brutalismo". In nowadays, we have 10 and 20's Social-Literature and nobody collected about these movements onto a concise book so far.
We just have sparses papers about these movements.

True. It seems they have altogether ceased to collect the more recent oeuvres.

 

[Rodica]

This novel received a positive review in my other forum., Rodica. I´ll see if I can find the thread.

I didn't like the book even though I have enough arguments that it is well documented, quite well written. In my opinion Kingsolver failed to tell the story in the first person so that the narrator's voice is believable. At the beginning of the book I thought it was strong enough, but gradually the book started to bore me because it didn't make me feel the poverty, abuse, addiction, etc. There was superficiality in the way she narrated the events, in any attempt to ascribe some emotion to the boy, she failed to integrate them so that I perceived them as belonging to him. I felt like Demon was an unfinished, sketchy character that didn't live up to her objectives in criticizing social problems. To be honest, I know a lot of people who liked the book, I don't regret reading it but I doubt I will read another book by her in the near future.

 

[Leseratte]

I didn't like the book even though I have enough arguments that it is well documented, quite well written. In my opinion Kingsolver failed to tell the story in the first person so that the narrator's voice is believable. At the beginning of the book I thought it was strong enough, but gradually the book started to bore me because it didn't make me feel the poverty, abuse, addiction, etc. There was superficiality in the way she narrated the events, in any attempt to ascribe some emotion to the boy, she failed to integrate them so that I perceived them as belonging to him. I felt like Demon was an unfinished, sketchy character that didn't live up to her objectives in criticizing social problems. To be honest, I know a lot of people who liked the book, I don't regret reading it but I doubt I will read another book by her in the near future.

I didn´t read it, but it seems to be some sort of parody of David Copperfield.

 

[Morbid Swither]

New book purchases this month have arrived:

Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rozewicz

Warda, translation of Dar Al-Mustaqbal, by Sonallah Ibrahim

 

[Benny Profane]

New book purchases this month have arrived:

Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Rozewicz

Warda, translation of Dar Al-Mustaqbal, by Sonallah Ibrahim

Welcome back, Morbid!

 

[Rodica]

I didn´t read it, but it seems to be some sort of parody of David Copperfield.

The plot is faithful to the original, the similarity of the names of the characters, she did a good job of transporting them to the Appalachian mountains but that just didn't work for me, I knew what was going to happen to them and I ended up getting bored. Having as a reference a classic story, the modern-day retelling had paragraphs that I considered offensive. If you like the narrator's voice, it will be a book that you will enjoy reading.

 

[Leseratte]

The plot is faithful to the original, the similarity of the names of the characters, she did a good job of transporting them to the Appalachian mountains but that just didn't work for me, I knew what was going to happen to them and I ended up getting bored. Having as a reference a classic story, the modern-day retelling had paragraphs that I considered offensive. If you like the narrator's voice, it will be a book that you will enjoy reading.

I don´t think I will, because I like the original very much. Anyway, thanks for your enlightening comments. If I come across the book in a library I will take a look.

 

[Liam]

I was hoping to give it a go when it came out in paperback but now I'm doubtful. I usually trust the taste(s) of my fellow board members here. Like you said: I probably wouldn't regret reading it, but at the same time I don't have much time to spare these days and it's a REALLY long book, a commitment, more or less.

 

[Rodica]

I was hoping to give it a go when it came out in paperback but now I'm doubtful. I usually trust the taste(s) of my fellow board members here. Like you said: I probably wouldn't regret reading it, but at the same time I don't have much time to spare these days and it's a REALLY long book, a commitment, more or less.

I forgot to mention that I read the Romanian translation. I don't think you will perceive the book really long, it's more of a page-turner. Speaking of tastes, mine are pretty questionable, I don't even like chocolate.