tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524231717660808117.post908807777318125653..comments2022-11-30T05:57:33.432-04:00Comments on Vheissu: A Circus at the Center of the WorldF. Escobarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14518434944616309743noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524231717660808117.post-80213112086806325782009-08-19T21:14:07.927-04:002009-08-19T21:14:07.927-04:00Juan: Me parece interesante tu diagnóstico. Creo q...Juan: Me parece interesante tu diagnóstico. Creo que sí hay un interés anglosajón por lo exótico que algunos autores han sabido aprovechar muy bien. El ejemplo más dramático que he leído últimamente fue un cuento de Sandra Cisneros recogido en <i>Contemporary Fiction</i>. Yo rescataría de ese cuento un pedacito, que podría ser un cuento autónomo más o menos interesante. Pero el resto es muy F. Escobarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14518434944616309743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524231717660808117.post-43227148868220695402009-08-19T12:46:10.511-04:002009-08-19T12:46:10.511-04:00100% de acuerdo. Todo lo que le he leído lo sient...100% de acuerdo. Todo lo que le he leído lo siento artificial y poco peruano, pero como podría ser de otro modo si ha vivido toda su vida en EEUU. Alarcón es parte de un fenómeno que incluye a la culpa liberal disparada que produce el americanocentrismo de Bush junto con el acceso de minorías etnicas a los programas de MFA gringos. Otros productos de esta especie de sindrome del informante depeupleurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17195722479078284985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524231717660808117.post-46250574317030670442009-08-03T10:17:28.901-04:002009-08-03T10:17:28.901-04:00I confess I do anticipate getting a similar feelin...I confess I do anticipate getting a similar feeling from the novel as the one you've described. I'll have to browse through it before actually plunging in. The subject matter strikes me as a new kind of Orientalism (a maudlin example of this is the sugary and very popular novel <i>The Kite Runner</i>).F. Escobarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14518434944616309743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524231717660808117.post-12620022092435125842009-08-03T02:46:37.520-04:002009-08-03T02:46:37.520-04:00I didn't like the novel. I felt it was cold. A...I didn't like the novel. I felt it was cold. And artificial. I'm not a fan of exotica unless it is extremely well done. And I believe that, although his Peruvian origins, Alarcón's perception of the jungle and this generic third-world country feels foreign to me. Feels like the one of someone who doesn't quite know the place.Javier Morenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05263495298377292967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524231717660808117.post-26871457663543460842009-08-02T22:36:15.177-04:002009-08-02T22:36:15.177-04:00To be honest, I haven't read Lost City Radio. ...To be honest, I haven't read <i>Lost City Radio</i>. We'll see if I'll get to it eventually. I don't know if it'll be easy to pull off an entire novel out of 1797 and Manau, though. There's that risk I mentioned: exotica do beckon, both readers and writers. I find their siren call quite risky.F. Escobarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14518434944616309743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7524231717660808117.post-63013809331059720542009-08-02T19:34:41.617-04:002009-08-02T19:34:41.617-04:00Alarcón comes back to the same story and setting (...Alarcón comes back to the same story and setting (numbered towns, the violence, the mutilated man, the schoolteacher...) in his novel Lost City Radio.Javier Morenohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05263495298377292967noreply@blogger.com