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By the way, do you know Ricardo Piglia's hommage a Roberto Arlt, Nombre Falso (1975)?

posted by Yacaranda at 11:52 am (EST) on Sep 29, 2009

This title was one of my first books of my Latin American collection which takes up a big part of my bookshelves
(I started to fill them in 1977, when school was over and I began being bored).
By the way, Los Siete Locos is offered at amazon.com.
As regards me, I'm looking for Los Lanzallamas as German edition (Die Flammenwerfer).
Via internet one second-hand bookstore offers a copy (too exp. at the moment).
I have to read in German, because my Spanish is not good enough to understand all the nuances of the form of
expression of Arlt; this I understand by the language of the German translation of Los Siete Locos.
But spanish-written poems I have to read in Spanish and German (e.g. Xavier Villaurrutia, Carlos Pellicer
and Alejandra Pizarnik); I feel naked and bottomless reading poems in German translation only.
Saludos, Ernesto

posted by Yacaranda at 11:39 am (EST) on Sep 29, 2009

Thank you very much, Romeo. I'm very happy. Saludos! Ernesto Koelbl.

posted by Yacaranda at 10:37 am (EST) on Sep 29, 2009

Proudly I thank you for us being friends!
By chance I met you on flickr, which made me get to know librarything.
And this is a real good thing. One can get suggestions for new books,
and find friends reading or having read the same or similar books.
Gradually I'll add to my catalog the books of my bookshelf.
Yours, Ernesto.

posted by Yacaranda at 8:46 am (EST) on Sep 29, 2009

Well, then we share an interest not only in FP:s but also in the great Borges (and a few other authors it seems). His writings never cease to amaze me.

I stumbled onto your library while checking other members having Joyce's Chamber Music. I was surprised there were so few having it.

Nice getting to know you, I'll make sure to stop by every now and then. Seems I could pick up some interesting book tips from your library. (You're way ahead of me in cataloguing, I really should get on with it...).

posted by pierrot at 5:30 pm (EST) on Sep 15, 2009

Are you perhaps a friend of fountain pens? (Or perhaps your profile picture should be interpreted in a more metaphorical manner. Or maybe not at all.)

posted by pierrot at 2:52 pm (EST) on Sep 15, 2009

I'm a big fan of Arlt's. I have a finished version of The Flamethrowers--Los Lanzallamas. It was my one foray into trying to translate something. I kept on getting bigger and bigger Spanish/English dictionaries and had a bunch of lunfardo links in my favorites. It took me about a year and a half to complete--including reworking it about three times to get the tenses right. There's probably a number of howlers in there though. That was 2001 and 2002 and I've really not picked it up since. I think it's the fear that I'll be back at it again.

Anyway currently working on three books--the most interesting is a new novel by Colum McCann--Let the great world spin. Colum links his story around one Phillipe Petit--a man who tightrope walked the twin towers in NYC in 1974. It's a NYC novel and probably in the top 5 fiction works I've read this year. Also reading Naomi Klein's 'No logo' which is not quite as good as her 'Shock Doctrine'--maybe not the right way to put it--it came out in 1999 and a lot of the material feels dated now--basically about American's and Canadian's addiction to brands and advertising etc. The other is a short coming of age novel/memoir by a Frenchman Philippe Grimbert--called Memory.

I noticed lots of Vargas Llosa books in your library. My favorite of his Conversation in the Cathedral. When it comes to favorite books from the Latin and/or Southern Hemisphere that is one of them. I'd also include Bolano's longer works The Savage Detectives and 2666--Ricardo Piglia's Artificial respiration--his Money to burn is also one of the best noir books I've ever read, Arlt's Seven Madmen and Nicanor Parra has to be my favorite poet ever.

posted by lriley at 7:04 am (EST) on Jul 10, 2009

A nice library you have Romeo. I hope you're better with English than I'm with Spanish. I can read a bit but I'm a little out of practice but that's maybe good reason to start practicing again.

posted by lriley at 12:09 pm (EST) on Jul 9, 2009

Gracias por la invitacion! Me impresiona mucho su esbozo biografico. Saludos cordiales de una apasionada de libros al otro.

Lola

posted by LolaWalser at 5:07 pm (EST) on Jun 9, 2009

Come hai imparato l'italiano? conosci la letteratura italiana? Sei mai stato in Europa?Io sono stato due volte in Sud America: ona volta in Peru, come ti ho già detto, e qualche anno prima in Messico

posted by cepatri at 2:21 pm (EST) on Mar 31, 2009

it's my pleasure to have you among my friends....are you from Peru? I visited Peru some years ago, 10 or more.....I went to Lima, Arequipa, Cosco, Machu Pichu, Ciclayo...really very nice.....

posted by cepatri at 4:33 pm (EST) on Mar 30, 2009

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posted by flatmancrooked at 10:05 am (EST) on Sep 25, 2008