jueves, 20 de octubre de 2016
SUBSTITUTE (GOING TO SCHOOL WITH A THOUSAND KIDS) (NICHOLSON BAKER)
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TRAVELLING SPRINKLER (NICHOLSON BAKER)
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VOX (NICHOLSON BAKER)
domingo, 10 de octubre de 2010
EL ANTÓLOGO (NICHOLSON BAKER)
De entre las muchas bondades que les podría decir de Qué Leer no es la menos importante el hecho de que, por lo general, trabajan con plazos de tiempo relativamente amplios. Una prepara en noviembre la crítica que aparecerá en febrero, en febrero la de abril y en agosto, por ejemplo, la de octubre, de manera que, cual la industriosa hormiga de la fábula, puede ir guardándose textos en la cartera que alimenten este lugar en momentos en que una no lee ni escribe todo lo que quisiera. Como botón de muestra, aquí les dejo la reseña de una sorprendente y estupenda lectura estival, El antólogo de Nicholson Baker, publicada –la reseña, digo- en el Qué Leer del corriente mes de octubre.
Publicado en Qué Leer 158 (octubre de 2010)
Lo dicho, lean, lean y no se la pierdan.miércoles, 18 de agosto de 2010
OTRA DE COSAS BIEN DICHAS
“Poe said that there was a raven tapping at his chamber door. Was there? We don’t care. Why don’t we care? I don’t know. I don’t have an answer for you today on that important question.”
The anthologist
Nicholson Baker
“At some point you have to set aside snobbery and what you think is culture and recognize that any random episode of Friends is probably better, more uplifting for the human spirit, than ninety-nine per cent of of the poetry or drama or fiction or history ever published. Think of that. Of course yes Tolstoy and of course yes Keats and blah blah and yes indeed of course yes. But we’re living in an age that has a tremendous richness of invention. And some of the most inventive people get no recognition at all. They get tons of money but no recognition as artists. Which is probably much healthier for them and better for their art.”
(ibidem)
“Dryden is one of those poets who wrote many thousand of lines of poetry and left very little of himself behind. His biographers have a hard time figuring out what he was up to in any given year. He lived through revolution, restoration, plague and fire, and all we have is his published writing and a few letter to go on. But it’s enough.”
(ibidem)
“She [Elizabeth Bishop] wrote May Swenson: ‘I think one of the worst things I know about modern education is this Creative Writing business’.”
(ibidem)
“In fact the letter may be better than any poem she wrote, though she wrote some good ones. But we wouldn’t be interested in reading the letters unless she’d written the poems. So once again, it’s terribly confusing. You need the art in order to love the life.”
(ibidem)




