tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951486642731990675.post3554913494966630215..comments2023-10-02T06:07:30.625-07:00Comments on CONTRA JAMES WOOD: "The Landlords of Fortune": The Publishing Industry and the Bolaño MythEdmond Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02651618912907453630noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951486642731990675.post-1756943437460679152009-11-15T19:18:52.663-08:002009-11-15T19:18:52.663-08:00Thanks for the comment, "Anonymous." Ye...Thanks for the comment, "Anonymous." Yes, Wallace Shawn has a very interesting critique of capitalism in his later works (and also in his more explicit statements in interviews and so forth), and of the interrelationships of culture and class privilege. The narrator in "Fever," for instance, can't let go of the allure of commodity fetishism...Edmond Caldwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02651618912907453630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951486642731990675.post-20207116480235264162009-11-15T17:19:20.208-08:002009-11-15T17:19:20.208-08:00This is a wonderful blog.
It put me in mind of a ...This is a wonderful blog.<br /><br />It put me in mind of a favourite passage from Wallace Shawn's monologue _The Fever_:<br /><br />"Do you know!—there are nights in the city where I grew up, the city I love most of all, when it's too cold for rain, but the sky can't snow yet, although you feel it would like to, and so instead it seems that at a certain moment every car and face and pane of glass is suddenly covered in a delicious wetness, like the wetness you see on a frozen cherry, and on nights like that, when you walk through the streets of the nice parts of town, you see all the men, in overcoats that hang straight to the ground, staring harshly with open-mouthed desire at the fox-headed women whose lipstick ripples, whose earrings ripple, as they step through the uneven light and darkness of the sidewalk. And that is the sort of thing that the Communists will never understand, just as human decency is the sort of thing that I will never understand."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4951486642731990675.post-72283246891490390682009-11-09T06:34:05.956-08:002009-11-09T06:34:05.956-08:00Edmond,
You read him so well. Just between us, wha...Edmond,<br />You read him so well. Just between us, what do you think his next move might be? (He seems so very close to checkmating himself.)Frances Madesonhttp://booktour.com/author/frances_madesonnoreply@blogger.com