Comments on: The Anthropos-Spectre-Beast, by Tadeusz Konwicki http://www.mjiles.com/obookispage/?p=1881 "the greatest obloquy i' th' world" William Shakespeare Mon, 13 May 2013 00:20:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: obooki http://www.mjiles.com/obookispage/?p=1881&cpage=1#comment-2951 obooki Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:54:00 +0000 http://www.mjiles.com/obookispage/?p=1881#comment-2951 ET: I suppose it is like Bulgakov. He wrote a story about a dog too, didn't he? Can't remember much about it now. There's probably some political message I shouldn't wonder - though I never could really pin one down in Bulgakov either. - The editions of his books I have come from the 70s and 80s, and I imagine he hasn't been reprinted since then. C: Well, you know how it is when you think the first few pages are good and so you suppose the rest of the novel will be equally as good, and then you take the novel on a train journey and it's the only novel you've taken and it turns out it wasn't as good as you thought and in fact you don't want to read it at all and instead you're forced to watch an episode of (Young) Inspector Morse. You can't expect forgiveness. ET: I suppose it is like Bulgakov. He wrote a story about a dog too, didn’t he? Can’t remember much about it now. There’s probably some political message I shouldn’t wonder – though I never could really pin one down in Bulgakov either. – The editions of his books I have come from the 70s and 80s, and I imagine he hasn’t been reprinted since then.

C: Well, you know how it is when you think the first few pages are good and so you suppose the rest of the novel will be equally as good, and then you take the novel on a train journey and it’s the only novel you’ve taken and it turns out it wasn’t as good as you thought and in fact you don’t want to read it at all and instead you’re forced to watch an episode of (Young) Inspector Morse. You can’t expect forgiveness.

]]> By: Caroline http://www.mjiles.com/obookispage/?p=1881&cpage=1#comment-2950 Caroline Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:54:59 +0000 http://www.mjiles.com/obookispage/?p=1881#comment-2950 "The first five pages are worth reading..."Oooh that's a deadly blow. “The first five pages are worth reading…”Oooh that’s a deadly blow.

]]> By: Edward Taylor http://www.mjiles.com/obookispage/?p=1881&cpage=1#comment-2949 Edward Taylor Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:54:50 +0000 http://www.mjiles.com/obookispage/?p=1881#comment-2949 Your precis makes it sound rather like Bulgakov ( there could or might be an enormous political symbolism behind the surrealism ) or source material for a film-script by Charlie Kauffman or an animation film by Jan Svankmajer. I'm unlikely to find it in the Bury branch of Waterstones. Your precis makes it sound rather like Bulgakov ( there could or might be an enormous political symbolism behind the surrealism ) or source material for a film-script by Charlie Kauffman or an animation film by Jan Svankmajer.

I’m unlikely to find it in the Bury branch of Waterstones.

]]> By: obooki http://www.mjiles.com/obookispage/?p=1881&cpage=1#comment-2946 obooki Sun, 19 Aug 2012 13:49:44 +0000 http://www.mjiles.com/obookispage/?p=1881#comment-2946 It's true, I do live in an area, I think, where there's a higher proportion of the kind of people who read obscure foreign books - or who, twenty thirty years ago, might have read newly published foreign books - and therefore there's a higher proportion of such books which find their way into secondhand shops. On the other hand, it's increasingly rare I find interesting books in shops these days. I tend to have to source them through Amazon. It’s true, I do live in an area, I think, where there’s a higher proportion of the kind of people who read obscure foreign books – or who, twenty thirty years ago, might have read newly published foreign books – and therefore there’s a higher proportion of such books which find their way into secondhand shops.

On the other hand, it’s increasingly rare I find interesting books in shops these days. I tend to have to source them through Amazon.

]]> By: Tony http://www.mjiles.com/obookispage/?p=1881&cpage=1#comment-2945 Tony Sun, 19 Aug 2012 03:58:46 +0000 http://www.mjiles.com/obookispage/?p=1881#comment-2945 You obviously live in a very different part of the world to mine - I think I could visit bookshops from now until Christmas and not stumble across anything by writers like this... You obviously live in a very different part of the world to mine – I think I could visit bookshops from now until Christmas and not stumble across anything by writers like this…

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