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By: etcetera — Annie Proulx Appreciation

etcetera — Annie Proulx Appreciation — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:23:29 +0000

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By: Karthik

Karthik — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 02:56:09 +0000

Vijay, I’ve been to Wyoming and Montana (Yellowstone) and I can sorta relate to what is going on in terms of the setting. You’ll be surprised by rural America: the people are completely different from what you see in the cities — simpler, nicer, rougher… even their hatred has a naive simplicity to it — if you get what I mean.

And Proulx captures it all in her writing…

Falstaff — will check out Autumn of the Patriarch. Thanks for the reco. And Bart, ditto with Chronicle of a Death Foretold.

By: vijay

vijay — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:54:27 +0000

Karthik, just out of curiosity, the kind of lines/passages you are quoting would seem to appeal more to someone raised here in US or have spent a good part of the time in the US countryside or have visited those places, to enjoy those vivid descriptions and relate with them. Apart from the literary aspects I wonder how much of an impact a novel like this, set in a relatively remote place, and about 2 cowboys in love with each other, would make on a desi.

By: vijay

vijay — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:47:14 +0000

Karthik, just FYI, I am not sure of the box office success/failure of Brokeback mountain. But the movie indeed figures in every critics’ list of the top 10 movies list of 2005, often getting 4 stars out of 4. So sounds promising.

By: Falstaff

Falstaff — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:55:00 +0000

Thanks for the cite. In other news, if Hundred Years and Love in the Time of Cholera is all you’ve read of GGM, can I strongly, strongly recommend my personal favourite — the Autumn of the Patriarch.

By: bart

bart — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 06:27:05 +0000

I liked 'one hundred years of solitude' and again parts of the same story told without fiction in his autobiography 'Living to tell the tale'. I haven't read many works of his but have read 'Love in the time of Cholera' and also 'Chronicle of a death foretold'. My favourite is the latter for its narration and concept.

By: Karthik

Karthik — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 06:20:35 +0000

Bart,

Thanks. The movie didn’t do that well, so tread carefully. I’ve read One Hundred years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera — the former is among my favorites. Which ones do you like?

By: bart

bart — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 05:46:19 +0000

Once again, you’ve made me read a long post, completely.. Will add atleast the movie (the easier option as Raymond carver is still waiting ) if not the author to the list of to-dos. Just out curiosity, have you read any of Gabriel Garcia Marquez?