John Updike’s review of the new Marquez, here (Updike is that rare creature, a top-drawer novelist who’s also a great critic. I love his reviews – though this one isn’t among his very best) ;
and Ian Jack on the semi-colon, here (thanks for the link, Nikhil).
you should try really hard and learn something about how to review a book from him.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip, anonymous. Always trying...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the New Yorker link, dude. Updike on Marquez, pleasures can't get more perfect than that!
ReplyDeleteBoth links were absolute gems. I have another analogy for semi colon: It works like the eponymous organ in the human body -- the essential semi-pause before faecal matter is purged out, making sense of everything around. Long live the semi colon!
ReplyDeleteHow hideous is the semi-colon. (Watt by Samuel Beckett)
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome. I quite like the semi colon. Cheers.