I read this very obscure Spanish novel last week, and now I’m desperate to talk about it. But it’s been silenced by critics for 50 years, so now nobody knows it exists. There’s nobody for me to talk to about this novel.
Then the program of my February conference is published. And guess what? The guy who speaks after me on my panel… will be speaking about this very novel.
I’ve only ever seen this scholar on a screen but we have this weird thing going where we end up reading the same books at the same time completely by accident. And now it happened again.
A reader’s life is full of the strangest surprises.
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[rolls in the heavy and comfortable leather office chair]
[sits comfortably in the Comfy Chair with my cup of coffee like Crowder]
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[takes a huge sip of freshly brewed Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee]
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OOOOH OOOOH OOH
CLARISSA HAS AN ACADEMIC STALKER
CHANGE MY MIND
🙂 🙂 🙂
There can’t be any other fun explanation, you know. [guffaw]
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Everything Carmen Laforêt wrote after Nada?
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I’ve only done La mujer nueva so far. The rest sound like blasted Bildungsromane, and I can’t do those any more.
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Well, now I am intrigued!
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“A reader’s life is full of the strangest surprises.”
And wonders never cease, that’s the beauty of reading.
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