tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post7747265161074124526..comments2024-01-22T17:42:46.416+01:00Comments on Lolita's Classics: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005)Lolita of the Classicshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03596876234508882958noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-64872377562395214622009-02-18T00:23:00.000+01:002009-02-18T00:23:00.000+01:00João Lisboa:Thanks a lot! And I've just put "Posth...João Lisboa:<BR/>Thanks a lot! And I've just put "Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas" on my to-buy-list for the next pay day!Lolita of the Classicshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03596876234508882958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-30839370137924174182009-02-18T00:15:00.000+01:002009-02-18T00:15:00.000+01:00I've just linked you.I've just linked you.João Lisboahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13292881998178232965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-32152341647997556492009-02-18T00:02:00.000+01:002009-02-18T00:02:00.000+01:00João Lisboa:Hmm... If I wasn't interested reading ...João Lisboa:<BR/>Hmm... If I wasn't interested reading the book before, I certainly am that now! I should have it sent for.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the de Assis-tip! I'll look him up.<BR/><BR/>Hehe, well, I thought Gillian Anderson was a funny surprise actress. It wasn't like you expected her in the crowd among Stephen Fry and that Little Brittain-guy!Lolita of the Classicshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03596876234508882958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3575280877085021446.post-74696953486660739612009-02-17T23:39:00.000+01:002009-02-17T23:39:00.000+01:00"It is a weird, well-done film about an unfilmable..."It is a weird, well-done film about an unfilmable (and according to many, unreadable) novel"<BR/><BR/>Certainly unfilmable (at least as far as my cinematic imagination can be stretched) but marvellously readable!<BR/><BR/>I read it during a to and fro plane trip Lisbon-NY-Salt Lake City (of all places!... no I'm not a mormon)-NY-Lisbon and it felt like I had dropped acid not having dropped acid. 18th century stream of consciousness-meets-surrealism-meets-weird erudition. <BR/><BR/>You should check one of his confessed admirers, the Brazilian 19th century writer Machado de Assis and his (in a tentative English translation) "Posthumous Memories Of Bras Cubas". <BR/><BR/>But... Gillian Anderson/Scully?...João Lisboahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13292881998178232965noreply@blogger.com