Larva ♾️ Midsummer Night’s Babel by Julián Ríos 🇪🇸 Joyce’s Successor: Coherent Excess and Chaos

Publicado 2024-01-14
A discussion of the highly unconventional novel by Ríos, translated by Richard Alan Francis, Suzanne Jill Levine, and the author.

0:00 Introduction
2:11 Reading Larva
9:39 Literary References
16:42 Recommended if you like

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Todos los comentarios (7)
  • Amazing. I've been wanting to get to this one for years, and I think you've convinced me to pull it off the shelf tonight. I love the metafictional structure with footnotes and endnotes! Thanks for this, Jack!
  • @MrTOMMCGONIGLE
    I much enjoy your presentation as I’ve long read Julian and wrote about him for The Guardian… he calls me Tom LeMot
  • @Paromita_M
    This sounds really interesting but veering a bit on excessive? Maybe that makes sense with the Joycean influence, the minimalist in me feels a bit wary though. Very interesting to listen, thanks for covering this book.
  • @NoahC-
    Seems like a wild ride, I've never seen it in a used bookstore. I will find it one day
  • @Q-Ball.
    It seems like an impossible task to translate a book like this or finnegan’s wake.