(urth) very strange

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Sat Apr 11 15:27:01 PDT 2009


Was this edition of 'The Weekly Standard' dated 1 April?

Another possibility might be that some fool mistook a translation into the
Hungarian for an original work in Hungarian.

A third possibility includes a tremendously lucrative lawsuit for Gene
Wolfe....




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> The latest issue of The Weekly Standard includes a review of a Hungarian
> novel, first published in 2001 and now translated into English. The book
> is called "Tranquility". It seems, from what the review says, to be told
> mostly in flashback, looking back from the funeral of the narrator's
> mother. The narrator's name is Andor Wéer. The review describes the
> novel as characterized by "sneaky, half-teasing indirection". He adds
> that "The narrator mentions the most crucial events in passing, then
> returns to them via circuitous routes full of speculative tangents,
> remembered dreams, stories within stories, and purposely disorienting
> chronological lurches...."
>
> I couldn't help but think of "Peace", told mostly in flashback, by Alden
> Weer, by an author who is also fond of this sort of indirection...
>
> Coincidence, or alien intervention?
>
> Fernando
>
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